little window tomorrow

[alun j.]

There's a little break in the wind tomorrow...allbeit a colder day, a big tide and short lived !!

 

An opportunity to get a few of the last flounders before they go off to spawn.

 

I've been trawling the net for more info on their movements and found this , which may interest a few of you ...

 

Site fidelity, homing and spawning migrations of flounder Platichthys ...

www.int-res.com/articles/theme/m430p183.pdf‎

 

 

Alun.

 

[Stuie]

Interesting read Alun - suggests they spend 11 months in the estuaries.

[great white]

Good luck tomorrow mate

 

I hear that the entrance at Christchurch is a bit shallow, perhaps these big tides and lighter winds will clear it out a bit.

[Jim]

Good luck Alun.

 

Think of us workers while you're out there.

 

 

Jim

[Steve S]

Thanks for the article on flounder and in part plaice movements Alun, I found it an interesting (if dry) read, much of it was new to me.

Steve

[alun j.]

According to that and another paper I found,  the timing of migration is temperature dependant.  In colder years they move away earlier [and my experience concurs with that over the past couple of cold ones]....so, with the mild weather this winter, I hope they stay a bit later [i have had good catches in early Feb.,  but never as late as the school half term hol. in mid Feb]. Hope to give it a couple more goes  [with a bit more confidence].