Flounder on the Fly

[steve thomas]

Fished Sunday June 22 from dead low tide thru 5 hours rising. Caught lots of flounder from dead low until about 2 hrs. rising tide. One flounder was 22" long. All were caught from a kayak using a fly rod with small rattle style clouser minnows. All flounder were in the mouth of small feeder creeks or within 2 ft. of the shore near oysters bars. Hooked a couple of reds and caught one speckled trout. My client from Culpepper VA was delighted to catch his first ever flounder and speckled trout on the fly rod. Capt. Steve Thomas

[jyates2@sc.rr.com]

Hi Steve:
I really enjoyed seing you and meeting your lovely wife at the Orvis store Sunday evening.
Do you have any more photos from the flounder-kayak trip? If so, I would love to see them here on the web site.
I have never fly fished from a kayak? Is it difficult? Do you need a specific type of kayak?

I am off to the Keys in the morning for a few days of chasing permit and baby tarpon. Hopefully I will have some photos when I return..

Take care and have a great day..

James Yates

[steve thomas]

James,
I do not have any more photos of the flounder trip. We fished the little small creek drains on dead low tide. The kayak that I used is an Old Town Perdator 14 ft. rigged for fishing or hunting. Has plenty of room, rod holder, gear rack, anchor and so forth. It's really easy to fish from and you would not believe how skinny the water is where you can get to with this thing. Let's go sometime. We'd ususally fish the last two hours of falling tide and the first two hours rising. We also caught speckled trout and lost one really nice redfish back up in an oyster flat.