Flounder fishing

Any of you out there specifically target flounder when you go fishing?  I've heard there are a ton around here and was thinking it would be a quick easy fish to catch when I don't have all day to fish.  What are some tips/techniques to use?  I have a feeling it would be easy to catch a bucket full since everyone targets kings and butts around here.

Whatcha think?

I know when you go dipping at the mouth of the kenai you about can't keep them out of the net.

Oh and you fish them just like any other bottom fish. Just some herring on a hook and keep it on the bottom! Used to catch them all the time from the docks in seldovia. Course you want to be mindful of the bait thing at the mouth of the kenai if thats where you go. I guess for that matter make sure you can fish for them in there I think you are allowed 2 while dipping or something like that. I always throw them back so not real sure.

I always thought the flesh was so soft that the arrowtooth flounder I'd pick up weren't worth keeping.  That, and they're so small compared to the rest of the take.

KW points and AOTY species.   I'll have a freezer full of other fish

Now THAT makes sense.  Go and represent for AK, Kenai_Guy!

For any size, I'd target the starry Flounders at the mouth of the Kenai or Kasilof. They are the ones with the alternating black an orange fins. In lower cook inlet use a small hook you can catch yellowfin sole all day long plus a few other species. I'm going to try and dredge up an arrow tooth but I hear they are DEEP.

Leadheads and anything squirmy.  Saltwater GULP! works great.  Flounder is all that I am saltwater fishing for now as everything else is closed in Puget Sound.  I rarely keep flounder as I hate cleaning and fileting them.  They have to be about 20" for me to keep one. 

I've been out a few times in the last month testing transducer mounts and scouting for the upcoming lingcod season.  Normally, in the middle of the fishing season anything that hits the bottom just about anywhere starts getting pecked at by flatfish.  Not so this spring.  Nothing.  Areas in which in the past the bottom seemed to be crawling with flatfish are completely actionless.  The rockfish are still there, but the flatfish are not.  Perhaps they breed in deeper water in the spring.