15-10-2004, 03:48 PM
Hi fatboi,
Good thread!
I have taken flounder in the bay at all times of year, sometimes they are more numerous than other times, but this doesn't seem to correlate with season. So I assume that they don't migrate out of the bay.
I don't know anything about growth or breeding, other than the bizarre fact that flounder start off life as a normal fish (swimming upright), and when they get to a few cm long one eye migrates to the other side of the fish (this becomes the 'top' of the flounder), and they start laying flat on the bottom.
About species, as far as I know there are only 2 species of flounder in PPB (and Victoria I think); the greenback flounder and the long-snouted flounder.
Greenbacks are by far the most numerous in PPB, they are identified by their pointy 'nose', ie/ the front of their head comes to a distinct point.
Long-snouted flounder are less numerous in PPB (maybe 1 in 5 that you catch?), but seem to dominate the ocean beaches. They have a rounded head, and if you look at the mouth one of the lips is long and curls around the front of the head, hence long-snouted.
I'll try and chase up a photo or two.
Jaz <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Good thread!
I have taken flounder in the bay at all times of year, sometimes they are more numerous than other times, but this doesn't seem to correlate with season. So I assume that they don't migrate out of the bay.
I don't know anything about growth or breeding, other than the bizarre fact that flounder start off life as a normal fish (swimming upright), and when they get to a few cm long one eye migrates to the other side of the fish (this becomes the 'top' of the flounder), and they start laying flat on the bottom.
About species, as far as I know there are only 2 species of flounder in PPB (and Victoria I think); the greenback flounder and the long-snouted flounder.
Greenbacks are by far the most numerous in PPB, they are identified by their pointy 'nose', ie/ the front of their head comes to a distinct point.
Long-snouted flounder are less numerous in PPB (maybe 1 in 5 that you catch?), but seem to dominate the ocean beaches. They have a rounded head, and if you look at the mouth one of the lips is long and curls around the front of the head, hence long-snouted.
I'll try and chase up a photo or two.
Jaz <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />