iconnolly Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 (edited) Fished the Harbour again on Saturday afternoon for some "bread and butter" fish. Took home 4 nice flathead and a flounder for the table. Yum! Is it just my wife and I or are flounder usually more tasty than flathead? Gave a just legal trevally to my mate who is into sashimi. Apparently trevs are great raw. My mate took home my trevally a nice flathead and just legal tailor. We released a few small flathead, undersized tailor and a heap of red bream. The biggest of the flathead was either extremely hungry or extremely dumb. We were in about 8 metres of water and it chased my squidgy up to the side of the boat. After about 3 or 4 goes at munching on the rubber and not getting hooked I let it run with it for about 20 to 30 seconds and then set the hook. I've never seen this behaviour before. I thought flathead just lay on the bottom and ambushed anything that came to within 1/2 a metre of it's face. Reeltired Edited April 1, 2013 by reeltired2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Occasionally flatties will swim off the bottom to attack baitfish, or chase prawns that swim to the surface and jump along trying to escape. A few times fishing for flatties outside in deep water, I have seen a flattie swim to the surface beside a hooked one, then dropped over a bait to hook the free swimming flattie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filthmonger Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 I remember a post on here a bloke reckons a flattie broke the surface whilst chasing baitfish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewhunter Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Nice effort for a good feed. If something gets a flatties attention they will chase it. I've had them hit poppers before when chasing whiting. Well done again. Cheers, Grant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinP60 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Nice lot of fish mate, flounder taste better then flathead i think but not as much meat on the flounder. Great work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Zod Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Nice lot of fish mate, flounder taste better then flathead i think but not as much meat on the flounder. Great work. I second that, flounder so yum, just not enough meat on them. Great catch btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconnolly Posted April 3, 2013 Author Share Posted April 3, 2013 Thanks for the feedback and encouragement. Reeltired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw9635 Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 A flathead chased my metal to the surface then leaped out of the water! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matyg Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 the best part about the flounder is when you fry it up there is much more of that nice crispy edges, but I reckon if most people closed their eyes they wouldn't pick it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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