I’m only a year in the Lowcountry, but I never thought this could happen. After scouring my usual low tide redfish spots with no success today, I started blind casting a chartreuse and white Clouser in some deeper oyster channels. I was hoping to catch a trout.
The tide was dead slack and I was about to pack it in. I just let the fly drop while I wound the line to the reel. As soon as the line when tight I felt him. LOL! Gut hooked an 18" flounder. …and I mean gut hooked. I couldn’t even see the fly.
For sure, they frequent many the spots as reds and I often catch them while blind casting at structure or creek mouths, they love a good clouser minnow
They’ll eat a fly if it’s in front of them. I was poling my brother on a sandy flat and we saw one cruising in about a foot of water - he threw out a white bead chain clouser and the thing came to the surface to eat it. It was a nice size too.
Yup yup. That’s my main issue here in NC. We can’t keep them, even gut hooked and knowing they are going to die. And boy do they like to suck a hook down.
The Texas flounder season is closed 11/1 thru 12/15. I can’t catch a keeper flounder for 10-1/2 months, but last week, I caught a 20" flattie & had to release it! That hurt! TJ
Yep. They love clousers. Especially that pattern. Our season is closed as well and if I had to guess, we probably boated 15-20 last Friday, but not on fly.
Where I am (the coasts of the Everglades..) flounder will jump on a clouser - if it’s bumped along the bottom where flatty is laying… (so will every tripletail we’ve ever run into around structure…). Unfortunately for us we only run into flounder in winter down here when the water is cold, cold (and our flounder are on the small side unlike the ones up in north Florida… Clousers will catch any fish a bucktail jig will catch (except tarpon - and don’t ask me why since I have no idea…).
