Greetings from the west coast of the US. Love the videos, I'll be trying my hand at flatties over here soon. Thanks for the inspiration. Watching your episodes has made it easier to get through our foul weather winter months. Now, spring is on the horizon, and good fishing will soon be upon us. Tight lines!
hi, I would like to mention that in early April of 2014 I ventured down to eastney point by the sewage outlet after the storms and caught half a dozen flounder no more than 1lb 4oz . also a good hoard of bass up to 2lb and whiting up to 6-7 oz all on mackerel & lug! no more than fifty yards out. I started with just a typical sliding ledger and a 1.0 hook. 20lb mono ! tight lines guys!!!
Back in about 1964, on a hike in August, one of our guys had the heat set of the matches in the same container, an the lid blasted out through the canvas pack he was carrying it in. Quite an exciting surprise. No problem with it since, but that one time was memorable.
i fished directly behind that blue reef aquarium a few nights ago. there were 4 other lads already there when i got there. they had 3 spotted ray between them, best about 4lb, loads of dogfish and several smoothhound pups. i only got the one bite in 5 hours fishing, and landed a cuttlefish that must have weighed nearly 2lb. that stretch, along to the pyramids is a fairly consistent producer. worth noting :) great vid again. only a few years back we used to catch 10 or so 2lb flounders, each, per session, at the oyster beds (just to the right of hayling island bridge as you come onto the island) now you are lucky to catch one. used to be able to rely on flounders. not anymore.
Great video guys you should do some sea trout fishing videos that I'll test you out to see if you are totally awesome, anyway great vids all the same keep up the good work. :-)
the river tyne was once polluted i mean it was filthy black and it had one off the biggest fishery's I've ever heard off back in the 70 probably before that, cod was the big species catching them upto 30lbs in the river!! but as years went by they banned the sewage pumping into the tyne and it started to become clean now it is one off the cleanest rivers in the uk and has salmon and trout coming out to breed in-between the piers in the ester y, further down the river there lies silt on the bottom and flounders love it there are some big flounders in the river tyne defiantly worth a shot.
Loved all these videos. If you fish down the south then how about doing videos on Brighton or Worthing beaches? Also I'd love to to see a 2019 update to these beginner videos.
i have the curse here down in south Devon iv'e been trying since autumn to catch flounder they are just not around i'll keep trying though i want one for dinner :)
They used to say my local estuary was devoid of flounders, I put a 33yd trammel net out and it was full of them, we did it 5 times each time it was full of flounders
Enjoyed this immensely because the content was about the same things that concern us here. I live close to an area where they are protecting seals to the nth degree. Everyone goes to see all the pups around new years and someone seems to be making a bob or two out of it from car parking. The population of seals all the way along this coast must be sky rocketing never a day when you don't see a couple at least close to shore. Soon I suspect they will have to cull them. We also have shrimp boats working along here within 100 yds of the shore. What chance is there for young fish? Tackle shops are closing all the time as people tire of wasting their money. We now have only 3 in a big area around me. Anyway hope you can afford a stunt man soon for those mud flips!
Great stuff as usual chaps! We get a few nice one's round are way at certain times of the year, especially on crab during the spring. I suspect they may be a little thin on the ground this year though, as everything else seems to be! Keep up the good work! :-)
HI JUST ANTHER THOUGHT GRAYHAM NOVEMBER ONWARDS WAS ALWAYS THE BEST TIME FOR THEM WE USED TO GET THEM UP TO 1.1/2 PLUS MY MATE LIVED IN A HOUSE ON THE SALT SIDE WHERE THE SALMON POOL EMPTIED IN. WE COULD GET 15 OR SO IN A DAY FISHING FROM HIS BACK GARDEN FROM LOW TO HIGH TIDE GREAT DAYS
I would love to show you an amazing spot not far from where you tried and give you another chance at catching a Warsash flounder. Using maddies rather than larger ragworm and fishing the flood all give better results. You were fishing the right area but the wrong place.
In Denmark, we fish flatfish pretty close to the shore, they just below the white spray in the trench where the waves crash. But that might have something to do with our almost pure sand beaches?
