Flounder explosion
I have to wonder if Rita is responsible for all of the flounder being caught this year. If you think about it, Rita was in September 2005 and hardly anyone fished the flounder run that fall or even the following spring. Think about how many more flounder made it out to the gulf to spawn that year. The number of larval flounder that were produced that winter had to be sky high. A flounder doesn't reach sexual maturity until it's two years old. So spring of 2008 there should have been a huge influx of breeding flounder. So it would seem about right that you would be reaping the benefits about now in terms of keeper flounder. Sure looks like a bumper crop.
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