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👍 We just had two weeks at Mallacoota. Iv been teaching my daughter 8 for a while now to catch flathead on plastics. Her best is 82. Currently sitting at St George’s Basin for Xmas. She is already catching fish 🎣
Cheers mate. Quick one for you off topic. Iv got a T Curve Premium 722 heavy bait caster. I’m undecided on a reel. Intend to use it for Barra, Cod and big swim baits for Flattys. Any recommendations I don’t mind spending the money ???
Ive never caught flat heads we don’t have them here in the UK but I’ve seen a fair few vids and a lot of people catching them . I’ve certainly never seen one that big or knew they grew those sizes ! Cracking fish Steve well done 👌👍
Great clip mate , wish our Bartails got bigger out west here but they are a special fish all the same . The message on returning the big girls for future fish stocks is bang on.
Mate, this was one of your standout vids for me. So very informative and all fishermen and ladies should take a leaf out of your book on catch and keep size along with the kind and gentle release. A very good vid mate, I've learned a lot from you and Roger. Well done mate. Merry Christmas.
Long as I live I’ll never catch a meter flatter sadly Steve. The Bar tails we get here in the west just don’t seem to put on the heft that your duskys get on the east coast. Still a great eating fish to target, but 50cm is a remarkable fish this side of the pizza. Keep up the great work. And compliments of the season to you and yours for a merry Xmas & a safe, happy & prosperous New Years from me and all my crew here in the west.👍
Pretty sure I'll never crack the metre either. They are VERY rare at that size. My PB is 93 and I've caught a 92, a 90 and quite a few in the high 80s. All lovely fish. Those bar tails you get over there are neat fish, too. Pity they don't get as big. Do you get the southern blue spots down south like they do in SA, VIC and Tassie? They grow to at least 75 or 80cm.
@ I’ve only seen one Steve in the Blackwood Estuary - which technically empties into southern ocean at Augusta, albeit only just around the corner from the Indian Ocean. It was taken with a gidgie & torch at night and was every bit of 80cm. All I ever caught in there was bar tails tho. Some big fish produced in that Estuary on occasion, that 50+ Black Bream your after probably lives in there somewhere. There’s a brackish lake (swan lake) feeds into the estuary just near the mouth of the river that contains black bream & the tidal creek that links the lake & estuary runs past Dennis Lillie’s holiday house - that’s where the largest 50+ black bream I’ve ever seen was taken, sitting behind a snag out front of Dennis’ house picking off all the white bait, prawns etc being swept past out of the lake. It’s a huge confluence area of the Blackwood & Scott Rivers and of course Swan Lake. Take a look on Google earth at the lay of the land there & you will see why the really big specimens seem to come from there. If you don’t get that PB in there, then Tassie is probably your next best bet I reckon. Check it out next time you get back to the west one day.
Great luck to catch a croc while filming Steve, and ive stopped tagging flathead over say the high 60cm range, my thinking was a bigger fish with a tag is more likely to be killed to get tag details, just my thinking as i get more concerned re the big breeders.
Thanks. Fair enough, although I think most people understand that they're breaking the law and risking a big fine these days if they kill a big flathead (unless they're a commercial fisher in NSW... which is another story!). If uyou catch one with a tag, measure it, record the tag number and release it again, then contact NSW Fisheries with the details.
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Magnificent fish Starlo. Great to see.
Thank you! Cheers!
Go Starlo,thanks for the time and effort,cheers.
Thanks! 👍 You are most welcome.
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We just had two weeks at Mallacoota. Iv been teaching my daughter 8 for a while now to catch flathead on plastics. Her best is 82.
Currently sitting at St George’s Basin for Xmas. She is already catching fish 🎣
Nice! Two GREAT flathead locations... Tight Lines to you and your daughter!
Cheers mate. Quick one for you off topic.
Iv got a T Curve Premium 722 heavy bait caster.
I’m undecided on a reel. Intend to use it for Barra, Cod and big swim baits for Flattys. Any recommendations I don’t mind spending the money ???
