They look fantastic fish Salty. To me they are chunky big fish. I haven't had tea yet and those fillets made me drool picturing a big plate of em!
We have some flounder, and a monster would be 12 inches! Most are six to eight inches. They are ravenous little buggers and a bit of fun in ulltra shallow flats, but our premier, and much much more common, flatfish is the dusky flathead. Being Oz, this is of course reduced to flattie. Or croc, or lizard when they get big. But they don't do that trippy eye migration thing flounder and halibut and things like them do.
Flatties grow to more than 20 pounds, Average would be a pound to four pounds, but plenty of six to 10s get caught. Biggest fish usually in deeper water, maybe eight to 30 feet. But the best blast is wading or drifting shallow flats. The next 10 or 15 pounder caught in eight inches of water won't be the last. We have pretty small tidal range so don't have to deal with really strong current. And they adore jigs.
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This one's a classic average Sydney Harbour flattie, about two and a half pounds, caught on a squid themed 1/6th TT head, with feathers and Arctic fox tail with a bit of flash. Head's copper fleck clear nail polish over white nail polish. My mate Al took the cool pic.
Is there a flatfish anywhere in world that doesn't taste sensational?
