I had the opportunity to fish this past Monday with Glen Pla, host of The Average Angler TV show that airs on the Brighthouse Sports Network on channel 47, channel 1147 on HD. Glen had contacted me to do a show about fishing in the Tamoka Basin and we set a date. We met at the park at 6:30 AM, loaded the boat with camera equipment, and set off for a day of fishing.
We got out into the basin and began to work the shorelines with top water plugs. As luck would have it we could not find a single trout or redfish to cooperate with us. I started to think about where we could go to get some trout and reds so I decide to head north up the ICW to Bulow Creek.
We fished a stretch of the Creek and again no luck. I thought for a few minutes then said to Glen that we would fish an area and probably pick up some flounder. We tied off to the bank and began fishing the in coming tide with jig heads and Berkley Gulp shrimp. It wasn’t but a few minutes and Glen was hooked up with a small flounder. We continued to work the jigs and Glen hooked into another small flounder. We worked the area a while longer and had 2 more flounder and these were both keeper size fish. As the current slowed so did the bite. We then went for a short sight seeing cruise further up the creek.
Once we returned to our original spot the current had picked up on the out going tide and so did the flounder bite. This time the fish we were catching, I mean Glen was catching, were of better size. The flounder were now in the 17” to 18” range and fat. These fish were hungry because they were swallowing the entire rig. By the time we called it quits we boated 8 flounder with 6 of them being keeper size. We also had several that we lost. During the trip I found out that catching flounder was one of Glen’s favorite fish to catch. The flounder saved the day to make for a good fishing show. And believe me, after not landing a trout or a red, the fish gods smiled on us to make for a wonderful trip.
Glen was so pleased with the catch that he said: any time the flounder bite is on give me a call and I’ll be there.
The show will be on some time in the next week or two so stay tuned in to catch it.