Good Flounder Bite Before Sunday's Increased Size Limit

By Scott Lenox

Posted on May 30th, 2025

It was a little rainy and dreary this morning, but this afternoon it cleared up nicely and it was a decent day out on the bay. There was a little south wind to contend with, but the water was clean and the flounder were snapping pretty well.

I headed out to the Thorofare for what was my last attempt at a 16″ keeper flounder and I found them biting pretty well. I used the pink Deadly Double baited with naked minnows and caught several throwbacks with three keeper sized fish of 16.25″, 16.25″ and 16.5″. All legal to harvest today, but not Sunday, June 1st when the size limit increases to 17.5″ for the remainder of 2025.

Dave, Brian and Seth from PA used pink shine Gulp to land 11 keeper flounder from 16.5″ to 19.75″ in the Thorofare today.

Chad and Hailey Barrick fished the Thorofare today with a combination of Deadly Doubles and Double Troubles and caught around a dozen flounder with three keepers of 18″, 19″ and 21″.

Jeff Beard used Deadly Doubles baited with white Gulp and shiners in the Thorofare to box these two keeper flounder of 18″ and 19″.

Junior Hartle caught two keeper flounder by the route 50 bridge last night.

Jack and Cade Campbell of Nazareth, PA caught a couple of nice bluefish while dredging at the route 50 bridge.

Capitan Chris Mizurak of the Angler reported a steady bite today with plenty of sea bass and some flounder going home with happy anglers.

Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star had a nice day with a couple of limits of sea bass around the rail.

Have canceled Saturday 5/31/25 for a near gale westerly (seas that diminish almost the moment the wind stops). Made Sunday a long trip likely departing at 6 – 6:30 latest. Tons of room, plenty calm and they’re chewing! Reservation book is open to the middle of July. Marisa handles reservations at 443-235-5577.. See website ‘Fish Report’ for particulars..

Like they used to say on TV – And Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programing!

A bit of luck that; weatherman backed off from an entire day of monsoon conditions, to rain ending before many have climbed from their beds.

Tying her loose into a light drizzle and the least bit of southerly breeze; on clearing OC inlet the ocean was quite fine. I paddled on off a good bit to Tommy Fowler’s Reef (it’s NOT a memorial reef he’d like you to know, TYVM!) ..where Colin and Brian did the deed on a 24 block unit.

Then we paddled some more.

Shazam! As we dropped for the first time? Baits went into the most cbass I’ve seen on a screen this year. My screens were nearly solid red with fish

..and the sun came out too.

Dang Son! Not only did I need my Hook ‘Reef Builder’ sunglasses {first time long time that} but all those fish bit too.

Lot of throwbacks?

Sure.

But some fat keepers too.

Our first client in double digits was was Brian (no doubt exercising his reef builder’s karma) at 10:50.. The bite did taper, however, as it often does, so limits were hard to come by. Still, Rick had the first limit at 1:15 while Jeff’s jumbo cbass put all other fish pool contenders to shame.

Cheers!

Monty