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I was wondering if any other old boys on here ever Flounder gigged in your time? This may show your age. I was thinking about it this morning and came accross a site that they gigged on still http://www.floundergigging.com. The north started all this BS with regulations. Seems the boys is the South are still the good ol boys.

I remember as a young pup going out with the old timer pinnys with a light at night in the shallows looking for the eyes with a gig on a long handle and get all the flounder you could in plastic wash baskets.

No limmits and no questions and no COs. This world sucks today. The freaks caused it[down]
 
I used to go out scapping crabs and eels. We would wade in the water with a flashlight and a basket inside an innertube tied to your waist. When we see a crab we'd scoop it up and when we spoted an eel we would just turn the net around and spear it with a gig that was on the other end. Stayed out many a nights with dad scapping in Shark River hills. [up]
 
As a teenager we would drift at night on low tide along the shark river in a row boat. Using a car headlight wired to a stick and a "borrowed" battery to shine for eels. Good smoked or on the bbq. grill.
Ocasionally gig a flounder. Saw very few crabs, even in the mid 70's.
Shame, what was dunes is now totally developed with townhouses/ condos.
 
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what was dunes is now totally developed with townhouses/ condos.
Don't worry one good huricane and that will be a thing of the past.

You can't see the hole profile of the fish most times to determine its size because at night your looking for its eyes and you stick them in the head at its eyes your aiming for.

Years agao there was no creel or size and it was fun and fast and furious.

Most of the ol' boys who taught me were all fired up so it was even more fun they were down right funny and harmless.

Those were the days and several of them are written down in history in the old baymans museum in Tuckerton, God rest there souls because they were real men back then.

Days gone by
 
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