Big Fish

The State Government has put the responsibility for compulsory lifejackets for rock fishers in the hands of NSW Coastal Councils. Member for Swansea, Yasmin Catley, has described the decision to make local government responsible for opting in or out of this lifesaving legislation as a 'joke' and an exercise in cost shifting but she will be pushing the local Councils in her electorate to come onboard with the State Governments proposal. The electorate of Swansea takes in the deadliest stretch of coastline for rock fishing in NSW with a three-kilometre stretch around Snapper Point claiming 17 lives since 2008.

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This week our first cast comes from a NSW School that is using recreational fishing to bring the school community together, with spectacular results.

The Mullet run has put the brakes on and we find out why with Stinker.

Scott went to a certain supermarket chain the other day to buy bananas and came back with a food bag vacuum sealer! Julie Ray will teach us how to cook Kingfish in a bag.

Rob Paxevanos from Fishing Australia is on the Illawarra this week and also shares the secrets of Googong's huge redfin, one of the tastiest freshwater fish you will ever eat.

Some giant Bull Sharks are feasting on the abundance of fish in Middle Harbour at the moment and our regular Sydney Harbour correspondent Craig McGill is saving petrol money by letting them tow him around!

Everyone is catching fish, even Scott, as you can see from this fat King, taken with Chris Franklin, this one ended up in "the bag" (thanks Julie Ray) on this episode of The Big Fish.

Luke Pearce from NSW Fisheries was out looking for a fish on the Murray River and found a frog.

No ordinary frog, it was the Yellow Spotted Bell Frog, a frog that had been "extinct" for the past 30 years.

The Burrendong Classic, one of the biggest inland fishing events in NSW, is on this Friday.

Scott Levi catches up with Matt Hansen to talk about this massive event which is set to lure a pilgrimage of over 3,000 anglers to Burrendong, an inland fishing mecca.

The target species are the giant Yellow Belly, also known as Golden Perch, that live in this huge freshwater impoundment, three times bigger than Sydney Harbour.

The event has generated tens of thousands of dollars for freshwater fish habitat restoration in the Central West of the State.

Scott Levi spends a day on the beach with the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. The Rev, Maxi and Breezy discover the rugged Australian made sidecast reels and fall in love with the Aussie way of beach fishing, as you will hear on this episode of The Big Fish. The Rev also puts out a passionate plea to save the iconic company that makes these unique reels.

An update on Jo Starling’s FLOGY ‘Fly Only Gap Year’ coming to you live from the Foster Fly Muster, along with fly casting guru Peter Morse, for our first cast on The Big Fish.

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is touring the country and when they’re not on stage, playing some of the best blues music you will ever hear, they are fishing.

When you come from a place like the Tiwi Islands where the only cross city traffic is a wandering water buffalo, and, the commuter pressure revolves around catching the morning tide, Sydney Harbour, on a Sunday morning, must be enough to make your head spin, but Tiwi Islander Anthony Guy, has taken it all in his stride.

Our First cast on The Big Fish is with Jo Starling on her Fly Only Gap Year or "FLOGY". Jo catches up with famous fly fisher Garry MacDonald who shares his love of the sport.

The story of the Northern Rivers great ‘Canna-Bass’ raid is our first cast this morning on The Big Fish with the breathtakingly beautiful Clarrie Hall Dam as the backdrop. The serenity of a recent Bass fishing trip was shattered by a major police drug bust, with scores of police, the dog squad and helicopters hovering over Northern Rivers fisherman Simon Fitzpatrick.