Flounder

[calcutta37]

Anyone know when the flounder start makeing there way back in?

[Montauk17]

Go hit lake ponch http://rodnreel.com/POTB/PicView.asp?PicID=132561

[calcutta37]

i would rather hit the pogey plant and catch some.

[Montauk17]

I hear that....im sure it won't be long. I would like to get on a mess of flounder myself.

[calcutta37]

yea i think they should be running.

[Montauk17]

Go scout em out and let me know where there biting

[Ray]

Should be soon, but they won't be coming in in big schools like they did going out.

[LaAngler]

the small males have been around everywhere

[calcutta37]

Ray why is that? Tryin to learn more about them.

[Ray]

I don't know much about them either. I just like to catch and eat them.
The cold water drives them out to the gulf. The shallow marshes where they
stay gets cold quick. That runs their food and them out. They are supposed
to go offshore to spawn, then come back in when the bait starts moving back
in and the water starts warming up.
When the water starts warming back up, they start coming back in.
The water at the jetties is warmer when the tide comes in, then gets cooler
when the tide goes back out. They don't care for the cooler water.

[Salty]

Originally Posted by calcutta37

Ray why is that? Tryin to learn more about them.

Axt W.

[Montauk17]

I know in the summer they are pretty thick on the northeast side of west cove by hog island gully cut. Longcast and I caught some hogs in that area.

[Will"E"Fish]

Ok this has been my best way of getting them when they are returning from the gulf. In April their is what is called the Ides tide . This a time when the triple X tide can be 3.0' on the incoming tide. This brings the bait inland and the flounder usually follow. Now to predict the exact time that this will transpire I would have to say somtime before the rise of the full moon.Good luck to all.

[mcjaredsandwich]

Originally Posted by Ray

I don't know much about them either. I just like to catch and eat them.
The cold water drives them out to the gulf. The shallow marshes where they
stay gets cold quick. That runs their food and them out. They are supposed
to go offshore to spawn, then come back in when the bait starts moving back
in and the water starts warming up.
When the water starts warming back up, they start coming back in.
The water at the jetties is warmer when the tide comes in, then gets cooler
when the tide goes back out. They don't care for the cooler water.

longcast foul hooked a small flounder in Turners last month on a pink corky...saw some taken from prien area too. I guess the little ones hang out in the cooler temps.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by mcjaredsandwich

longcast foul hooked a small flounder in Turners last month on a pink corky...saw some taken from prien area too. I guess the little ones hang out in the cooler temps.

The last 3 times I have been 2 at Prien and once at Calc we caught at least one big flounder, caught 4 or 5 very small ones 2 weeks ago in Prien

[mcjaredsandwich]

Last winter I did not catch a flounder..saw a lot more this one.

[Ray]

Last winter the water was fresh fresh fresh and muddy.
Only thing caught was Reds most of the time.
We fished a couple times, with rotten shrimp, on the bottom.
Only Redfish, zero Hardheads. That was a miracle to me.

There are Oyster fishermen catching small Flounder in their dredges.
Lot of them didn't go out to spawn I guess.