Flounder gigging

[desertrat]

Isn't it the tip of the spear that determines whether or not it is a gig? And since you can take any fish within season and limits with a spear gun and spear between June 15 and Dec 31 in tidal waters it seems like gigging might be okay. It might be worth it to drop the DNR an email to find out.

Technically that's the difference between a spear and a gig, but spearfishing is actually diving with or without scuba and using a spear to get your fish. Gigging is wading or boating to get fish (or frogs) with a gig or spear. Bow and arrow fishing falls in the same catagory as gigging I'm pretty sure.

 

[Ken King]

Technically that's the difference between a spear and a gig, but spearfishing is actually diving with or without scuba and using a spear to get your fish. Gigging is wading or boating to get fish (or frogs) with a gig or spear. Bow and arrow fishing falls in the same catagory as gigging I'm pretty sure.

Carry a spear gun or use a pole spear. Who is to say how the spear was launched.

 

[desertrat]

Carry a spear gun or use a pole spear. Who is to say how the spear was launched.

I'm thinking....DNR?

 

[Ken King]

Well I emailed the DNR and got a nice little response back from them. The answer is do not gig for fish in Maryland tidal waters.

§ 4-710.
(a) A person may not catch finfish for any purpose in the tidal waters of the State by use of any gig, gig iron, purse net, beam trawl, otter trawl, trammel net, troll net, or drag net. Any person who violates this section by catching fish with any of the equipment or devices referred to in this subsection, with the exception of a gig or gig iron, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, with costs imposed in the discretion of the court. Any person who illegally catches fish with a gig or gig iron is subject to the penalties provided by this title.

 

[vraiblonde]

Well I emailed the DNR

 

[Mikeinsmd]

Well I emailed the DNR and got a nice little response back from them. The answer is do not gig for fish in Maryland tidal waters.

Well there goes the first annual somd wimmins flounder gigging competition.

 

[Ken King]

What did you expect, I didn't want a call to come bail you out of jail.

 

[Midnightrider]

What did you expect, I didn't want a call to come bail you out of jail.

good work Ken, but Dems wants to know if that means SHE cant go jiggin for flounder.....

 

[Ken King]

good work Ken, but Dems wants to know if that means SHE cant go jiggin for flounder.....

She'll do what she wants anyway, jiggin' is using propane bottles and a lighter, right?

 

[desertrat]

She'll do what she wants anyway, jiggin' is using propane bottles and a lighter, right?

If I happen to be walking around with a gig and I see a flounder and there's nobody around. I'm giggin' me a flounder. Don't tell anyone.

 

[mAlice]

If I happen to be walking around with a gig and I see a flounder and there's nobody around. I'm giggin' me a flounder. Don't tell anyone.

If you share it with me, I won't tell.

 

[desertrat]

If you share it with me, I won't tell.

 

[desertrat]

Ken did you ask them about Snipes it is almost that time you know??


I used to frog gig all the time..and cook them on the grill yummmm


I remember as a kid living in Key West a man was walking the shore and stepped on a sting ray...I can still hear that mans screams in my head it was awful....I would not trust anything around my feet/legs with a barbed tail...

My ex stepped on one down in Baja. Running around like an idiot in shallow water and we knew they were everywhere. He got her good, right in the instep. I cleaned it and swabbed it out immediately with iodine on a q-tip (you should have heard her scream), but it still got infected and turned the most beautiful colors you have ever seen. Now that we are divorced I replay that moment sometimes.

 

[Ken King]

Ken did you ask them about Snipes it is almost that time you know??

Everyone knows that if a snipe is laying on the river bottom you just got to reach down and pick it up, it ain't gonna be flying nowhere. :sheesh: