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Fishing News and Reports => Fishing News and Reports => Topic started by: mrex on 10/26/12 08:10 UTC
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Flounder have started moving in. Its on like Donkey Kong
Hopefully the Speck sows are not far behind ;D
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Nice fish, stuffed or fried my favorite fish.
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Ya hurtin' me Brudda! Salt and Specks and Flounder, oh my! What was their Favorite Flavor?
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Motoroil with chartuse tail is catching anything that swims right now.
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Awesome on'nat! Got quite a few things at work in my head, I plan on putting them into action the next time I'm home. While I've metioned dipping for a 2nd-color Tail, I have another hopefully-solid idea that's about to get a chance. 1 idea is, for the Tail Color, especially if You're using bleeding colors (and even if You're using NB colorant), using the Body Color for the Tail, but add Flake to determine the color of the Tail. Say Motor Oil Body with Motor Oil/Chartreuse Flake Tail. Or Avocado/Avocado Neon Tail. Avocado/Neon with Avocado/Neon/Red Pearl Tail. Pearls and Flake determine Tail Color, using the same base/body color. Just throwin' it out there...
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Caught a 8 spot redfish using a strawberry glow tail swimshad. Dropped her off at the taxidermist.
The Motoroil I have been using is std 148 it does not bled bad as long as you do not add worm oil have been keeping that color in a plastic coffee can for about two months so far color has not bleed into the tail. Also a go too color is Chartruse with a red tail really cannot go wrong with this color IMO.
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We threw Chart./Red Tail for alot of years. I still like it, and still have a few originals. One of my near-future projects includes a Tail Mold for one of my "hybrid" baits. Chart./Red Tail will be one of the 1st! I DO smell some X2 Motor Oil in my future tho...You like Motor Oil for a reason!
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Ok..guys....nothern boy here.
I know flounder are one of the flat-fish, but how large do they get? I see them in stores up here and they are about the size of a medium crappie. Is that the average or do they get large, as in a halibut? I wonder if they's be good to try from a fresh seasfood section in a better store?
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Ctom, we've caught Southern Flounder as big as the top of a 48 quart ice chest, 6 and 7 lbs. They don't get big like Halibut, but they get big enough to addict You! I'll touch on this again later. We're outbound, comin' around the Thousand-Leg. Wind's blazing!
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Average flounder is 2 to 5 pounds every now and then we catch one over 5. Believe the largest I have caught was around 26"
This is JMO but flounder is at the top of the list as far as eating fish goes. My favorite way to make a shrimp and crab stuffing then roll it up with flounder fillets bake or grill on pit.
Eating Pecking order
#1- Flounder
#2 - Crappie
#3 - Specks
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Ctom, we've caught Southern Flounder as big as the top of a 48 quart ice chest, 6 and 7 lbs. They don't get big like Halibut, but they get big enough to addict You! I'll touch on this again later. We're outbound, comin' around the Thousand-Leg. Wind's blazing!
Yeah I decieded not to go fishing this weekend to rough. Specks should be in full attack mold later this week. Just waiting on the Big Girls to come to town.
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Oh the pain! The agony! I'm on a crewboat, and still have 17 days left...Ya can't say stuff like that! I KNEW this hitch was gonna eat up some of the best.
Yes, the average keepers are 2-3-4 pounds. Fine fish. Those medium-Sacalait-size Flounder, IMHO, are throw-backs. Upto a certain size, a young Flounder is very thin, skinny. Once they reach a certain size, they start to get thick. I will NOT keep a Flounder until they have reached or surpassed that point where they start to get thick...that's my standard.
Southern Flounder are Very Serious Predators. I've watched big Flounder feed on big flats, I'm guessing eating Mullet. These fish were coming out of the water, flipping and tumbling as they struck baitfish. Flounder also have gnarly teeth and lots of crushing power in their jaws. Sometimes, You'll "set the hook" nice and solid, to turn up nothing. Those big, smart Flounder will clamp down on a bait so hard that You can't slide the bait in their mouth to dig the hook-point...then they'll spit it out. I listened to a report from some older guys that my Dad and I used to fish with. They were fishing a spot in the marsh You had to get out of the boat and walk to. They said You could see the Flounder, and watch them hit Your bait. Throwing Spoons, some of those Flounder would hit and bite down so hard, that the hook-set couldn't slide the slick piece of metal between their teeth so the treble hook could dig in...and the Flounder would spit it out...fwooh! Flounder are Bad to the BONE, fight hard and are EXCELLENT Table Fare.
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We HAVE, though, encountered some monster Flounder. I used to fish a small spot several years ago, caught quite a few solid Flounder off of it. There was a BEAST of a Flounder that came up several times at my bait, but I could never get it to eat.
My Dad and I used to fish Shell Island quite often, on the Gulf-side of Bastian Bay, launching out of Empire. Occasionally, late morning when we'd fire-up and move...several times we've seen a huge Flounder, apparently scared-up by the boat. It would come up in typical Flounder-fashion, like it was swimming over a hump, just below the surface. We called it "Starship Enterprise". We still mention it when we start talking Fishin'. This Flounder HAD TO be 4' long. This was not a big Stingray, as Stingray are proportionately barely longer than they are wide. Flounder are much more proportionately slender than a Stingray. This monster was a Flounder. If it wasn't a Flounder, it was a cold-natured Halibut that had done had enough and heard the food was good down here.
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Am trying to go fishing but other stuff keeps getting in the way. BKJ you work out of Fourchon?
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We run out of Fourchon sometimes, but I'm in Venice right now. The "stack Rig" we're working with is in Main Pass field, we run Baptiste Collette for this run. Miles 'n miles of Prime Flounder Ground between Venice and Breton Sound!
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Use to work on a BJ barge that was based out of Venice but never been down there fishing. Lost a engine on tug once and current spun us around. Kind of scary when you are not in control. We finally got the thing parked and spudded and had to get another tug to push us across the river.
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I watched a barge break loose and spin around with a guy working down inside on a bobcat. He parked in the middle of the barge and just waited. It went downstream a little and ran into a large concreate support of a big bridge. The sound it made was crazy! They closed the bridge for a while for inspection and the guy inside ended up fine but I'm sure extremely shook up!
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Sure he was in a panic but nothing he could do just ride it out. We still had one engine we was never completely out of control and I did not like it. We turned with the current and was able to get it parked on the side. Venice is a funnel for the Mississippi river current is unreal at times once you get away from river have to be real careful. Just because you crossed it yesterday does not mean you can cross it today. We also spent 3 days waiting on tide to rise one time so we could get off a sandbar.
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Mrex, that's serious business! Compounded with the very high possibility of Ship traffic. That makes me CRINGE.
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Yeah we have the three rivers here in Pittsburgh that end up flowing into the Miss. They are actually rising as we speak. Wouldn't be surprised if water starts coming up over the road on the edge of the city by the time I leave work.