How to Catch Flounder from Shore with Bucktails and Gulp
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- Fishing for fluke casting bucktails and Berkley Gulp Alive from shore. Shows how to catch flounder from shore.
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So I tried your jigging method for fluke last week. I used the rigs that I made up based on your other video and fished with Berkley Gulp soft baits. I fished the Brigantine side of the Absecon inlet from the rocks on the south side of the jetty. I fished about 3 hours over a two day period and caught 2 keeper flounder and one short. No one else who was fishing those days caught anything. But no one else was jigging either. Oh, and one last thing, based on your video, I kept the jig working right up to the rocks and all three fish hit just at the last minute. John, thanks for the flounder dinner and also thanks for these videos. I've fished for fluke for many years (since I was a teenager in the '60s) but I learned a lot of new methods from watching the videos.
John, i wish i could upload pictures, but I watched your video last night on "How to Catch.." Set up my rig with your "How to tie the Flounder Rig" video, and today I caught a nice flounder on my fourth cast. I ended up with about three in this particular spot at Pirateland Campground in Myrtle Beach SC. I used your "how to filet.." video and had an incredible meal tonight. Thanks for the great information! It works!
How do you work it
I worked it like it was a large Shakey head... Pulled it toward me counting rocks so to speak.
I'm in a inlet in North myrtle and I've been using this setup and I've caught nothing Roy Stenstrom
+backbreaker303 may not have had any flukes in your area? 😳
+Bill Blast wow, such harsh language.. You should think about using nicer words in your speech?
Mr. John I would like to thank you for all the information you have taught me about catching flounder. Today i went fishing and had one of the best days i"ve ever had using your technique. THANK YOU
John,l love your vidios. I have fished the surf over 50 years, I will never stop learning! Thank you!
John An old timer who could catch fluke like you in the Barnegat Light surf told me that if I thought I was reeling slow enough it was entirely too fast. He used an old Penn Squidder and could out catch me 5:1. I learned fishing for speckled trout that the size of the reel makes a huge difference. Anything larger than a 2500 and it is painful to try and reel it slow enough. That is why I like that you show the size reel you are using. When you say a slow retrieve with a 3000 reel, that is almost as slow as a 2500. When there are no drum around I'll drop to a 1000 size and it is game on. A drum will spool a 1000!
Hi John! I did this technique last Sunday on Jones Beach, West End Field and worked amazing! Im very happy. I got a lot fluke, small ones, and one keeper. I did by the jetty. Thanks for the tips. Its really works.
Used this approach and rig today John. Worked great. All shorts but fun non stop action. Lots of American Shad all on the teaser as well.
I can watch you do this for hours. A master angler at work.
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Very nice video. I left long island, NY when I was 15. Didn't have a choice. I fish wherever I am, but sure miss Fluke fishing. I used to do shore fishing and had a 10 ft dingy with a 5.5 Johnson seahorse on it from age 12-15. Back in the early 80s. Thanks for posting.
John, I'll tell ya, it's videos like yours that are going to get me through the winter. Not simply enjoying watching them (The fish) being caught but learning new techniques and learning proper rigs to use when catching them. My last day on the beach this year was December 15th and I can't wait till spring to try the things I'm learning this winter. I plan on adding a Kayak to my arsenal soon. Can you point me to some directions to go for learning all about them? - Jeff
Mister Skinner I love watching your videos
and I love when you say I am taking some home
the best ever
Have tried this method here on the Gulfcoast for southern flounder, haven't had much luck yet but I know it should work. Keep up the good work. I am a bank fisherman.
I really appreciate all of your videos, especially the way you fully explain what to use and how to use it. Thanks!
Nice catches Mr. Skinner!! Man I love when you're jigging then all of sudden wham and you got one. I also love fishing for slammers off shore. I usually use a crocodile or a Gator spoon. I love when all of sudden all the gulls come and start diving in the water. Then I grab my with the spoon and cast right before the school of blues. Then right as I start to real I get that awesome stop and then the feeling fighting with the slammers is so great. I live in Jersey so I usually go to Sandy Hook and I walk that two mile hike to the point. Love fishing there cause I always go home with two buckets of fish. One with slammers and the other with fluke!! Ave you tried that area Mr. Skinner? If you haven't I highly recommend you give it a shot. Best spot for Blues, Fluke/Flounder and Monster Strippers!! Okay think I just wrote a book Lol. Love your videos keep up the great work been following you for along time now. God bless and keep catching those fish!!!
