Is there a Spring Flounder Run?

[t.chris]

I am full of questions today. So I heard about, but did not really get to participate in the Fall flounder run as fish migrated to the gulf. Is there a Spring returning run and if so when?

[backlashcharlie]

www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/flounder/

try the link

so your answer is yes but not as good as the fall one

[SurfMonkey]

Thanks for the site location backlashcharlie...
Very informative and enlightening...

[backlashcharlie]

ya the tpwd website is kinda hard to use buuuut... has lots of info

[Night Wing]

There is a Spring run of flounder in the Galveston Bay complex, but it's not like the Fall run. The flounder just slowly come back to the bays. Sometimes, it's hard to tell if the Spring run is happening.

[sherwood]

There is a Spring run of flounder in the Galveston Bay complex, but it's not like the Fall run. The flounder just slowly come back to the bays. Sometimes, it's hard to tell if the Spring run is happening.

You mean how it was hard to tell that the fall run was actually happening?

[Night Wing]

There is a Spring run of flounder in the Galveston Bay complex, but it's not like the Fall run. The flounder just slowly come back to the bays. Sometimes, it's hard to tell if the Spring run is happening.

You mean how it was hard to tell that the fall run was actually happening?

Yes. For my flounder fishing, last Fall's run was......poor and it seems to be an ongoing trend.

[Pablo]

used to be the rec fishermen could keep 10 and the commercials could keep 20. or at least that's the way I understood it. that has changed for the better ...... but that ain't why I called......

went with a fella one day in the fall of '06 with a recreational shrimp trawl and while we didn't net many skrimps, I was amazed at the number of baby flounder we had as bi-catch. I wonder how many get killed with the larger shrimp nets dredging the bays and near gulf . . . .

[hookset4]

went with a fella one day in the fall of '06 with a recreational shrimp trawl and while we didn't net many skrimps, I was amazed at the number of baby flounder we had as bi-catch. I wonder how many get killed with the larger shrimp nets dredging the bays and near gulf . . . .

The numbers are staggering. Juvenile flounder are hit very hard as shrimp 'bycatch'. Number one cause of flounder population decline IMO.

-hook

[Tro-Trout]

Night wing is the flounder man

There is a Spring run of flounder in the Galveston Bay complex, but it's not like the Fall run. The flounder just slowly come back to the bays. Sometimes, it's hard to tell if the Spring run is happening.