I Can't Believe It! || The Hunt for the Metre Flathead

[@MattsFishingEscapes]

Rodney is still the star 🌟! He so deserves the rocky theme music coz he's always fighting...Rodney doesn't get invited to Ballina? Coz he's the champ🏆! Still happy for you Bergy... but next time take Rodney coz he'll find the 1M! 🎉😂

[@samuelgeue999]

thank you so much for releasing that beast, the big breeders need more respect.

[@fishingandoutdoorstuff8051]

They have been caught in Qld… eurimbula back in about 1992. 106cm on a yabby while whiting fishing. Great ep Bergie, keep ‘em coming!

[@dogmachine2406]

*Willem Powerfish has entered the chat*

[@terencephilipstrydom4838]

Awesome catch! We'll done!

[@scottwhite115]

The drone shots are great.

[@steverichards9087]

Bloody great fish mate, time and patience really pays off in the end. Like most of us here, my dream too is to catch the elusive 1m flatty. My PB 78 cm at the pin a few years back, halco laser pro 45 1.5m. It was bloody great fight and she swam away beautifully to give us more flatty's to battle. Tight lines big fella. 🎣

[@roguefishing]

Beauty of a fish mate. I used to brag to my partner while watching your show about how I had caught a bigger flathead than Mark Berg, but now I can't do that. Epic stuff mate. Beat me by 3cms. Fish that big are honestly breathtaking to see in person. Ps would love to see you grind it out for the true metre plus specimen 👌

[@jamieboydmusic6956]

Great fish!!! So broad!!!! I got one like that a few years back now in Cresent Head. Killick Creek. 87cm and similar in girth to yours. Congratulations on a massive PB. Fish of a lifetime. I hope you crack the metre one as well one day soon on camera for us all to see!

[@mardy7788]

Great video mate!

[@grafikkrime566]

What a highpoint, nice catch Mark. 30 years to catch that one mate, what a feeling it must have been

[@shaneyule3484]

That drone footage is awesome 👌

[@aaronclift4925]

Great ep, I particularly enjoyed the drone footage of flatty hitting lures 👏

[@dennishall2696]

I live on the other side from where you caught that big flathead Mark. I’ve caught bigger, but not often, to be fair. Try snorkelling in the swimming area in the enclosed Shaw’s Bay. You can hang in the water over them and watch them watching you. Best not to fish there though. In summer, I can sometimes walk down to the water, and have a flatty on the plate in 15 mins

[@lovefishncookn14]

Congratulations Bergie 👍😎🎣 stinking flathead. My PB is 80cm but that was using bait, I’m still that big girl on plastics.

[@jamesbudworth9296]

1. 11 in a cast net Broadbeach Waters and 1.04 rod and reel are my biggest on the Gold Coast in 2004

[@mattspinaze15]

I love how there's all those bream there at the Yamba Shores Tavern - great fun for the kids to give them a feed. If you go back to Ballina again try heading a little bit more upstream towards the flats around Burns Point and Emigrant Creek - there's always decent flattys there and last session we had a really big girl get near the boat just out of net range before she just shook her head and cruised off.

[@The_Bushman]

I've landed a 73cm specimen up near Pimlico. I have on good authority there are much larger getting around too.

[@mattspinaze15]

@@The_Bushman I'd believe it too - Pimlico to Wardell always seems to produce some big ones.

[@michaelobrien1444]

Love watching your shows Thanks keep it up

[@ScottishLureFishing2024]

98cm is my pb caught forster tuncurry at the bridge tuncurry side on soft plastic ..nice fish lads

[@ClintDeBruyn]

Great episode mate I would tip now in the Tweed 5 years ago landed 112cm you have seen the photo keep chasing mate you will nail it ✌️

[@outaboutwithmarkjustine3183]

well done bergie thats a massive flattie, well worth the time and effort you put into it!! i'm a addict member i wld love to go flattie fishing with you👍🏻😁🎣

[@barearsedprospector4495]

Great vid Mark Ive just discovered your channel....being from the GC I much prefer fishing the Tweed. Ive been pulling some nice fatties off the end of Boyds Island, my PB is 70cm 2 weeks ago I pulled up a 63cm but dropped a stonker. I'm fishing from a Hobie PA14 chasing jacks now you've got some great vids on chasing those too.

