NE flounder fishing

tunaslayer87 · Mar-26-2008, 01:50 PM

anybody do any flounder pounding these past few days... headed for the shark river monday morning... put some fish in the boat on sandworms only a few legal fish tho...

Mike Roni · Mar-26-2008, 02:40 PM

The first day of the season was Easter Sunday so the turnout was not that big.

I spoke with a few guys that had a 3-6 keepers. I will be headed out this weekend in the Barnegat Bay.

**cold waters** · Mar-27-2008, 04:59 AM

i would still have to chip ice to find a flat fish

mboy · Mar-27-2008, 11:42 AM

Bite is HOT back in the Perth Amboy (Raritan triangle area back towards factory/train bridge).

So-so in the Navasink in Shrewsbury. Need a LOT of chum and I mean CHUM HEAVY).

Those are the reports I am getting.

My boat not in until end April, early May.

tunaslayer87 · Mar-28-2008, 09:09 AM

yea heavy on the chum, and most of the fish we kept and filleted had the corn that we were throwing in their bellies

kapoc · Mar-28-2008, 06:27 PM

Ok I am dumb apparently

when fish for flounder here in Va we drift with our baits of strips and minnows etc but tell me about the cumming thing. On our charters we chum for sharks,cobia,drum and others but i have never chumed for flounder i am really intrested to hear how this works

**cold waters** · Mar-29-2008, 02:49 AM

cant say that i have every chummed either... maybe thats why i suck at catching flounder

mboy · Mar-29-2008, 08:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kapoc

Ok I am dumb apparently

when fish for flounder here in Va we drift with our baits of strips and minnows etc but tell me about the cumming thing. On our charters we chum for sharks,cobia,drum and others but i have never chumed for flounder i am really intrested to hear how this works

The flounder you are probably referring to are our summer flounder (we call'em Fluke). Those we use strip baits, killies (mudminnowss), Spearing (silversides), snapper blues, Peanut bunker, jigs, squid strips. That is almost exclusively a drift situation.

Winter flounder you anchor, chum heavy with clam, mussles, corn, dog food, ric mix and use worms (bloods/sands), mussels and clams as bait.

They are 2 differnt types of fish. Winter flounder is Now.

Fluke season opens in May.

**cold waters** · Mar-30-2008, 05:52 AM

well atleast i was talking about winter flounder.... we get them in the rivers and bays all summer up here... i have never caught a fluke up here.... i am not sure they come this far....

tunaslayer87 · Mar-30-2008, 03:23 PM

you should try the anchor and chum thing than... you'll need a weighted chum pot. but it might greatly increase your catch rate... if not than my foot is already in my mouth..... just got back from river a little while ago today was slow as was yesterday but today produced some fish boated 5 flounder to myself.... the water temp has come up a few degrees to 45.3 but the fish still seem a bit sluggish... it seemed as tho you had to put the bait right on their nose to catch and as they bit on sands on monday we only caught fish on clam strips today

tunaslayer87 · Mar-30-2008, 03:24 PM

has anybody run into any striped bass yet... heard of a few but we got swamped by skates at the beach maybe with all the bunker and herring around and the temp rising we will start seeing some more

mboy · Mar-30-2008, 04:14 PM

Have been catching bass for a few weeks now. MOstly shorts with a few keepers. All on clams and worms. Won't be eating bunker until at least early/mid May when the water warms up. They can't digest them when water is too cold.

Plenty of bunker in the bays now tho.