Xit Woundz Nice!
I know this is an old comment but was wondering what time of the year do you go there when the bluefish fishing is really good? thanks.
just caught my first fluke on this rig first time fishing on gulp as well thanks John your videos helped extremely
I've caught so many fluke this year using this rig. thanks so much for the awesome advice!
This video was extremely helpful and the technique works really well. Thank you for posting this.
John thank you I caught 2 flounder today on your setup
Actually caught a 13" flounder the other day on a bucktail with squid at the breach way! It worked really well!
THIS works tried last summer at an inlet caught 4 fish in an hour. Thank you for your videos very informative
great videos John! Renewed my passion for salty fishing. Thank you
I do seminars at outdoors shows, but only in the winter offseason.
Great video!! I have been fishing down on Cape Hatteras the last three years and love it!! Picked up some great pointers!!
I'm going to try this at Indian river inlet Delaware this weekend inside channel going into the back bay section hopefully it works out will be first time fluke fishing from shore like this we usually used a boat in sounds in crisfield Maryland so new experience for me
Great vid. I like how you explain your fishing! Very informative and inspirational to go out fishing!
Thanks for the videos. yesterday i tried surf casting for fluke using the same rig and technique and nailed one on first cast!
I just bought some of the gulp swimming mullets and am going to try them on a few different rigs. I live in myrtle beach and fish in murrels inlet. Mostly for flounder and red drum.
Hey john after watching your vids iv cought so many fluke on your rig. I also tip the top gulp with a spearing an I think it helps a lot because most of my fish are on the top rig
I'm pretty sure it doesn't catch less fish. I like its extra abrasion resistance over most mono.
A decent shore bet will be small bucktails on the ocean beaches at sunrise.
wow thats clear water we catch a lot of flounder here in Texas the same way
I prefer it mostly for abrasion resistance.
You are a flounder catching machine !
Great video. That setup is close in specs to the one I wish to build pretty soon. I’ll be looking for an 8’ MH rated for 12-30lb line with a 4000 sized reel. Thanks for posting!
You might like the rod used in this video. I love it. th-cam.com/video/1FgJfVZqrpw/w-d-xo.html
Just wanted to thank you for your good work. I've just moved to Ocean City, MD and have used information on this video, as well as your rig tying video to catch flounder here. The quick jigging technique especially; as well as adapting Hi/Lo rigs to emulate your setup: replacing the existing hooks with a bucktail and a new hook for Gulp swimming mullet. With the snap at the bottom of the Hi/Lo rig I am able to attach 2 oz. to 4 oz. weight because the inlet/bay currents are so intense. I am jigging vertically along bulkheads in 6-8' of water, catching fish as others look on. Does it get any better!? Thanks again.
Another great, informative video John..awesome!
I don't fish that far west. Talk to your local tackle shop. Maybe Bernie's in Sheepshead Bay. Some real pros there.
That's WAY out of my area, but if your flounder hit artificials, then what was shown in this video should work. If they eat only bait like clams and worms, probably not.
Long island fluke fishing is the best on Earth.
Great video. I will have to try this setup and retrieve.
Great share on this thanks
You can get the same Penn Rod on sale now on 1hds.com/PennRegimentFishingRod for anyone looking for it.
Very nice video. Thanks. Congrats. Where is this place? Robert Moses State Park?
Great Video, you're on luck man to have suck a place to fish. And you've got many fish there for you to enjoy fishing. In country where I live, Singapore, we never have the chance to get any fish bigger than five inches from our shore.
Is that the same place you shoot the bass videos from? What's the town so I can earth google it to see how it compares to the manasquan river and the metedeconk in nj where I live... because of you I started posting my own videos, thanx for all the work I appreciate it very much
are you tieing another gulp a few inches above your hook?
To about 20 feet depending on current.
Great video once again! Thanks for posting.
