Favorite Bait Strips For Fluike

[Pops Soul]

Cwbsbll1
That would be correct, just remember if you are stopped by a law enforcement officer you can be fined, even though those strips are from a previous catch!

[mboy]

Not can be fined, you WILL be fined.

Easier and safer to just use bluefish or sea robins.

5lb blue gives you nice, long strips for bait

[Pops Soul]

Thanks MBoy for making that clear

[Pops Soul]

Hope yout not saying this from experince

[mboy]

Me, nope. Have used plenty of fluke strips for bait, but not in many years since they started imposing limits on fluke (they didn't have them in 70's-80's.

I am happy with using bluefish strips when I fish strip baits.

When was the last time you heard of fish and game giving a warning for undersized fish or poaching?

[gottog]

I just tell them it's a sundial or 4spot

Squid strips, bunker strips, sea robin, dogfish, all seem to catch. 

I thought NJ was going to admend the regs to be like NY where you can have one legal fluke onboard that you can take strips off of but the dark side needs to remain intact?

Sometimes even chicken strips work

[AviD]

Interesting, I've never done a comparison, but how would they tell the white side of sundial from the whiteside of a fluke?  Darkside, probably pretty easy...but the whiteside is pretty close, no?

[gottog]

Sundial belly much thinner and more translucent but to the unfamiliar looks very close to fluke belly.

4-spot is even harder to tell.  Think much more prevalent further south though.  No size limit on them that I know and look identical to fluke.

[salty pig]

what is a 4 spot? sundials get big dont they or im thinking of the sunfish

[Luna Sea 5]

what is a 4 spot? sundials get big dont they or im thinking of the sunfish

sundials are exactly like fluke, very little difference.  the fins that go around the fluke are different, the shape is also different...  You have to see it to know what i am talking about, but if you did see it, you would know the difference.

[IrishAyes]

A sundial has a paper thin mouth among other features.

http://www.southshorefishing.net/fish/windowpane.htm

[IrishAyes]

4-spot flounder.  Very similar to summer flounder but has 4 distinctive spots on the dark side.

http://marlin.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/fish/albatross-iv/al0103/

[salty pig]

Hey nice  sites  !!!  ... tiny lil things arent they!! didnt even know they existed LOL

[Luna Sea 5]

 

[gottog]

Sundials get to be decent size, maybe 14-16"

Head and gut them and cook em whole...much tastier than fluke

4-spots look exactly like a fluke except for the 4-spots as mentioned.  Technically not regulated so no size limit so strips should be legal.