Hello,

I have done a bit of research (for what there is online) and have seen fly fishing for Flounder is quite a plausible productive exciting way to fish.

From what I can make out, they are a reasonably aggressive fish, eating small crabs and sea-worms.

Has/Does anyone target these fish on a nice light line?

I am assuming the way to target them is similair to harling - ball sinker - with a short trace coming off it to the fly, which is scratched along the bottom (imitating a crab or worm wriggling along bottom, disturbing a bit of mud/silt etc.

Are there any other thoughts on this? Any suggestions for a fly? I imagine they don't eat big baits.

Any and all thoughts most welcome. UK seem to be quite big on it - but what they call a flounder is more like a Ray!!! They look like they would fight like hell.

Line weight? I read somewhere a 12lb trace was used - and that seemed about right to me as I would imagine that it would need to be fairly invisible on the bottom plus you never know what else could jump on this fly!!!!

I have also read a bit on people using a veltic style spinner?

Who knows what out there in Forum land?

Over here in Oz I have caught quite a few flounder as by-catch while chasing flathead just inside our coastal bars, usually on very clean sandy bottoms on the last half of a run out tide.  I don't think the stage of tide is that important as long as the water is moving. Most of them have fallen to the humble clouser or a beadhead bendback pattern. They are a typical ambush predator and will take small baitfish if they get close enough .