sandbars Posted April 13, 2020 Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 Anyone trying to pick a few out of the rivers yet. Use to be a good worm hatch that happened sometime in mid April usually on the cape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Ape Posted April 13, 2020 Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 I tried a few times late in the fall in places I have caught them, from shore in previous years. Nothing at all. That said, I’m feeling the itch lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeke04 Posted April 13, 2020 Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 On the southside of the Cape, bag limit 2 = nobody fishing. As you stated, the estuaries on the southside used to produce unbelievable numbers of winter flounder, but that died off drastically in the late 90's, probably due to commercial overfishing. On the northside, it's pretty much boat fishing to find the flounder and it has been pretty good the last few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northshore Bob Posted April 13, 2020 Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) It is too early, at least up here on the Northshore. My experience is that mid to late May is when you can start to pick them up. Catching a few flounder would do wonders for my spirits right about now ... Edited April 13, 2020 by Northshore Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandbars Posted April 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 14 mins ago, zeke04 said: On the southside of the Cape, bag limit 2 = nobody fishing. As you stated, the estuaries on the southside used to produce unbelievable numbers of winter flounder, but that died off drastically in the late 90's, probably due to commercial overfishing. On the northside, it's pretty much boat fishing to find the flounder and it has been pretty good the last few years. Some years you get huge fish kills of winter flounder in the small creeks on the south side. Usually happens when you get high 90degree temps 3 days or more in a row. Several times crabbing at crab creek in Dennis you’d see thousands of dead flounder after a heat wave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdowning Posted April 13, 2020 Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 53 mins ago, sandbars said: Anyone trying to pick a few out of the rivers yet. Use to be a good worm hatch that happened sometime in mid April usually on the cape. There were some pretty good worm hatches going on at the full moon a week ago, but not sure about now. Pfantum Pfishah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VitaminDee Posted April 13, 2020 Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 Caught a super dink in a tidal river in NH while going for white perch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dah seee Posted April 14, 2020 Report Share Posted April 14, 2020 You can get into them now if you know where to look. You have to pick a sunny day, time it so it coincide with an outgoing tide, and look for a muddy bottom. I have gotten them around the North Shore marshes if you poke around. You won't limit out but you'll pick out a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishingboston Posted April 14, 2020 Report Share Posted April 14, 2020 I only tried fishing for them using those pre tied set ups. Can I get them just using a simple dropper loop with a size 1 or 2 hook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandbars Posted April 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2020 That should be fine for a set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ermghoti Posted April 14, 2020 Report Share Posted April 14, 2020 I am very into kahle hooks for winter flounder. Size 4 to 1/0 or so. They still try to cram that seaworm down their gullet, but the bend of the hook gets in the way. No issue at all with hook-ups, and no deeply hooked fish. Easy release for shorts, and quickly back to business after a keeper. The traditional flounder hook seems to be intended to bend straight if yanked out of a fish's gullet, which 50% of the time they are. I guess that's fine if everything is headed for the bucket, but those days are long gone. Massachusetts EPO: 1-800-632-8075 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandbars Posted April 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 Wish I could take the drive down the cape to give it a shot. But being 2 hrs away don’t want to take a chance of a break down or something happening. Heard triple a doesn’t give you a ride home with everything going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishingboston Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 51 mins ago, sandbars said: Wish I could take the drive down the cape to give it a shot. But being 2 hrs away don’t want to take a chance of a break down or something happening. Heard triple a doesn’t give you a ride home with everything going on. Wont you have a better shot at them north of the cape? Only caught one last year in quincy was a inch short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northshore Bob Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 I wonder ... since this pandemic has kept at least some of the commercial dragger fleet tied up due to decreased restaurant demand for fish, will we see some sort of rebound in winter flounder stocks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason colby Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) 18 hours ago, ermghoti said: I am very into kahle hooks for winter flounder. Size 4 to 1/0 or so. They still try to cram that seaworm down their gullet, but the bend of the hook gets in the way. No issue at all with hook-ups, and no deeply hooked fish. Easy release for shorts, and quickly back to business after a keeper. The traditional flounder hook seems to be intended to bend straight if yanked out of a fish's gullet, which 50% of the time they are. I guess that's fine if everything is headed for the bucket, but those days are long gone. Excellent! My favorite flounder hook is a size 2 Kahle. I did change over to a size 2 bronze, forged streamer hook (Mustad R73-9671) in the past 10 years though because the streamer hook gives a better presentation for drifting which I find myself doing more and more. (More "funner"!) Very rarely hook them too deep with these as well. I think it is more to do with the size (size 2 as opposed to those "traditional Chesterton's" which are damn size 8!)... Edited April 15, 2020 by jason colby ermghoti 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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