‘Jubilee’ Draws Millions of Fish into the Gulf Coast Shallows, Where They’re Ripe for Gigging
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The phenomenon occurs every summer in Mobile Bay, and it’s beckoned Alabama anglers for generations.
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I live on the Mississippi gulf coast and I have seen this before a couple years ago I was actually flounder gigging when it happened just like what you seen in the video
Oxygen depletion in water, I think. Little surf there is providing some aeration?
I temporarily relocated to Alabama from.Va. I would've LOVEDDDD to witness this ❤
Great video, never been more jealous
Like a kid in a candy store! But I thought gigging gamefish was illegal.
@@erikdeeNOSPELLSNO really depends where you are, and legal size limits still have to be respected so you might get in trouble for accidentally spearing a short. I don't know any specifics though
@@kylemarkloff4451 Thanks for the reply! Tight lines and fair weather, as they say
Flatfish fest. The last time i was spearing them was in 2014 at Foxton beach New Zealand
Here in NC, we are not even having a flounder "season" this year. That's after several years in a row of a 2 week in September season. Hmmmm....
Ft. Pierce Florida here 👋 we have not had any good Flounder in a few years either! Don’t feel bad.
Aloha. What is this phenomenon? I’ve only, unfortunately, seen it with stingrays. Never flounder. I’m assuming the gulf coast?
One of the bays or intracoastal waterways of the Gulf coast.
That is not actual Gulf beach water.
@@Lee-yy2lr Aloha, and thanks.
It's Like a Plate of Shrimp 🍤 cosmic unconscious
@outdoorlife what can I do for you to ship me some lol I’ll pay
Crazy how they just show up.
where was this? It's like dream com true.
Is it only like this one day out of the summer or does this happen often during summer ,, and I’m guessing the flounders are not eating baits so you have to gig them
It can happen several times in a summer when conditions are right.
I heard the water turns upside down and theres no air in it is this right
@@scottbetz777no
@@scottbetz777 don’t know why but your right about there being no oxygen in the deep water so they come to shallow waters to get oxygen.
This happen all the time. Its been happening for as long as i remember 40 yrs ago. Normal. Not every year but most years
this is completely ridiculous. Shameful.
Water doesn’t have enough oxygen so they go to the shoreline
nope were not jealous here at all in florida.. =(
It’s been a while since I went floundering. Where in the world are y’all!?!
This is the beginning of red tide people!
Shit ain’t even fair 😂😂
Its wild to think that game and fish would rather let them rot than allow people to use them smh
They do not die, they eventually move back out.
They don't die. They just temporarily go into the shallows to get oxygen but they return to deeper water once the oxygen returns there. 😊
Limit?
Their up on the beach gorging themselves on minnows.
Damn that’s not fishing that’s catching
Spearing stab
Where were yall at when that happened
i went to the one this morrning
It seems like butchery not fishing , if lack of oxygen causes these fish to go numb like this and someone feels good about himself about taking advantage of it than I don't have much respect for it at all...
Love fishing but this is butchery .
Its called nature buddy.
@@redranger6751 nature is fine but taking advantage of fish that can not defend itself while acting stunned is slaughter with a stick and nail , just pure butchery not fishing .
Zero of fishing fun .
These fish are dying or dead, it's exactly like the brown tide we had here in Mosquito Lagoon a few years back. To call it a "jubilee" is ridiculous.
You don't know much do you.
pretty sure it’s just oxygen depletion..
Will they hit a lure?
Yes
THIS is EXTREMELY unfair!!!!!
That's fucking horrible no wonder why the fluke ar slowly going down hill
A rare natural occurrence that only happens in two basic places. Nature.
Those flounders are fine. I have seen this twice on the Florida panhandle intracoastal waterway. It doesn't last long at all and they finally spread out and move deeper during the day.
Educate yourself be you comment
Fluke... Lol northern
@@swgosa9034
I was going to let that go until your comment.
You're right. Not fluke but flounders.😁
What the hell is going on here? Mating?
No oxygen in the water.
@@Dgalloway21 Ty couldn’t find and answer
@@Dgalloway21
It's not the oxygen.
It's just something that happens once in a great while. I have seen it twice before during 2different seasons.
I wouldn't eat them, something is very wrong with them.
There is nothing wrong with them. This just happens once in a great while.
Marine biologists have studied this phenomenon for decades and are unable to find a solid reason behind this but have found that the fish are perfectly healthy.
This is caused by a red tide pulling oxygen out of the water. It pushes all the marine life up close to the beach. Nothing is wrong with them. The red tide is caused by an algae bloom.
I was thinking the same.
@@tomcarter9580
There was nothing wrong with these fish. That has been proven.
Just a rare natural event.
For some reason my first comment disappeared, but this is from a red tide caused by an algae bloom. It sucks the oxygen out of the water pushing the marine life up on the beach. The fish are perfectly safe.