Fished out of Chisman Creek on Tuesday...hotter than heck, no wind and lots of flies (that bite like crazy!). Trolled squid rigs in 22-24 ft. of water from red buoy #4 down to the Back River Reef area and caught: ZERO flounder...a few croaker, but no flounder. We fished squid rigs with the small rubber squid looking soft plastic just above 2 hooks. On the hooks we had a 6-7 inch piece of squid and a minnow on the trailing hook. Trolled at about 1.8-2.2 mph. Then, we went out to York Spit Lighthouse and caught one flounder (small), casting, on a single hook, the "squid sandwich".

I don't know.....this ain't Lake Erie where you'll see 200-400 boats, even on a weekday, in a 3 sq. mile area, with everyone catching (walleyes). We saw very, very few fishermen out there on Tuesday. Maybe I am going at the wrong time of day (morning thru about 3 p.m.), maybe I am fishing the wrong areas......I don't know. I know this: I don't have flounders figured out. Wanted to fish the Amoco Oil Rig.....that usually produces flounder for me (but mostly less than 19 inches), but the Coast Guard was hanging out about 300 yards from there and I don't think they would like to see what I normally do there: go right up and work the pilings. So that was a waste to run up there on Tuesday.

I am persistent though, and I am not going to quit. Caught stripers at night last fall/winter and will eventually figure all this out. Last two trips (the tunnel bridge and the mouth of Chisman), we caught about 100 croakers each time...but, I want to learn something besides a fish anyone can catch.

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I have had success using a fish finder rig with 18" leader and small live croaker keeping me on larger legal size flounders and away from the little ones ...

Flounder have been hit or miss so far this year, for sure. Still a bit early, though, so don't give up -- you've got the right attitude. And, it sounds like you're doing all the right things.

Catching plenty of flounder (12 in 3 hours last saturday) in my normal holes (around FT Monroe/HRBT) on bull minnows/squid sammiches on a bottom rig.

So far though, only 2 keepers have found thier way onto the table.

Don't feel bad - over 100 flounder on 3 trips and only 1 keeper for us. Probably a dozen or so over 18.5". It'll get better - I'm catching bigger spot every week and the bigger the bait, usually the bigger the flounder.