Double Sided Flounders (mods any chance of making this sticky?)

[The Great Wallsendo]

What's the interest in double sided Flatties all about?

[kela66]

Originally Posted by 5150

Nice one mate, aye that's the sort of thing they're still interested in. Where was it caught? Cheers.

king edwards bay ,tynemouth

[willywetegg]

Tony, a few different people have been doing surveys over the last few years trying to find out why, where and how many mate.

Jim.

[kela66]

another camo flatty from king eddys thats 2 in about 10 is there something special about that place (no pun intended ) or does this happen all over ???

[5150]

Yeah it's Dove Marine/Newcastle Uni have been researching for years, was a few requests put out for any info about them but then it seemed to go quiet - i found some old mails and contacted the people to see if they were still interested, they were hence this thread was kindly put up.

Kela - cheers for the info, nice one.

[Richie_fishy]

Originally Posted by kela66

thought this might be of some intrest not a double sided but a side and a bit (sorry for he poor quality of the pic)

The texture skin comes off when they swim across rocks, get loads like that at sandy bay!

[Charlton]

if you do get any could you post it here, where and when you caught it. for some reason the areas that for a long time produced thes fish no longer seem to and that goes for the Wansbeck, lads who still fish and are aware of the studies have caught very few, wherer at one time there where loads. Another interesting thing is that the number of diseased flounders has dropped to almost nil. I inspect all the flounders at the opens etc and have seen no double sided or diseased flounders for a few years. i am still in contact with the Dove, looking into other aspects of flounder life. so if you let me know precise info I can pass it on. All info appreciated.

[Mogthemackem]

I've caught a few of these when I've had kids out fishing. One off Blyth Pier, one off roker pier and one off newbiggin beach (both brown with white blemishes on bottom) and one at Horden beach on Thursday (fully brown both sides). None of them had extra eyes though

[PaulGH]

Caught a flounder of roker pier late summer similar to pictures posted the back 1/3 near the tail was double sided, didn't think much of it to be honest, I've also seen a Dab caught by a friend with same sort of semi double sided colouration.

Sorry no photo's fish was around 30-ish cms

[Charlton]

if you get anymore can you record size, date etc and send to me