these clear, detailed & straightforward tutorials have improved my fish prep skills five fold this past year (2024). the biology lesson is an added perk. Thank You! I'm looking forward to 2025.
I used to never use the word phenomenal until I started watching your videos... I use it all the time now when describing something that's really good... I don't like to eat fish, but love watching your videos... Thanks so much for the entertainment Reed...
I think this is the most underrated part of being a fisherman. We learn how to catch them, how to hold them, and how to clean them. All different shapes and sizes. Love this guy and if I ever need to learn, youre my guy Reed.
This was by far one of the most in-depth videos on preparing these fish that I've seen. I'm from New York and target fluke every summer. Winter flounder is really, really rare up here now though. Fluke has always been a more challenging fish for me to fillet, but this video made it seem so much easier. Thanks Reed!
Great information and great fileting technique demonstration. As a son of a sports commercial fisherman of the Pacific Northwest, and catching the starry flounder, your comments about winter flounder, summer flounder, and southern fluke is interesting. Some flounder and fluke species in the Pacific Northwest include: Starry flounder A right-eyed flounder with an oval body, a pointed head, and a white or creamy white blind side. Starry flounder are commonly caught off the outer Washington coast and in Puget Sound. They can be found in estuaries and lower areas of coastal rivers, such as the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Arrowtooth flounder A flatfish that can be found from the eastern Bering Sea to San Pedro, California. They are commonly found on soft bottoms and can be found in depths ranging from 59 to 2,401 ft. Witch flounder A right-eyed flounder with a small head, mouth, and narrow body. They have a grayish-brown top side and a white bottom side with tiny dark dots. Other flatfish species include: Butter sole, Curlfin sole, Dover sole, English sole, Flathead sole, Northern rock sole, Pacific sanddab, Petrale sole, Rex sole, and Southern rock sole. It would be great to see a flatfish flounder, fluke, sole, and sanddab comparison.
Being from the NE, yes the ribbons make good bait. Even better is the white fluke belly after the fillet is skinned. It's tough and doesn't tear off the hook easily. Long strips that dance in the water.
I am a relocated N.Y.er now living in N.C. so I grew up fishing both winter Flounder and Fluke and therefore know the difference, but now, thanks to your video, I now know Summer Flounder from Southern Flounder. Thanks for your clear explanation.
Good way to start the new year, watching Reed filet flounder. I kinda overdid it for New Years, and his calm demeanor and smooth cutting techniques is relaxing. I wish you and your family a happy and prosperous 2025!
It was a fluke that I discovered your channel - Good thing I did otherwise I'd still be floundering around the fish market not knowing the difference between tuna or turbot, cod from crappie😁Have a great 2025 - Your channel is one of the best for presentation, information and engaging your viewers!
I know of flounder in Australia and the UK, I don't think I have heard of fluke (liver fluke is something the farmers here treat livestock for 🤣). I think a light dredge in seasoned flour (white pepper, salt) then pan fried with some neutral oil, butter and parsley. Great to see you in the new year 🤩.
Fluke is a name for summer flounder used in central New Jersey up to and including Massachusetts in the eastern U.S. Very popular fish for catching and eating. Scientific name is paralichthys dentatus.
As a retired New Bedford fishing boat owner I enjoy watching your videos. When skinning flounder have you ever tried holding the Knife still and pulling the filet towards you while wiggling the filet back and forth?
Excellent explanations of "Flounders" ! Note that Winter Flounder stock in NE are way down. Haven't catch on in years.. Their fillets are much more tender than the fluke. Something the fish market pass off the bottom fluke fillet as winter flounder... or they market it as different name. The top side of Fluke is also great for sashimi.
I am grateful DNR here in Myrtle Beach just has rules for flounder... lol. I have always noticed the different spots on flounder I spear but it's hard to tell under water.
