"Floundering about with Paralichthys lethostigma "

Since moving to Florida, I have caught two in three years...until yesterday. This one was worth the wait. I prayed, I read, I cussed... Oh yeah, one of them was caught in a cast net. (lame) Flounder are one of those things in nature which are quite hard to wrap your fragile eggshell mind around. They are truly a strange fish. Flounder are crazy...they begin life like a normal fish, but start to change as they mature. (just like we do). They eventually start to hang out on their side, watching to much TV, eating lots of mud minnows and shrimps. They live a somewhat sedentary lifestyle. An ambush predator; they lie in wait for little sea-snacks and BAM! As they move into the juvenile stage, a metamorphosis unlike most any other in the animal world takes place. Much of the fishes skeletal system changes dramatically as it morphs into a electric doormat. Okay, that was stupid.  Additionally, the eye on the side which faces the mud begins to migrate up top. Instant Flounder. To learn more about flounder...buy a fishing rod, bug spray, hang out in the salt marsh, and pray. Pray you'll get to experience catching a fish that looks like a doormat, fights like a bulldog, and has teeth like one too. Oh yeah...(My wife grabbed it and pulled it in the boat.) I AINT Grabbin' THAT CRAZY THING! © CHECK OUT http://www.wildwoollyphotos.com/ for more fun stuff.