They are still spear fishing for tarpon off Louisiana

Fly Life Magazine is calling out Hells Divers and their members who like to spear fish for tarpon off the coast of Louisiana.

As the comment thread in this 2008 post about the same issue illustrates, the spear fishing community will aggressively push back.

In what has to be one of the more ironic comments, given Save the Tarpon is getting involved, tarpon spear fishing advocate Louis Rossignol references the PTTS to call bullshit on those opposed to the practice.

For those that want to judge, take a look at that completely ridiculous circus they call the “Professional Tarpon Tournament Series”, where boats cram into the pass, live bait tarpon and feed half of them to the local hammerhead population. The ones that escape the big teeth get dragged over to a scale and then released, exhausted, to said hammerhead-infested pass.

In this video Rossignol,who owns 5 of the top ten Hells Divers tarpon spear fishing records, drills a triple digit tarpon off a gulf rig.