That looks good! I'm getting hungry watching this. The biggest summer flounder that I've ever caught was by hand after accidentally stepping on it. I waded out into the ocean in New Jersey and when I got to about waist deep, I stepped right on a huge doormat flounder. It wiggled around like mad under me and I just stood there for awhile trying gather myself up and figure out what was going on. I decided to try to grab it and it took me a bunch of tries because everytime that I crouched down to get my hand on it I became buoyant and the fish would almost get away. Finally, I was able to get a couple of fingers into it's mouth and clamp my thumb into it's gill. By the time I was out of the water and walking on sand my fingers were bleeding like mad from those sharp teeth. A group of us had a wonderful flounder meal that night. I've fished and spearfished summer flounder for years but have never caught anything even close to the size of that fish. I told this story to a New Jersey Fish & Wildlife game warden and he told me that its illegal to catch fish by hand in New Jersey. I had no idea at the time. I sometimes see schools of striped bass beaching themselves in a frenzy while chasing schools of small fish so I suppose that law makes sense since just walking up and picking up a striped bass on the beach shouldn't be considered a fair catch but there should be an exception to the rule because if you can catch a fish by hand while being in the water at waist deep or more you deserve a fair catch.
Excellent video Reed! Thanks for the sharing of knowledge, I have a better understanding of flounder. An Asian friend prefers his flounder poached in water versus my preference.
Awesome video and explanation of the difference. It would be really cool if you did a summer vs southern flounder comparison. I think the quickest way to tell them apart is the coloration. Ive noticed the summers are a much lighter, almost sandy, color while southerns are almost black at times. I also notice southerns are bigger on average, at least in nc. The white ring around the spots is also a good indicator, like you said. I might be thinking of the gulf flounder, but one species has five spots in close proximity to each other: four creating a box shape and one in the center. Regardless all of them are awesome tablefare. Hope you have a good season in the fish market this year.
Great vid as always reed!appreciate your work.as to belly for bait or cut bait,we meaning myself and most those I know would use squid or Kellies ,sandworms,even clam.lol we would go to cut bait if the bite was slow for a change up or if we ran out of bait.we don't use artificial like gulp bait even tho they are effective.but in answer to your question about bait the belly works fine but we try and save it for the table lol.thanks again reed for another great production.happy new year.🎉
We called that part the slivers and yes it's amazing bait. Years ago we didn't get in trouble for fileting at see to get it as long as you kept the filets and fish together. Lastly the carcass also makes amazing blue crab bait.
I'm from Eastern Long Island and the way we would tell them apart is the teeth and the aggressiveness of the fluke. Our spring flounder, caught on the east side of Gardiners Island, was huge compared to the winter flounder caught in the bays and creeks. We called them snow shoes. They also have yellow tails, so we called them that too. They were only there for a couple of weeks. You were lucky to get out there on a good day as the spring winds are relentless. The fluke we used to catch was mostly drifting on the north side of Gardiners Is, and they were big. Some were so big in fact that we named them door mats. I have also caught them drifting at the race by Jessups Neck in Peconic Bay. I'd go out after closing shop with a couple of Heinekins. Usually, the Bucktail with a strip of squid did the trick. As a single guy living there, my stuffed flounder was my "go-to" meal with a nice Louis Jadot Beaujolais. 😎 I moved to Florida in '97 and to date, I have only caught one F or F, whatever you want to call it. I need to get out there more in the back channels, I guess. Great explanation. I just thought I'd share as you sparked those memories... thanks! Good memories. I wish I had the camera on a phone like we do today!
He calls the 'ribbons' fat. I see it as these are a series of tubular muscles that controls each of the fin rays on the fins. I disagree with them being 'fat'. I trim these off the fillets and I favor the white side but the brown works too. I use as strips baits for flatties. They are NO. 1 in my book. Dogfish bellies are good too, very tough! Great videos, you've cleaned about EVERYTHING!
The part you are calling the ribbons is also excellent as sushi. It takes a master sushi chef to separate the meat from the cartilaginous bones but the result is delicious.