Graeme Pullen Next time you go to Southsea, go a bit further up towards Eastney. Look for the Marine Statue and go along the beach from the left of the Statue and the fishing is a lot better the further you go, including a better benue for flatfish
Fishing warsash at low tide where he was fishing is madness, I fish warsash/hamble regular, at low it's better using a kayak or small boat to get out to the locations. If you know where to fish the hamble you can catch flounders all day and night, can't remember the last time I DIDN'T catch a flounder on the hamble, it's a great place. ..location, location, location.
Hi Graeme another great show but this one hit on a subject im struggling to understand which is the seal problem.i know theyre sea dwelling and have every right to be in the sea but i was told about a month ago that a 3rd seal has now been released/re homed in Poole Harbour!the whole harbour is a bass nursery and i assume the seals eat them but im catching loads of schoolie bass of around 10-30cm and im catching good numbers of eels for 1st time in years,however ive had 1 small flounder out of about 15 sessions inc.tonight!!i think the seals find flounder the easier to catch and are a big problem in areas where theyre being introduced.in the 35 years ive fished the harbour ive only been seeing these seals for last 5 years or so.commercials have rinsed the flounders now the seals are picking off any last few it seems!sorry for the rant!its just frustrating
I would say the Seals are very grateful of any Bass nursery area, its like meals of wheels for them. No need to swim out to sea for food. Conservation of one species can often be to the detriment of another.
hi grayham im from soton but now in cornwall i used to fish woodmill on the itchen and as was called then the salt side which is a stones throw from the itchen where it goes through to the salmon pool well as a kid i used to get in the salt side at low tide and lift rocks stone etc and ow and behold catch baby flatfish ? i believe the adult fish come up and propergate their young in the near freshwater water. ok there is a lake on the private side of the itchen ie part of the lord swaythling (deceased) estate now owned by soton council .. there is a brook that flows into the salmon pool and runs at the back of the gpo lake as was called . there is a slewse gate from the lake that can empty the lake into the brook .... i have fished the lake over the years and i caught flatfish in the lake by design ???? how about that lol colin kk
I live up in Scotland at luce bay and we used to have hundreds of bass and flounders but about 5 years ago the razer shell harvesters came and there is nothing left because they electrocute the sea bed and kill every thing the flounders lug worm clams and nothing is left
@@TAFishing They tell me they do the same thing near where I live just north of Dublin. I'd love to fish here but everyone says its just not worth bothering as there is scarcely a fish to be caught between Gormanston and Greystones! :-( , what do you think, should I go anyway?
my problem is that i cant catch flounder to save my life... i have caught 2 plaice, bass, smoothounds but i cant catch flounder hoping this will help :)
+MrSteve280 Yes, at Hatteras,Nag's Head etc. Red Drum,Specks,etc.No luck with Stripers though.Also had a Sailfish that drove its bill into the boat and snapped it off.Kept the end of the bill as a memento.On a board in my office.Good fishing all along there.
Dam shame about the flounder, at least here on the east coast of the us we still drag them in regularly. Hopefully your flounder scarcity ends soon and the mudflats are once again full of flounder.
That is like my local lake a fish of fifteen pound out is grate and not me any people fort there are eny over sixteen left but I saw some one catch a nineteen so I went down and had a seventeen pound eight oz and a fifteen eight oz in two weeks in to day
Laughing so much at this video flounders are so easy to catch down this neck of the woods (south wales) you should of brought your rods when you went to get your reels serviced!!
HEY THERES A THOUGHT GET DOWN TO THE SALT SIDE AT WOOD MILL BY THE CANOEING CENTRE RIGHT ON THE ROAD THERES A WALL , FISH AT HIGH TIDE GARDEN WORMS FLOAT FISHING LIGHT TACKLE IE 4 LB LINE LIGHT FLOAT STICK OR WHATEVER HAVE A GO MATE COLINKK
Quick tip 2/0 hooks thats madness for flounder try size 4 mabye 6 if it gets scratchy Number two go easy reeling in were catching flounder not pike you'll be losing fish a wont even know it and if its as calm as it was there bump up the snoods a good bit the length u had was nothing were trying to move the bait o and tip w mackerel and WAY smaller baits WAY Not just some keyboard warrior I am on irish shore angling team 2014
here in the south island of New Zealand we get flounder at river mouths using ghost shrimp at night .But again man has over fished as immigrants fisher man take everything no matter what size
This really is a great show. Enough fishing to learn, enough non-fishing information to be interesting, plenty of personality to keep it fun.
“Our intrepid hero” haha. Belly laughed there Graham. Love this show!
Greetings from the west coast of the US. Love the videos, I'll be trying my hand at flatties over here soon. Thanks for the inspiration. Watching your episodes has made it easier to get through our foul weather winter months. Now, spring is on the horizon, and good fishing will soon be upon us. Tight lines!
The totally awesome fishing show should be a tv programme
hi, I would like to mention that in early April of 2014 I ventured down to eastney point by the sewage outlet after the storms and caught half a dozen flounder no more than 1lb 4oz . also a good hoard of bass up to 2lb and whiting up to 6-7 oz all on mackerel & lug! no more than fifty yards out. I started with just a typical sliding ledger and a 1.0 hook. 20lb mono ! tight lines guys!!!
Love every episode and you are a fantastic presenter. Very informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work
another good video from the top man, keep it going Graeme,
Like that you kept the footage at 16:16 in :-)
And very interesting piece to camera near the start on all the flounder theories.
"It's f-f-f-f-f pretty cold out here."
I thought he was gonna say f-f-f-f-f freezing
XD
Love this episode. Love it!
Back in about 1964, on a hike in August, one of our guys had the heat set of the matches in the same container, an the lid blasted out through the canvas pack he was carrying it in. Quite an exciting surprise. No problem with it since, but that one time was memorable.
Fantastic episode good job TA
been a few flounders caught on Eastbourne pier lately, a flounder of 13oz won flattie of the month during January
i fished directly behind that blue reef aquarium a few nights ago. there were 4 other lads already there when i got there. they had 3 spotted ray between them, best about 4lb, loads of dogfish and several smoothhound pups. i only got the one bite in 5 hours fishing, and landed a cuttlefish that must have weighed nearly 2lb. that stretch, along to the pyramids is a fairly consistent producer. worth noting :)
great vid again. only a few years back we used to catch 10 or so 2lb flounders, each, per session, at the oyster beds (just to the right of hayling island bridge as you come onto the island) now you are lucky to catch one. used to be able to rely on flounders. not anymore.
Ah, The Pyramids, I remember when they built them. Happy days.
PS - The Southsea ones, not the Egyptian ones, you'd have to ask Graeme about them.
I have had this curse for a few years now down on the south coast, still i never give up hope of catching one.. some day soon, i hope. :)
thanks, will give it a go over the weekend coming.
Great video guys you should do some sea trout fishing videos that I'll test you out to see if you are totally awesome, anyway great vids all the same keep up the good work. :-)
Fishing turns you into the Eternal Optimist !
the river tyne was once polluted i mean it was filthy black and it had one off the biggest fishery's I've ever heard off back in the 70 probably before that, cod was the big species catching them upto 30lbs in the river!! but as years went by they banned the sewage pumping into the tyne and it started to become clean now it is one off the cleanest rivers in the uk and has salmon and trout coming out to breed in-between the piers in the ester y, further down the river there lies silt on the bottom and flounders love it there are some big flounders in the river tyne defiantly worth a shot.
I tried these methods at poole harbour the other day and had a nice plump 28cm flounder, thanks!
plenty on the West Wales coastline, should come down here and see some of our specimens!!
Another fantastic video Graeme. Some good theories on the lack of flounder, wonder if it a similar reason in my neck of the woods??.
Great video.. south east coast... dover..hythe..thames estury. Full of flounders.. come down our way sometime.. i'll put kettle on for yas
We catch sand dabs by the hundreds here in So Cal. Good eatin'. The cats love them too, by golly!
year on from my previous comment, i managed my flounder this video helped a lot thankyou :)
Loved all these videos. If you fish down the south then how about doing videos on Brighton or Worthing beaches? Also I'd love to to see a 2019 update to these beginner videos.
We have the exact same flounder problem here in Massachusetts in the States...
