Stickmen - 2006

November 10, 2006
Orange Beach, Alabama

David Biron with a couple of late season flounders.

Water Temp was Cold and vis was around 5' with allot of particles in the water.   Still it was a marked improvement from the last time we tried so I suited up to give it
a try. You could see the bottom if hunting along the edge of the break wall. As soon as you were along the first spot, you lost sight of the bottom. Maintaining a good body position in 6 ft of water was difficult.   I would dive down and level out , barely above the bottom and then slowly raise off the bottom about 1 ft and start to look.   About 10 dives into the hunt I descend and as soon as I level out and start to hunt, I see this Gigantic flounder swim away for deeper water. As I watched it swim,
I could hardly believe my eyes. I just couldn't get over the size of the fish and that I was witnessing. This was the 10+ lb' er I had been looking for. It does exist !   Besides the enormous size I remember thinking.... WOW .... look how THICK that fish is ! What a monster.   Evidently, I had spooked it by swimming so close to the bottom. I'm going to have to work on swimming farther from the bottom in shallow water. I watched the fish swim away and decided to hunt in its direction for a while hoping I may come across it laying on the bottom in deeper water.   Wasn't so Lucky ,   but I now had enough mental fuel to hunt for 3 more hours :-)
During this time I found 4 more fish and ended up taking 2 of them, 2 lb. 11 oz. and 3.5 lbs.
The fish were kind of sparse but it was all worth it just for the glimpse of that huge fish.

2nd Annual

October Shootout Spearfishing Tournament
October 21, 2006
Orange Beach, Alabama