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    Posted: 26 Jan 2014 at 2:18am
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Hi guys, just watched this saturdays ITM fishing episode. Saw Matt Watson catching a Giant Flounder? Just wondering if they are found in new zealand ??? I have never been flondering, have seen the small one in shops but not the huge one... Was wondering if it was caught in some other part of the world or some camera trick..?
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Alaska has some of the biggest flounder your ever going to find, they call them "Halibut" over there...
the biggest are quite huge, but there is less of them now, bit like 30lb snapper...
you will need a big dinner plate for one of these F@*kers...



here is another one, The 8ft 3in Atlantic halibut tipped the scales at just over 540lb...
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Yeah i have seen them before, but this giant on the show was said to be from manukau harbour if i heard it ryt..
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The halibut segment was filmed when Watson was in Alaska a few months prior to the Kaipara 'con'
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they were busy getting stuck in the mud while the halibut was swimming over stones. You can tell when Matt Watson's taking the piss cause he can't act for ****.
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that halibut is just a tiddler compared to our Kaipara flounder..
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Originally posted by Catchit Catchit wrote:


that halibut is just a tiddler compared to our Kaipara flounder..


I agree totally Tony, particularly the giant species that can sometimes be speared in the estuarine areas
after heavy rain when they chase the giant whitebait that are mistakenly thought by many to be mullet.

High time Kerry, yourself & I went after some giant flounder again as we have just about finished the one
from last year I chopped up to put in the freezer despite having a couple of meals off it each week.
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we get turbit [sp] over here mate used to get heaps in the south island I got them when I was at the fisheries thick buggers which were filleted and very tasty made normal flounder look like bay tiddlers
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