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Thread: Mutant Slaps...Upper Tampa Bay

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    Default Mutant Slaps...Upper Tampa Bay


    Ran into a few of these big brown slabs this past Saturday.... As it's the season for the next few months, I plan on looking for a few more;



    Upper Tampa Bay...

    Best,
    John

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    Yowza! Those are awesome. Did you catch them on shrimp?

    My better half wants to try out flounder giggin this fall on the east coast.

    Ginny
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    No shrimp, these were on artificials...DOA Curl Tails, you can see the lure in the photo, LOL...

    I use to gig flounder when I was stationed up in North Carolina.

    John

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    LOL.... Ok, I was blinded by the fish and didn't bother looking at everything else in the photo. Nice!!

    Ginny
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    Nice doormats, catchin em is great but giggin is fun.
    The biggest I ever gigged was right at 3 ft, I stuck him
    in the sand & his tail came up out of the water & was slapping
    the gig pole = had to hold on til he quit, didn't want to lose it.
    The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?"

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    Terry is definitely wanting to try giggin ever since Huntinslabs told us how much fun it is.

    Danny you better get started on making some giggin lights. Terry has a design in mind he can draw up and send you.

    Ginny
    "My heart belongs to T.L and M.L." Life is simple.... just add water.

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    I don't think the Gulf Flounder get that big..., the Southerns on the East coast do... I've heard in years past of some in the 15# range. I thnk 8# is considered pretty big now... That's over in Sebastian Inlet during the first cold spells, around November...

    Biggest Gulf Flounder that I have caught was 22", one of those in the photo above is nearly 18"...

    Haven't hit my limit yet (10 in Florida)..., I've hit nine keepers the last two years in a row though.

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    Yall are making it really hard for me to stay focused on work today. Wishin I was fishin!

    Ginny
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fiishergurl View Post
    Terry is definitely wanting to try giggin ever since Huntinslabs told us how much fun it is.

    Danny you better get started on making some giggin lights. Terry has a design in mind he can draw up and send you.

    Ginny
    We used to use underwater lights for sand giggin but mostly one of us would stay in the boat while holding a bright spot light
    & then the other one (me) would walk out onto the oyster beds & stick the fish. Sometimes we would get 5-6 nice fish off one
    oyster bed. We just used the test tube style shrimp lights for underwater use but there are probably some better ones out there
    nowadays.
    The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?"

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    We have those big led greenie lights. Bigger and sturdier than the test tube lights. Would those work? What kind of dangers (other than sharp oysters and barnacles) do you have to watch out for when wading out like that?

    Ginny
    "My heart belongs to T.L and M.L." Life is simple.... just add water.

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