Monday Flounder Update: Flounder Revolution tourney begins shortly
Greetings fellow flounder fanatics!
From March 1-Nov. 30 we will be taking submissions from anglers releasing (or donating to a hatchery through a special event) flounder measuring 20 inches or more.
At the end of each month, the angler who submits the largest released flounder will receive a high quality fiberglass replica of their catch produced by the Fish Mount Store.
So, all of you top flounder anglers out there, are you ready? Let's start seeing some shots of big fish come in for the cause!
We are less than a week away from the beginning of our Flounder Revolution online replica tournament. In an effort to promote the catch and release of the big, genetically superior breeding female flounder, Flounder Revolution is partnering with the Coastal Conservation Association and the Fish Mount Store for flounder conservation.
From March 1-Nov. 30 we will be taking submissions from anglers releasing (or donating to a hatchery through a special event) flounder measuring 20 inches or more.
At the end of each month, the angler who submits the largest released flounder will receive a high quality fiberglass replica of their catch produced by the Fish Mount Store.
Then at the end of the nine-month cycle, the angler who submits the most released flounder measuring 20 inches or more will be our "Flounder Angler of the Year" and a huge fishing tackle prize package.
The rules are available by clicking here but here are a few of them to give you an idea.
#Your catch must be alive when measured, photographed and released.
#Using your digital camera, you must take one photograph showing the fish with ruler and another showing the fish with the angler.
#All submission emails must come with a declaration of release available here.
The rules are available by clicking here but here are a few of them to give you an idea.
#Your catch must be alive when measured, photographed and released.
#Using your digital camera, you must take one photograph showing the fish with ruler and another showing the fish with the angler.
#All submission emails must come with a declaration of release available here.
This is a fun way to contribute to conservation and get you an awesome mount of your trophy flounder. Plus, you will be bringing much needed awareness to conserving this amazing fishery.
So, all of you top flounder anglers out there, are you ready? Let's start seeing some shots of big fish come in for the cause!
It all begins March 1.
Seminar March 1 (clarification)
I will be speaking 7 p.m. Monday March 1 at the Bay Area CCA General Membership Meeting at Mario's Pizza 618 NASA Road 1 in League City. It had been accidentally advertised that I was speaking on another date but I will be there Monday the 1st. Anyone is welcomed including people who are not members of CCA.
I will be doing a series of seminars this spring and virtually every event will feature a different talk and all of them are different from the ones I have done in the past. I'm very excited about the new information I have to pass on and look forward to meeting everyone.
Flounder Boat to Sea Center
The Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) last August donated $14,000 for a flounder catching boat for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department's (TPWD) Coastal Fisheries Division. That was not quite enough to cover the tricked out vessel with all of the lights, proper motor and other amenities for nighttime flounder catching so Rick Kresta of Kresta Boats & Motors donated the rest.
"This donation will go a long way toward helping us capture more flounder for the hatchery and take this program to the next level," said TPWD's Shane Bonnot of Sea Center Texas.
CCA and Kresta deserve huge kudos for this donation. As we showed last fall with the footage for Port Aransas, using the nets to capture flounder live is far more efficient than by hook and line and will really give the program a boost.
"CCA Texas is excited to be able to ramp up our efforts in supporting our hatchery's flounder research. The two hatcheries as well as our research laboratory in Port Aransas have all done an incredible job discovering how to spawn flounder in captivity and releasing their offspring back into our bay systems. To take the flounder restocking initiative to the next level will require an abundant amount of broodstock," said Robby Byers, Executive Director of CCA.
"We hope with the purchase of the flounder broodstock collection boat, that it will be able to provide the quantity of fish needed to enable flounder to be restocked in our bays to the levels that trout and redfish are. Flounder is an important recreational fish and we hope with the help of a restocking program, that it can be returned to its historical levels for everyone to enjoy."
Things are really looking up for flounder conservation.
Corky Goes National
Just a note the Corky has gone national. What I consider to be an underrated flounder lure is now the property of L&S Lures and they should be available about right now at major tackle retailers. Cool, huh?
Posted by Flounder Revolution at 2/22/2010 9:46 AM 
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