Flounders & tornadoes

[flounderstalker]

Took a highschool friend and his father flounderin wed on ESVA. Buddy just lost his mother 2 weeks ago and it was hs dads 75th bithday so I wanted a special trip and we got one. We had checked weather and storms came thru at daybreak and a chance for thunderstorms in afternoon but just before lunch a freaky lookin cloud showed up and here comes a TWISTER! Phone started ringin like crazy, friends and family telling me of a tornado watch and I said YEA AND I'M WACHING IT! Buddy is an air traffic controller, he checked his phone and the cell was moving away from us and the ramp so we ran in. Didn't hear of any major damage so we all were very lucky. Oh yea bite was good and it wasn't crowded LOL! Caught 25, brought home 6 and some GOOD MEMORIES!

[home cookin']

Is that picture from Metomkin Bay looking west? Friends were out on Cedar when that went by. ALso had one near there about 2 weeks ago.

[flounderstalker]

yep

[hippie]

This reminds me of a friend yrs ago whom had his friends in O.C. for a weekend. A huricane warning was in effect but yet his friends had to go flounder fishing. He told them the fish would not be biting and he did not even take his landing net. Anyway, the water was about a foot below the piers at the White Marlin, it was up and starting to flood. His friend hooks something and it's a flounder (about 5 to 6 lbs.). Now my friend did not bring a net and the water was so close to the pier so he reaches down and puts his thumb into the flounders' mouth to lift it up and out of the water like you would do with a freshwater bass. Needless to say he winds up in an urgent care facility to get stiched up and the word is out about this 5-6 lb flounder. Next thing the local fishing magazine calls for his story and he says "it's fishing-you never know if anything will bite or what will bite!!