Winter Flounder Success!!!! Homemade Chum Is the Trick!!!
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- I finally get my white whale Winter Flounder!!
We torture poor Alana and make our own from scratch winter flounder chum.
Chris gets 5 fat winter flounder. Keeping two for the dinner table. I honestly think this is the best eating fish in all of New Jersey.
This video goes to show that perseverance and hard work always pays off. I tell others that fishing is ABSOLUTELY ZERO luck and all skill or research.
I love you all and I thank you all for watching! God bless. Here's to calm seas and beautiful sunsets.
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Flounder fight so much better than Fluke. Used to love Flounder fishing back in NY and NJ. Nice video!
Thanks so much Richard. Looking forward to try again this season.
burlap bag and a cinder block for smashing up mussels..old school and works like a charm..great video
Uncle Milt reference. Very cool! Raccoons will be milling around the yard. Rental boat is the way to go. We don't take the 26' everywhere.
Yeah man. I read all his articles!!
Your one of the only legit fisherman on youtube ive seen and i cant thank you more for making awseome offshore content. Much love man
Wow. Thanks so muc for the kind words Jake!
I love winter flounder too! It’s been an obsession for 50 years..I would buy flats of worms and bushels of mussels and cases of chum. They are so depleted now in Long Island almost not worth the effort. I fished Moriches also in its hat day!! Miss that great action . Now in Shinnecock only a three week window in May and can fish all day for two bites. Sad !!! Also this year bay scallops all died off out here. It’s loss of habitat and too many mega homes being built on the water. We are in a sad state today. Enjoy your videos . Catch em up !!!
Yea it's so sad Michael! Things have really changed just since I was a kid.
Where you one of the poeople filling barrels of winter flounder back in the day? That’s the reason it’s ruined today
@@whoareyou551 no wise guy ! You cannot ruin a fishery by recreational fishing. Yeah years ago guys filled totes and tubs with fluke and other fish. Never a shortage until commercial fishing gear became so advanced and destructive. Also , I believe it is loss of habitat like marshland and eel grass to to declining water quality. Mega mansions being built at the waters edge. Never see grass shrimp and other forage that winter flounder love to feed on. Last year the entire east end bay scallop fishery was decimated due to pot water quality and a specific bacteria that killed them all. ROD AND REEL WILL NEVER DESTROY A FISHERY!! It’s the greed and unscrupulous acts of commercial fisherman, and the loss of habitat that all species need succeed. Such a simple minded answer you gave!. Wake up!
Michael Arma you definitely can put a big dent in Populations with rod and reel , if you keep filling barrels with a species everyday that can ruin a fishery as the bottom should be paved with winter flounder but they all got picked out
You brought back lots of childhood memories. My dad would take us kids all the way down to Skark river from north Jersey to fish the back side of Shark river for Flounder.
Thanks so much for watching Daniel. When I was a kid all i ever did was read about the winter flounder in The Fisherman magazine. Always wanted to try it. I'm hooked
Success! Lol... All that time, effort and patience paid off. I make my own mussel chum, too. I use a flat, heavy rock to mash em' up in a metal bucket. I've blown out the sides of several 5 gallon plastic ones. I still get blackbacks in the back of raritan bay--no one fishes for them up here anymore.
Now pick up some fresh crabs and stuff those fillets!
Thanks for watching. We are going crabbing tomorrow!
Couldn't stop laughing OMG but you got em love watching the
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Ha. That's great Tim. Thanks so much for watching
Hey chris...when I was a boy I fished Barnegat Bay and had a 16 ft wooden runabout, the old salts would tell me to go out towards the inlet,have 2 chum pots with clam,muscles, and corn .use blood worms and besides bouncing the chum pots off bottom they all swore that to help mix up the bottom with chum .... get a bathroom plunger and add a long shift of maybe 10 ft and use it to plunge the bottom as if you where trying to unplug a toilet no kidding Chris it worked all the time,sounds silly but these old Barnegat salts knew there shit...
Exactly
Thanks so much Kevin. Next year I'll be adding the plunger to the mix!
Persistence paid off big time. Way to put that work in. Well deserved.
Thanks so much Chris
Well, you got the flounder down, the only tip I can give you is , wait till the wife goes to work before making chum 😂👍
ha!
I think you got’um👍🏻👍🏻🏁🏁🎣🎣
Good video bud thanks for sharing your trip with us!
Thanks so much Mike. My pleasure!
awesome stuff Chris. You made my day
Thanks so much Ciro!! We'll be killing tuna in no time
Chris add several cans of cat food to your chum. Also add yellow food coloring to your rice. Good luck!
Thanks for the tip!
Awesome video Chris. You put in the work and it paid off. Well done man
Thanks dude!
great watch.
Thanks Bri
Nice 👍 catch Captain Chris !!
