We are far from experts on catching flounder on the beach front but after the last few days it seemed like we were doing something right. The Matrix family headed to a little labor day beach vacation this weekend and the family included of the boys, the wife and I and the plus one, the soon to be. Of course we brought a few poles and a filled up our pockets with Matrix Shad before we left the house for our family vacation just in case we had time to squeeze in a few cast. After doing the family thing the first few days and watching LSU getting their tail’s whipped and Bama as usual doing some whipping of their own we finally had a day with decent enough weather to hang on the beach and I of course snuck the poles along with us. While hanging out on the beach of Perdido Key near the Flora-Bama bar we made a few cast. It didn’t take us long to realize the Gulf Coast seemed to be pretty carpeted with flounder on the sea-floor. It sure was fun picking off these flat fish while walking down the beach and we even hooked a straggler red fish. The trick seemed to find sandbars where the heavy surf was crashing out a ways in front of the actual shoreline breaking up the waves and creating a calmer pool of water just behind the bar. The flounder were surprisingly close to the bank and if you were casting in areas where the big swells were crashing all the way up to the bank it was simply blowing the matrix shad all over with no control over the lure. Finding the less turbulent pools of water behind the sand bars seemed to be the key. These pools of water don’t stick out like a sore thumb and its a very subtle difference in the water but seemed to really work out for us. We never put the boat in the water on this adventure so those panhandle bank fisherman out there this may be a good time to put a few in the freezer. We left plenty flounder out there as we threw too many to count back. Maybe next time we can shoot a Dockside TV episode and until next time
“Good Fishing”