As both summer and winter flounder have their eyes on their side here in New Jersey we identified by the lower jaw and size of their mouth fluke if one face it has lower jaw on the right side, winter flounder have it on the left side of it head
I have run a flounder boat my entire adult life, and I've caught/filleted thousands. You do a marvelous job of getting every bit of meat off the bones. But that's what you do with every fish. There are a number of other species of North American flounder that never get big enough to eat. If you stretch the definition of "flounder", there are hundreds of species built basically the same way including halibit and plaice. When the egg sacs are bloody like that, the fish is about to spawn. In Texas, the flounder migrate to the Gulf and spawn in deep water, migrating through the passes that connect the bays to the gulf. Because they are so predictable, so easy to harvest, and so ready to spawn, Texas now closes harvest of flounder in November and half of December. It was a tough blow for me, but totally necessary. The passes were a slaughterhouse, and over-limit was rampant. I have taken a number of flounder over the years with two brown sides. The bottom side is still less meaty than the top, but doesn't show any signs of being different, but the skin has a different texture that is just like the typical top skin.
The most accurate way to tell the difference between a southern flounder & a summer flounder is by the number of gill rakes in the fish , southern only has 8 or 9 where as a summer flounder has between 11 to 13
A flounder fact not known by most. Flounders are born with eyes on BOTH sides of their heads but migrate to the "dark" side so both are on the side facing up for camouflage. The one on the white side would be useless facing the ocean floor Flounders have eyes that are both on one side of their head, which is a unique feature that helps them camouflage themselves on the ocean floor: Development: Flounder are born with one eye on each side of their head, like most fish, but as they grow, one eye migrates to the other side.
Here in Spain, we don't fillet that kind of fish, we put the whole fish on the grill. Some people peel off the skin, but most don't. Cooks better and it's more juicy this way.
The major difference between a fluke and a flounder is fluke is a warm water fish and flounder is an absolutely cold water fish the cold water fish being the flounder is the better tasting fish sweeter than meat. I used to clean and flour the living
@ all cold water, fish taste better than warm water fish guaranteed the meat is a lot sweeter. That is why New England lobster is much better tasting than the Florida spiny tail no matter how you look at it.
These fish tutorials are absolutely fantastic! I really appreciate everything you do for the angling community. I have a bit of a question-I'm an artist starting a career in painted stained glass, and I'd love to find a way to give back to the fishing and outdoor community. My focus has been on wilderness and ocean scenes, game fish feeding, and birds hunting. Reed, do you or anyone watching know of any places on the East Coast that do art consignments? Or perhaps you’re ever looking for giveaway prizes for contests? Or maybe you know a bait shop that has made space for artwork? I’m hoping to build a network of locations where I can show and vend my art from New York to Florida. I’d be happy to email pictures of my work-it’s quite unique and would definitely capture attention. Thanks in advance for any replies here or messages with suggestions or help!" Happy New Year all!
Totally confused about your explanation of the direction of the eyes. Of course the eyes would be facing different directions. You had one head facing left and the other facing right. Also, a closer shot of what you were talking about would've helped. In any case, your presentations are always welcomed. I am an avid northeast fisherperson off the boats in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. I've fished for winter flounder and fluke for most of my entire life. I've distinguished the winter flounder and fluke only by teeth (or lack thereof) and by size. Fluke being the larger of the two. By the way your fileting instruction was exceptional. 😊
We generally do a light breading and pan fry it, but lately I've been doing a crab stuffing. You should do a video on how to debone a flounder for stuffing and baked whole.
Yeah, we'll leave it up to you to correctly identify the flat fish species 😅. You may have heard of Adam at the RUclips channel Fluent Fishing. He loves your content also. If you have an itch to fish Socal waters again, it would be nice to see you do a collaboration with him.
You forgot the Gulf Flounder, IMO the best of all. Summer and Gulf are close in comparison as the Gulf has 3 distinct spots and the Summer have 5. The Southern Flounder is a Fluke as well from what I know. Just my $0.02 but I catch Southern, Summer and Gulf each year out of Port Canaveral and agree that one of the top eating fish in the ocean. 🙏👍👌
I tell everyone that asks the difference 1 Fluke are generally larger than Flounder 2 Fluke have teeth 3 Fluke are lefties and Flounder are righties The ribbons are great Fluke bait but I don’t consider it the best. Best part is it stays on the hook for several fish so you only need a few. White ribbons are better but the brown ones will catch a few fish for ya!
