One of the fishing methods frequently used by the old time native Floridians (I don’t think that most of the transplants know about it) is spear fishing for flounder. The technique consists of wading at night in the shallow water of bays, where there is not a lot of wave action, with a lantern and a spear. When you see a flounder dug into the sand on the bottom, you spear it. Flounder are very hard to see because the partially bury themselves in the sand and they change color to mach their surroundings. The only time that they cone close enough to shore where the water is shallow (less than knee deep) enough so that you can spot them is during the new moon. The new moon sets at about the same time as the sun so you have a low tide, which is lower than normal, just as it is getting dark. Two nights before, the night of and two nights after the new moon are the prime times to go flounder gigging.
One of the fishing methods frequently used by the old time native Floridians (I don’t think that most of the transplants know about it) is spear fishing for flounder. The technique consists of wading at night in the shallow water of bays, where there is not a lot of wave action, with a lantern and a spear. When you see a flounder dug into the sand on the bottom, you spear it. Flounder are very hard to see because the partially bury themselves in the sand and they change color to mach their surroundings. The only time that they cone close enough to shore where the water is shallow (less than knee deep) enough so that you can spot them is during the new moon. The new moon sets at about the same time as the sun so you have a low tide, which is lower than normal, just as it is getting dark. Two nights before, the night of and two nights after the new moon are the prime times to go flounder gigging.