The shame of it all is this fishery was as dependable as it gets, year in and year out. Flounder were so abundant and the mark of a healthy fishery, you'd catch fish of all sizes. Postage stamps and few inches long up to jumbos and everything in between. Healthy mix of males and females as well. Wouldn't be unusual to catch 40 or 50 fish a day from shore with no chumming back in the day. As Danny mentioned, I fished with my parents right on the wall next to the boat launch in Belmar all winter long. Winters were tough with the cold but you still caught fish. Spring fishing was ridiculous for everyone. When the fished started heading out, we'd fish the inlets for a few more weeks and did as well, both Belmar and Manasquan and the Highlands had it's own incredible numbers. At Sandy Hook when the fish started moving out moving, Flynn's Knoll and the Cedars would heat up along with a tremendous ling fishing at the Cedars. This fishery with closed seasons and two fish limits, hard to say what happened but for years this was like opening day trout is for fresh water guys, spring flounder fishing was the much anticipated beginning of the season.........can't understand what happened to it much like ling / whiting....a fishery that couldn't possibly disappear and has. Commercial fishing, cormorants eating the young, seals etc. something significant has happened in the cycle or these fish are being netted by commercials. See enough of them i the markets, they're coming from somewhere. Even in years when stripers were abundant, and I'm sure a fair share of flounder fell prey to them, the fishery showed no sign of weakness every year and now it's just vanished. For the younger members on the site, you have no idea how great this fishery was and from shore, no need to rent a boat or chum the fishing was that great. Sad to see it go the way so many other fisheries have, it really is unbelievable.