A PLAICE CHASE
With their bright orange spots plaice are one of our most attractive and easily recognisable species. Occasionally flounder also display reddish spots and are misidentified as being plaice, but flounder lack the distinct bony ridge behind the eyes which are a prominent feature of plaice. Plaice are widespread around the British Isles with their distribution extending in a northerly direction to above the Arctic Circle and the most northerly of the Norwegian ›ords, where increasingly angler are targeting specimen plaice that often exceed 4-5lb.
Typical marks where plaice are caught include patches of clean sand or shingle and shell grit, ideally when these are located in the near vicinity of