Thanks as always Charles
Well it looks like you got your white whale! Make that 5 of them. Congrats and good eating. Bluefins baby bluefins. If i remember correctly its was this month april you guys nailed them last year.
Yea that was two Aprils ago. We didn't get our first bite for hours and then it was game on!!!
First and keep up the great work :)
Thanks so much!
Interesting spices. Crushed them! Should have painted the rentel skiff's bow with blood. REAPER!
Ha. That's great Bert!!
Glad to see you catch non targeted species like I do. THOSE can be memories forever also!
Had no idea you were a DMFD fan. Rob is a legend! I love his brothers channel too.
yea man. He seems like a great dude. I honestly don't watch much youtube believe it or not
Your wife's reactions in this video is hilarious haha. "Reaper team this is why we can't have nice things."
ha!!!
The things we do to catch a fish! haha
Josh is the man!
He may not be in this episode, but I saw him!
Can't have nice things? You got a beautiful home and a 43 foot battle wagon!!!!!!
I spoiled her Pietro!
Thanks for the video if you go again try a slide weight you will feel the bite better
Ok thanks Duaine.
I've caught them just under 3lbs there. A few over 18 inches. All about timing with them. October through late December is the best. Spring there hasn't been that great in years. Great vids man keep it going
Thanks so much USA. I'm pumped to try again this year
Picked up my first one on an offshore wreck while ling fishing. 20 inches long. Winter flounder are really awesome
They're so fun! Thanks so much for watching
Great to see you get some. Your chum recipe was spot on.
Thanks so much Brew!!! I've seen a few of your vids!! Keep em coming!
@@reaperfishingnj8623 I made a few just to share with friends. You made my day thanks.
Great video been fishing there for 30 years looks like you were anchored in front of the park or tennis courts if you ever go back anchor up in front of the party boats after they leave just out of the channel I’ve had epic flounder days there too bad two is the limit tight lines!!
Thanks so much Carlos!
@@reaperfishingnj8623 great videos brother I’m a big fan! Hope you crush the flounders next time I’ve had days in front of the party boats with over 30 but that’s when it was catching not fishing! Lol
Great video as usual Chris! I fish out of little egg harbor and have always heard that great bay used to be loaded with them back in the day! Have you ever tried down this way being you live in brigantine? Tomorrow I’m taking my 19 foot Maycraft out to try to troll around a little as I’ve heard there’s bluefin around and after that I’ll be hitting the little egg reef for some fluke! If you ever want to try for winter flounder around here I would be down to take my boat out!
I've never tried south of LBI but i'm sure they're here. tough to experiment new areas when it's freezing cold out though. Good luck tomorrow. check out some of my old vids on my Maycraft 1800 Skiff. I loved that boat!!
Another way to stimulate the bite is to bring along some kind of long stick or a weight on a rope to dig up the sand on the bottom - that will act as chum too. You might want to try another trip this year - chum is really essential for blackback flounder fishing. Bring the wife along and let her handle the chumming. It'll be a good "bonding" experience for you both LOL!
THanks for the input and thanks for watching John!! I always heard about the old timers using plungers on long sticks. I can hardly get wifey to go fishing in May let along Late march or april. She's half Honduran.....doesn't really like the cold. Plus I really like the solo approach on a lot of trips.
Looks like you’ve figured it out Captain!! I’d love to fish with you one season…. I love Tuna fishing!!
Thanks so much for watching Tre!!
Awesome video I fish the shark river a lot great area. Out front is stellar for fluke a lot of structure close to shore plenty of quality fish there. It might be a hike but give it a try for fluke this summer if you feel inclined it's worth it. If you ever want to try a party boat the Big Mohawk is the best I've ever been on great crew out of Belmar.
Thanks for the heads up Robert!!
Cool video you can bounce the sinker and work it towards the boat it sometimes gets them going
As always...So Fun!!!
Bro i live 2 blocks in from sharkriver.i have been fishing it for 20ish years now.i bought my first 17ft boat with a 18.5HP mercury mariner when i was 15 and just upgraded to a 22ft boston whaler 210 outrage last summer. If you ever want to know all the good spots there I'd be happy to hook you up i know that inlet like the back of my hand
Thanks man! Good luck with the new boat!
After all that you forgot the chum??? Glad to see that you at least broke the skunk and it's another species added to the list. Looking forward to the next Reaper video. :)
nah. I just forgot the mussel hook baits. The chum worked great.
My buddy has a 33 albemarle in shark river. We tried winter flounder fishing in the river last year on his boat. We got some strange looks from people in small boats fishing for them.
Ha. That's awesome. Zac and I were joking that we should do it in the 43. 6 chum pots. 12 rods!!
2 hours north?! They are right here;-)
Just that nobody fishes for them here anymore...but they used to.
whoa!!!! WE gotta talk Bob!!!
