Floundering

[Robbo from Sydney]

I know the heading gives the impression of struggling but today it was anything but a struggle. A late start getting out past the Spit  from the Tunks Park ramp and headed out towards Middle Head. We didn't have  the first line in the water till well after 8.30 am.

Almost immediately we were onto some fish with 2 good sized flounders (around 33/34cm) and a legal blue spot flattie in the boat one after another. Over the course of the morning we managed a total of 9 flounder and 2 blue spot flathead in the bucket. We also boated 3 large shovelnose rays and a fiddler ray and lost a couple of other rays which snapped the 10lb trace.

A good day to be out in the boat

[Aussie_fisher]

Wow I’ve never seen a report with this many flounder yet. Usually I think they’re a bycatch but looks like they were the main species! Best eating fish by far if you ask me

[juicy233]

Flounder are yum

[big Neil]

What a catch! As mentioned Flounder are seldom caught in numbers, nor rarely the target species. Wherever you got them must be prime real estate for them. It's a long time since I ate a Flounder but the quality of the taste is memorable. What did you use for bait Robbo?

bn

[bessell1955]

I have never seen so many flounder caught in the one area!  Great effort. 

[Yowie]

That is an impressive haul of flounder, and some of a good size as well. Mate and I have pulled 6 in the one innings, you are now in front.

[Robbo from Sydney]

8 hours ago, Aussie_fisher said:

Wow I’ve never seen a report with this many flounder yet. Usually I think they’re a bycatch but looks like they were the main species! Best eating fish by far if you ask me

We often catch a few when hunting flathead but we have never had a catch like this before. I still prefer flathead to eat biut flounder are very nice

[Robbo from Sydney]

Just now, Yowie said:

That is an impressive haul of flounder, and some of a good size as well. Mate and I have pulled 6 in the one innings, you are now in front.

Thanks Yowie.  Yes three of them are probabl;y the largest we have caught in 3 years of fishing there

[Larkin]

What a catch! 👍
looks like you’ve found the honey hole.

enjoy the feed robbo!

[Robbo from Sydney]

8 hours ago, juicy233 said:

Flounder are yum

Particularly fried in butter and finished with lemon and capers in the burnt butter sauce!

[Robbo from Sydney]

1 minute ago, Larkin said:

What a catch! 👍
looks like you’ve found the honey hole.

enjoy the feed robbo!

Thanks Larkin. I have never seen my mate smile so much as yesterday as he and his wife love flounder

[Robbo from Sydney]

4 hours ago, big Neil said:

What a catch! As mentioned Flounder are seldom caught in numbers, nor rarely the target species. Wherever you got them must be prime real estate for them. It's a long time since I ate a Flounder but the quality of the taste is memorable. What did you use for bait Robbo?

bn

Thanks Neil.
They were taking a mix of baits - squid, prawns and mullet. The thing I recon is working well is having a dangling "tail" with the squid strips and the fish baits

[Robbo from Sydney]

10 minutes ago, bessell1955 said:

I have never seen so many flounder caught in the one area!  Great effort. 

Thanks for that.

[Fried Rice]

Great catch. I've only caught them occasionally as a by-catch chasing flatties. Fantastic eating & easy to prepare as you can peel them. In my opinion far better eating than flathead. As others have mentioned, butter is your friend.

[Yowie]

6 hours ago, Robbo from Sydney said:

 The thing I recon is working well is having a dangling "tail" with the squid strips and the fish baits

The dangling tail acts like a fish swimming along, can be more enticing than a soft plastic at times.

A few times I have tried plastics in a fishy river, not a touch, then a strip of mullet about 8cm long, with a knife split near the rear end to act like a tail wiggling, and the flatties grab it straight away.

[Ryder]

Great catch, like most of the others I’ve only ever got a couple at a time. Washaway beach.

[Basil D]

I never know where to target Flounder like this, I would get maybe two but never seeing so many in an outing, keep that spot a secret lol

[XD351]

Sometimes in broken bay i have to move to get away from them ! 
The red circle on the map below is the approximate spot that I have seen marked as the flounder hole but I can’t find the map . 

[Robbo from Sydney]

3 hours ago, XD351 said:

Sometimes in broken bay i have to move to get away from them ! 
The red circle on the map below is the approximate spot that I have seen marked as the flounder hole but I can’t find the map . 

A bit of dodging of ships going in and out of the heads there.

[XD351]

You get used to it ! Ferries are the biggest concern especially if there is a bit of SE swell about as they punch straight out towards south head and swing around to head into the channel .

Edited November 3 by XD351

[jenno64]

Wow

 

So many flounder, great feed there! I only ever pick up one or two at best, enjoy!