kitno wrote: I broke down not far from the Omokoroa ramp a while ago. While dragging the boat back by hand through the shallows I spotted a few. Managed to gaff a couple also

Gaffing flounders, that's impressive!! 

I'm happy with just two flounder per floundering session.  It's more to do with getting out and about and finding outdoorish things to do.

taurangatroutmaster wrote: I'd usually go incoming tide at any stage if spearing. Netting would be more around low so you could put the net in the channels

I think our floundering styles differ. This is how we do it in Ohiwa Harbour...

For spearing we hit em at dead low because the flounder are more concentrated into a smaller area of water. As the tide comes in the flounder become more spread out due to an increasingly more expanded area of water.

For netting we set the net from a boat across relatively small channels on the second half of the out going and as the flounder come off the mud flats where they are feeding and back into the smaller channels to move out into the main harbour channel, we cut them off.  We average 15-20 flounder in single sets doing this, but we usually set it twice and on the second set we "splash chase them" into the net for an extra 5-10 flounder.