A monster metre-long flathead chokes to death while trying to gobble down another fish whole 

A small bream has had the last laugh after a monstrous flathead choked and died while trying to swallow it whole. 

A fisherman filmed the gruesome event during his morning walk in Burrill Lake, on Australia’s New South Wales south coast, earlier this month.

Michael Pool, 63, tried unsuccessfully pulling the victim from its predators mouth, but he said the huge flathead’s ‘shark-like’ teeth made it ‘impossible’ to wriggle it out.

A bream 45 centimetres in length became lodged in the one-metre-long flathead’s jaw (pictured)

He estimated the ambitious sea creature to be about one metre in length and to weigh at least 10 kilograms, but it was his jaw that ended up proving too small.

‘He took on too big of a bream,’ Mr Pool, who was out walking with his dog at the time said.

The shocked fisherman described the flathead a ‘freak of nature’ and thought even the smaller of the two fish spanned about 45 centimetres in length.

Mr Pool said it wasn’t his first encounter with the massive flathead, having previously spotted it while out kayaking on the lake.

Michael Pool (pictured), 63, tried unsuccessfully pulling the victim from its predators mouth, saying the huge flathead’s ‘shark-like’ teeth made it ‘impossible’ to wriggle it out

‘The fish was a big female breeder and I’d seen her many times. She would be about 18 years old,’ he told Yahoo7 Be.

‘It’s rare to see a flathead fish so close to shore. She must have swum up to the shallows during the night and chased the bream.

‘It looks like she charged at the bream full force to eat it, but it was just too big for her throat and it became stuck.’  

Mr Pool said it wasn’t his first encounter with the massive flathead (pictured), having previously spotted it while out kayaking on the lake