[@colbystar4557]

Great video guys! Just a FYI, plenty of 1m and 1m plus flatties have been caught in QLD though.

[@tomclarke5786]

Is that a double clutch I saw at 15:25?? I never thought I'd see the day

[@simonbardega5962]

You need to get down here to Gippsland, Lake Tyers if you want that metery Mark..

[@brettellis1837]

Omg omg what next 512mm bream lol love it.😂😂😂😂😂.

[@zacn2817]

Hats off to you for the dedication to the grind 🎉 Anyone know what make and model the last boat bergy was fishing out of in the richmond? Looks exactly like what I'm after

[@ricktalbot6548]

well done mark what a nice flattie

[@justinadams5159]

When a plan comes together!!

[@petermann7207]

Big fish stories right here. 😂😂😂

[@Jpgundarun]

I believe I have seen a metre monster in the channel at Lake Illawarra. I was standing up in my front steer boat heading back toward Winding bridge on a rising tide and I spotted a shape in about 4 foot of water that made me turn around and go over the same spot again. All as I can say is it looked massive in about 4 foot of water so out of the water it would have definitely been a monster. By the time I anchored and tried to flick something out it was gone.

[@kelliehundt]

So awesome 👏🏼 39:39 great size!! In my home town 👍🏼

[@nudgerss]

I caught a 70cm on 8lb line up in Mooloolaba last year. That was my biggest but back in England now chasing Pike, Perch and Trout.

[@suitinaute]

Nice fish.

[@FazeCooper1313]

Nice video🎉

[@danielfarmer8012]

We're you fished in North Creek on the flats is in my apinyon the best large flathead fishing spot in ballina most of my massive flathead were cort in that creek.

[@jarrodtodd918]

Awesome mate! 👌👌

[@kdxracer184]

Dang, I wish winters were 7° C where I live. 😂

[@MrMrFlathead]

My mate caught a 108 cm flatty on a clone prawn lure in QLD

[@LongyAUS]

0:14:45 No, you didn't lose that fish, no you're not an idiot, that was the DAMN BANANA pure and simple.

[@afseale]

1080 bro……..ya got all the 4k gear…..lets go! Cool video anyway.

[@TheAutisticEducator]

I've only caught 2 over a metre in 60 years of fishing. But I only use 6-pound line (4 pound with braid) and very light gear and have lost MANY!

[@darrylmackie9184]

REALLY !

[@TheAutisticEducator]

@@tjf5148 What was the point of this comment?

[@TheAutisticEducator]

@@darrylmackie9184 yes really

[@samasimOFsh]

Go Uncle Rodney and Uncle Burgey 👌😁

[@MrSkybeau]

Holly shitballs!!! That is a bloody big Lizard 😯😯

[@thaddeusnagas4253]

Thanks mate great fight greater fish

[@BOWHUNTERLODGE]

see mouth of the tweed rv,on the border,absolute monsters there years back,i use to take scuba divers there for training,heads like shovels

[@TravisFaul-s1y]

You need to go to Lake Macquarie that’s were the monsters are mate

[@tiller_gorilla7220]

My biggest is 96cm port hacking nsw.and a lil trick i learnt down at narooma to get big girls is to throw a few stinger hooks through a slapstix and unweighted in shallow water less then a metre

[@collector7993]

At Tin can bay in Qld about 9 years ago I caught a 70 cm dusky flatty and thought it was terrific. About two months later I caught a 120 cm one and it blew me away. The jackal lure I always used is no longer available and I've never had another lure that performed so well. The big ones are only in certain areas and are very elusive.

[@robberlin2230]

Well done mate

[@rynoriffs6505]

GET THE DOG!