No experience with fluke and flounder. However, it sounds like they're similar to bluegill. The best bait I've used for bluegill is chunks of bluegill.
I need a thorough education. Didn't realize there was more than left eye and right eye flounder. ALL flatfish are bout the same to me(YUM) Flounder, turbot, sole, tongue, halibut....
I don’t know where you live, but Flounder definitely not cheap where I live! Stop it with some crab meat and top it with some breadcrumbs and bake it and then squeeze some lemon over the top!
Halibut are a Flounder too 😅 Halibut is a large, right-sided flatfish that is part of the flounder family. It is the largest member of the flatfish/flounder family
Still floundering around trying to make heads and eyes out of all the info. If its that complex I just wont eat it. Mahi is sooooo much easier and delicious.
![Seungmin "그렇게, 천천히, 우리(As we are)" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kAzmhLHePqU/mqdefault.jpg)
these clear, detailed & straightforward tutorials have improved my fish prep skills five fold this past year (2024). the biology lesson is an added perk. Thank You! I'm looking forward to 2025.
Thank you for the feedback! 2025 will be better! 🙌🙏 Happy New Year!
@@reedthefishmonger Can you possibly do a red fish/bullred guides
I used to never use the word phenomenal until I started watching your videos... I use it all the time now when describing something that's really good... I don't like to eat fish, but love watching your videos... Thanks so much for the entertainment Reed...
I think this is the most underrated part of being a fisherman. We learn how to catch them, how to hold them, and how to clean them. All different shapes and sizes. Love this guy and if I ever need to learn, youre my guy Reed.
Thank you for watching!
This was by far one of the most in-depth videos on preparing these fish that I've seen. I'm from New York and target fluke every summer. Winter flounder is really, really rare up here now though. Fluke has always been a more challenging fish for me to fillet, but this video made it seem so much easier. Thanks Reed!
Great information and great fileting technique demonstration. As a son of a sports commercial fisherman of the Pacific Northwest, and catching the starry flounder, your comments about winter flounder, summer flounder, and southern fluke is interesting.
Some flounder and fluke species in the Pacific Northwest include:
Starry flounder
A right-eyed flounder with an oval body, a pointed head, and a white or creamy white blind side. Starry flounder are commonly caught off the outer Washington coast and in Puget Sound. They can be found in estuaries and lower areas of coastal rivers, such as the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
Arrowtooth flounder
A flatfish that can be found from the eastern Bering Sea to San Pedro, California. They are commonly found on soft bottoms and can be found in depths ranging from 59 to 2,401 ft.
Witch flounder
A right-eyed flounder with a small head, mouth, and narrow body. They have a grayish-brown top side and a white bottom side with tiny dark dots.
Other flatfish species include:
Butter sole, Curlfin sole, Dover sole, English sole, Flathead sole, Northern rock sole, Pacific sanddab, Petrale sole, Rex sole, and Southern rock sole.
It would be great to see a flatfish flounder, fluke, sole, and sanddab comparison.
Caught our first Arrows in Alaska this fall. Threw them back, everyone said they were mushy and don't cook well.
Winter, summer, fall or spring, flounder is great eating, nice job as always Reed!
Thanks for watching! 🙏
Being from the NE, yes the ribbons make good bait. Even better is the white fluke belly after the fillet is skinned. It's tough and doesn't tear off the hook easily. Long strips that dance in the water.
I am a relocated N.Y.er now living in N.C. so I grew up fishing both winter Flounder and Fluke and therefore know the difference, but now, thanks to your video, I now know Summer Flounder from Southern Flounder. Thanks for your clear explanation.
love how clean and organized the kitchen is! nice.
The ribbons on the fluke make the best sashimi. ❤❤❤ Roll them up, and they look like a rose. 👍👍👍
Good way to start the new year, watching Reed filet flounder. I kinda overdid it for New Years, and his calm demeanor and smooth cutting techniques is relaxing. I wish you and your family a happy and prosperous 2025!
