Does anyone know the best way to catch flounder? I live on the Ms, Gulf Coast and would love it if someone could help me catch some flounder

Yes use Bull Minnows with a egg sinker above the bait with a 18 in leader this is how I catch mine

do you plan on fishing artificial or bait fish?

I live in Ocean Springs MS. Flounder are ambush feeders, waiting on the bottom around inlets and pilings. I've had the best luck with a chartreuse berkley gulp swim minnow attached to a 1/4 ounce red jig head retrieved slowly. Good luck.

I would prefer to use live bait. It seems like the fish around here like live bait instead of artificial

Thanks to all 3 who answered. I am going to try all your suggestions. I've been having decent luck catching white trout and speckled trout . Seems like hardhead catfish love to bite more than anything else. Any other suggestions to catching edible fish here in the south would be greatly appreciated.

here in texas the flounder really start moving around late october early november...we use live shrimp and finger mullet they seem to work pretty good...if you want to try artificial try smaller baits like a red and white curly tail...I have also caught several on DOA shrimp...good luck fishing...

You might want to try a grub with a peice of cut bait as a teaser, seems to work ok also, Denny

follow simple rule-match the bait to the fish. Catfish are bottom feeders-if you fish the bottom, you will catch them. Fish on or near (16-24 inches) from the surface for trout. Popping cork with live bait or jig underneath. True story==I arrived at Horn Island one day and began fishing next to a young kid using live shrimp. He wasn't catching anything. I tossed out a jig and pulled a flounder in on almost every cast. 20 minutes later I had my limit and gave him my bait. That bait was Chartreuse Berkley Gulp swim minnow with a 1/4 ounce red jig head. Fish it different ways until you find the fish. I caught 2 nice Pompano off Horn last week on the same bait.

As already mentioned, bull minnows or finger mullet 12"-18" behind a slip weight (egg or bullet). Gulp shrimp on a jig head. Cocahoe (different colors at different times) on a jig head with a small piece of cut bait. Just drag it slowly across the bottom. The tricky part is feeling the bite and knowing when to set the hook. Sometimes it will feel like you hit a rock or oyster shell.