Spinning for flatties

[The Great Wallsendo]

What's the deal with spinning for Flatfish?

What are the tactics? Techniques used? Sounds like it could be good fun...

Any help/info appreciated.

Cheers

[KeithB]

I've heard of spinner blades added to flattie rigs as attractors but never spinning for flatties?

Mind I caught a dab on a 8/0 hook baited with macky the other week

[wallsendpaul]

Baited spoons

Hello Wallsendo
You can fish a baited spoon for flounders. Never done it myself but did once watch 2 lads fishing the method in Whitby harbour to great effect. They must have had a dozen good fish in about half an hour. Go to a tackle shop and ask for a flounder spoon. It must be baited with ragworm and retreived slowly along the bottom and you keep reeling until you feel the weight of the fish. I think it would work in either thw Wansbeck or the Aln estuaries. Hope this helps.

[The Great Wallsendo]

I've heard of spinner blades added to flattie rigs as attractors but never spinning for flatties?

Mind I caught a dab on a 8/0 hook baited with macky the other week

Big Dab was it?

I'm the same as you - I know about attractor blades etc but I read an old thread earlier by one of the old and bolds who said that they'd used spinning techniques to fish for flatties...I can't for the life of me remember where I found that thread now.

Is "spinning" for flatties more of a case of a slow retrieve along the sea bed? as opposed to winching back it back in at speed?

[The Great Wallsendo]

Hello Wallsendo
You can fish a baited spoon for flounders. Never done it myself but did once watch 2 lads fishing the method in Whitby harbour to great effect. They must have had a dozen good fish in about half an hour. Go to a tackle shop and ask for a flounder spoon. It must be baited with ragworm and retreived slowly along the bottom and you keep reeling until you feel the weight of the fish. I think it would work in either thw Wansbeck or the Aln estuaries. Hope this helps.

you answered my question while i was replying to Keith - cheers my fellow Wallsender!!

[greggthe1]

I've tried it at Alnmouth using spoon with rag on and caught a few now. Very slow retrive needed and when you feel the fish stop to giv it time to chew your hook!

[mark]

I've used them in scotland, baited with a wee bit of crab or rag, and/or a thin sliver of mackeral


drilled bullet a few feet up from the spoon, cast it out and left it a minute or 2 then started a slow twitchy retrieve, had flounders and plaice. on its day it can be a lot more effective than just hoying out a bait and hoping. Maybe hoy out a bait and leave it and play with the spoon while t'other line is out

[The Great Wallsendo]

Maybe hoy out a bait and leave it and play with the spoon while t'other line is out

I'm going flattie bashing next thursday (weather permitting) I reckon I'll do just that - cheers

[occasionalkevin]

Spoon or beads, slow retrieve will have fish following.
Try it in shallow clear water and watch tiny flatties follow the bait right up to the shoreline.

Must have decent bait on the hook to encourage a bite

[oldchukka]

spinning for flatties

i can assure you spinning for flounders can be productive. at low water at arnside at the top end of morecambe bay using a spinning rod. 8lb line and a small meps or flying c, its hectic. the fish hit with a bang and set off like a train. for some reason you seem to attract the better sized flounders.
the down side is i soon get bored spinning for them cos it gets a bit "easy".
last time i had a go was to supply some pensioners , i had a dozen in 45 minutes [in autumn last year]