Apr 10, 2012 10:02 AM
Another flounder season is well under way and you would be hard-pressed to find someone with a box of bloodworms and a bag of mussel chum on the South Fork. A sunny Easter Sunday meant there were a few diehards drifting the Quogue Canal and a few hopeless optimists warming the concrete at the Shinnecock Canal—maybe even one or two boats in Lake Montauk, but only one or two—but mostly flounder fishing has died on the South Fork.
Of course, it’s not that the hundreds of fishermen who used to line up before dawn to get bait on the March 15 opener aren’t interested in flounder anymore, it’s just that the flounder are gone. There’s a lot of talk about why the flounder have disappeared. Striped bass are eating them! Its... more
Of course, it’s not that the hundreds of fishermen who used to line up before dawn to get bait on the March 15 opener aren’t interested in flounder anymore, it’s just that the flounder are gone. There’s a lot of talk about why the flounder have disappeared. Striped bass are eating them! Its... more
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