Unexpected Flathead

[Mad Mullet]

Hi all

Here's a pic of a nice lizard which I trolled up on the weekend. It was taken on a 20+ Scalerazza while deep trolling some rocky bottom for estuary cod. It put on quite a performance and had me fooled into thinking that I had hooked a nice sized cod before it surfaced.
Size wise, that's a 70 litre long esky, and it went corner to corner. On the measure it made roughly 85cm. Weight wise, I estimate around the 5 kilo mark as it was very thick through the body. Sorry the pic doesn't really show it the best but I was fishing on my own and it is hard to get good pics of a fish like this when you are trying to release it in good condition. All I could do was snap a couple of quick shots and then put her back.
A nice fish!

[Stingray]

Nice One Mad Mullet,
What a nice lizard congrats mate, I used to target lizards a lot but have not been able to get one quite that big.

Cheers Stingray.

[Beevor]

Nice Croc!!

Wish we regularly got big Lizards in our Estuaries down here. Have caught some big fellas at my old mans up in Lake Macquarie, and managed to lose a couple estimated at 1m+....

As you say, a nice surprise!!

[Leighton]

Thats a Huge b$tch
Great here she was released un harmed

[adidaspeteman]

Nice Lizard, would love one like that on my bream gear.

[fuzz1]

nice size lizard.