Flounder Archives - Page 17 of 21

The Cherry Grove estuary just south of the North Carolina/South Carolina border is a great place to start out the spring season catching flounder.

Cherry Grove is first, best spot for spring flounder

Small inlets and estuaries like Cherry Grove are great places for anglers to shake off the winter blues and catch some flounder. […]

Most of the live baits that fishermen can catch in cast nets in the fall will draw strikes from flounder, but perhaps mullet are the most productive.

What’s the best way to tempt fall flounder?

Jeff Burleson

Flounder gorge themselves on anything they can get inside their bellies from shrimp, mud minnows and finger mullet to small spots and croakers. But what is the best bait to use? […]

November is prime time to catch NC/SC state-line flounder.

Catch state-line fall flounder

Jeff Burleson

Fall fishing is in full swing along the Carolina coast, and although many anglers think about king mackerel, speckled trout and spots, flounder fishing can be fantastic; it’s the time when many of the biggest specimens make it into the boat. […]

Michael Hall caught this 9-pound, 2-ounce flounder in the Cape Fear River in mid October.

N.C. angler catches 9-pound flounder in Cape Fear River

Jerry Dilsaver

Michael Hall of Carolina Beach catches a lot of Cape Fear River flounder, including some nice citation flatfish. However, his idea of a really nice flounder was upgraded with his most recent catch, when his fishing trip ended with Hall’s personal best flounder, a 9-pound, 2-ounce doormat. […]

Jim Barkowski was fishing out of Southport when he caught this 9.6-pound flounder.

Southport angler decks 9.6-pound flounder

Jerry Dilsaver

Jim Barkowski and Bob Paloncy have been enjoying good fishing around Southport, N.C. this summer, and Barkowski added an exclamation point when he boated a 9.6 pound flatfish on Sept. 13 in deeper water than they’d been fishing all summer. […]

Mike Norris caught this 11-pound, 3-ounce flounder in the Carolina Beach area, and weighed it at Island Tackle and Hardware.

Carolina Beach angler catches 11+ pound flounder

Jerry Dilsaver

Mike Norris of Carolina Beach weighed in his second double digit flounder of 2017 earlier this month. The fish weighed 11 pounds, 3 ounces, surpassing the 10-pound, 14-ounce flatfish he caught on July 26. Both fish were 28 inches long, and they both had girths of 23 inches. […]

Murrells Inlet flounder fishing really turns on in September when estuary waters cool and good numbers of fish return.

Flounder begin move to MI estuary

Jeff Burleson

Flounder are a staple up and down the Atlantic coast, and many areas along the coast of the Carolinas produce plenty of flounder, but South Carolina’s Murrells Inlet isn’t just any place for an ordinary haul. […]

North Carolina’s lower Cape Fear River produces some great flounder, especially in the fall.

Cape Fear’s flounder are on the move

Jerry Dilsaver

The coastal end of North Carolina’s Cape Fear River has a knack for producing both big flounder and good numbers of fish, and several 10-pounders caught already this summer haven’t done anything to hurt that reputation. […]

Gigging lights make it easy to spot flounder on the sea floor in the dark.

Flounder gigging is a great way to get kids involved in the outdoors

Brian Cope

If you want to get kids involved in the outdoors, taking them flounder gigging is a great way to do it. It’s summertime, and kids love staying up late this time of year. And with no school to prepare for each morning, most parents are okay with late bedtimes for them. And nighttime is the perfect time for gigging flounder. […]