Catching flounders by the dozen from Newcastle down from the Quayside
Another fine video. Can you do some south coast bass fishing videos soon ? Thanks very much.
i have the curse here down in south Devon iv'e been trying since autumn to catch flounder they are just not around i'll keep trying though i want one for dinner :)
They used to say my local estuary was devoid of flounders, I put a 33yd trammel net out and it was full of them, we did it 5 times each time it was full of flounders
I would rather be setting on the beach with you not catching anything than here in my easy chair watching you not catching anything. Good video
go fishing for tench is my fav fishing book :)
Enjoyed this immensely because the content was about the same things that concern us here. I live close to an area where they are protecting seals to the nth degree. Everyone goes to see all the pups around new years and someone seems to be making a bob or two out of it from car parking. The population of seals all the way along this coast must be sky rocketing never a day when you don't see a couple at least close to shore. Soon I suspect they will have to cull them. We also have shrimp boats working along here within 100 yds of the shore. What chance is there for young fish? Tackle shops are closing all the time as people tire of wasting their money. We now have only 3 in a big area around me.
Anyway hope you can afford a stunt man soon for those mud flips!
Great stuff as usual chaps! We get a few nice one's round are way at certain times of the year, especially on crab during the spring. I suspect they may be a little thin on the ground this year though, as everything else seems to be! Keep up the good work! :-)
Would like to see you catch some garfish in the coming months ;)
Come up to Wick mate, theres a few flounders here.
In Boston it was the sewerage just pouring into the harbor that killed our flounder...
HI JUST ANTHER THOUGHT GRAYHAM NOVEMBER ONWARDS WAS ALWAYS THE BEST TIME FOR THEM WE USED TO GET THEM UP TO 1.1/2 PLUS MY MATE LIVED IN A HOUSE ON THE SALT SIDE WHERE THE SALMON POOL EMPTIED IN. WE COULD GET 15 OR SO IN A DAY FISHING FROM HIS BACK GARDEN FROM LOW TO HIGH TIDE GREAT DAYS
Grahan you guys have giltead bream? please do a guide !!!!
What song plays at 15:10, I couldn't find it?
I would love to show you an amazing spot not far from where you tried and give you another chance at catching a Warsash flounder. Using maddies rather than larger ragworm and fishing the flood all give better results. You were fishing the right area but the wrong place.
In Denmark, we fish flatfish pretty close to the shore, they just below the white spray in the trench where the waves crash. But that might have something to do with our almost pure sand beaches?
Graeme Pullen Next time you go to Southsea, go a bit further up towards Eastney. Look for the Marine Statue and go along the beach from the left of the Statue and the fishing is a lot better the further you go, including a better benue for flatfish
Spur dogs etc. love flatties.
Fishing warsash at low tide where he was fishing is madness, I fish warsash/hamble regular, at low it's better using a kayak or small boat to get out to the locations. If you know where to fish the hamble you can catch flounders all day and night, can't remember the last time I DIDN'T catch a flounder on the hamble, it's a great place. ..location, location, location.
Can you do a mackerel fishing vid please
Hi Graeme another great show but this one hit on a subject im struggling to understand which is the seal problem.i know theyre sea dwelling and have every right to be in the sea but i was told about a month ago that a 3rd seal has now been released/re homed in Poole Harbour!the whole harbour is a bass nursery and i assume the seals eat them but im catching loads of schoolie bass of around 10-30cm and im catching good numbers of eels for 1st time in years,however ive had 1 small flounder out of about 15 sessions inc.tonight!!i think the seals find flounder the easier to catch and are a big problem in areas where theyre being introduced.in the 35 years ive fished the harbour ive only been seeing these seals for last 5 years or so.commercials have rinsed the flounders now the seals are picking off any last few it seems!sorry for the rant!its just frustrating
I would say the Seals are very grateful of any Bass nursery area, its like meals of wheels for them. No need to swim out to sea for food. Conservation of one species can often be to the detriment of another.
Locally we fish an estuary called Loughor a few years ago you would catch a good many today you'll very likely blank fishing exactly as you are.
Why is this show not on TV!
What type of bass do you guys have?
Sea bass
Cool
That guy in the thumbnail looks like hes about to eat that flounder
Great in the north east
we have same problem poole harbour flounderf have crashed numbers and we dont have seals hear WTF
My neraby flouder spot has been over run by crabs. they'll clean your hook in 5 minutes. In my second spot flounders have been replaced by dab.
