Difference in flounder halibut
Feb 24, 2021 17:21:51 #
bobber22
Loc: Ocala, Florida
They eat most anything any other fish eats. I always liked to use strips of the skin on the underside of the flounder. After catching it on squid strips. Strippin seems to be the ticket.
Feb 25, 2021 01:00:48 #
Feb 25, 2021 06:03:57 #
hang on sloopy wrote:
don't forget the FLUKE1
That's what they call flounder down south Sloopy, they don't have "Winter Flounder"like we have up here.
Feb 25, 2021 07:43:59 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
hang on sloopy wrote:
don't forget the FLUKE1
That "name" has been on my mind for a few days... While dredging scallops, I had 1 (fellow) Deckhand, who would call out: "Flukey Dukey" each time he'd come across a Flounder in "the pile"; then toss it up on the ice-hatch. He was from Cape Charles.
Feb 25, 2021 07:47:27 #
bobber22
Loc: Ocala, Florida
Go down to the New Jersey shore and look at the signs by the party boats. Bass and Fluke are two of the signs that direct you to what you want to catch. YES, there are fluke in the north
Feb 25, 2021 08:01:22 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Fredfish wrote:
That's what they call flounder down south Sloopy, they don't have "Winter Flounder"like we have up here.
Fredfish, I Know that they've got (at least, they USED TO have) a cold weather season, on killing Flounder, off the Virginia Capes... I'm thinking that it had a pre-determined "Starting date {& TIME}" and would remain open, until X# of Lbs. of Fluke was on the ice at the hill. ... I'm thinking that it generally was running for a few weeks... around January y maybe into February. Never actually engaged in that... My one Captain, I'd Scalloped with, outta Hampton, VA, said that they used "Mid-Water Trawls" to put them on the boat. Since they typically catch more than 1 sellable species in each drag, they've got multiple "flush to the deck" hatch-covers, which they'll open once they haul back and set back overboard, into which they'll sort them into different ice-bins, right from on-deck! (With 1 man below, handling the actual "icing of the fish".)
Feb 25, 2021 08:20:24 #
bobber22
Loc: Ocala, Florida
Once, while commercial fishing Dover sole in December, we got a net full of very large Dovers with an occasional crab. It was such a good haul we just opened the deck hatches and kicked the fish into them. One tow and home. Made for a nice Christmas.
Feb 25, 2021 08:30:11 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
bobber22 wrote:
Once, while commercial fishing Dover sole in December, we got a net full of very large Dovers with an occasional crab. It was such a good haul we just opened the deck hatches and kicked the fish into them. One tow and home. Made for a nice Christmas.
Sounds like "the stuff dreams are MADE of"... ¿Where were you towing?
Feb 25, 2021 08:33:00 #
Feb 25, 2021 10:08:28 #
Feb 25, 2021 17:39:47 #
hang on sloopy
Loc: oakford,pa.bucks,co.
Fred I would like to see the flounder they catch down there because flounder and fluke are not exactly the same fish as I am sure you know
Feb 25, 2021 18:23:26 #
hang on sloopy wrote:
Fred I would like to see the flounder they catch down there because flounder and fluke are not exactly the same fish as I am sure you know
I haven't seen them yet either Sloopy. I'm just guessing that since our Fluke (Summer Flounder) show up when the water warms up, then further south,with their warmer water, they must have the same species.
Since our Blackback Flounder (Winter Flounder) like colder water, they probably don't get them down south.
This is only my guesstimate, and could be totally wrong. It certainly wouldn't be the first time LOL.
Feb 25, 2021 19:11:56 #
hang on sloopy
Loc: oakford,pa.bucks,co.
we are not always right but never wrong because we are open to correction . Peace !
Feb 25, 2021 19:21:27 #
hang on sloopy wrote:
we are not always right but never wrong because we are open to correction . Peace !
Did a little research.
Fluke
Flounder
Feb 25, 2021 23:35:18 #
hang on sloopy
Loc: oakford,pa.bucks,co.
Fred , good research and that is how I have known them to be , from n. Carolina down and along the Gulf coast I now wonder what type are caught , now I want search that one , can't help it at this point HaHa ! tight lines My friend .
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