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Bryan · May-13-13 10:25AM

Got to Cape Henlopen around midnight. We set up camp and I was on the pier around 1am Friday morning. I had wanted to go to IRI but was just too tired.

So I jigged tandem pink Fin-S and caught a few tb flounder and 1 keeper at 19.5". Also saw a number of other keepers landed. I think I left around 4am.

Got some sleep and was on the beach late Friday morning. The weather was great. I soaked clams for a few hours but only managed a croaker and a kingfish on the little rod. Nothing on the big baits. I saw one small striper caught by a guy fishing nearby, but I couldn't tell if anyone down the beach was catching.

Friday night I finally got to Indian River to look for stripers. I think I got there around 10pm, and not much was happening. I saw one guy leave with a fish off the North jetty, but I didn't see anything else, or catch anything while I was there. I left after 2 or 3 hours and went to the pier, where I caught a trout, 2 shad, and a tb flounder on tandem Fin-S. I left the pier when the wind got ridiculous. I think I was only there for an hour or so.

Saturday morning I started at the canal in the pouring rain. I picked off a couple TB flatties, then hit a couple tidal creeks and caught 3 more with one keeper at 20". These fish were all caught on a bucktail/shad strip combo.

Saturday afternoon was spent surf fishing. I soaked clams and bunker and only managed 1 blowfish. Not even the skates or dogs were biting.

Dinner was flounder a la campfire...it was awesome.

I meant to give IRI another shot but never made it. I laid down to "rest" and didn't wake up until the next morning. I'm assuming since I wasn't there the stripers were blitzing. Sigh.

Sunday morning I was back at the pier fishing bucktails w/shad strips. Picked up 3 flounder with one keeper at 20.5", and a bluefish of maybe 18". They were up pretty shallow. Stayed for a couple hours and then had to get on the road.

I didn't get to fish as much as I wanted to, but it was a great trip. Can't wait to get back!

Last edited by Bryan (May-13-13 11:35AM)

Ernie · May-13-13 1:21PM

Kingfish and whiting the same thing? Also called a sea mullet? I understand they are delicious!

Good stuff! Cape Henlopen is on my bucket list for flounders on a fly!

Salmo · May-13-13 7:38PM

Cool. It's very good flounder fishing to the south of the pier by wading and fly fishing or fins type lures. I fished IRI from a boat very late on sat night. Even anchored over the north jetty at night with a good incoming tide. Nothing. Complete skunk. But scored a couple keepers from the beach in OC on clams on Sunday morning.

Salmo · May-13-13 7:45PM

I'm sure if you did the same trip next weekend things would be different. One week late all over this year.

Bryan · May-14-13 5:46AM

Pacemaker wrote:
Kingfish and whiting the same thing? Also called a sea mullet? I understand they are delicious!

Good stuff! Cape Henlopen is on my bucket list for flounders on a fly!

They're kingfish from New York to Maryland, called roundhead in VA, known as sea mullet in the OBX, and everywhere below calls them whiting. All the same thing, except there are Northern and Southern subspecies that coexist in the mid-Atlantic.

Now is the time to catch flatties on the fly since they're up really shallow. I think the deepest I caught a flounder over the weekend was about 5 feet. Most were in 2-3.

Salmo, it's good to hear I didn't miss much at IRI on Saturday night. I heard the same from a couple other people.

Usually the stripers start biting the day after I leave, so there was probably a huge blitz last night

purpleworm · May-14-13 6:17AM

Man that beach looks nice...I am ready for summer!

Nice report and pics Bryan, thanks for sharing with us.

AbuMasgouf · May-14-13 1:58PM

Awesome going Bro! That Flounder looks really tasty!

Flounder is something I want to also get into, so I can do to it what I do with almost every species i catch... I want to try to Masgouf it!! Don't know how (because of it's shape) but I'll figure it out!

backtofuturetoyota · May-15-13 4:02AM

The flounder is a great eating fish. It's one of my preferred ones to take home. It's so flat you could just skewer it whole!

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