These are the summer flounder measures approved by the ASMFC Board for 2012

[Gerry Zagorski]

You can bet most of the fish we will be catching will be right under 17.5 but I'd still prefer the longer season with 18 inch fish.

[stevelikes2fish]

No. 4 looks real good.

[TomKat]

Don't give up any fish.For any reasonYou may never get them back again.Would'nt it be nice to have a real winter flounder season again.Man I miss making those chum logs.

[Skolmann]

5 or 7 works for me.

[irishc]

Originally Posted by frugalfisherman

A lot would depend on when seabass is closed. If they close it the month of october you would want fluke extended for the sake of party and charter boat captains. That would be #4

And don't forget Blackfish is closed in Sept and the first three weeks of Oct.

[Fishin Polski]

One vote for #4

[Dollar Bill]

Definitely like option 4 for the late season if the hurricanes don't end it abruptly. # 7 is nice for the half inch but don't like giving up fish.

[slammer]

I like #7 but it should be a six fish limit

[bostich36]

I personally like #4 or #7

[hartattack]

I see conflicting info here: http://www.asmfc.org/meetings/winter...pplemental.pdf

The ASMFC summary for NJ shows a proposed bag limit of FIVE 17.5" fluke (options 5,6,7 on original poster's message). However the earlier memo from NJ's principal biologist (Table 4 on link above) suggests a FOUR fluke limit in 2012 for 17.5" fish

Is this merely a "typo" on ASMFC's part or are they being overly generous to NJ ? Inquiring minds need to know . . . . .