It was a fluke that I discovered your channel - Good thing I did otherwise I'd still be floundering around the fish market not knowing the difference between tuna or turbot, cod from crappie😁Have a great 2025 - Your channel is one of the best for presentation, information and engaging your viewers!
I know of flounder in Australia and the UK, I don't think I have heard of fluke (liver fluke is something the farmers here treat livestock for 🤣).
I think a light dredge in seasoned flour (white pepper, salt) then pan fried with some neutral oil, butter and parsley.
Great to see you in the new year 🤩.
Thank you for always sharing your insights from down under! I agree, simple is best with these delicate fish. Happy New Year!
Fluke is a name for summer flounder used in central New Jersey up to and including Massachusetts in the eastern U.S. Very popular fish for catching and eating. Scientific name is paralichthys dentatus.
As a retired New Bedford fishing boat owner I enjoy watching your videos. When skinning flounder have you ever tried holding the Knife still and pulling the filet towards you while wiggling the filet back and forth?
Rhode Island saying Excellent video , spot on , Happy NewYear🎉🎉🎉
Greetings from Connecticut. The strips are great for bait but you can also use bacon strips because fluke are savage!
Excellent explanations of "Flounders" ! Note that Winter Flounder stock in NE are way down. Haven't catch on in years.. Their fillets are much more tender than the fluke. Something the fish market pass off the bottom fluke fillet as winter flounder... or they market it as different name. The top side of Fluke is also great for sashimi.
Great advice! This will help me next flounder I catch.
The best bait I’ve found for the Flounder is A White Gulp Bucktail Jig. Just fish it slow and bounce it off the bottom.
He's obviously a fish genius. Love watching a master at work.
I love how you keep the row sacks for you, your native Floridian status shows.
People look at me sideways today when I keep and cook up row sacks.
Roe.
I am grateful DNR here in Myrtle Beach just has rules for flounder... lol. I have always noticed the different spots on flounder I spear but it's hard to tell under water.
Fillet surgeon 💪💪💪💪💪💪 the best I've seen
Fantastic fish when cooked right. Very tricky to not overcook it though! Boy what I would pay for that roe❤❤❤
What a pleasure watching a master at his craft.
Leant a lot even though I'm in landlocked Utah!
Probably never use this knowledge but it's there.
This was a very informative video, thanks .
Great and informative content once again... thank you!
That looks good! I'm getting hungry watching this. The biggest summer flounder that I've ever caught was by hand after accidentally stepping on it. I waded out into the ocean in New Jersey and when I got to about waist deep, I stepped right on a huge doormat flounder. It wiggled around like mad under me and I just stood there for awhile trying gather myself up and figure out what was going on. I decided to try to grab it and it took me a bunch of tries because everytime that I crouched down to get my hand on it I became buoyant and the fish would almost get away. Finally, I was able to get a couple of fingers into it's mouth and clamp my thumb into it's gill. By the time I was out of the water and walking on sand my fingers were bleeding like mad from those sharp teeth. A group of us had a wonderful flounder meal that night. I've fished and spearfished summer flounder for years but have never caught anything even close to the size of that fish. I told this story to a New Jersey Fish & Wildlife game warden and he told me that its illegal to catch fish by hand in New Jersey. I had no idea at the time. I sometimes see schools of striped bass beaching themselves in a frenzy while chasing schools of small fish so I suppose that law makes sense since just walking up and picking up a striped bass on the beach shouldn't be considered a fair catch but there should be an exception to the rule because if you can catch a fish by hand while being in the water at waist deep or more you deserve a fair catch.
You are very very pro cutter 💪👌👍
Thank you for watching! 🙏
That white, flaky fillet looks so DELICIOUS
Tastes even better than it looks! 🙌
Very well explained, awesome.
Excellent video Reed! Thanks for the sharing of knowledge, I have a better understanding of flounder. An Asian friend prefers his flounder poached in water versus my preference.
That you for watching! Steamed/poached is very popular in Asian cultures. What’s your preference?
@ I like my flounder fried but would like to try it poached like he recommended. I have poached salmon steaks.
