Showed up on the full moon,got a few everyday since then,high ish tide mornin and evening.

Green soft bait,plastic, jig head. All fish were close to shore when hooked. 21 incher so far , last night. Saw a big snook being caught too. 

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Nice we have been pulling some up to 5lbs off the south jetties from jax to st auggy using live mullet on the bottom close to the rocks.

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Thanks for the info. They should be around the inlet jetties too.

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Man! I was just trying to talk myself out of driving down to the inlet when I saw this......The Flounder is a taunting fish. Once you start fishing for them, you dream about them and think about them obsessively. Flat little f.....fish.

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One way to curtail that is to gig them at night, they will not haunt you, and you almost begin to feel bad for the poor little suckers!
I will say though the rush of coming up on a fatty in the lights is nowhere near the thump of one on a big ol live mullet and watching that line swim off and setting the hook a la Jimmy Houston!

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Ain't that the truth. Or when you see in your peripheral a massive tug but look over and the rod is flaccid. Only to see it bolt off a minute later!! Agh. I'm on my way down now.

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Use Pilchards tight to the rocks, and you get the added bonus of delicious Mangrove snappers!

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Cole where you finding pilchards? I've started seeing mullet in the surf but not north of ocean ave. Also, found lots of mullet on north side of the inlet but the tide was ripping out and they would be gone as soon as you'd see em. Definitely a two man job. Haven't seen pilchards yet.

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By the way my flounder quest was a failure the other day. Made 3-4 stops on the way down looking for mullet, with no luck. Was feeling too frugal to pay 8$ a doz. All I got was a couple jack and sea cat on lures. Caught some mojarra but no takers.

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Pilchards are all over the inlet, south one of course, use a sabiki

I usually find the small ones on the east end of the tide pool just beyond the rocks and in the pocket where the rocks end and the jetty begins on the north side.

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Whats up with the peeps that pull up a whole net full on the north jetty and let all 500 flop to death and dry up like pringles!? I always hated seing people do that but dont know if they dont know better or care ect.

Cole the thought of grovers is making me hungry better than flounder IMO!

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Just caught a zillion in the Florida Keys. Deelicious!

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Anyone been down this week? Tried with a sabiki last week but no luck on the pilchards. ended up with shrimp and gulp. No flatties =(

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The C54 canal and excessive rain will ruin the party if it hasn't already.

The place should be stuffed with little Pilchards, the weird weather seems to be screwing with everything.

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Got three this morn, tide was low around six,waited till eight,the bites were as subtle as a summer wave, and they were further out when they bit. One swam in toward me,I thought I had apiece of seaweed in my reel, never felt the hit and it was barley hooked, but I got it in. I had one on shore that some sweet little ole lady was trying to release for me. I explained it was dinner. She said to put it in a bucket, yes mame.

hahaha nice!

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Does any fish unhook itself as well as the flounder?

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Has anyone ever tried using the striped guppies/mud minnows?, you can catch on the flats on the river as flounder/snapper bait? Just curious because I have heard good things but have yet to try..

Got two more this morn, that makes 13 since the last full moon. All but one was a keeper and 14 plus inches. Gonna be a good flounder year I hope.

The water has some amazin sights, pods of snook, sharks, rays, gin clear. Saw big scaled sardine showed up in the last few days. 

I got bit right off this mornin, I think it was a flounder too, it bit me on the foot, yeah, I missed that one.