Hit a walk-in spot at dusk and left at 9:30. Tide was already coming in and the water suprisingly clear at the start, but got muddy as time passed. The first fish was bedded up really deep in about a foot of water. The only reason I saw him was a method my Dad taught me when I was young. There was a patch of black sand that sometimes gets kicked up by the flounder's tail when bedding down. You look at the area around the black spot.
All I could see was the jaw bone and eyes. And what a jaw bone it was......I new it was a big girl even though I couldn't see any of the body. 23" and thick. The next flounder was bedded up the same way. Laying next to a black patch of sand and the only thing you could see was the jaw and eyes. The third was moving and I had to hit it with a body shot due to my bad back. I wasn't going to lunge for it.
After that the water got really muddy and I decided to head back to the truck.
The water was shallow at that point and I saw a dozen or so empty beds after crossing a clay bottom. Flounder will never lay on hard clay, or at least I never have seen one.
I kept on looking for the fish that made the empty beds. I found 2 laying about 6 feet apart. I stuck the first one and stepped on it so it wouldn't make any noise. I hung my lantern on a hook on my belt....pointing the light at flounder #2. Then picked up the first flounder while still on the gig and walked sideways. When I got to the second fish I twisted and dropped the first fish on top of the second. The second fish got a body shot, but that's typical when you have to stack them.
Called it a night after that.
5 fish......15 1/2", 16,16,17 and 23".
All I could see was the jaw bone and eyes. And what a jaw bone it was......I new it was a big girl even though I couldn't see any of the body. 23" and thick. The next flounder was bedded up the same way. Laying next to a black patch of sand and the only thing you could see was the jaw and eyes. The third was moving and I had to hit it with a body shot due to my bad back. I wasn't going to lunge for it.
After that the water got really muddy and I decided to head back to the truck.
The water was shallow at that point and I saw a dozen or so empty beds after crossing a clay bottom. Flounder will never lay on hard clay, or at least I never have seen one.
I kept on looking for the fish that made the empty beds. I found 2 laying about 6 feet apart. I stuck the first one and stepped on it so it wouldn't make any noise. I hung my lantern on a hook on my belt....pointing the light at flounder #2. Then picked up the first flounder while still on the gig and walked sideways. When I got to the second fish I twisted and dropped the first fish on top of the second. The second fish got a body shot, but that's typical when you have to stack them.
Called it a night after that.
5 fish......15 1/2", 16,16,17 and 23".
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