Sandabs and other flatfish

Seeing as though the season for these fish are open year round and they are delicious, do any of yall have tips and tricks for these fish? I remember Matanska chatching these earlier in the summer when targeting pac halibut, but do you have to be in 250-300 feet of water to find them? I would think they would be found on sandy bottoms, so could they be found in the same areas as dropping pots for d. crab? Any tips to what to look for on the fishfinder?

Using the search tool bar at the top of the forum provided many results. Here is a write up from GB2
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=22554.0

Hhmmm...my search yielded no such results, maybe I typed wrong.  Thanks for the link.

the sand dabs are very easy to catch here in monterey..I found them like you said on sandy bottom areas and used a few small hooks spread 2' and a sinker on the bottom...samll chunks of squid...was catching them two at a time...the locas say that the deeper you go/farther out...they get bigger...the ones I was catching were like 8" 10"

Using the search tool bar at the top of the forum provided many results. Here is a write up from GB2
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=22554.0

That's funny that Joel stickied my article and it got over 13,000 hits but the current mods didn't think it was worthy to make an article out of it. So now it is at the whim of the search engine. Doesn't motivate me to write any more.

Using the search tool bar at the top of the forum provided many results. Here is a write up from GB2
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=22554.0

That's funny that Joel stickied my article and it got over 13,000 hits but the current mods didn't think it was worthy to make an article out of it. So now it is at the whim of the search engine. Doesn't motivate me to write any more.

At one point, there were so many stickies that the whole first page of some boards were filled with them (still have that problem in the classifieds).  We had to go through a cleanse to make the boards more useable.  There are literally hundreds of threads out there that are probably sticky worthy, but none of them are stickied either.   I view it more like the system is working as intended as it is quite easy to find the thread in question by doing a search for sand dabs.

That being said, it's a great article, one of which we should consider promoting to the front page (like your WSB article is).  Let me know if that is of interest to you.

-Allen

the sand dabs are very easy to catch here in monterey..I found them like you said on sandy bottom areas and used a few small hooks spread 2' and a sinker on the bottom...samll chunks of squid...was catching them two at a time...the locas say that the deeper you go/farther out...they get bigger...the ones I was catching were like 8" 10"

Good info. I might just try that next time I drop pots in tdad.

I partly asked to see if anyone up here on the north coast targeted flatfish and where they were most commonly found up here.

I've caught a lot of sand soles when fishing for redtails in the Humboldt surf and around King Salmon, but I've never specifically targeted them.  I also caught a 20.5 inch starry flounder from the King Salmon breakwater about 7 or 8 years ago, soaking a chunk of horseneck clam on a sliding rig.  The sand soles would eat whatever I was using for perch, but they seemed especially fond of small strips of anchovy on a dropper loop.

One time I tried dragging some small shrimp baits near the bottom out by the red can in Trinidad when I was crabbing.  No bites.  But I'm sure there's some flatfish out there somewhere...

the sand dabs are very easy to catch here in monterey..I found them like you said on sandy bottom areas and used a few small hooks spread 2' and a sinker on the bottom...samll chunks of squid...was catching them two at a time...the locas say that the deeper you go/farther out...they get bigger...the ones I was catching were like 8" 10"

Good info. I might just try that next time I drop pots in tdad.

I partly asked to see if anyone up here on the north coast targeted flatfish and where they were most commonly found up here.

When I was fishing with Rob/Matanaska off T-dad we were catching some nice dabs. I'm sure Rob will chime in on this.