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Monday Flounder Update: Spring run is on!

Greetings fellow flounder fanatics!

This one is going out a day early because I am going out in pursuit of flounder.

Things are going great here at Flounder Revolution headquarters. Our number of blog subscribers has increased by nearly 1/3 in the last two weeks, we are getting lots of good press and most importantly the flounder conservation message is spreading.

The Fish Mount Store who is providing our replicas for this year's program have posted a blog showing their great looking work and talking about the Revolution. Check it out by clicking here.

One of The Fish Mount Store's killer replicas. You could win one by participating in our monthly replica catch-and-release tournament. Click here to find out more.

Spring run in swing

We're getting lots of reports of flounder being caught along the Upper Coast of Texas and in Louisiana. A lot of fish moved in early and there seems to be a lot more fish already than during last year's run particularly in the Galveston complex and down toward Rockport. That is probably a result of the new regulations that allowed many more fish to survive last fall. We have yet to get a replica fish but some anglers have reported getting pretty close to the 20-inch mark.

Flounder Fishing Tip of the Week

Beginning today we will start giving anglers a special flounder fishing tip every week.

Flounder can be finicky, especially during slack tides so it isimportant to keep in mind their design. Flounder wait in concealment on thebottom waiting for the tides to bring it a meal. With both eyes on one side andlooking upward, its fixation on all things above it can lead to its demise andyour benefit. Most fish bite only when they arehungry with some occasionally displaying a territorial strike. Flounder howevercan be made to bite even with their bellies are full, it not for protection,then perhaps out of spite.

We cannot always arrange our fishing trips around peak tidal movements so we must sometimes do what we must to get fish to bite. Flounder will bite lures or bait even when they're not hungry if you put it right on top of their head.

Pattern casting in key flounder locales like the mouth of a small,marshy cut. The key is to cover all of the water where you know flounder shouldbe. By casting clockwise at 9, 12, 3 and then coming back and hitting 10, 1, 2and repeating chances are you will make contact and make them mad enough tobite. Most flounder anglers leave when the tides turn off or when they have notgotten a bite within a few minutes but if they exercise patience and practicepattern casting, slack tide can produce for you.