Itscaca Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 G'day Fellow Raiders, Just a quick report on this mornings voyage to the rip bridge (St Huberts side) My friend Fiona (Fi) was keen for a putt in the boat before she had to go to work, which gave us about 2 hours on the water. We took the Humdinghy (my boat) to orange grove boat ramp and away we went trying to waste no time. On our travels we saw a police boat getting information from another boat as we putted along with my little 6 horse power, and then ZOOM! off the police boat went straight out under the bridge and towards box head, passed us like we were standing still..Hopefully everyone is okay.? After another 10 minutes of cruising we hit our spot, dropped anchor, cracked a cheeky beer, baited up and away we went. Fi thought she'd try her luck with a squid jig, sadly nothing was taking it. My first few casts brought in a few tiddlers (bream, snapper, trumpeter) you know the usual annoying fish, and then I hooked into a pretty decent snapper which was great fun on 10lb mono zzzzzzz went the drag haha. After a few minutes I brought him in and he was just on legal, I thought maybe in another year you'll be ready, so I let him swim free. Fi finally got her rig ready (paternoster Rig) through a bit of tailor on and out it went. At this point I was boasting about the snapper and a few other fish I had caught, then Fi cut me short......ZZ, ZZZZZZ, ZZZZ, She was into something big. The fight was weird, almost like a big flathead with a shoe attached to it. Fi fought the mystery fish for about 10 mins trying to exhaust the fish before bringing it up to the boat. Finally the head came up, it was a huge flatty. As she brought it up to the boat I put the net around it and brought it in. On closer inspection she had hooked the flathead in the bum!!! I almost fell over backwards!!! hahaha!! absolute wrongtown! haha This was a big big flathead, not in length, but just overall FAT! The flathead only went about 65cm, but it was 11cm wide! This thing had been chowin' down the last few months! Usually we let the bigger ones go however, being the only flathead we have caught in a few weeks, we decided to keep it for dinner. We got 4 big beautiful steak fillets off it and the flesh is a beautiful white colour! Very keen for tonights dinner! Anyway, Thanks for reading Raiders I hope you got a little bit of enjoyment out of my report. Tight Lines! Regards, itscaca. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itscaca Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterfisho7 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 One top flathead and nice report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rah Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Solid mate. Not bad for a 2 hour trip before work. Cheers Rah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omally Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Got some girth for sure ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Nice fish! Definitely hasn’t been dining out on “lite and easy”! Enjoy your dinner! Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hill373737 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Great to see a nice fat flathead - good fish!! I caught a few over the summer at The Entrance around 40cm that looked like they had been going to "weight watchers"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickmarlin62 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 nice solid fish..they really are great eating..sounds like an enjoyable morns fishing...rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seasponge Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Nice big fat one. It's surprising the variance in girth in them. Lately all my flatties have been quite narrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itscaca Posted February 24, 2018 Author Share Posted February 24, 2018 Thanks raiders, it cooked up beautifully! Big enough for a good feed, but small enough for the flesh to be super tender! Just perfect! I've always been told that girth is most important Cheers, itscaca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam bros Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Solid effort, Can't go wrong with some fresh Flattie fillets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berleyguts Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Nice fat lizard. Well done! They taste great at that size! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seasponge Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Any sized flathead tastes good if you realise the thinner tail piece is going to cook quicker than the main body. A whole fillet on a fish that size changes thickness greatly from its body down to the the tail. I always cut any flatties up into even sized pieces and cook the tail pieces for shorter time. And if I'm cooking a whole flattie, i always run the knife down its back, either side of the spine, down to the ribcage, for the length of the ribcage. Allows the whole fish to cook evenly so that by the time the body is cooked, the tail isn't overdone and dry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaxland Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Cheeky beer before work you must be a barman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonywardle Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 There were a few boats out getting inspected on Saturday. I think there was a blitz going on and they mentioned it on the radio. I didn't get stopped but a few others did. Nice flatty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itscaca Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 (edited) Yeah they were defiantly harassing a few people...thank god they didn’t come after the humdighny. Yeah I usually fillet my flatheads and cut them into 4 smaller steaks, 2 small tail steaks and 2 thick tummy steaks...big NO NO over cooking such a beatiful fish haha Cheers raiders, Itscaca Edited March 3, 2018 by Itscaca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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