Big Fish

Do you get sea sick? Well an Australian boat builder has come up with an innovative marine suspension system that could make the terrible “mal de mer” a thing of the past. That’s our first cast this morning on The Big Fish.  

Stinker has worms and whiting love them, Treno talks about his Hastings River flathead ideas and Bushy shares his South Coast surface Kingfish secrets on this episode of The Big Fish with Scott Levi.

An amazing story on the therapeutic power of fly fishing, first cast in this episode of The Big Fish.

First time fly fishers Jordan and Al give their impressions of stream fly fishing in the high country over a cup of tea in this episode of The Big Fish.

Col Trenneman takes us Bass fishing at Glenbawn with surface lures, Bushy shares his Tuna care secrets, he believes if you are going to catch a fish for your own consumption that could be worth $5,000 in the Tokyo markets, you should look after it it. Stinker has tales from the tick gates and other yarns from the Tweed. Roden Woodhams has the Sydney blue water scene covered on The Big Fish.

Our first cast this morning comes from fishing historian Dr Anna Clark, author of the new book The Catch. The first section of the book deals with the well documented accounts of the first Australians and their incredibly advanced techniques, tackle, and tactics for fishing in both inland and coastal waters. Over coming weeks, we will look at the rise of recreational and commercial fishing in Australia with Anna.

First cast this morning on The Big Fish comes from Jo Starling who has just been crowned the champion angler at the Secret Women’s Business Barramundi Tournament fished on Corrobboree Billabong.

We also talk about Bass fishing on Somerset Dam where Jo is competing this weekend in the final of the Kayak Fishing tournament. The Bass are so big in this Queensland impoundment that Jo believes the winning 2 fish bag limit will probably go over 6 kilos.

We continue the focus on the hard fighting Bass with Col Treneman on the Mid North Coast. The Bass have been trapped in the lower reaches of the rivers due to the lack of rain and the catch and release fishing has been spectacular. The fishing with locally made soft bodied cicada fizzers at night has been very exciting with the heart stopping surface strikes shattering the still night air!

Stinker looks at all the weird and wonderful forms of fishing from course fishing to fly fishing, game fishing to bait fishing.

Bushy shares his memories of opening day antics on the Monaro and Craig McGill has the tale of a massive seal eating Bull shark in Sydney Harbour and the monster metre plus Kingfish that gobbled up a giant Cuttlefish head on this episode of The Big Fish.

Our first cast this morning comes from Andy Thompson, a Fly Fishing Guide in the Whitsundays who has had over 13 million views on his youtube fishing channel. We answer a question from Andrew in Busselton on catching yellowfin whiting on fly. Greg French joins us from Greenland to share his Arctic Char adventure, Bushy has been designing hard bodied lures for Mulloway and Peter LaBlang has the Northern Sydney scene covered on this episode of The Big Fish.

Bucking bluefin are busting up offshore and the crew of Fat Cat have had a feast, Roden Woodhams shares the story with our first cast this morning on The Big fish. The goats that chewed the octopus feature with Stinker, Sydney Harbour has become windy Harbour and Craig McGill shares his secret sheltered spots and Rob Paxevanos compares cod in the carp invested waters around Canberra and those in the carp free rivers of the Northern Tablelands on this episode of The Big Fish.

Our first cast this morning comes from fisheries ecologist Tom Rayner with a simple, popular and evidence based idea to increase native fish stocks in our big rivers in Western NSW by using fish screens on irrigation pumps.

The Tailor are biting from Port Stephens up the coast, in big numbers, and Alex Bellisimo gives us a master class on Tailor from the beach, rocks and estuary. Stinker has been smoking them and Julie Ray has some great smoked Tailor recipes, "Tailor" made, for this episode of The Big fish.

Bonefish, angler access and the mighty Macleay River on this episode of The Big Fish with Scott Levi.