John Costello has been producing excellent quality fishing videos for ages.
With his latest one on 'Big Flatty Lures' , you could be mistaken he was talking about targeting murray cod by the size of these swimbaits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlO-Ea38qgI
The old Daiwa Double Clutch on a 1-3kg flick stick is no more. It is dwarfed by the 15-30lb for 1-5oz monster he is using.
Saves going to the gym I suppose? Just spend a few hours launching a few of these swimbaits.

Bloody big lures, but look at the fish next to it just what i need for those 25-35 buggers i get around here lol

peatop wrote:Bloody big lures, but look at the fish next to it just what i need for those 25-35 buggers i get around here lol

They do say that 'where there a lots of smaller flatties, the big ones aren't far away'

For sure they are around, there was one living in the clifton springs habour but some kids caught it last season I've caught some good sized ones when fishing for snapper or gummies, i always let most of my flatties go.

erik the viking wrote:
They do say that 'where there a lots of smaller flatties, the big ones aren't far away'

Except port phillip bay

spider25160 wrote: Except port phillip bay

Why is that so? PPB any different to Wp or Welshpool or any other estuary?
Don't littlies usually hang around the biggun's

erik the viking wrote:

spider25160 wrote: Except port phillip bay

Why is that so? PPB any different to Wp or Welshpool or any other estuary?
Don't littlies usually hang around the biggun's

Both of the other places you mentioned have a lot more blue spots than ppb.
A large amount of the flathead population in ppb is made up by various species of sand flathead that don't get big by the standards of other flathead