Flounder in the Multnomah Channel

[Hammer1]

My son and I have recently taken up Bass fishing. Today while fishing near the Gilbert River my son caught a Flounder. :clap: This was a real surprise to us. Is this unusual? My 8 year old son is beginnging to love the whole Bass/Panfish experience more than Salmon, Sturgeon and Steelhead. :help:(His last Salmon,caught 9/01/06, weighed 30#) He likes the "you never know what you're going to catch" thing.

[Chromaflage]

We see them once in a while on the Willamette and the Columbia. We were anchored near Chinook Landing and the guy in the boat next to us broght up a starry flounder.

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[dragon67]

These things that you are calling flounder, are they really small? My dad you to say that there was a fish in the columbia and areas around that it looks like a flounder but is called something else, I can't remeber what the name that he used. But they do look just like a flounder but only 9, 10 inches long? Be neat to see a pic.

[STGRule]

They are starry flounder juveniles. They live in the Columbia and the Willamette. Behind Ross Island is a very large nursery habitat for them. There are probably thousands of them there.

[Chromaflage]

I'm not sure what else you would call them - maybe some sort of sole. :shrug:

[shalom]

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[Paddlefish]

Huh? A nursery area?

You're gonna have to share some of your professional knowledge and tell us more. I admit to a knowledge vacuum when it comes to starry flounders but I don't remember the word "anadromous" being applied, even though I've seen plenty of small ones caught in the Columbia through the years. What are those little guys doing there at Ross Island, in those numbers, if you don't mind enlightening us?

P.S. The coolest starry flounder I ever caught was a 20-inch-plus specimen from Siletz Bay. It had a big bite taken out of one side, fully healed, just a bit bigger than human mouth size, taking out all the fin and a bit of the flesh. It reminded me of -- if you're old enough -- those Tareyton cigarette commercials from the 60s: "I'll eat my hat . . ."