Big Fish

Our first cast this morning is with Vicki Hastrich whose new book Night Fishing is a beautifully written memoir of a childhood spent fishing.

First cast this morning we feature Mark Cloutier's River Song another magnificent contribution to the canon of fly fishing literature in Australia.

The 3 year ban on taking Snapper in parts of South Australia is our first cast this morning on The Big Fish with ABC fisherperson and reporter Brittany Evins.

First cast this week on The Big Fish is with local Glenbawn Bass angler Mitchell Cone who is a real gun when it comes to this vast waterway. Mitchell shares some hot spots and hot techniques if you want to tangle with the hard fighting Bass of Glenbawn, you are also a chance to catch a trophy Cod or Yellowbelly.

This episode of TBF Col Trenaman talks about using bobby corks off the rocks, beach and the estuary break walls and Treno also talks about the effectiveness of octopus for jewfish bait. We go fly-yaking for Snapper with Dave Liddy on the Northern Beaches and a whole lot more on The Big Fish.

This episode of The Big Fish we meet a real life character directly form the pages of Earnest Hemingway's epic fishing novel The Old Man and the Sea, he even looks a bit like Spencer Tracy! 92 year old Kevin Jones has our first cast on The Big Fish and shares the mighty tale of catching a leaping Marlin on a handline off Trial Bay South West Rocks.

This week on The Big Fish the Morse code of how to fight BIG fish on fly gear. Peter Morse has caught plenty of very big fish on fly gear and shares some hard won ideas on how to land them. Paul Welsh takes us kayak fishing and talks about a very close encounter with a tiger shark and we hear about the epic capture of this lovely kingy.

Picking up good vibrations this episode of the Big Fish with Rob Paxevanos and a masterclass on fishing for flathead with metal and soft vibes.

How would you like to regularly catch trophy sized snapper in your local river or estuary along the NSW coast? That's the plan with the NSW Fisheries oyster reef restoration program. Restoring this habitat in Victoria has lured the big snapper back into this shallow estuarine environment and led to some great catches. That's our first cast on this episode of TBF with Senior Fisheries Manager of Coastal Systems in NSW Kylie Russell.

Our first cast this episode of The Big Fish comes from the home of the giant wild Norwegian Salmon the Gaula River with Aussie fly fisher David Abrahams talking about the economic and social benefits of maintaining a healthy and sustainable wild Atlantic Salmon recreational fishery.