how do you catch flounder

[sailfish4me]

thats somting I have not fished alot for and I wanted to learn how.
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[tubeN2]

Flounder can generally be caught on a drift with a live/fresh dead anchovy or sardine. You could also catch them on Spoons/Krocodiles.

Are you fishing from the shore or from a boat?? The technique is a little different from one to another.[cool]
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[gdn443]

Hey sailfish, we do need to know where your trying for your fish. Here on the east coast we use sand worms and night crawlers work well too. Drift these with a flounder spreader in shallow water. Here we can use hand lines so you can feel them hit.
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[Tarpon4me]

Night crawlers for Flounder? I've never heard of that, does that work well? How would you rigg that more specifically, i'll have to try it. I know i've always used Live Mullet or Mud minnows here in SC. Live shrimp are good bait as well, but they don't hold up to the bumping and bouncing involved with drifting. Though drifting is a killer method in the warmer months, in the colder times it doesn't work so hot. The fish slow down so much, they aren't so prone to nab it right away when it goes by like in the summer. Sometimes it's better to still fish. What i'll do is find a deep hole and anchor right in the middle. From there, i'll cast around the boat in a clock formation. Each cast, i'll let it set 5 or 10 minutes and give it a few cranks. I'll keep that up until I get the bait reeled up and then move on to the next part of the clock until i'ved fished a complete 360 around the boat. This method is devistating to flounder in the colder months when they are sluggish and holding in the deep holes rather than the shallow sloughs.
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[gdn443]

We use nightcrawlers in March when you can't get sandworms yet and they work as well as the sandworms. We drift for them here till we find them then repeat the drift. It must be the wiggle those boys are looking for.[]
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[Tarpon4me]

How would you rig them up though? What size hook? If I can figure out how to properly rig them, i'll give it a try.
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[tomc]

which flounder are you targeting, summer or winter? some don't think there is a big difference between the two,but there is, winter flounder have no teeth,they also face right and have a small mouth,in which you need a "flounder hook" they are compairable to a #4 hook with a long shank.with not much flash .it is a specielty hook up here in the northeast. summer flounder(fluke) face left,have teethy,and a large mouth,you can use a wide gap hook

[url "http://www.cptdave.com/winter-flounder.html"]www.cptdave.com/winter-flounder.html[/url]

[url "http://www.cptdave.com/summer-flounder.html"]www.cptdave.com/summer-flounder.html[/url]

these 2 links give a great discription on them,along with how to catch them
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[Tarpon4me]

What I was inquiring about is how he was rigging up for a night crawler. I've never heard of using a nightcrawler for flounder, and i'm skepticle; so I want to try it. In response to what you've posted, from my experiance, all flounder have a huge mouth, winter or summer. I've never actually payed attention to which side they are "faced," however, that's interesting. I know a 2 pound flounder can choke down a live Menhaden(pogey) larger than your hand. Believe it or not!
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[JapanRon]

Hi there sailfish4me,

Normally .... I go surf fishing for it. When the wind is pretty strong and the waves crashing in pretty good I just jump in and flounder around to my hearts content! []

JapanRon
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