Flounder gig

An improved flounder fish gig comprising, in combination, an elongated handle, a spear carried at one end of said handle having a pair of outwardly biased legs at distal ends of which are diverging sharp prongs, and an elongated guide plate having a pair of spaced apart apertures slidingly receiving said legs and moveable from a retracted position nearer a lower end of said handle, in which said prongs are allowed to assume an outwardly diverging position under the influence of said biased legs, to a self-maintained terminal position nearer said prongs, in which said prongs extend below said guide plate and are maintained in a closer but spaced apart relationship, said guide plate being attached to a guide rod slidingly received in a central aperture provided at one end of said handle and extending into a hollow closed portion of said handle for attachment to an enlarged guide head, said guide rod being extendable from said central aperture with said guide plate, until movement is arrested, by engagement of said guide head with a stop surface, at said self-maintained terminal position, said guide plate being engageable by a fish when impaled by said spear prongs automatically forcing said guide plate toward said retracted position so that said prongs assume said outwardly diverging position to hold said fish on said spear without manual manipulation of said guide rod.