🇺🇸 Flounder by ctempel
Flounder
views: 931 | Jun 19, 2021

Drifting with Spro Jig & Gulp in Ocean City, MD

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3 years ago by Mark Totzke
Nice, I find it really hard to catch flounder on lures. Do you also get other fish on the same setup or does this area hold mainly flounder. Whenever I try targeting flounder on lures I get lots of unwanted by catch or get snagged on weed.
3 years ago by ctempel
In this spot we only catch flounder on these Spro Jigs with Gulp. It’s 30-50’ deep, so you need 2 or 3oz jigs to stay in the bottom depending on the wind & tide current. The nice thing is that all the flounder we catch are keepers (over 16.5”), due to the size of the lures. You need to keep it bouncing up & down off the bottom to avoid snags - dragging the bottom will snag immediately. Other boats using live bait tend to catch a lot of under sized flounder. We catch stripers & bluefish on these same jigs off the jettys & around bridge pilings.
3 years ago by Mark Totzke
that's pretty cool. Do you just drift along with tides? What's your usual drift speed? Where I live most people catch flounder either gigging at night or in nets. But catching them with lures is way more fun.
3 years ago by ctempel
we fish the last 2 hours of the incoming tide & drift with the tide. It can be tricky keeping your lure ir bait on the bottom if the wind & tide are going in opposite directions! In that case, I bump the boat along in reverse, to keep us at an ideal speed to keep contact with the bottom.
3 years ago by Mark Totzke
some good tips, thanks. I fish in in a similar way for snapper off my kayak - but planning to do a bit more estuary fishing soon and hoping to get into more flounder. Do you catch them all year round or only over summer?
3 years ago by dazzling79
A great catch! Thanks for sharing! Love flounder!!
3 years ago by John Needham
Wow that's a good one. Beats my little tiddler hands down. Well done!
3 years ago by Bear101
Best eating fish in my book.
3 years ago by dazzling79
Yes! My favorite fish to eat as well. But not the easiest fish to catch for me 😂
3 years ago by ctempel
Summer & early Fall are the best flounder fishing in the mid-Atlantic
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