My brother in law and I hit the back bays at sunrise this morning for some flounder. It was slim pickins for most of the morning but we managed to put a 21" and 18" on ice. .
Nice. Not many flounders around any more. We used to catch lots, years ago. Dad would filet them. A slight dusting of flour, then into hot pan with butter. Good eating fish,
Here in NJ we luckily still have plenty of them but some days you'll catch 50-60 shorts and only 1-2 keeper. Each year they raise the size limit. We're at 18" minimum right now. I can't count how many 17 3/4" fish ive thrown back. I cook them pretty similar to your dad. Filet and toss in a seasoned flour mix then into hot oil.
Nice. These do well out in the Puget Sound or last I heard. I'd use them for crab bait. Very easy to catch with a salmon rod , Herring cut and a round weight on the bottom.
Only flounder I ever caught was at the public pier on the Sandwich end of the CC Canal. Spent the afternoon reeling in wad of seaweed after wad of seaweed. Ready to quit and leave , reeled in for the last time and lo and behold a huge one. Thought I had another wad of seaweed, it never fought . By the old Bridge abutment in Bourne was supposed to be a good spot, but not for me.
Plenty of flounder in cape cod bay! Had a white shark eat one off my line just as I got to the the surface. Don’t see that every day.
It's been a long time since catching flounder. My dad would take us to the town of Hull(southeast of Boston, near Nantasket beach), rent an outboard, and we'd fill a large cooler full of them. Dad had a rod and reel. Us kids used a dropline. Good times. Good memories
My uncle who is probly right around your age tells similar story’s. Gramps started out rowing! But quickly bought an old Elgin outboard. I believe it’s still in the barn.
Going back 25-30 years ago my grandfather used to take me out into Long Island Sound, anchor off near the Millstone nuclear power plant and we’d pull in flounder for hours. We’d also go clamming not too far away from that spot too... I guess that might explain a few things I’m sure all the blue crabs we caught in the coastal saltwater marshes were clean though
I would catch these in the NY harbor but we called them fluke. Is that the same fish? Clams bouncing maybe 12 inches off the bottom, just like for cod and ling. In July, fluke/flounder seem to be the only thing biting. Now is the perfect time to go out for mako and thresher. Porgy will start up soon and then the bass will follow through October.
Yeah, basically same fish. Then to confuse the issue more, there’s summer flounder and winter flounder, which the latter are the ones I used to catch.
Just for the halibut and to keep this thread from floundering, there's a few kinds of flounder. Summer flounder =fluke.