Flounder flakes Fluke cake what??? Love it thank you for the great info 😄
Awesome video and explanation of the difference. It would be really cool if you did a summer vs southern flounder comparison. I think the quickest way to tell them apart is the coloration. Ive noticed the summers are a much lighter, almost sandy, color while southerns are almost black at times. I also notice southerns are bigger on average, at least in nc. The white ring around the spots is also a good indicator, like you said. I might be thinking of the gulf flounder, but one species has five spots in close proximity to each other: four creating a box shape and one in the center. Regardless all of them are awesome tablefare. Hope you have a good season in the fish market this year.
Great vid as always reed!appreciate your work.as to belly for bait or cut bait,we meaning myself and most those I know would use squid or Kellies ,sandworms,even clam.lol we would go to cut bait if the bite was slow for a change up or if we ran out of bait.we don't use artificial like gulp bait even tho they are effective.but in answer to your question about bait the belly works fine but we try and save it for the table lol.thanks again reed for another great production.happy new year.🎉
Making me go get some Flounder tomorrow. ;)
Great video and you're definitely right fluke belly strips is great bait for catching fluke/summer flounder we use it up here in NY
Winter flounder is also known as black back flounder in the Northeast
We called that part the slivers and yes it's amazing bait. Years ago we didn't get in trouble for fileting at see to get it as long as you kept the filets and fish together. Lastly the carcass also makes amazing blue crab bait.
If you're not confused...you didn't understand 😂
😂😂😂
CLEAR as mud ! 🤤🤤🤤
Seriously, if you don’t feel more stupid after this video, you weren’t paying attention 😂
I'm fcked! 😂😂😂
Fluke has a big mouth with teeth...winter flounder has a small mouth......
I'm from Eastern Long Island and the way we would tell them apart is the teeth and the aggressiveness of the fluke. Our spring flounder, caught on the east side of Gardiners Island, was huge compared to the winter flounder caught in the bays and creeks. We called them snow shoes. They also have yellow tails, so we called them that too. They were only there for a couple of weeks. You were lucky to get out there on a good day as the spring winds are relentless.
The fluke we used to catch was mostly drifting on the north side of Gardiners Is, and they were big. Some were so big in fact that we named them door mats. I have also caught them drifting at the race by Jessups Neck in Peconic Bay. I'd go out after closing shop with a couple of Heinekins. Usually, the Bucktail with a strip of squid did the trick.
As a single guy living there, my stuffed flounder was my "go-to" meal with a nice Louis Jadot Beaujolais. 😎 I moved to Florida in '97 and to date, I have only caught one F or F, whatever you want to call it. I need to get out there more in the back channels, I guess. Great explanation. I just thought I'd share as you sparked those memories... thanks!
Good memories. I wish I had the camera on a phone like we do today!
One of best fish 👋😊 13:03
He calls the 'ribbons' fat. I see it as these are a series of tubular muscles that controls each of the fin rays on the fins. I disagree with them being 'fat'. I trim these off the fillets and I favor the white side but the brown works too. I use as strips baits for flatties. They are NO. 1 in my book. Dogfish bellies are good too, very tough! Great videos, you've cleaned about EVERYTHING!
Nice explain 😊
Thank you for watching!
MY wife grew up in MS gulf coast We eat a lot of flounder. It is a very mild flakey white fish. I buy the individually packed white fillets at Costco.
So up up down down left right left right select start will tell you the flounder type
give us a video on how you maintain and/or sharpen your knives
I posted one months ago 🤙
If they ever hybridized together they’d have some funny looking cross eyes.
Pound for pound the winter flounder fights much harder too.
My kind sir, those “ribbons “ you’re using as bait are excellent sushi here in Japan where I live.
Give it a try, it’s called “engawa “
I’m Canadian.
I eat them raw and fry them too. 🤙
The part you are calling the ribbons is also excellent as sushi. It takes a master sushi chef to separate the meat from the cartilaginous bones but the result is delicious.
In New Jersey we use 'ribbons' for bait also but we call them fluke bellies.
Sole ?
