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Flounder invade Little River estuary
The good weather that comes with May also brings excellent flounder fishing to Little River on the North Carolina-South Carolina border. […]
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Beach-bound isn’t so bad
October was a big transition month for saltwater fishing in the Carolinas, and by November, the water and air temperatures have cooled off considerably, but those aren’t the only changes.
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Wade for flounder
If you Google “Wade fishing for flounder,” you’ll get a bunch of YouTube videos from Texas, Louisiana and other spots along the Gulf Coast. On the East coast, wading is much more of a personal preference than an advantage, especially in South Carolina, because of the amount of water that ebbs and flows between tide cycles and that sticky stuff that’s been rumored to hold the world together: plough mud.
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How to hook a flounder
Flounder are gregarious fish. If they bit like redfish, you’d regularly see a lot more flounder in magazines and on social media.
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It’s an all-night gig
It is not often that a recreational trip to procure fish begins well after dark. However, guide Allen Jernigan met a friend, Tony Rhodes, at a ramp in Sneads Ferry, N.C., at 9:30 p.m.
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Fall flounder fling
Autumn is largely the favorite season for many die-hard saltwater anglers. Summer crowds have mostly vacated the coast, and baitfish begin making their seasonal migrations out of estuaries and into more open water.
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Morehead City angler boats 12.33 pound flounder
Alex Ng is no stranger to big fish. Earlier this year Carolina Sportsman had a story about he and his brother, Anthony, catching huge grouper. Ng also enjoys fishing the calmer waters inside the inlets and his preferred quarry there is flounder. On Aug. 29, he caught a very healthy 12.33-pound flounder that was his second flatfish to exceed 10 pounds.
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Count to three to ID gulf flounder
Of the three flounder species that inhabit waters off the North Carolina coast — summer southern and Gulf — the Gulf flounder is the least plentiful.
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They’re ugly, but an oyster toad is a tasty summer reef dweller
The oyster toadfish is a common catch for anglers who fish the nearshore ledges and reefs for flounder, gray trout and other species. They will hit spoons and jigs but are more likely to strike live and cut baits.
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SC flounder set up on nearshore reefs, structure
Since July 1, South Carolina anglers have had to abide by a new set of flounder regulations: a 15-inch size minimum. While estuaries are packed with flounder in the dead of summer, the typical inshore flounder will be hovering around that minimum size.