I like the video but I wish you would just have showed how to rig the gulf shrimp in the jig head that would make it better at the end a gear tip, and I would try it when i am on the sound. does it work from the boat too?
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penn regiment 7', rated 10-17# kine
headed to the hamptons next weekend with my girlfriend needless to say im looking to fish heavy any suggestions for species and baits to use thanks buddy
Mr Skinner, first and foremost i'm a big fan of your channel. I do this type of fishing quite often as fluking is my favorite, i never picked up gulp before i saw how effective they were and it's the only thing i use for fluke now. I do have a question though, why do you do such rapid bouncing? i have tried this method a few times to see if it would produce but i felt like i couldn't feel the hits as well unless the fish hit really aggressively. I have just recently started venturing out to Long island to fish, as i am from brooklyn. Is there any particular body of water that i should be looking for, for this type of fishing? or is it just cast and see what happens type of scenario.
Hi John. Your videos are great. Very informative and inspiring. I work on the east end, but don't know how to access bays and creeks. Can you give me some advice on where to start out here? I work in Hampton Bays.
Hello Mr. Skinner my wife and I are going to Fort Morgan AL this October and we are going to try flounder form the shore with bucktails or anything we can get them to bite.lol I have learned alot from your videos. But I was wondering if you have any experience at Ft Morgan or any tips for that location thank you sir!
both equally for me
great vid,awesome catch
Hey John, do you ever fish the mattituck inlet? If so what do you use and catch? Thanks
Hi Mr.skinner, what type of bucktail do you prefer to use when fishing for fluke from the shore?
Sharks love these guys.
Do you have anything showing how to remove the hook from the Fluke?
Do you ever catch anything other than fluke when you are fishing for them?
Awesome! What is the video called on how to tie that rig?
Overall it's about 50:50, even if it doesn't look that way in this video.
Hey John, I also live on Long Island.
Im close to Jones Beach and Oyster Bay.
I need some advice. Do you recommend fishing Oyster Bay? I usually go there to catch snappers with my friends but im tired of that and want to move onto some bigger game!
Can you please give me some pointers on where to go cast my rod for bigger fish? I want to catch some blues and fluke or flounder.
Im not saying you have to reveal your honey holes but just give me a good spot to go fishing. Thanks,
No, but one of them ended up that way by the end of the trip.
Hey John, Do fluke pretty much move out of the sound by mid October? I am in CT, where season ends on Oct 31.
hey I have a question every time I fish with gulp mullet I don't even get one bite and suggestions ?
been waiting for one of these videos. talked to you earlier in the year about getting a rod, but since the stripers in ri are down deep, im getting into shore fluke. any other substitutes instead of gulp? thanks.
Do you catch a lot of sea robins in general? I live in CT and you can't even put a gulp in the water without a sea robin hitting it. Do you just edit them out?
Hi John,
do you have any tips on red drum from the surf? Im referring to drum in OBX specifically.... tired of only using bait. Thanks :)
Hey John, do you notice a difference in catching in regards to weather? Some say approaching storms can turn a bite on or off after a storm. I know NE winds seem to turn the bite off and NW turns it on, at least what I've noticed
I always like an approaching storm. Other than that, for fluke, I prefer bright sunshine. In Long Island Sound the afternoon usually produces better for me than early morning.
Is using a second bucktail on the high end of the rig just as effective?
Mr skinnner I'm having a hard time trying to figer out this rig you make it look easy tying it but to me it's really hard what would you suggest.... Thanks
GameVlogger 24 This video shows how to tie the rig. th-cam.com/video/KastgsmIFFI/w-d-xo.html
Does this jigging technique work with winter flounder too?
