Fall and Summer Flounder Fishing

I have been hooked on flounder fishing since my youth. My grandfather loved to catch flounder and showed me many of his tricks, which fueled my addiction. Flounder are bottom dwellers, with a flat unique shape that helps them catch their prey off guard. While the summertime, you can find these fish all over the creeks and rivers. While the fall they make their migration towards deeper waters, which can be fun as well.

There are many types of bait that flounder will devour. Some of the favorite live baits are finger mullet, mud minnows, and shrimp. You can use cut baits, but you will see a lot best results with live baits. Since flounder are bottom dwellers, the best rig is a single bottom flounder rig. This type of rig is fixed with a steel leader, so you wont cut your line on the oyster shells, and a round weight that is thorough for the current conditions.

Flounder

The best tactic I have found for summertime flounder fishing is seeing a creek mouth on a absorbing tide and work all angles. I prefer to use live minnows and a flounder rig, so I can cover a lot of ground quickly. Flounder are usually instinct biters and you need to get the bait fairly close to the vertebrate to entice it. Make casts along the shore line and retrieve at a slow to moderate speed. If no luck make an additional one cast 3-4 ft. To the other side of your first cast and repeat. Use this same tactic working all the way over the creek mouth until you catch a fish. More times than not, there will be more than one flounder in a general area, I have seen up to 10 in a twenty foot radius, so make sure you make a succeed up cast. Good Luck and Happy Fishing!

Tight Lines,

Josh Kalis is a writer for http://www.fishingshirt.info as well as many other sporting site over America.

Fall and Summer Flounder Fishing

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