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[lucky]

 Since it was so nice out both the girlfriend and I decided to take the day off work and do some crabbing and catch a few flounder, got a nice limit of crabs, and a few flounder. The funniest thing happened, we dropped the traps off and started fishing, couple minutes later gf says fish and and sets the hook, at the same time I feel a strike and set the hook as well, then my line went slack so I figured my line must be wrapped around my gfs fish, so we both reel up only to find that the flounder had taken both our baits! both hooks were buried deep in his mouth, must of been one hungry fish we decided that since my girlfriends hook was deeper that she could claim that as her fish.

[Fish Assassin]

That flounder deserve to be caught and eaten.

[Rodney]

Lucky's flounder pic

[Rodney]

Come on lucky, admit that you two had a big fight on the boat over that fish. Nice size flounder by the way... Four years ago, I caught one around 4 inches on a 1/4oz croc in the Fraser (around the area where you have been barfishing)!

[The_Roe_Man]

hey lucky i was just wondering how big are the flounder you catch(inches).....

[Coho Cody]

ive caught flounder a couple pounds from belcarra

i was using a slip weight, and a worm and i was bringing it when suddenly...BAM!!!

i didnt know wut it wuz, but when i got it in,,,i realized it was a good sized flounder

[kellya]

 Here on the island i have caught them to about 5-6 pounds and 25 inches maybe? And no they were not halibut. I catch the biggies deep around 200-300 feet on most jigs. This summer on a calm night my friend and i are going to drop down a octapus tenticle and a herring down reel deep. We are gonna put them down 500 feet and see if some cool fish takes it. Probally snapper/hake hopefully a sixgill

[Sterling C]

Hey Kelly, why do you have to fish deep at night?

[kellya]

The biggest sole i find are down deep. As far as 500 feet im just interested in whats down I want to catch something i have never caught before. At night the  fish come up a bit. I have seen a really deep water fish i think a hake swimming in 2 feet of water! It was at the marina last summer in the middle of the day! it was about 8 pounds and it just swam around for 2 hours with us throwing everything in the tackle box at it. Finally a harbour seal swam over and got him.

[lucky]

 average size of the flounder we caught were around 12 to 17 ", but we did get three or four bigger ones maybe 24 or 25 ", all of them were caught in about 50 feet of water.

[The_Roe_Man]

Thanks for the response lucky.  What kind of setup do you use and what sort of bait do you find work the best.

[lucky]

I like to use an ultralight spinning setup, with 8lb line,  pencil weight then about a foot and a half leader and and a nice chunk of shrimp for bait, we drift fish and drag the bait along bottom, lifting up every now and then. they will basicly eat anything, but I find shrimp works good because the area I fish has alot of prawn naturally. when I lived on the island I would catch them using a small jighead with a couple kernals of corn on it.

[Toprod]

 I agree with Kellya, the biggest sole I have caught were 5-6 lbs taken 400 feet down while targeting halibut.

[redtide]

just passed that concrete pillar in at tsawwassen ferry terminal you can catch lots of flounder. just drift until you catch one. then throw over a marker to remember where that location was. the drift is quite strong sometimes. i used just frozen herring pieces.

[tyee slayer]

i have heard the secret weapon is dew worms....havent tried them myself though