Most any evening when the water is calm, you can cruise down the front beach and see the lights of flounder fishermen wading the shallows in search of flounder. Because they do not depend on the fish to be feeding, gig fishermen can take flounder at any time. Still, the fish are most abundant in the shallows when the tide has brought them shoreward. Native coastians, it seems, were born knowing how to catch flounder with a gig. For you transplanted Nevadans and Dakotans, some explanation might be in order.
Standard equipment includes a straight-point flounder gig and a propane or white gas lantern.
Add a plastic mesh bag or a stringer for your catch, and you're ready to try your luck. Slowly wading along the shallows with the lantern and looking for the tell-tale dark silhouette of a flounder on the bottom is the way this gigging business is done. With practice, you will be able to just lift the fish right out of the water without holding on to it. Place the flounder in your bag or on the stringer and go searching for another. Catching flounder on hook and line is just as easy.