Hello Fellow Flounder Enthusiasts,

Charlie Hansen will be hosting a flounder roundup for our hatchery program at Boyd’s One Stop on the Texas City Dike on November 20th.  The fish will be collected from Galveston Bay for restocking in the same area.  If you have time, please help out this great cause.  We will have our TPWD trailers on hand to collect the fish and transport them to the Sea Center Texas hatchery in Lake Jackson. For more information, please contact Charlie at flounderup@yahoo.com

I have spoken with Hansen several times about the event and Flounder Revolution will provide a replica for the angler who brings in the largest fish. It will of course be provided by The Fish Mount Store.

Replica Program Entries

Sharon Stewart of Friendswood submitted this thick 20.5-incher she put back to spawn more of its kind. Sharon and her husband recently spent time fishing with me and Capt. Phillip Samuels pursuing specks and reds and caught the only flounder of the day.

For the third year in a row Wayne Pedigo (left) has come down from North Texas to spend his vacation time flounder fishing and donating fish to Sea Center Texas. He has brought in lots of fish this year and his friends and family have helped. Rick Borden (right) pictured here with Pedigo and Wade Chaney donated a 23 5/8-incher to Sea Center yesterday. It's the big, fat, wide one you see in this photo. Thanks to Jennifer Bixby from Sea Center for the photo and for measuring the fish.

Kayaker Bill VanHorn submitted this 20.75 incher from the Galveston Bay system. Kayakers are responsible for about half of our entries.

The 2009 Flounder Angler of the Year Chris Dial turned in four fish yesterday including this 21-inch beauty. Look at the width and thickness on this Galveston Bay specimen. 

Turning in Poachers

An interesting note from Chris Dial who has been emailing me about his concern over flounder poaching. Seems like some well-intentioned person turned him in for catching lots of fish yesterday even though they were all released.

"I had a long discussion with a game warden today because someone called them on me even though I had released everything I caught today. I was found innocent and I asked him what to do about people who catch there limit take them home and come back for another limit. He told me to get there license plate number, what they where wearing that day and where they are fishing. That is what I was told by the warden."

Make sure and contact your local warden if you see people abusing this resource. Thanks to Chris for sharing this information.

Tech Tip

This week's tech tip comes in the area of fish photography. There are lots of do's and don'ts of taking photos of anglers with fish to make your photo album much more professional looking and your cherished memories look as good as they do you experienced them. First off, make sure the angler has the sun in his or her face and the photographer has it to his back. Pull up caps so you can see the eyes. If the light conditions are low use a fill flash. Wipe away as much blood as you can from the fish and make sure and hold the fish out a little toward the camera. Fish usually look small in photos because anglers are holding them too close to their body. You don't have to get vulgar with it but holding it away from you will help. Also, make sure and shoot from different anglers. In this photo you see me shooting a photo of Mark Davis of Big Water Adventures on The Outdoors Channel in Lower Laguna Madre from the water. I wanted to get a shot of him releasing this beautiful 30-inch trout from the water itself. I also had Capt. Bruce Shuler photograph me in the water shooting from this angle so I could illustrate this point. A final point is to avoid showing vehicles, buildings, etc, in the background. Shot of nature look better with few signs of humanity included.

God bless,

Chester Moore

Founder

Flounder Revolution (R)