| Taste. That is the reason that so many anglers seek | | | | of shrimp attached to a hook for an excellent way |
| out these fish on a regular basis. They make | | | | to seek out flounder. This method will help you avoid |
| excellent table fare, and can be cooked in so many | | | | the little fish for the most part, but you will find |
| different ways. If you were to look for a restaurant | | | | patches of them. Once you find a pack of fish, or a |
| in your area that served flounder, and then travelled | | | | bunch of smaller fish, it is time to grab a jig with a |
| 300 miles away, you would get it cooked in a | | | | piece of shrimp. This is when I really prefer to use |
| completely different manner. However it is cooked | | | | artificial baits, because you have to let it soak. |
| though, it is delicious. | | | | I use the fake shrimp that a few different companies |
| When you go out fishing for flounder, and you | | | | make for almost all of my jighead flounder fishing. |
| choose live bait, you are going to end up dealing with | | | | The ones I like to use have scents in them that |
| a lot of smaller, what people call "trash", fish. They | | | | release and smell like dying fish to other predators in |
| are bait stealers, plain and simple. It doesn't matter if | | | | the area. I am not completely positive on the |
| you are using a float rig, trolling, or fishing the bottom | | | | formula, but I do know that it works. Because you |
| with a jig. These little fish can empty your bait | | | | have to soak artificial baits in the water as long as |
| bucket quick if you aren't prepared. My only advice | | | | you do, the scent really helps predatory fish pick up |
| to you is to move if you end up on a stack of these. | | | | on the bait, and move in. |
| You can troll with a float rig hooked up, and a piece | | | | |