Deepwater Flathead
Submitted by Belly Fish on Mon, 2013-05-13 21:15
Fellow in the Club I'm in caught this Flathead in around 300 metres off Ocean Reef. It was just shy of 2kg. It's not in any ID books I have, but I did see a Fisheries Research video with the underwater baited cameras and saw what they referred to as a Deepwater Flathead. I'm guessing that's what it is.
Anyone able to confirm?
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petermac
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your fish
I think it is some type of flatty but what I am not sure I once speared a huge strange looking flatty of Onslow would have gone 4 to 5 kg but when I got it back to the boat hell it stank still the fillets were ok
southcity104
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ive caught a few in 250s
from what i found thats what they're named. That one has lost a fair bit of its colours. Very good eating imo
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milsey
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Tiger flatty?
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/flathead-id
Rob H
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there used to be a trawler
there used to be a trawler called (I think) the "Bianca" working all along the west coast, I remember him unloading boxes and boxes of flathead in Freo.
His permit started at the 200 meter line.
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bitten
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haha rob i remembe the
haha rob i remembe the angrlittle mna that drove that loved to abuse his deckys, saw him come in and unload 4 tonne of sambos once for 50 cents a kg