Try using a pop up ball to keep the bait off the bottom.
hi grayham im from soton but now in cornwall i used to fish woodmill on the itchen and as was called then the salt side which is a stones throw from the itchen where it goes through to the salmon pool well as a kid i used to get in the salt side at low tide and lift rocks stone etc and ow and behold catch baby flatfish ? i believe the adult fish come up and propergate their young in the near freshwater water. ok there is a lake on the private side of the itchen ie part of the lord swaythling (deceased) estate now owned by soton council .. there is a brook that flows into the salmon pool and runs at the back of the gpo lake as was called . there is a slewse gate from the lake that can empty the lake into the brook .... i have fished the lake over the years and i caught flatfish in the lake by design ???? how about that lol colin kk
Are those home made rods?
Yes,I built the beach rods myself many years ago.
glenarm northern ireland has loads of flounder
I live up in Scotland at luce bay and we used to have hundreds of bass and flounders but about 5 years ago the razer shell harvesters came and there is nothing left because they electrocute the sea bed and kill every thing the flounders lug worm clams and nothing is left
I have never heard of that method of harvesting.I will have to look it up. Sounds totally destructive.
@@TAFishing They tell me they do the same thing near where I live just north of Dublin. I'd love to fish here but everyone says its just not worth bothering as there is scarcely a fish to be caught between Gormanston and Greystones! :-( , what do you think, should I go anyway?
Hi graham I live in Portsmouth and have been catching flounder I could take you to the spot if your interested
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my problem is that i cant catch flounder to save my life...
i have caught 2 plaice, bass, smoothounds but i cant catch flounder hoping this will help :)
Have you ever beach/surf fished in the Unites States, say the Outer Banks of North Carolina?
+MrSteve280 Yes, at Hatteras,Nag's Head etc. Red Drum,Specks,etc.No luck with Stripers though.Also had a Sailfish that drove its bill into the boat and snapped it off.Kept the end of the bill as a memento.On a board in my office.Good fishing all along there.
Dam shame about the flounder, at least here on the east coast of the us we still drag them in regularly. Hopefully your flounder scarcity ends soon and the mudflats are once again full of flounder.
That is like my local lake a fish of fifteen pound out is grate and not me any people fort there are eny over sixteen left but I saw some one catch a nineteen so I went down and had a seventeen pound eight oz and a fifteen eight oz in two weeks in to day
Laughing so much at this video flounders are so easy to catch down this neck of the woods (south wales) you should of brought your rods when you went to get your reels serviced!!
I probably should have !...Try fishing up here for Flounders..you won't be laughing then !!
I don't have any problem fishing for flounder I caught 8 in 7hours yesterday with a single rag worm
Hope you catch some soon TA
-MrCHOVI123
You used the same ragworm for 7 hours?
change or add baits every cast out.
no change every cast
thanks for replying ta im a fan
HEY THERES A THOUGHT GET DOWN TO THE SALT SIDE AT WOOD MILL BY THE CANOEING CENTRE RIGHT ON THE ROAD THERES A WALL , FISH AT HIGH TIDE GARDEN WORMS FLOAT FISHING LIGHT TACKLE IE 4 LB LINE LIGHT FLOAT STICK OR WHATEVER HAVE A GO MATE COLINKK
It was a dab
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Quick tip
2/0 hooks thats madness for flounder try size 4 mabye 6 if it gets scratchy
Number two go easy reeling in were catching flounder not pike you'll be losing fish a wont even know it and if its as calm as it was there bump up the snoods a good bit the length u had was nothing were trying to move the bait o and tip w mackerel and WAY smaller baits WAY
Not just some keyboard warrior I am on irish shore angling team 2014
I second this, the biggest hook I would use for any of the small flatfish species would be a size 2 at the most
really dont blame the seals it man the commercial fishing mam and pollution
here in the south island of New Zealand we get flounder at river mouths using ghost shrimp at night .But again man has over fished as immigrants fisher man take everything no matter what size
glyphosate in all foods and our resources mimics estrogen. 🤙
please love you
give me money that i can buy something for fishing