Hey every one how you all been. i've been good. I have been wondering about flounder for a long time. i always want to fish for them but i have no idea where to begin.there is this bridge that i always cross on the way to fishing the beaches and the water is brown and i am not sure about the bottom, would this be a good spot for fishing for flounder????? I also need some tips on what to buy for flounder fishing, what size hooks and what kind (wide gap, bait holder, live bait, etc.), also what i should use for bait, weather it is a plastic lure with a jig head or what? i am totally clueless about flounder ??? . any help would be much appreciated

I have no clue on how to direct you to flounder up there. Other than to say down here we would use sea clams with sinker/fish finder rigs if we could find where the flounder were. The flounder fishing is coming back in the Boston Harbor area but I'm not sure about up north. I know I've never caught one in Maine. I wouldn't mind trying because they are excellent eating but I'm admittedly obsessed with Stripers ;D

One good source to check up there is Surfland Bait & Tackle in Newburyport, Ma. , just south of the border. They are very knowledgeable and carry equipment from the economical to the high-end...

For fluke , a lot of people use squid strips. Keep it moving a little or let it out into a current. Open the squid. Cut long triangles. Slit the long triangle tail down the middle so two thinner tails are wiggling. Under bridges is usually good if there is tidal movement. You usually need deeper water though. Like 30 to 60 feet range. When I used to dive , the flounder would scare the hell out of me cause they couldn't be seen till you touched them. They were in sandy areas in mid summer in about 35 feet of water. As far as your striper question on the other post goes , I think you need a new spot. In areas like you described , it is often nescessary to wade out waste deep so you can cast past the breaking stuff that is washing your lure or bait in. Sometimes its too rough to wade out. If you have thrown out mackeral chunks for years and had no luck , you need a new spot!

For fluke, I agree with Saltheart 100%. Fluke are pretty agressive fish on their own, but to really target them, you gotta keep your bait moving. If you are fishing still water like a back bay, use a fluke bullet. Tip the end with squid. If you are fishing an area with strong current, it's even easier. Use a fishfinder rig with a strip of squid. Use a bank sinker that is heavy enough to hit bottom but light enough to slowly bounce along with the current. Once you hit the end of the drift, reel up, and do it again.

My suggestion is to use Fireline. I put it on my fluking rod and I fell in love with it. Fluke aren't known for running with the bait so with mono, as soon as you felt like you were hung up, you would set the hook. Sometimes it was a fish, sometimes you had a stick at the end of the line. With Fireline, I can tell the difference between a stick and a fluke. You will also know what type of bottom you are fishing. The stuff is that sensitive.