As a Northeast angler ( Long Island), another name for a winter flounder is a "unicorn"
As both summer and winter flounder have their eyes on their side here in New Jersey we identified by the lower jaw and size of their mouth fluke if one face it has lower jaw on the right side, winter flounder have it on the left side of it head
I have run a flounder boat my entire adult life, and I've caught/filleted thousands. You do a marvelous job of getting every bit of meat off the bones. But that's what you do with every fish.
There are a number of other species of North American flounder that never get big enough to eat. If you stretch the definition of "flounder", there are hundreds of species built basically the same way including halibit and plaice.
When the egg sacs are bloody like that, the fish is about to spawn. In Texas, the flounder migrate to the Gulf and spawn in deep water, migrating through the passes that connect the bays to the gulf. Because they are so predictable, so easy to harvest, and so ready to spawn, Texas now closes harvest of flounder in November and half of December. It was a tough blow for me, but totally necessary. The passes were a slaughterhouse, and over-limit was rampant.
I have taken a number of flounder over the years with two brown sides. The bottom side is still less meaty than the top, but doesn't show any signs of being different, but the skin has a different texture that is just like the typical top skin.
Thank you
The most accurate way to tell the difference between a southern flounder & a summer flounder is by the number of gill rakes in the fish , southern only has 8 or 9 where as a summer flounder has between 11 to 13
I was floundering to make a fluke joke.
That joke had no Sole
@@reedthefishmongerI see what you did there 😂😂😂
@@reedthefishmonger Nice!
A flounder fact not known by most. Flounders are born with eyes on BOTH sides of their heads but migrate to the "dark" side so both are on the side facing up for camouflage. The one on the white side would be useless facing the ocean floor
Flounders have eyes that are both on one side of their head, which is a unique feature that helps them camouflage themselves on the ocean floor:
Development: Flounder are born with one eye on each side of their head, like most fish, but as they grow, one eye migrates to the other side.
Here in Spain, we don't fillet that kind of fish, we put the whole fish on the grill. Some people peel off the skin, but
most don't. Cooks better and it's more juicy this way.
The major difference between a fluke and a flounder is fluke is a warm water fish and flounder is an absolutely cold water fish the cold water fish being the flounder is the better tasting fish sweeter than meat. I used to clean and flour the living
Agree. Winter flounder is much better tasting. Probably a combination of cold water, and their diet of worms, clams, and mussels
@ all cold water, fish taste better than warm water fish guaranteed the meat is a lot sweeter. That is why New England lobster is much better tasting than the Florida spiny tail no matter how you look at it.
These fish tutorials are absolutely fantastic! I really appreciate everything you do for the angling community.
I have a bit of a question-I'm an artist starting a career in painted stained glass, and I'd love to find a way to give back to the fishing and outdoor community. My focus has been on wilderness and ocean scenes, game fish feeding, and birds hunting. Reed, do you or anyone watching know of any places on the East Coast that do art consignments? Or perhaps you’re ever looking for giveaway prizes for contests? Or maybe you know a bait shop that has made space for artwork? I’m hoping to build a network of locations where I can show and vend my art from New York to Florida. I’d be happy to email pictures of my work-it’s quite unique and would definitely capture attention. Thanks in advance for any replies here or messages with suggestions or help!" Happy New Year all!
WOW that was awesome , the ribbon does make great bait I use it often , what brand knife is that ?
Totally confused about your explanation of the direction of the eyes. Of course the eyes would be facing different directions. You had one head facing left and the other facing right. Also, a closer shot of what you were talking about would've helped. In any case, your presentations are always welcomed.
I am an avid northeast fisherperson off the boats in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. I've fished for winter flounder and fluke for most of my entire life. I've distinguished the winter flounder and fluke only by teeth (or lack thereof)
and by size. Fluke being the larger of the two. By the way your fileting instruction was exceptional. 😊
Fluke belly for sure is great bait for fluke!
What’s your favorite way to cook Flounder!?
Fried is the only way I’ve had it.
We generally do a light breading and pan fry it, but lately I've been doing a crab stuffing. You should do a video on how to debone a flounder for stuffing and baked whole.
