Fall Flounder Run Day 2 recap
Greetings fellow flounder fanatics!
What a difference a day makes for the Fall Flounder Run (TM) brought to you by Mr. Twister/Exude in association with Flatfish University (TM). I suspect we would have high pressure today and when I woke up to perfectly calm conditions, I knew it would be a tough day and it was. I only bumped the tally up to 30 by catching and releasing seven flounder and let me tell you that was hard work. It was an incredibly strange bite, maybe the weirdest I have ever experienced.
A few fish hit with the classic THUMP and hold but most of the others would thump, let go, thump, let go, thump and let go. I say this is what they were doing because I had the incredibly unique opportunity to watch it happen twice today. From around 11-noon I had two fish bite while fishing parallel to a shallow, clear water bank and follow the lure all the way to me. When I stopped, they hit really hard, spit out and repeated several times. I was never able to catch either fish as they finally quite and swam off.
It was weird but super cool to get to see what I had felt several times that morning take place. It is a rare thing to have that happen with flounder. The fish today came on two-inch pink Teenies from Mr. Twister and their two-inch smoked-colored Sassy Shad from their Exude line, both tipped with shrimp and fished on an Abu Garcia Mike Iaconelli combo with Stren Flurocast line.
I have to regroup in the morning and although there will be big winds I believe I will be able to catch more fish than today. I hope so. I have a loooong way to go to get to 100. However, this journey is already proving personally inspirational and gratifying.
Thank you all for the emails, texts phone calls and Facebook messages.
The support for this project is amazing.
God bless,
Chester Moore
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