What a long day ! Only two flounder , one 18" on the money the other 22" . We did have two gray trout though one at 25" and the other 27" both caught on blood worm fishbites of all things while my son was working out the boredom of no flounder bites . We also pounded the croaker with gulp sand eels . Yes , that's right - sand eels . We were using gulp jerk shads on spro jigs for flounder and had the croaker worry us to death so I got to thinking what would happen if we cut some of the gulp into pieces and thread it onto the hook ........ you can't imagine the fun we had ! Just take one package of gulp sand eels - cut them into one inch pieces and thread them on the hook and see for yourself . This is much cheaper than buying squid or bloodworm because you'll easily catch the numbers without going through that much bait . They simply can't get enough of it and it stays on the hook . We only used three of the five sand eels and kept 92 - threw back many many more . The bonus was the 22" flattie that bit this same rig . Color didn't seem to matter - we used one solid white , one chartruese pepper and one the other solid chartruese . I have found my new croaker bait !
On a side note ...... there was a mountain dew bottle with several lead weights tied to it that was marking a spot very close to the yellow bouy that was hit MANY times today and of all the boats that visited this spot , all but one left the marker there EXCEPT one boat . This fellow not only pulled it up but threw it back in with the weights dangling a few feet below the bottle . He took the time to wrap about 50 feet of heavy fishing line into a ball and then toss the rig back into the water . I motored over close to him and picked the rig up after noticing it drifting towards me and motioned to him that I had it and didn't mind throwing it away rather than letting it just drift to who knows where or possibly tangling in someones prop . That fellow burned me up with his careless attitude !