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THE EVOLUTION OF FLATHEAD LURING

I turned 60 recently. It’s a bit of a milestone really, makes me feel like a bit of an old fart. But with age you get to look back a bit at how things used to be, how they are now and what happened in between. I’m not up to the stage of being a whining old bugger reminiscing about the good old days, but one passion that has been with me virtually my entire life is catching flathead. I grew up watching my grandfather nailing the heads of monster flathead onto the chook shed wall, and when you were a

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