It’s time for the annual On The Water fiction contest! Submit an original short story relating generally to fishing or with fishing as a unifying theme and the winning entry will be published in the February issue of On The Water. Need greater incentive? The winner will receive a premium St. Croix spinning rod and Quantum reel, along with $100 worth of Brecks trout lures! Submissions should be a minimum of 1500 words but no longer than 4000. The deadline is January 1, 2012. Please be sure to include all contact information and email your entry to Kevin Blinkoff at Kevin@onthewater.com.
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Hi Kevin,
Many years ago I fished off an island named Gardner’s off of Montauk Point.
I caught some of the biggest flounder ever seen. The locals called them Snowshoe or searun flounders. I now live in Maine, but I am willing to travel. Do you know of a lacation in ME, NH, MA or Ri were I can catch snowshoe flounders.
Thanks,
Kevin
Hi Carmine, You can catch winter flounder in the 1-3 pound range in Boston Harbor during the spring months (May and June are best) but if you want big summer flounder (fluke) up to 10 pounds, which are probably what you caught off Montauk, you are better off fishing out of Cape Cod or Rhode Island. June and July are probably the prime months, and you can often combine your fluking trip with some striper fishing. There are many captains out of Falmouth and Hyannis on Cape Cod or out of Point Judith in Rhode Island. Good Luck!
SO first off I have to admit this i a true tail. I had a few buddies on the boat sea-bass’n and taug’n out of Barn Isl. After a VERY good morning of see-bass we decided to anchor up and have lunch. Al of a sudden my fellow Marine yells “HEY ANYONE WANT A BANANA!” I yelled back “OH MY GOD ARE YOU …ING KIDDING ME! GET THOSE DAMN THINGS OFF MY BOAT!” The other guy Friend NOT Brother Marine didnt know what was going on. Meantime I’m running to the BOW GET’em OFF NOW! He looks at me like I’m crazy. He sais I’m not throwing all these away. I said damn it, you stay on the bow and we’ll fish at the stern. I told him you just brought some bad mojo on the boat. He told me I was full of crap and decided to eat one. As sure as the sunsets me and the other guy were hooking up like crazy one after the other. My Brother Marine lost about 20 bucks in gear. He decides he’s going to go to the back with us because “We’re over the fish”, I said “stay away” we went to the bow. Again other guy and I were nailing them Brother losses another $20 – $30 bucks in rigging (I actually stopped counting) I threw him some line and hardware and said make you own now. We got in to the launch and he says “gee I dunno what happened out there.” Again I yelled “THOSE …ING BANANAS”. After the trip he called me from his house and said he search the internet ‘Bananas on boats’ and said if he wasn’t there and had it happen to him he would have never believed it. So to all those tag-alongs “DON’T BRING BANANAS ON A BOAT” I don’t know about plantains.