Flounder feeding????

[getonfish]

So yesterday while fishing I came across a group of flounder that were going crazy on a school of shad. I pulled up on them and started casting away but nothing. I threw the whole tackle box at them for 20 minutes and not one single hit even with Gulp. I would not think to much of this except that this is the second time. The same thing happened earlier this month with a school of small trout feeding on shad. I have noticed that the amount of bait in the lake is tremendous but the bite is slower (at least for me) this year than it was last year. Is it possibly the fact that there is so much bait that the feeding schedule is fast and short?

[reelguy1]

I came across the same situation with school trout slashing shad at the Cameron Jetty beach. I threw all kinds of artificials (including shad look-alike rattle traps) and not a bite. I had to go cast net for some finger mullet on the river side of the jetties and put them under a popping cork to catch.

[Fishdok]

Why do u think it was a school of flounder??

[YellowMouth7]

Originally Posted by Fishdok

Why do u think it was a school of flounder??

He prob saw them and ruled out Halibut

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by YellowMouth7

He prob saw them and ruled out Halibut

could have been a group of lost soles from england...

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by YellowMouth7

He prob saw them and ruled out Halibut

If they were feeding on shad, maybe they were pretty honed in on shad. Throw da castnet and catch some shad

[tim3516]

I saw the exact same on Sunday. Saw a few jump out the water busting on them shad

[Clampy]

I had that happen as well except a white gulp with just a kale hook thru the nose smashed them. Carolina rigged nose hooked gulp will work too. Just drag it in the mud. Did you try a mirodine ?

[southern151]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

If they were feeding on shad, maybe they were pretty honed in on shad. Throw da castnet and catch some shad

Throw the cast net and, catch some flounder!

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by southern151

Throw the cast net and, catch some flounder!

[Top Dawg]

Originally Posted by YellowMouth7

He prob saw them and ruled out Halibut

:*****:

[Bdub]

sometimes u gotta work the bait a bit faster in this situation to get them to bite...Try a silver spoon?

[DeeCee]

There are times when I can't make the bite anything. I find the shallower the water they are in, the harder it is to get them to bite. Lots of times when they stop busting bait, you can get them to eat. Also mark where they were and come back later. That being said, I seldom use live bait.

[Clampy]

I have had them do this in less than a foot of water and when they blow up the go right back in the same spot. Look for a dust cloud and drop in on his head and jig it up and down on top of him. He will get mad and eat it sometimes.

[tim3516]

Originally Posted by Bdub

sometimes u gotta work the bait a bit faster in this situation to get them to bite...Try a silver spoon?

Originally Posted by DeeCee

There are times when I can't make the bite anything. I find the shallower the water they are in, the harder it is to get them to bite. Lots of times when they stop busting bait, you can get them to eat. Also mark where they were and come back later. That being said, I seldom use live bait.

Originally Posted by Clampy

I have had them do this in less than a foot of water and when they blow up the go right back in the same spot. Look for a dust cloud and drop in on his head and jig it up and down on top of him. He will get mad and eat it sometimes.

That's good info. It was a foot or less of water. Never thought about marking the spots but damn that would have been a good idea. Saw the dust cloud but I fished where I thought he might have moved to, just a few feet away. Lost my patience with them. Like OP said I tried a shad like plastic with no luck. Wish I had a castnet with me. It'd be something to film to see me try to throw it once out of the kayak. Lol

[Bdub]

Like Clampy said, a lot of times they go right back to the same spot...some fearless fishies

[getonfish]

They were busting the water in my case as well. I tried white gulp, pink gulp and chartreuse. I even tried a mirrodine and nothing. I would have pulled out the cast net but I was to busy throwing the tackle box at them.

I forgot to mention in my original post that it was pouring down rain on me the whole time I was doing this.............

[tim3516]

If I could Have I'd have just thrown the castnet on them flounder lol. Just joking.

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taken by Will Drost

[getonfish]

Nice pic,

That is the smallest Halibut I have ever seen.