Flounder & Flatfish

Check out the latest fishing tips and techniques for catching flounder.

Fish Facts: Flounder

Don’t let their odd appearance fool you. Flounder are fun to target thanks to their unique characteristics.

How to Catch Gulf Flounder in the Backwaters

Summer flatfish seek deep-water access and live bait along Texas and Louisiana coasts.

Dock Fishing Tips

Strategies for residential dock fishing in salt water.

That Other Northeast Flounder

The chase for winter flounder starts now in New Jersey and New York.

Flounder species belong to a large order of flatfishes in several families. Flatfishes include flounders, halibuts, soles, turbots and more. Because of their unique anatomy—their eyes are positioned on one side of their heads—they lie in ambush on or near the ocean bottom.

Some East Coast and Gulf anglers deliberately target flounder species on sandbar dropoffs and small ledges, but for many, these fish are incidental, though delicious, catches. Flounder will eat small fish such as mud minnows and shrimp and take tipped jigs or other artificials.

Fisherman holding striped bass caught deep sea fishing offshore

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Summer Flounder Stock Assessment Requested by Legislators

More Flounder Fishing Tips

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