Flounder.....

[h20hunter]

So....here is the skinny. My son, Mark (6), and I are having a mans day. No girls. No mommies. Just the men by God. We are planning on heading out of Everett to go fish around Hat. I'm thinking flounder are the fish of the day. I've fished for everything else but not really ever target these tasty little morsels. How do you guys fish for them? I'm thinking basically an egg sinker, a split shot, then maybe two feet later a hook with a bit of shrimp meat? Sandy areas? Not real deep, not real shallow?

Any tips and advice much appreciated.

[runamuk]

When I used to fish for them off Camano....the area was sandy, to small gravel bottoms near kelp beds using sand shrimp or those awful sand worms you can dig on the beach that have pincher like appendages .....  I also caught plenty of darn bullheads since they eat anything they can get in their mouth.... but I always caught flounder with those baits never my lures....and yes this was back in the mid 80's when dinosaurs roamed so...ymmv  my son caught flounder this last summer, tied off to a boat bouy in the same spot I used to fish not sure what he was using for bait/lure...

[NRA4LIFE]

Been kind of slow for us around Hat the last few years.  When we did get them our best luck was off the South part of the island in 30-50 feet of water.  They will bite almost anything.  We also seen a guy fishing off the shipwreck last summer for them, again in roughly the same depth.  He seemed to be doing really well.

[Alchase]

Pile worms if you can get them, were the best bait on the canal when i was a kid. Clam necks work well also and stay on the hook through multiple fish.

[h20hunter]

Good tips....thanks....keep 'em coming.

Since the whole goal is to simply get out and fish I'm not to worried about slaying them. A few filet and fry up will work well. Besides, we catch to many and it will take away from our time at the range in the afteroon!

[NWBREW]

Good tips....thanks....keep 'em coming.

Since the whole goal is to simply get out and fish I'm not to worried about slaying them. A few filet and fry up will work well. Besides, we catch to many and it will take away from our time at the range in the afteroon!

Fishing and gun range.. Good Man day with the son.

[h20hunter]

Yes sir.

We are hitting the salt in the morning...not to early, not to late. Fish a bit. Maybe drink some root beer.

Get home, quick wash on the boat. Grab our bows and his Rossi .22 and off to the range at 1:30. Sling a few arrows, pop off some .22's, then off to Razzles for a beer for me and a shirley temple for him.

Home by dinner for some fried fish dinner with momma and baby sister.

Early to bed for daddy.

[NW-GSP]

I always used worms on the south side of hat isl but my bait was always getting ripped off but I was nine years old and catching anything was still fun for me, bullheads, starfish,flounder and sometimes crab

[Echomules]

We usually drag a 3/8 - 1/2 oz jig head with a small 3-4" rubber grub, white is good. Drag it through the sand at different depths and find them. Anchor for a while, when it slows down, move to dragging again.
Have fun!

[Rob]

Nice thing about puget sound flounder is that all the tumors give the meat a nice chewy texture.  Kinda like octopus...

[rasbo]

I use clam necks,and drift point to point of small bays,on the bottom...good crab bait

[h20hunter]

Thanks Rob.....I'll keep that in mind. Hope it's not as chewy as those pesky wolfies!!!

[pjb3]

I'm looking for a spot north of Camano but I do use squid, works great. Gotta keep the crab away though

[h20hunter]

oh....yeah....little strips would stay on the hooks nice...thanks.

[Rob]

Thanks Rob.....I'll keep that in mind. Hope it's not as chewy as those pesky wolfies!!!

I hear the wolfies are pretty tasty actually.  Too bad only the tribes can harvest.  I also hear that PS king crab taste like lobster. 

I have seen lots of starry flounder when diving in the flats off the possesion point bar.  Makes for a nice drift dive.  drop to 100 feet, and drift with a surface buoy so your boat can track you.  interesting rolling sand dunes out there.  The couple times I have done that I recall seeing lots of starry flounder.

We did it once on the west side of the bar, and once up close to the horseshoe.