Senkos....

"RichZ" wrote in message
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SimRacer wrote:

I understand the theory of patience. If you ever want a sure-fire way to
train yourself to wait on a fish to have and truly take your bait prior
to
setting the hook, try flounder fishing sometime. That, to me, is the
ultimate in patience training, since they'll pick it up and play with it
awhile before trying to eat it, all has to happen before you can set the
hook on one of those bad boys. There are times that between feeling the
fish
and setting the hook on a flounder, it can actually feel like minutes
have
gone by - even though it may have only been 30 seconds to 1 minute.


You must be speaking of "winter flounder" with the small mouth and no
teeth, and the eyes on the right side of its head, as opposed to the
fluke or summer flounder, of the larger mouth, nasty teeth, and eyes on
the left side of its head. The former is a nibbler. The latter is not.

Whatever we have here in NC is what I was talking about. I've never heard
"winter flounder" used to describe any of them, though that may be what they
are. We do call the more aggressive ones "Summer Flounder", but I think we
tag the other ones simply as "Southern Flounder", and is what we seem to get
the most of where I fish for them - from the port walls at Morehead City NC
out the Beaufort Inlet and into the ocean just a little bit, usually a mile
or less offshore, right along the shallow ledges of the deep water inlet.

It's not very often that we get into any aggressive flounder, and is why we
have to take the patience route. So I guess even though they are native to
the waters I frequent, we don't seem to find them - Summer Flounder/flukes -
nearly as often. Maybe that's why they're (also) called flukes? lol