Florida Flounder

Very interesting...

Florida “Flounder” are our “FLUKE”... if I’m not mistaken... cellfish...
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Florida “Flounder” are our “FLUKE”... if I’m not mistaken... cellfish...
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That would be correct. Fluke = Flounder from just about Delaware south and the Gulf of Mexico.

Ahhh ok!

That would be correct. Fluke = Flounder from just about Delaware south and the Gulf of Mexico.

That is not true. From NC to FL most "flounder" are southern flounder the paralichthes lethostigma species, our fluke is a different species, paralichthes dentatus. They are closely related but the southern flounder doesn't get nearly as big as our fluke.

nothing on Florida books wit FLUKE... cellfish...

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can they even eat the belly side of a 12 incher ? Our winter flounder yes, but not a short fluke !

This article best describes the different names. To be clear, “southern flounder” and the “summer flounder” we see here in the NE are closely related, but different. Also, I think the “fluke” vs “flounder” naming convention border is somewhere in NJ. I run a charter and most, but not all, of my NJ clients call our fluke “flounder.”

I didn’t know that our Flounder are predatory fish, always thought they were opportunist, sucking up tidbits onda bottom.... the Fluke I know have wider mouths ? than Flounder and they have teeth too for “chasing@ prey... teeth vs no-teeth... nothing mentioned in article bout teeth... cellfish...
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I couldn't tell you the last time I caught a Flounder here. I went years ago and never again. Sad

wanna really screw this up, throw in a few Sundials and Yellow Tails... cellfish...

There are also 4 spot flounder that look a lot like what we call fluke. But they also don’t get nearly as big as the fish we call fluke.