Live Baiting for Flounder...Tips?

[SmoothLures]

Gonna try it if the Spanish aren't cooperating in the morning or Thursday... I'm making a livewell cooler right now, but does anyone have any tips for trying the flounder off the pier?

So far I have 20 lb main line with 2-3 oz egg sinker, swivel, 30 lb flouro leader to a 3/0 kahle hook. Just a simple Carolina rig dropped down near a piling off the pier. Does this sound right?

How much slack line do you give it, and when you get a bite do you give him more slack line or keep it tight? I know you count 15-60 seconds, then set the hook.

How would you hook the live mud minnow, under the lateral line towards the tail (the way I grew up using minnows for crappie), through the eyes or through the upper lip?

Also can you use a teaser on the hook with live bait? Like green, pink, or white bucktail tied onto the 3/0 kahle hook?

Thanks for any help.

[RuddeDogg]

I use the same type of rig at a spot I fish and it works pretty well. I hook my minnows in the lips bottom through the top. I also take that teaser and put a squid strip about 5 inches long cut into a "V" shape about an inch wide at the top.

[SmoothLures]

So you use a teaser above the hook the minnow is on with squid?

[RuddeDogg]

Yep, up here they call it the ole ham & egg trick.

[SmoothLures]

Hm, alrighty. Sounds good, I'll give that a try. Thanks.

[TJSingleton]

They caught some good size flounder down towards murrells inlet - 2 I remember were 10 and 15lbs. Both caught on mud minnows.

I mad a map of what I learned (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ptab=2&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106752348742778427636.00044ec905d50cddac48e) while I was down there.

[SmoothLures]

Thanks for the info. I could go to Huntington Beach SP and be closer to Murrells Inlet but I couldn't really try for Spanish...

Also, your link didn't work for me.

[Singletjeff]

Thanks for the info. I could go to Huntington Beach SP and be closer to Murrells Inlet but I couldn't really try for Spanish...

Also, your link didn't work for me.

look at the link....remove the [url] from the front and the back then the http:\\www.com from the beginning too

[SmoothLures]

That did it, thanks.

[TJSingleton]

That was crazy! I wonder why it messed up the link so bad. maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ptab=2&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106752348742778427636.00044ec905d50cddac48e

[basstardo]

Try larger finger mullet too. One fella on here told me about that, and he was saying adding a few inches to the mullet (i.e., using a bigger mullet) would get bigger flounder. The guys right. 5"-7" finger mullet keeps the dinks away, but you gotta give the big boys a minute to choke those down.

[SmoothLures]

Yeah, I went out with mud minnows and didn't have a bite. The minnows didn't even die swimming around. It was a slow morning but the guys that were catching them all had live larger finger mullet... Don't know what I was doing wrong other than not having finger mullet.

[basstardo]

I've had times where I would put a mud minnow down and not get a thing. Literally pull it up and put a finger mullet on, and I'd have a flounder by the time the bait hit the bottom.