jetty jumper Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Geoff, suzook12, Saintly Fish and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Very nice! What are the flatfish? Fluke/flounder? And what's the round fish? It looks massive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Flat fish looks like a halibut , well atleast the largest one does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetty jumper Posted May 30, 2022 Author Share Posted May 30, 2022 The flat fish are fluke, they can grow pretty large. The other one is a bluefish Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, Andy135 said: Very nice! What are the flatfish? Fluke/flounder? And what's the round fish? It looks massive. Those are summer Flounder, also nick named as Fluke. We have the European flounder here which is a much smaller species, Summer Flounder = Paralichthys dentatus European Flounder = Platichthys flesus Also, Halibut are part of the Flounder family = Hippoglossus stenolepis Interestingly, there are 8species of Flounder if you include the little known Flowery flounder which is only found in Hawaii. The Summer Flounder grows pretty big, the rod caught record is about 27lb. Edited May 30, 2022 by GPSguru jetty jumper and JonC 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 12 minutes ago, GPSguru said: Those are summer Flounder, also nick named as Fluke. We have the European flounder here which is a much smaller species, Summer Flounder = Paralichthys dentatus European Flounder = Platichthys flesus Also, Halibut are part of the Flounder family = Hippoglossus stenolepis Interestingly, there are 8species of Flounder if you include the little known Flowery flounder which is only found in Hawaii. The Summer Flounder grows pretty big, the rod caught record is about 27lb. I was about to a post similar answer, taxonomy is very important GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 8 hours ago, GPSguru said: Those are summer Flounder, also nick named as Fluke. We have the European flounder here which is a much smaller species, Summer Flounder = Paralichthys dentatus European Flounder = Platichthys flesus Also, Halibut are part of the Flounder family = Hippoglossus stenolepis Interestingly, there are 8species of Flounder if you include the little known Flowery flounder which is only found in Hawaii. The Summer Flounder grows pretty big, the rod caught record is about 27lb. Top googling @GPSguru!!👍🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Saintly Fish said: Top googling @GPSguru!!👍🏻 I’m sure he didn’t Google it, if anything they would have asked him jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 4 hours ago, Saintly Fish said: Top googling @GPSguru!!👍🏻 Well, sort of 50/50. I thought that Fluke were Atlantic Flounder, but when I checked the true name is summer flounder, which surprised me. I knew they grew pretty big, we have friends in Maine that fish for them and stripers. jetty jumper, Saintly Fish and Geoff 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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