Report from sunday. I went out and took my brother who came down from richmond and my uncle who did some fishing in his younger days. I have been trying to get him back into it and decided it would be easy if i got him into some nice flounder to get him hooked again (punny). So we headed to my secret hole at around 3pm and stayed for a couple hours and managed about 6-8 fish three being keepers
one 19 1/4 a 19 1/2 and an almost 20. all in all a good day. Ill post the flounder pictures later if i can fix the camera!


I also caught one of these little guys. i have no idea what the heck it was but i took a picture so you guys can help me figure it out.



-Kurt Fleming

good job on the flatties, that is a sea-robin, a flattie I caught last week had a 3 incher in his belly. Odd looking critters,like a cloning experiment gone bad.

haha yea they are. are they good for anything? bait or otherwise?

Someone told me they taste pretty well but I am not sure how you would get any meat off them. They use their fins like legs to move across the ocean floor looking for food. Seems to be a pretty regular catch at the piers when nothing else bite. Never tried them as bait.

I gill-hooked one once, and they bleed ALOT, so I expect they would be good for anything attracted to blood in the water-bluefish, sharks, and of course, skates, which you could probably catch with a twinkie on the hook...

SEA ROBIN

Me ole age fails me saw response before sorry

When I used to fish up in Jersey on head boats, they would cut em up for strip bait for flounder. Seemed to work pretty good. Of course they would cut everything up for strip bait, dogfish, sea robins, you name it I'm sure it saved them money on squid. We used to catch pretty big ones, over a lb, but I haven't caught to many down here in VA. Never heard of anyone eating one but I got a buddy that tried Oystertoad so maybe he'll try a searobin.

Skate and ray bellies make great strip bait for flounder; see, there IS a use for those annoying bastards !!

They taste phenominal smoked.

when I was down on the Gulf of mexico, we used them to catch grouper- drop them down to the rocks, reel up a couple of turns and if there was a grouper around, get ready! the first time we went out on another boat and stopped to catch a little bait, I caught a sea robin and was getting ready to throw it out and the guy we were with had a fit. He said a sea robin in the live well was as good as a grouper in the box. Who knew?? Up here, we always threw them back. I know we are a bit north to be targeting grouper, but it is something to keep in mind when you are traveling about! And one in a flounder belly...... has me thinking......

Damn thats awesome, i dont think im going to eat the next one i catch but im seriously thinking about flounder bait.

Yes,but how do you keep them lit?

The key is properly drying them and curing them first....