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The full moon is upon us again. Many observers will say that it is the Harvest Moon and no doubt because of events like Lakewood Yacht Club’s Harvest Moon Regatta taking place in October along with October being a big month for harvest in the southern United States.

The fact is that October’s full moon is called the Hunters Moon, while September’s moon has the designation as the Harvest Moon.

The October moon has significance, regardless of what it is called, and that is with flounder fishermen. Before the delayed winter pattern we have experienced recently, seasoned flounder fishermen felt that the peak of each year’s flounder run took place at some point between the full moons of October and November.

Today, there is little doubt that the October moon triggers movement among the flat fish; however, several longtime flounder fishermen tell me that they now look for the peak between the next set of full moons, November and December.

Regardless of your views on the moon, flounder fishing is beginning to pick up and the flat fish will be moving out of the shallows soon and into the bays as they head toward their Gulf wintering grounds.

The bright moon over the past few days has triggered a lot of good night fishing, especially as it rises and when directly overhead.

Horace Sims has been flounder gigging for many years and always looks forward to the October moon as one of the better times to be tromping along the shorelines with a Coleman lantern and a flounder gig.

Sims plans to be at his secret spot the next few nights.

Tuesday night after the wind calmed there was a lot of speckled trout activity around my dock lights, enough to pick up a few fish for a meal this week. Speck rigs did the trick and they even enticed a large ribbon fish to hit.