On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:32:42 -0500, lid wrote:

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:18:47 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:
Heard this mentioned many times, but never did it.
Pretty good video.
Anybody here ever gig for flounder?
I like my fish crispy fried.
Flounder any good fried?
http://www.seastriker.com/video/fgvideo.wmv

Floundering is very popular down here on the Gulf Coast
(Gulfport/Biloxi). Driving down the beach at night you'll see dozens
of lights in the shallows. I've been at it since I was a kid. We don't
use 3 prong gigs with barbs though. I've never even seen that before.
Just a single prong, like a spike. Makes a hole about the size of a
.22 caliber. You stick him and hold him against the bottom so he won't
get off, then reach underneath to hold him on the gig, then lift him
out of the water and flip the gig upside down at the same time. String
him up and repeat all night long :-)
And we don't normally use a boat either. It would be too unhandy
having to drag a boat across all the sandbars. We wade.
It's an interesting video though. But I think I'll be sticking to the
ol' tried and true method.

Man, I'm jealous. Sure wish I had been born down there.
I should be fishing all the time.

--Vic