Winter Flounder

[RIROCKHOUND]

Mt Hope is a major spawn area, the cooling water intake, before the cooling towers had to have a big impact, as did the warm water discharge. Could be better now with the towers. Not sure about the treatment stuff Mike....
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[tlapinski]

As said, Boston/Quincy area is the best bet here in New England. I will say, however, that there are still some very good catches being made in Connecticut waters each year. For the most part this goes unnoticed thanks in no small part to the 2-fish limit, but when you add a pair of flounder to a blackfish or two in the spring, you've got one of the best inshore fish dinners you're likely to find around here. I get some pretty reliable and regular reports of flounder being caught cross much of the Connecticut coast from one of the Sound to the other both from boat and by shore.

[Got Stripers]

One of my first salt water fishing experiences as a young kid was sitting on my dads 27 foot sailboat in Scituate Harbor dunking sea worms for flatties.

[paradoxjim]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

One of my first salt water fishing experiences as a young kid was sitting on my dads 27 foot sailboat in Scituate Harbor dunking sea worms for flatties.

. . . and me, sitting on my grandfather's boat at the mooring in LI Sound catching them. Two years ago I caught one about 10 inches long during the summer in Fishers Island Sound while scup fishing. Only the second one that I have seen in years, since I worked in New Bedford. The other one was legal sized but out of season, caught while cod fishing on Coxes.

[DZ]

Back when I was a kid growing up in NY (1960s/70s) I would read advertisements in the Friday edition of the NY Daily News of bus trips from NY to Quincy to fish for winter flounder.