September 1st, 2010, A new month and a new page of this years fishing. Especially you flounder fishermen, but then again everyone is a flounder fisherman when they are biting and we are looking for a great dinner. So it is all over but the shouting. We still have Labor Day weekend, but there is one small hurricane scheduled to arrive between now and then which may stir things up a bit. Right now it doesn't look serious except for a breezy day Friday and probably some heavy surf and big swells to make a mess of the near shore ocean waters. It does look like Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be great fishing days to try and put those last filets in the freezer.

As a break to all those last minute fluke fishermen that, I am running a super special on all flounder rigs in the store. I will take 50% off the price of any rig in the store that has flounder printed somewhere on the package. Even if you don't get to use them all this year you can be ready for the 2011 season which may be better since the Fish Gods have increased the quota. On the other hand we still have to wait until the High and Mighty Mystic Soothsayers who pull the numbers of flounder caught in 2010 out of their collective asses to see if they can claim that we over fished again this year.

From my personal experience, the weigh ins here at the store and general reports I get a feel that the number of keepers was way down this year, but the numbers of fat 16" to 17 7/8" was up substantially. Something that I believe is due to the fact that the male flounders just don't grow over 18" and we are building a society of mature male flounder that will probably die of old age unless they get to fill up the commercial nets that are allowed to keep 14" fish.

Just because the flounder season closes up next Monday, don't hang up the rods, It is a great pan fish season and I am running a Pan Fish Pandemonium tournament and giving prizes for the biggest White Perch, Kingfish and Croaker caught from September 7th to September 30th. The prizes are $50 and $25 gift certificates for each species and though I realize this isn't a giant prize you do have to consider that these aren't giant fish. I hope to have some pictures of these mini-lunkers here on the site which should be interesting. Here are all the details

If you haven't heard the SPOT have made a good showing across just about all of the area and even though they are small for a dinner plate they are the perfect striper size meal. Ean the resident Dock Rat has been catching between 50 and 100 right off the dock here every day and from reports there are much better areas. I plan on heading out to the beach right after the weekend and will be throwing out my shoulder again with the cast net. I plan on having plenty in stock so if you don't catch your own or run out before the Striper Season ends you'll find them here.

Remember we keep everything for collecting spot and keeping them alive here at the store from Bloodworms, FishBites, tiny hooks, sabiki rigs, Cast nets, Areators and Keep Alive Oxygen infusers, Livewells and even complete Oxygen Systems. The biggest sellers are the Blue Claw Live Bait Cages which are made from Riverdale Wire and are 100% otter proof and will hold up to some abuse at your dock and keep your valuable bait safe.

A last note I finally got the good news from Capt. Dennis Wheeler, My partner with the "Tijereta" our charter boat in Guatemala that everything is finally running at 100% and we are ready to fish. Check over to the other half of my web site at www.FishGuatemala.com for complete information and give me a call whenever you are ready to talk about a great fishing experience.