Flounder?

[joshpio]

Anyone catching flounder lately Belmar?

[HighHook94]

I'm curious too. Was gonna go sometime this week. Been dying to wet a line. I either go to shark river or Raritan bay.

[HighHook94]

I've been told that the water temp in shark river is anywhere between 39 and 41 degrees. Still a little cold for flounder. Plus the rain from today is gonna screw up the fishing for the next couple days. I'll probably go anyway because I have nothing else better to do.

[Rich]

Fished the AH fishing pier last Wednesday for about an hour at high tide.
Used some clams and chummed with corn.
Results..........saw one seal stick its head out about 20 feet east of the pier,
a few ducks and birds and a lot of ice still in the water and windy.
Naversink River still had thin ice all the way across west of the Oceanic Bridge.
Apparently still a wee bit early .

[Gerry Zagorski]

I'd think we are at least a few more weeks from any decent Flounder fishing. Nice sunny days and an outgoing tide is going to be your best bet. The reason I say outgoing is the ocean water is still cold so on an incoming tide, all that cold ocean water is going to be coming in the River... Shark River has the huge shallow dark mud flat in the back... Once the sun beats down on that dark mud it's going to warm it up along with the water so the water will be at it warmest when outgoing. That is what's needed in the early spring to get those Flounder feeding.

Good luck and please let us know how you do.

[njflyfisher]

are you guys talking about fluke or winter flounder?

[Gerry Zagorski]

Winter Flounder Fly.

[njflyfisher]

can you fish them from shore just like fluke. And what bait?? Gulp mullet,jerkshad,etc???

[BCinerie]

I have used clam strips, earth worm, blood worm, sand worms mussels Chum with ground up mussels dogfood cat food corn etc.

[torchee]

Originally Posted by njflyfisher

can you fish them from shore just like fluke. And what bait?? Gulp mullet,jerkshad,etc???

Dead stick from shore. small hooks, worms, clams....

We caught some beautiful winter flounder from the sandy hook surf last april while bass fishing.

They'll bite first on the inside bays and rivers.