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Gigging Friday night 10-14-2011

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  • Gigging Friday night 10-14-2011

    Hit a walk-in spot at dusk and left at 9:30. Tide was already coming in and the water suprisingly clear at the start, but got muddy as time passed. The first fish was bedded up really deep in about a foot of water. The only reason I saw him was a method my Dad taught me when I was young. There was a patch of black sand that sometimes gets kicked up by the flounder's tail when bedding down. You look at the area around the black spot.
    All I could see was the jaw bone and eyes. And what a jaw bone it was......I new it was a big girl even though I couldn't see any of the body. 23" and thick. The next flounder was bedded up the same way. Laying next to a black patch of sand and the only thing you could see was the jaw and eyes. The third was moving and I had to hit it with a body shot due to my bad back. I wasn't going to lunge for it.
    After that the water got really muddy and I decided to head back to the truck.
    The water was shallow at that point and I saw a dozen or so empty beds after crossing a clay bottom. Flounder will never lay on hard clay, or at least I never have seen one.
    I kept on looking for the fish that made the empty beds. I found 2 laying about 6 feet apart. I stuck the first one and stepped on it so it wouldn't make any noise. I hung my lantern on a hook on my belt....pointing the light at flounder #2. Then picked up the first flounder while still on the gig and walked sideways. When I got to the second fish I twisted and dropped the first fish on top of the second. The second fish got a body shot, but that's typical when you have to stack them.
    Called it a night after that.
    5 fish......15 1/2", 16,16,17 and 23".





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  • #2
    Nice!
    Resident Ninja

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    • #3
      awesome!
      I LIVE IN A SMALL COMMUNITY WITH A LARGE PROBLEM AND A PROBLEM.

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      • #4
        Very nice. What area were you in?

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        InKed Angler

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        • #5
          Man real nice!!!

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          • #6
            You re the man.

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            • #7
              Wow! That 23 is a fat beauty!
              "Curmudgeon only pawn in game of life."


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              • #8
                Way to go on spotting that trophy!
                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLbrJxGtro
                Not that much different than a Karankawa indian hunting the shallows at night with a torch and a spear.

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                • #9
                  Nice fatty!

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                  • #10
                    Nice job. I too was taught to look hard at the black sandy spots and to check the empty beds. You never know.

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                    • #11
                      Good Yob...!
                      We are West End Anglers, a saltwater tribe!

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                      • #12
                        Very nice on the big momma there! Very good report too!
                        Fishing. "Just Do It"

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