No
for Flounders, what rig should I used to avoid snags on rocks and kelp forest on the bottom of beach shore? Where I fish, 15feet from the shore there are a lot of seaweed growing from rocks with kelp floating on top of that, very frustrating, since lost a lot of sinkers and hooks, and sometime had lines cut. Thanks.
thanks
First of all, your videos and books are the "BEST", thank you so much for all of your incredible advice. The Rod you use (for the Surf Fluke Fishing), apparently, isn't available any longer on the Penn Site. I was wondering if the Penn Model REGIN1017S76, 7" 6", Extra Fast Action, Medium Power would be a second best choice for the Surf Fishing for Fluke I'll be doing. Also, the Penn Slammer 360 Spinning Reel isn't listed on the Site. Would the Penn Clash Spinning Reel be a good fit for that Rod/Type of fishing? I'll be ordering it on-line so I can't see it in person. I see the Models (Sizes) range from the CLA2000 through the CLA8000, would you happen to have a choice of which of these sizes would work the best for the Surf Fluke Fishing I have in mind. I apologize if I've asked too much from you, but you're just so knowledgeable and I'm so darn meticulous!!! Thank You in advance...
+Roland Mathew I would go with the Penn Battalion 7-footer rated 10-17# line with the Penn Clash 4000. If you want to go a little lighter, then the 8/15# Battalion with a Clash 3000.
Hey John, what are your thoughts on the different styles of bucktails for casting from shore? Do you have a preference from shore vs boat?
crooked fellas The spro-types are fine from boat or shore.
Do u ever fish at the old Ponquogue bridge?
do you ever get hits on the upper gulp?
I FISH IN THE NORTH EDISTO SOUND AT EDISTO ISLAND S.C..WOULD LIKE TO TRY THIS TECHNIQUE HERE.WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR AS FAR AS A STRATING POINT?JUNE TO SAY AUGUST.DEPTH OF WATER...ECT...
I'm too happy with Gulp to even look for something else.
mullet
John do you catch doubles on the rig you use and if so what is the hookup ratio?
John, did that big fluke spit up a snapper at about 3:49?
I hope this isn’t too dumb of a question, would this method work in the inter coastal waterways of N.C. ?
It definitely does. I've had numerous positive reports from NC, as well as the Gulf states, and even CA for Halibut.
Thank you sir. I’ve watched all of your videos and you have surely taught me a lot. I will be trying this off of some small islands and beaches.
Thanks you. Any videos fishing in Shinnecock inlet area lol
This was Moriches.
what was the water temperature of this video? was this in july?
John, thank you for your how to videos. I love them and I read your book too! Here in Boston area, we have winter flounder, a smaller fish, so I think the bucktails are too big for them to swallow. I use flounder hooks with berkley gulp sandworms and that has worked for me. Do you have tips for a rig for winter flounder? Is it different from Fluke? Thanks.
They are definitely different, and I doubt this technique would catch them even with smaller hooks. Do what you're doing. Mussels, worms, and clams are all good bait. Glad you have them there. We lost ours a long time ago.
John Skinner Fishing thanks for the quick reply! I appreciate it.
Is the Gulp smell essential or would flounders also go for it with just a normal soft plastic?
Gulp essential. We all wish soft plastics were nearly as good. Gulp is a water-based scent in something that isn't a plastic. It's like food. Fish will just eat it.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing I see. Thanks a lot!
Hey John, where are you fishing? what state/region?
wow didn't realize the water was so crystal clear in new york
crystal clesr
wow there are many there and they bite well. may i ask where is this? i fly fish with a sinking line, 100% catch and release.
Long Isaland, NY south shore
John Skinner Fishing
thanks, J Skinner! i shall go there once a year for a trip.
looks like somewhere worth going! i'm a flounder enthusiast. thanks for an enjoyable fishing show.
Are you using a 7foot or 8foot rod? Medium action?
how did you rig it,, looks like a 2 hook set up ?
would this work for halibut?
Please show close up detail of your line hoop up,kind of bait,distance of set up.Thanks.
How to Tie and Fish a Flounder Bucktail Rig
What part of New York are you fishing in this video
Jimmy Herbst eastern Long Island
Great Video! I'm new to Long Island and was wondering if you could give me some idea of where to surf cast on the north shore (sorry if it was mentioned before; you have so many comments haha)
My cousin lives in kings park and he told me there's good fishing in the Nissequogue River, but I'm not too sure
Any suggestions would be extremely helpful and appreciated
That's a good area because of the bait flow in/out of the river. Check with John at Terminal Tackle for local info.
Are you using a rod that is 7 foot Medium?
thats some good fishing