@@David35445 pretty sure he has
Flounder Rolls is my favorite way to prepare them here in south Texas. We have the Southern, Summer, and Gulf variety in the Laguna Madre.
I make a stuffing with diced shrimp and sandwich it between two fillets and bake
Yeah, we'll leave it up to you to correctly identify the flat fish species 😅. You may have heard of Adam at the RUclips channel Fluent Fishing. He loves your content also. If you have an itch to fish Socal waters again, it would be nice to see you do a collaboration with him.
Was going to watch a second time, but didn’t want to be twice as confused. 😵💫
Summer flounder and some are fluke!
Can someone tell me out of the flounders he cleaned when is the difference between them and a gulf flounder?
Thanks 😂😂👍
Thank you for watching!
Very nice 👌 👍
Do you ever fillet Shark or Stingrays? I'd like to see the different techniques you need to use for cartilaginous fish.
Is it ok to catch winter flounders in the summer?
I think I'll keep using the 4 filet method for the flounders I catch.
How about the sun dial?
Was waiting for you eat some raw fluke/flounder
Outstanding presentation, I really need to get up to Delray and pay you guy's a visit!!
You forgot the Gulf Flounder, IMO the best of all. Summer and Gulf are close in comparison as the Gulf has 3 distinct spots and the Summer have 5. The Southern Flounder is a Fluke as well from what I know. Just my $0.02 but I catch Southern, Summer and Gulf each year out of Port Canaveral and agree that one of the top eating fish in the ocean. 🙏👍👌
I knew when I clicked this I would leave confused lmao. In North Jersey we call them joints FLUKE! It’s regional that’s it that’s all
I tell everyone that asks the difference
1 Fluke are generally larger than Flounder
2 Fluke have teeth
3 Fluke are lefties and Flounder are righties
The ribbons are great Fluke bait but I don’t consider it the best.
Best part is it stays on the hook for several fish so you only need a few.
White ribbons are better but the brown ones will catch a few fish for ya!
No experience with fluke and flounder. However, it sounds like they're similar to bluegill. The best bait I've used for bluegill is chunks of bluegill.
I need a thorough education. Didn't realize there was more than left eye and right eye flounder. ALL flatfish are bout the same to me(YUM) Flounder, turbot, sole, tongue, halibut....
The teeth are how I separate Fluke from flounder
I caught a southern flounder way up North. It must have been a fluke.
I saw a man catch a flounder as big as a door mat. Its tail was touching the ground as he held it up.
Is a Halibut a Flounder?
What you didn’t do. I may be wrong. What about Halibut and Turbot?
Which one tastes better?
Summer flounder
Winter flounder
Small halibut
Sole
Plaice
Turbot...
So Kevin wasn't wrong... the Fluke is quite common after all 😂
😂
I love that flounder is so cheap but I just can't get use to the taste. Any suggestions?
Flounder is very expensive where I live 😅
I don’t know where you live, but Flounder definitely not cheap where I live! Stop it with some crab meat and top it with some breadcrumbs and bake it and then squeeze some lemon over the top!
Flounder or Fluke, they do cook and taste the same.
Ah....Snapper.. we take it from experience, all the females taste different.
I thought they are all called halibut ( I’m really confused now ) I hope reed explains this difference.😊
Halibut are a Flounder too 😅 Halibut is a large, right-sided flatfish that is part of the flounder family. It is the largest member of the flatfish/flounder family
@ Reed I really enjoy your fish fillet videos and the all the information that you put out there. Thanks for sharing 😁
- Cuts of yellow stomach from the fish meat.
- Saves the stomach to eat for later.
What about "Gulf flounder"?
I thought i understood and got it right, but it was just a fluke.
Still floundering around trying to make heads and eyes out of all the info. If its that complex I just wont eat it. Mahi is sooooo much easier and delicious.
So my question has always been, are halibut is the same family?
The southern flounder is my favorite. I don't care how it's cooked.
What differences do you notice between Southern and Summer?
sadly no fluke or summer flounder where I live.