Ive never caught flat heads we don’t have them here in the UK but I’ve seen a fair few vids and a lot of people catching them . I’ve certainly never seen one that big or knew they grew those sizes ! Cracking fish Steve well done 👌👍
Thanks for that. Glad you’re enjoying the content. 👍
Great fish Steve! :)
Great clip mate , wish our Bartails got bigger out west here but they are a special fish all the same . The message on returning the big girls for future fish stocks is bang on.
@@Katipo-l7r thanks! Glad you liked it. 👍
great video starlo!
Cheers mate! 👍
Thanks for the video!
You’re welcome! 👍
The current in that part of the lake can be crazy you did well....
Nothing like fishing your home lake and getting the rewards..
Thanks! Yep, the current can be brutal there sometimes.
I've got a stack of Mr Twister soft plastics in my tackle box left over from the late 70's.
Shows you how often I catch flathead LOL.
Haha, they’re still good plastics, just need to put them to work!
Fantastic 🤟
Thanks!
Fantastico
Thank you!
Mate, this was one of your standout vids for me. So very informative and all fishermen and ladies should take a leaf out of your book on catch and keep size along with the kind and gentle release.
A very good vid mate, I've learned a lot from you and Roger. Well done mate. Merry Christmas.
Cheers, mate! Thanks for saying that. Glad you enjoyed it. 👍
Long as I live I’ll never catch a meter flatter sadly Steve. The Bar tails we get here in the west just don’t seem to put on the heft that your duskys get on the east coast.
Still a great eating fish to target, but 50cm is a remarkable fish this side of the pizza.
Keep up the great work.
And compliments of the season to you and yours for a merry Xmas & a safe, happy & prosperous New Years from me and all my crew here in the west.👍
Pretty sure I'll never crack the metre either. They are VERY rare at that size. My PB is 93 and I've caught a 92, a 90 and quite a few in the high 80s. All lovely fish. Those bar tails you get over there are neat fish, too. Pity they don't get as big. Do you get the southern blue spots down south like they do in SA, VIC and Tassie? They grow to at least 75 or 80cm.
@ I’ve only seen one Steve in the Blackwood Estuary - which technically empties into southern ocean at Augusta, albeit only just around the corner from the Indian Ocean.
It was taken with a gidgie & torch at night and was every bit of 80cm.
All I ever caught in there was bar tails tho.
Some big fish produced in that Estuary on occasion, that 50+ Black Bream your after probably lives in there somewhere.
There’s a brackish lake (swan lake) feeds into the estuary just near the mouth of the river that contains black bream & the tidal creek that links the lake & estuary runs past Dennis Lillie’s holiday house - that’s where the largest 50+ black bream I’ve ever seen was taken, sitting behind a snag out front of Dennis’ house picking off all the white bait, prawns etc being swept past out of the lake.
It’s a huge confluence area of the Blackwood & Scott Rivers and of course Swan Lake.
Take a look on Google earth at the lay of the land there & you will see why the really big specimens seem to come from there.
If you don’t get that PB in there, then Tassie is probably your next best bet I reckon.
Check it out next time you get back to the west one day.
what a crocodile !well done with the tag.
Cheers!
In tassie it's hard with the new rules , especially in hobart
@@bigears4014 yes, but it certainly needed to be done.
Great luck to catch a croc while filming Steve, and ive stopped tagging flathead over say the high 60cm range, my thinking was a bigger fish with a tag is more likely to be killed to get tag details, just my thinking as i get more concerned re the big breeders.
Thanks. Fair enough, although I think most people understand that they're breaking the law and risking a big fine these days if they kill a big flathead (unless they're a commercial fisher in NSW... which is another story!). If uyou catch one with a tag, measure it, record the tag number and release it again, then contact NSW Fisheries with the details.
Love Your Hook(matau) Starlo & Yes love Your SP's too I've caught a few duskies on them myself!
Great Feed They Were Too!! 😊
@@whetuification cheers! 👍