We fished hard for Flounder Sat, Sun, Tues and Wed. We fished the standard 3 way dropper rigs with minnows or squid and could only catch small ones and large croaker. We switched to long strips of croaker and pulled in one citation (barely--7 lb. 1 0z, 27") and three in the five pound range immediately thereafter. We caught all the fish each day on the North/Eastern side of the Cell reef buoy. 16 oz. of lead on a 8" dropper with 4 ft. flouro with bucktail/spinner rig.
On the other hand, messing around in the Rapp and Narrows at night, we could could only get them to take minnows on a similar rig with 2 oz. of lead.
I went out Monday afternoon and Friday for spades at Wolftrap and caught limits, but all under 5 lbs. The "light as weight as possible" is bunk, as I caught them all on 1 oz. fish finder type rigs, and no one around me could get them with no weight or with corks.
Anyway, I will be back in September, but wanted to pass on the cut bait report, as no one seemed to be that excited about fishing with it while I was in VA.
Thanks for all the advice I received before my trip from BM!!!
On the other hand, messing around in the Rapp and Narrows at night, we could could only get them to take minnows on a similar rig with 2 oz. of lead.
I went out Monday afternoon and Friday for spades at Wolftrap and caught limits, but all under 5 lbs. The "light as weight as possible" is bunk, as I caught them all on 1 oz. fish finder type rigs, and no one around me could get them with no weight or with corks.
Anyway, I will be back in September, but wanted to pass on the cut bait report, as no one seemed to be that excited about fishing with it while I was in VA.
Thanks for all the advice I received before my trip from BM!!!