The number of questions I am getting already has been phenomenal and some great questions. I am going to do this as a two-part series and break it into three if necessary. Here goes the first round.

A: I am a big proponent of using Skip's favorite tactic of a curl-tailed grub tipped with shrimp when fishing for flounder in the marshes and along shorelines in bay systems. I have caught more flounder on this method than any other and have had very little luck with any kind of spray on juice. I have friends that swear by it but my experience has been less than stellar. With that said there is no question tipping with shrimp does affect the action of the lure but I have tested this in clear water and you still get tail action. I think in our murkier bay systems using the luminescent grubs in conjunction with shrimp gives flounder something they can see and more importantly smell. It is really hard to beat. I have caught hundreds and hundreds like this myself and saw Skip put away some amazing catches. Gulp! however is allowing me to get the best of both worlds because you can get a legitimate smell (nothing puts out scent in the water like Gulp with the exception of perhaps the real thing) and action and I find myself going more and more to using Gulp shrimp and curl tailed grubs instead of the standard jig and shrimp.

A: Since you call it "Lake Sabine" I suppose you are a veteran angler and my hat off to you. My mentor Ed Holder insisted on calling it Lake Sabine and that is actually the traditional name. Now to answer your question, right now there have been good catches of flounder in Black's Bayou (near the mouth) and in East Pass. The Louisiana shoreline has been hit and miss. Another good spot has been the shoreline south of the LNG terminal on the Louisiana side and Old River Cove from the mouth of Old River Bayou (the bridge right in front of Bailey's Fish Camp's remains) and on through the intake side of the Entergy Canal. They should remain good into early October.

Q: This is actually a comment framed within a question from the comment page..."Come Sept. the limit will be 5 fish, and Nov. it will be 2 fish makes no sense to me. Try telling a bass fisherman that he can't fish the spawn and see what happens."

A: These limits are based upon science that has stood the test of time and is very thorough and I support them. If you don't that is understandable and I respect your opinion. In terms of telling a bass fishermen he can't fish during the spawn there are a couple of problems with that. The first thing is no one is telling flounder fishermen they can't fish during the fall run. You can fish all you want but giggers can't kill any during November but will be allowed to go back to five fish in December and can do it the rest of the year. Rod and reel anglers can keep two and are allowed to catch and release as many as they want. That by the way is what most bass fishermen do. The other point I would like to make is largemouth bass numbers are literally at record high numbers with the fish being at record sizes in nearly every water body in the state while even in Sabine Lake which still has the state's best flounder fishery, the numbers are down 50 percent from 20 years ago. There is a big difference between the bass and flounder situations.

A: I did an afternoon of flounder fishing in Baffin and struck out. It is alien water to me since there is virtually no tidal movement and all of my flounder strategies are based on tidal movements. My friend Capt. Jim Onderdonk says he catches some nice fish there when trout fishing but also has a hard time targeting them. I have some ideas about strategies to use to increase flounder take but need to go try them out. I plan on hitting it this fall or early next spring when the fish start moving in. You're not along in your Baffin frustrations.

A: Without a doubt mud minnows. Mullet work too but when I have fished live bait mud minnows always put more fish in the boat.