Went to the flat at the back of the creek to do some wade flats fishing. There was a nice size school of mid class reds. I’d say minimum 12 fish maybe 25 most where over 20 inches a few were probably pushing 30. As I worked my way back I had a lot of little hits and a few decent hits that mostly felt like trout. But I got one good hit and picked up a healthy 17 inch trout. As I made it back to were the reds were tailing and they stopped tailing as soon as I got back there. I threw a few cast and missed a few small flounder and looked for pushes, wakes and tails. It wasn’t long and I saw a blue tip of a tail break the surface and I threw about 3 ft in front of it with a 3 inch slim swim in the deal color on a 1/16 ounce lucky strike jig. It picked it up almost instantly and took off. It ran a few laps all over and around the flat spooking every red around as it tried to bust me off on oyster clusters. I thought for sure I had one of the bigger reds but it was a fat 23 incher with a lot of fight in it. It was about twenty minutes until things calmed down and came back to life and it was fishable again. I had several flounder hold on to the bait and swim around with it but the hook would pull when I set it. I reeled one in all the way across the flat and it even swam side to side some and I thought it was small and didn’t set the hook on it because I didn’t feel much weight but when I got it close it opened it’s mouth and let go of the hook. It was probably 18 to 20 inches. I see another blow up and wake and make a bad cast and hit on the head and it still ate it. It came in easy compared to the 23 but was a healthy 19incher. Threw a few cast and then got hung up and walked towards it to free it and spooked a flounder. While I was further in the creek I threw a cast and hooked a decent flounder and walked back to shore to land it. It was about 16.5 inches, left it on the bank and started working the area I spooked the flounder and caught a smaller one. A big school of big mull
You missed some jowl meat
Well done 40! Yea, that spottail in the second pic has some shoulders on it! Good stuff man!
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Fillet job wasn’t my best. I should of sharpened my knife first. It was about as sharp as a butter knife or a spoon, add in that I didn’t scale it I just skinned the fillets, it was a skinny fish and the fish never got the ice treatment, basically I made it harder then it should of been. Still tasted like flounder though, but not as good as the other type of flounder I caught this spring, it tasted like crab meat.