[@kyus1974]

Got a 99cm in currumbin creek in 2007, on a metal vibe.

[@redman2787]

you are mistaken i got one over a meter ono my whiting rod land based at the pin 20 years ago.and pelpole could not belive it when i let the big girl go before max catch limits. that is why we still have good fish and big girls out there

[@NashPercy]

How long is the zerek affinity

[@mattewscott9684]

Tbh I saw another channel where a guy used his drone when targetting flathead, it just seemed like the perfect addition to ur hunting big flatties kit. Was amazing to watch ,unfortunately I dont know the name of that channel but you might want to lookit up .

[@exaygeetee9454]

Nev's Fishing.

[@1isdom]

👍🏽 yep

[@needmoreboost6369]

2014 at Caloundra there 2 over 140cm were caught one of which was killed!

[@TheFlatFishos]

Is that My Lure Box on board 🫡

[@TomAtkinson-gq2wx]

Many moons ago I had the privilege to catch two over the magic metre mark at Ballina 1-8 and 1-10

[@jaigriggs3197]

my dad has, in the net in Queensland

[@viol8r007]

Bergy you ok you look a little thin my man hope ya healthy ....

[@jamessippel7489]

Well done mate. 👍

[@unclemarkyeatonshill5803]

Go over to Iluka and up the north arm

[@aussietesla7821]

best to wet your hands before handling any fish so you don't rub off it's protective mucus with dry hands else its dead in a week or two.

[@oliewray8357]

Come on mate so you're trying to say if you touch a flatty with dry hands it dies😂😂😂 that's so dumb

[@aussietesla7821]

@@oliewray8357 done a lot of marine science work in the past breeding and handling marine fish particularly snapper , bream and mulloway....

[@oliewray8357]

Only dry hands have the ability to kill them 😂😂 don't worry about hooking it netting it then having it thrash round the boat for a few minutes then lip gripping it and get a picture all that stuff is fine 😂😂but if you forget to dip your hand in the water it's dead 😂

[@oliewray8357]

Did you do a lot of study's on the wet hand technique 😂 your a clown

[@davidrich2389]

What lure was that minnow called

[@MarkBergFishingAddiction]

Duo Tide Minnow Slim

[@johnlighton7025]

Well done but if I watch someone catch the metery it has to be ...

[@weriesblack1375]

Been in qld for 8 years now never managed to catch a flatty😢

[@The_Bushman]

Cap'ns Charters Bro, Bo or Ryan will have you sorted.

[@weriesblack1375]

@@The_Bushman thanks ill go check them out 👍

[@OnlySnxgz]

What lure

[@MarkBergFishingAddiction]

The lure is a Duo Tide Minnow Slim in the Neo Pearl colour

[@Aiden-vc5ph]

My pop caught a 98cm flatty in qld

[@tightlines106]

I caught a 3mtr back in the day before all this technology

[@4x4andfishing]

Actually seen footage of a bloke catching flathead with banana peel on a jig head

[@MrBlocky00]

Nar mate everyone looking for those stingray dog 3m long flatty found deep in the mangrove male brothel

[@brettellis1837]

Shit fizzer I though you had the meter plus ➕.

[@darrylmackie9184]

Fishing my arse, netting or dredging, same result.

[@redman2787]

just like barra when they get old enough they become girls. please tell me if i am miss informed

[@redman2787]

got lots f big ones back then about 50cm is good eating.please dont take the big girls

[@TheYuyuChannel]

I bet this comment won’t even get any likes

[@BOWHUNTERLODGE]

mind if i ask what drone you use?

[@stevennott6139]

16:20 tiny one was a bartail not a dusky like the rest You need to try lake Macquarie, lots of big ones there

[@joshforrester3370]

Good stuff berg still just comes down to time on the water how can I send ya the biggest flatty you'll eva see pic

[@BillyDanielfishing]

Your well wrong I’ve got 5 over a metre in QLD over 40yrs

[@spbspermbrosadventures6388]

11:01 and u wonder why crabs are less and less each year