Just Flounder- 10/03/13 Report

[Jhua]

Didn't have morning classes so I loaded up the yak to fish my redfish spot. I was on the water at 6ish and greeted with some very stained water. Peddling to my spot I saw some bait being blown up on a shoreline. I immediately thought trout and hauled myself over there. First cast with the rattlin spook, I get a massive blow up. By mid fight though I knew I had a gafftop. Second cast produced another gafftop. Not what I'm looking for, so I move on. Finally reach my spot, which is a shell flat with a series of guts throughout. The tide is a bit high but there is bait everywhere. I move around the flat and look around for the reds...who apparently got the memo that I was coming. The whole time I saw two reds, both sitting on a shell bar next to a gut. I hooked one and got rewarded with a spit hook, and spooked the other. By 7 I was pretty discouraged as the reds were not cooperating. I was using a spinner bait and gulp combo when I suddenly started catching flounder...after flounder. I would feel the vibrations of the spinner bait and then a *thud* and the bait would just stop. Gave them a few moments to eat and then gave a good hook set. All the flounder were caught on the edge of the flat or gut. Once I located an edge, I would just work up and down it until I found another one. Ended the day with 8 flounder (all released), including a nice 22 incher!

[KennyWayne]

Great report J, I'm going to try for 'em in the morning.

[Curmudgeon]

Good eating Jhua! Way to go.

[Root Canal]

Nice going Jhua. Were you throwing a tandem rig or a Gulp attached to the spinner??

[walkinwader]

good job nice fish

[Jhua]

Gulp attached to spinner

[Root Canal]

Gulp attached to spinner

Well that's interesting. Could you put up a picture.

[Jhua]

Well that's interesting. Could you put up a picture.

I'll take a pic tomorrow but its a H&H spinner (or strike king redfish magic) with a jighead with a gulp ripple mullet.

[plugger]

Yeah , I'd like to see that . Thanks for the interesting report with pictures . I don't understand you people who don't keep fish to eat . I caught my fish Friday , 6 days ago . I've eaten fish ( with shrimp and crabmeat ) every day since then . You got some nice flounder . I guess I should happy because maybe I can catch some ! HAR !

[Jhua]

Yeah , I'd like to see that . Thanks for the interesting report with pictures . I don't understand you people who don't keep fish to eat . I caught my fish Friday , 6 days ago . I've eaten fish ( with shrimp and crabmeat ) every day since then . You got some nice flounder . I guess I should happy because maybe I can catch some ! HAR !

I usually eat my flounder but I had to get to class right afterwards.

[plugger]

Cooler with ice , man !

[FishNette]

Nice!

[Explorer21]

Very nice, way to release them all. Good day on the water.

[buoy37]

I usually eat my flounder but I had to get to class right afterwards.

Be a trooper and walk into class with a cooler.

[gus12343]

nice detailed report! and great fishin!