Flounders Hit White Jigs?

[Cali2Calcasieu]

Someone told me that flounders are crazy about anything white and will hit like crazy? Is this true or just a fish story?

I went out to scope out by the 210 overpass and they were jumping all over...seems like there's a ton of food for them there. Did not see them chasing any little white fish, so thought I'd check if this was true or BS. Thanks!

[huntin fool]

Flounder jumping all over? You sure it wasnt mullet?

And yes they do eat white gulp swimming mullet I find better than other colors..

[Dink]

Get yourself some white curltail GULP! You'll load your boat with flounder

[Dink]

Haha!!

[weedeater]

caught some nice ones on white cocahos but I am told white anything is pretty good. If you are lookin at fishin that area watch the ships but you can catch reds and flounder over by the oilwell roads on the west side of channel its shallow and people catch specs on north side of that little island under the bridge

[mcjaredsandwich]

Yep. Pearl gulp shrimp, pearl swimming mullet, chartruese swimming mullet. Pearl/char and glow/char sand eel jrs. Ask longcast. He knows all about the flounder lol

[longcast]

Originally Posted by mcjaredsandwich

Yep. Pearl gulp shrimp, pearl swimming mullet, chartruese swimming mullet. Pearl/char and glow/char sand eel jrs. Ask longcast. He knows all about the flounder lol

I can't get away frim the flounder.lol. Hey guys keep the piece of swimming mullet after the tails get bite off. Use the body for tipping your jig heads. Food for thought.

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by longcast

I can't get away frim the flounder.lol. Hey guys keep the piece of swimming mullet after the tails get bite off. Use the body for tipping your jig heads. Food for thought.

Or just buy some cheap plastic and tip with shad/pogie.

[longcast]

Originally Posted by Feesherman

Or just buy some cheap plastic and tip with shad/pogie.

If your down for live bait. Live bait is way to messy. When I use live bait it ads about a hour of boat cleaning for Jared. Hahaha

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by longcast

If your down for live bait. Live bait is way to messy. When I use live bait it ads about a hour of boat cleaning for Jared. Hahaha

I didn't say anything about them being alive. Just enough water to keep them from turning into potato chips.

[buoy37]

Originally Posted by longcast

I can't get away frim the flounder.lol. Hey guys keep the piece of swimming mullet after the tails get bite off. Use the body for tipping your jig heads. Food for thought.

That is great advice right there!!! I never saved my mullet bodies. They will be going back in the "juice" after loosing a tail.

[Tex Dawg]

I have always had good luck with flounder with any lure that has a white tail.

[iron man]

I've caught them on white spinnerbaits before.

[weedeater]

Originally Posted by iron man

I've caught them on white spinnerbaits before.

Its fun when they are hittin spinner baits

[iron man]

Originally Posted by weedeater

Its fun when they are hittin spinner baits

We caught a bunch of em one day and they kept fooling us when we set the hook.

[weedeater]

Originally Posted by iron man

We caught a bunch of em one day and they kept fooling us when we set the hook.

Like pullin dead weight till it sees the boat then they take off

[iron man]

Originally Posted by weedeater

Like pullin dead weight till it sees the boat then they take off

No not really cuz the ones we were catching were all about 9-10 inches. I make my fish surf when I reel them in and when they was coming straight in, I kept thinking they got off.

[Hebert]

they also love a long strip of white fish belly or a strip of white squid...

[gasdad]

Had an old time fisherman that fished Grand Isle a lot. Ran out of white plastics while catching flounder. Tore off a piece of white T-shirt and kept on catching. So as I've heard, white is good for floundering

[Garfish]

Originally Posted by gasdad

Had an old time fisherman that fished Grand Isle a lot. Ran out of white plastics while catching flounder. Tore off a piece of white T-shirt and kept on catching. So as I've heard, white is good for floundering

Me, my brother Goathead, and Eman's little brother Soupbone would catch the hell out of the flounder in Grand Isle on a white cocahoe minnow w/ a red tail fished in tandem along the 1st gut or 2nd gut in the surf on Elmer's Island or Fourchon Beach. Sometimes we would also throw a regular speck rig. We would tip it every now and then with bait shrimp or cut croaker. More often than not we would also catch some huge channel mullet/whiting, black drum and reds in the surf while fishing for the flounder. Doubles were not uncommon. Sometimes 2 different kinds of fish.
Good times yeah!!