Debbie's Delight Sportfishing Light tackle and Flyfishing Raritan Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The winter flounder is an important food and commercial species, and a thick, meaty specimen. The meat is firm, white, and delicately flavored, and is known for it s superb taste. The body is oval and flat with a tiny mouth, and is right-eyed as opposed to it s cousin, the fluke.
Color varies from reddish brown to dark brown with small black spots.
The underside is whitish and occasionally brown. When on a soft bottom, the winter flounder will lie buried up to its eyes, waiting to attack prey. Because of its small mouth, its diet includes only smaller food like marine worms, small crustaceans, and small, shelled animals like clams and snails. Site Map Capt.