The minimum size for summer flounder harvested by commercial fishing gear shall be 14 inches in total length.
What size is a big flounder?
Males grow to more than 2 feet in length and females grow up to 3 feet.
What size flounder can you keep in SC?
16-inch
Finfish Size & Catch Limits
| Finfish: Inshore & Offshore | |
|---|---|
| Species | Size Limit |
| Black Drum | 14-inch to 27-inch TL |
| Bluefish | |
| Flounders (Southern, Summer & Gulf) | 16-inch TL |
What is the best month to catch flounder?
The best time to catch flounder is during their fall migration to the Gulf, typically from October to December, in the channels and passes leading to the Gulf. Flounder may be caught using rod and reel but most people prefer gigs.
How big does a flounder have to be to keep in North Carolina?
15 inches
The 2022 recreational flounder season will open at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 1 and close at 11:59 p.m. Sept. 30 in internal and ocean waters of North Carolina. The minimum size limit will remain at 15 inches total length, and the creel limit will be 1 fish per person per day during the open recreational season.
How old is a 20 inch flounder?
Females grow faster than males, and juvenile summer flounder can reach a length of 9 to 12 inches during their first year. Fourteen-inch summer flounder are generally 2 or 3 years old and weigh about a pound. A twenty-inch summer flounder is usually 4 years old or older and weighs about 3 pounds.
What is the biggest flounder ever caught?
Captain Charles Nappi from Hicksville N.Y. holds the current fluke world record. Captain Nappi was fishing off of Montauk in 1975 when he landed his gigantic 22-pound, 4-ounce flatfish.
How old is a 25 inch flounder?
7
Summer Flounder (Fluke)
| Age (years) | Length (inches) |
|---|---|
| 5 | 22 |
| 6 | 23.5 |
| 7 | 25 |
| 8 | 26 |
How old is a 14 inch flounder?
12 – 14 inches, 1 – 2 pounds; South Carolina State Record: 17 pounds, 6 ounces (1974); maximum age: approx. males – 5 years, females – 7 or 8 years; females are generally larger and outlive males.
What bait is best for flounder?
Using live bait is essential for many flounder (fluke) fishermen around the country, and can be extremely effective for picky flounder (fluke). Shrimp, crabs, smaller flounder, sardines, shad, mullet, and mud minnows can all be great options for live bait.
Where do flounder go during the day?
During the middle of the day, flounder gigging is really slow typically because flounder will hunker down or head to slightly deeper water to avoid getting snatched up by an osprey.
How do you attract flounder?
Flounder like to hide and ambush their prey, so the trick to catching them is to move enticing live bait across their path and wait for them to strike.
Use live baitfish.
- You can add some strips of fresh squid or live shrimp to vary the bait mix.
- If one type of bait doesn’t seem to be working, try another.
What is the biggest flounder ever caught in North Carolina?
20 lb. 8 oz.
North Carolina State Saltwater Records
| FISH | WEIGHT | LOCATION CAUGHT |
|---|---|---|
| Dolphinfish, Pompano | 11 lb. 5.4 oz. | Off Ocean Isle Beach |
| Drum, Black | 100 lb. 1 oz. | Cape Fear River |
| Drum, Red* | 94 lb. 2 oz. | Hatteras Island |
| Flounder | 20 lb. 8 oz. | Carolina Beach |
What is the best bait for flounder in NC?
The consensus is that overall, 3-5 inch mullet minnows catch flounder best. There is a bit of disagreement on whether mud minnows or peanut menhaden are the second best live baits. Flounder eat both, so this might be a personal choice. Flounder will also eat small pinfish, spots, croakers and other small fish.
What is the best depth to catch flounder?
Flounder congregate in sandy areas in 10- to 15-foot depths just off those reefs. Soak a Sardine: Live sardines with a 1/0 to 3/0 hook, fished with just enough split shot to get them to the bottom, are hard to beat.
Can a flounder bite you?
A flounder bite is different from any other backwater fish like redfish or speckled trout, and sometimes it requires a little more patience when targeting this fish. Most times, a flounder bite is not neccesarily a hard bite, in fact, it might not even feel like a bite at all.
How long can flounder survive out of water?
They can suffocate and die quickly without water (following three to four minutes of no gill movement), so it’s important that you don’t take them out unless the new water is ready for their transfer.
What is the lifespan of a flounder?
They have an average lifespan of 11 years for males and 12 years for females. Concentrated in coastal bays and inlets around the Bay of Fundy, Winter Flounder have a wide salinity tolerance, and occur in waters ranging from typically oceanic to brackish estuaries.
Do flounder like deep or shallow water?
While flounder are commonly found in deep water out to 100-feet or more around reefs and wrecks, for most anglers, flounder are usually targeted when they move into shallow water bays, inlets, river mouths and inshore creeks and marsh areas. These are some of the best flounder fishing areas.
Are fluke and flounder the same fish?
All Fluke Are Flounder but Not All Flounder Are Fluke
Generally speaking, left-side up flounder are flukes, and right-side up flounders are called flounders. That sounds easy enough to remember, but it gets worse. Flukes are also called “summer flounder,” and flounder, or right-side fish, are called “winter flounder.”
What is the biggest fish caught from land?
June 20 (Reuters) – Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world’s biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a stingray that weighed in at 300kg (661 lb) and took around a dozen men to haul to shore.