Muscles are the key! The oldtimers don’t f wit anything else
Thanks Anthony. I can't believe I forgot em. I may try again Tuesday
@@reaperfishingnj8623 did you fish SR there are some spots over on the canals by Fisherman headquarters and back..... but with those big weakfish, those sod banks could make for a fun time
Awesome video Chris. Congrats on the catch. Your passion for fishing is so inspiring. We’ll be putting our boat in OC in early May and I can’t wait. Tight lines bud. 💪
Thanks so much for the kind words!
That’s central jersey! Up by the Hudson is north jersey. There’s a giant fleet of party boats that weren’t back yet either.
Ha. Ok. Too me that's North Jersey!
Thats South Jersey to us central jersey folk central jersey ends at around south edison and red bank. Central Jersey fishing to us is basically raritan bay to the shrewsbury rocks
Nice!
Thanks so much!
Use a small concrete stamper to crush mussels/clams
that makes better sense. Thanks
Chris another comment or actually a question...when you rented the boat did you go towards the inlet or did you stay around the marina area,how long was the rental for?
Thanks for watching Kevin!!! I went west not far from the marina. Just near the tennis courts
If you ever want to experience some of the best winter flounder fishing that still be found, head up to Quincy and fish with Capt. Jason Colby. Although the fishery is not what it was in the 1970’s & 80’s, you can still easily catch a limit of big winter flatties. I’ve done about 15 trips with Capt. Colby and only once have we not caught a boat limit (falling 1 short, I believe the legal limit is still 5 or 6 per person in Massachusetts )-but then again even though the legal limit is 12 inches, we’d set a boat limit of keeping openly 14 inches or greater. In fact, I’ve caught many 17 inch + winter flounder up there.
That's bad ass Andrew!! Thanks for the intel.
I love to flounder fish
It's so addicting!
What's up with the Deck? I work for beer & info... lol Seriously, that was a Great Video.... See you offshore. Tight Lines & Be Safe
Ha!! Thanks so much Jean. Some day I'll fix it!
@@reaperfishingnj8623 My friends call me JP. Please, feel free to do so, as well. Quick ques. when your start a spread, do you start with all different colors. Then when you get hit, do you change over to match what got hit? Or do you just leave on, what's already rigged up? Thanks again
@@jeanpaulfaur7646 JP. for the most part we start off with our go to spread. Blue/white shutes or islanders plus ballyhoo, purple or green shute plus ballyoo, green spreader bars or wide trackers, one purple tracker, usually a rainbow bar. That gets us started. If we start gettting bit on one color then we start to add more of that color.
And always...always a 3 oz White Joe shute type lure wwb out the shotgun (middle)
@@reaperfishingnj8623 Thanks again & Go Team. lol
Get in the boot!
Ha. Thanks so much for watching!
What do you type in on Spotify for your music? I was diggin the nine inch nails.
That was their Downward Spiral Album from 1994. One of the best bands ever.
101’ custom sport - looked it up she’s a beaut
I like deer meat for dinner too
yea he's really good at the editing and it's year round fishing. He was in the game early enough to be able to actually make a living off RUclips. So he can travel the world to fish and basically fish every day.
I would like to meet him and you one day and I can’t wait to get back to Florida and my parents boat there
when you think you have enough Chum pots out triple the amount of pots you use and then you have enough chum
Roger. Thanks!!!
Hi Chris, I found you through 609 fishing and Dillon. I have been subbed for a several months now and like the channel. I laughed my ass off watching you make up that batch of chum, my father would do the same thing back in the 60's, probably got the same recipe from Milt Rosco in the Long Island Fisherman. Dad introduced me to flounder fishing in the late 50's and it was flounder fishing that made me into a life long fisherman. I would like to help you on your quest for flounder. You are still using way too much bait. Winter flounder have small mouth's and no teeth, they suck the bait into their mouth, if you cover the entire hook with gobs of worm it just increases gut hooking. You are not chumming bluefish you don't cast out into a slick instead fish just few feet down current of the chum pot, just like fishing blowfish, the fish will come to the source. Belmar is a great place for flounder but I have caught them in Barnegat bay with reasonable success. Any creek that drains off large shallow muddy area is a good place to try during outgoing water. Winter flounder follow the warm currents out in spring just like fluke do in the fall. Try the smaller creeks that drain from Lakes, Absecon and Reeds bay. It's worth a few hours and River Reaper is the perfect boat for it. Good luck.
You used her spoon lucky she didn’t hit you with it
ha!!!
Shark River by tennis court ??
yes sir. this was the only decent day I've ever had there though
I can’t believe you spent 125 dollars for two fish
It ain't about the money or the quantity of meat. It's about the memories, the adventure, the smells, the sights......i could go on and on
Dude message me on Facebook I’ll hook you up. Easier was but your learning.👍
Ok Gary thanks!!!
You bonehead open the bag of mussels in the bucket. 😂