Weekend Fluke

[nipper]

I travelled to Arkansas once, and everyone there called it "sody." I thought you Northeasterners called it "tonic."

[willy]

Oh contrar mon sheri, fluke are called fluke and they are a summer type flounder

And tonic is what we mix with our Bombay or Plymouth Gin for our sundowners after we catch our limit of fluke

[whale]

Originally Posted by nipper

I travelled to Arkansas once, and everyone there called it "sody." I thought you Northeasterners called it "tonic."

Referring to soda/pop as tonic is very localized to the Boston area and is not used much any more. I know a couple of older people from Boston who still say tonic but most people say soda.

Like Willy says, tonic is mainly tonic water that you mix with gin even to Bostonians now.

[macojoe]

Congrats Whale they are some nice fish!!

Flounder is the smllest of the family you have black backs and yellow tails or winter flounder. Big lips, and you chum for them while anchored

Fluke (summer Flounder are bigger (up to 20 pounds, most are under 10 pounds) and have teeth, and love to chase there food, you drift for these

Halabit the Monster of the bunch!! Grow to the hundresd of pounds! I love to catch a big 300 pounder!!

But for the most part they are all the same fish.

[Sean]

Nice going Whale!! Seems like you are getting into some decent sized fish Its funny, every year the poot tuffer restrictions on us saying the Fluke stock isn't were it is supposed tobe, and every year we just keep getting bigger Fluke
I can't wait for them to put the limit @ 30', we will be slaying by then

Putting the boat out front next week, so hopefully be cashing in on some fluke sooooon

[C YENSEN]

nice going Whale......

and for the record.......it is

FLOUNDER

and

POP

[whale]

Now we are getting somewhere.....NJ is fluke, Maryland is flounder. So if we can get someone from Delaware to chime in we can draw the line on the fluke/flounder flap!

[Mulv80]

In NJ if you catch a flounder its a "fluke".