I'm Rob with Cape Cod Offshore.
We're out here with Salty Cape and we're flounder
fishing.
We're out here in Cape Cod Bay, launched out
of Sesuit harbor.
It's a beautiful, flat calm day and the tide
just turned.
We're just starting to get our drift going
and the flounder fishing is pretty good this
time of year.
It's early June, we've got stripers, we've
got flounder and Cape Cod Bay has a lot to
offer right now.
We're off of Barnstable Harbor right now.
We're fishing clams on double rigs and we're
gonna have a good day.
We're gonna get some really good food for
tonight too, that's the best part.
Oh that's a good one.
A decent sized flounder.
Grab the weight.
In we go.
We have a nice 19 inch winter flounder here
in Cape Cod Bay.This one's a nice one.
Nice and fat.
Going in the box for dinner tonight.
It's 12 inches to keep so that's definitely
a good keeper.
Let's talk about rigging here, what we're
using to actually catch these flounder.
It's basically a two hook rig, they have a
long J hook with a very small curve at the
end.
Perfect for these flounder because they have
really small mouths.My favorite bait for flounder
is always clams.
Sea clams to be exact.
You can get them at any bait shop pretty much,
they're relatively inexpensive and the best
part about them is they usually come right
here from Cape Cod.
You're gonna get a container or something
like this and a full clam looking like this.
What you really want is the parts of the clam
that are gonna stay on the hook.
Just cut up nice little strips.
This little piece of bait right here is gonna
be totally fine, that's perfect bait.
The flounder, they really have small mouths
so you don't need that much bait.
This little tiny piece of bait is gonna be
plenty for a flounder.
You wanna make sure they stay on the hook
so you wanna hook it multiple times.
My rule of thumb is you want to hook it at
least three or four times.
There you go, nice small piece of bait on
your hook and that's all you really need right
there.
And they can smell that, they're really keen,
they have a good sense of smell and they will
come to you.
You don't have to go to them.
So we're fishing in 36 feet of water right
now.
It's dead low tide so this same area at high
tide is probably gonna be about 52 to 54 feet
of water.
I'm dropping my rig straight down to the bottom
and I have a four ounce sinker on it.
And what you want to do is keep that rig right
on the bottom.
You don't want to lift it off the bottom too
much and sometimes with these rigs you really
can't feel the bite so every so often you'll
just pick it up and check it and put it back
down on the bottom.
If you feel any weight, you really gotta set
the hook really hard because they have really
hard mouths.
If you don't set the hook really hard and
you just kind of reel up, it'll come off every
time.
There we go, oh lost him see I didn't set
the hook hard enough.
That was probably a pretty good fish.
There we go, there's one.
Set the hook nice and hard, they fight pretty
good.
They're some of my favorite fish to catch.
This is a pretty small one.
Actually I guess it's not that bad.
When you're pulling the fish out of the water,
you wanna make sure you're totally ready to
go before you actually reach down and grab
the leader because these fish, with their
mouths are so hard, once they shake on the
surface, you'll lose a lot of fish if you're
not ready to pull it out of the water right
when it gets to the surface.
That one's definitely going in the box, that's
a nice one, a nice yellow tail.
This is actually a yellow tail flounder which
is a different type of flounder than the standard
Cape Cod Bay flounder.
They have a minimum size limit but you can
keep as many as you want.
So this is actually a different species.
You can tell with the yellow right here.
It's a beautiful fish, they taste exactly
the same as the other flounder and that one's
definitely going in the box.
We got three species, this is our third species
of flat fish here.
This is a windowpane flounder.
You can tell they're wider, they're really
thin and you can pretty much see through them.
These you can't keep under any circumstances
so we're gonna get him right back in the water
right as soon as possible.
Jess, nice fish.
That's a good one.
Fatty flatty.
Looks like we got a nice flounder on here.
You just wanna bring it up, steady pressure
on the rod the whole time.
That's a nice one.
Nice 14 inch fish.
Grab the weight, bring it right in the boat.
That's a nice black back, they call them,
the bigger ones.
Me and Jess here, my mate, she comes out here
with me every day pretty much.
This is our favorite thing to do when we go
out fishing for ourselves is come out here
and catch these flat fish.
It's my favorite fish that Cape Cod has to
offer to eat.
They're super fun and easy.
You just come out here on a beautiful day
like today and you can catch a couple dozen
of these things in an afternoon.
Good family fishing.
Really have a great day.
And as you can see, the dogs really like them.
