sel1005

I have hired a few local guides up and down the panhandle to go flounder fishing, paying top $$ for a few hours with the experts to see / learn the art of founder fishing. Each time we went out, I found out I already knew about as much as they did, and never came back with more than 1 medium sized founder for the effort.

Is there anyone in the panhandle that has guided trips for flounder gigging? I mean, I love to catch them but I have not tried gigging since I was a kid. The fish markets are always full of nice size flounder, figure some if not most of those have to be gigged vs caught.

Looking for a guide between Pensacola / Perdido and Apalachicola (ideally Pensacola / FWB) but someone that could take us out gigging, show us what its all about and bring back some top quality doormats. Guide fees paid in cash, of course.

Anyone out there that does this sort of thing?

jwilsoniv73

call me you pay for gas we,ll go my name is john 232-4462

angus_cow_doctor

Honestly, the flounder gigging has been a little slow lately. Was better in the summer before all this rain. Hope it gets better as the fall run starts.

I suspect that anyone you go out with would be hard pressed to gig a limit of flounder until after the run starts, then anyone with a gig and a flashlight can do well.

I keep trying new spots. One of these days, I will figure them out.

And BTW, most flounder I see for sale are lacking any gig marks, so I am assuming they are being caught with hook and line.

X-Shark

Or netted and brought from another state.

Death From Above

Most of them come off the shrimp boats.

sel1005

when does "the run" start? Apologize for stupid questions, trying to learn something totally new to me here. Do the large flounder you see in the markets come mostly from shrimp boats? Seems at least here in the FWB / Destin area the markets always have a supply of large ones

Telum Pisces

This is info coming from what I see in the gulf. Around the December timeframe, I can go out into the nearshore wrecks in the gulf and basically walk on a layer of Flounder stacked on top of one another. I can sometimes poke two at a time. This is usually after the November mass exodus out of the bays. From what I understand, it is this time that they exit out of the bays and into the gulf to breed.

roll tide roll

check out www.panhandlefishingbooks.com fall flounder quick start guide , alot of good info in the guide

country boy

I would have to agree, theres a lot of good information in there and some good fishing spots I want to try.:bowdown

roll tide roll

country boy, when the run starts, i am going to be at ft. pickens this year