Flounder are a kind of flat fish that live in the ocean or sea. They are salt water fish. You will find them mainly in the Northern Atlantic, the Pacific Ocean and along the east coast of the United States and Canada. Flounder have both eyes located on one side of their body and usually lay along the Ocean floor. They can vary in size from 15 inches to 3 feet. Normal size is usually closer to 15 inches. They feed by lying on the ocean floor and ambushing their prey.

Once a year, in the summer summer, the flounder will migrate inwards and travel in the rivers and streams. Late fall and early winter they head back downstream and back into the ocean. Because of their spawning time, there may be rules on the time and size you can catch them. When they are migrating back from the streams, they can be found in abundance in the sand under piers, pilings and piles of rocks.

Some of the best bait used to catch these fish is mullet, mud minnows, small shrimp, strips of fresh squid, sea worms and clams. Use two hooks and one sinker. Drop your line in, don’t cast out. Take up the slack and let drift. It will drift across their path like little fish swimming would. They will think that’s what it is and go after it.

Gigging is another method of flounder fishing. Gigging is where you fish at night, by wading through the water when they are not moving and spearing them with a barbed spike. However you decide to fish for flounder, find out what the laws are first for the area you want to fish in.