This week, Miles Nolte returns from New Zealand to hammer sipping smallmouths in a Chevy Malibu, we steal Tim Landwehr’s drift boat and hook some dam pike, find the worst cheese curds in Wisconsin, and spend 20 minutes explaining the inner workings of a Tater Tot.

This week, spear fisherman, party Adonis, and artist Chris Stewart swims toward a man eater and documents your most drunken moments, we study strip club polaroids and argue over cup size estimates, nearly take our faces off with a mahi-mahi drone, and smuggle a snakehead into the VIP room.

This week, Jersey Riggs creator, Jeff Cammerino, tells us how rock and roll meant more than being the next big thing in soft plastics, we compare largemouths to construction workers, catch everything with a heart of shiny gold, and explain why you never use a different lure even though you keep buying tons of new lures.

This week, veteran fly guide, Joe Demalderis, and artist Mike Sudal navigate a hostile homeless camp while looking for happy carp, we freeze and thaw for hot nighttime brown action, see aliens on our porch even though we’re sober, and wear our trout vests to the Ren Faire.

This week, Reed “The Fish Monger” Brand teaches us how to tell our friends they suck at filleting without hurting their feelings, we inspect the gills of a largemouth viewed 1 million times, feed a family of five with the tails of golden tilefish, and skip out on football to go lobstering in a gale.

This week, legendary guide and writer, Steve Dally, shoots high-velocity AA batteries at giant, venomous sculpins, we fail to land a single tarpon after getting easily 100 shots, almost get locked up for sea shell smuggling, and watch a massive trout get caught by a massive A-hole.

Learn how to break the news to your boss’s escort that she’s 100 miles offshore and won’t see land again for a really long time.

This week, Captains Eric Kerber and Darren Dorris navigate us to the casino buffet with nothing but a compass heading, we spend $35,000 on poles to help us catch tiny bonito, learn why striped bass love the smell of diesel fuel, and invite Lavar Burton to read us the flounder regulations.

This week, lure maker Dennis Perko and tattooer “Sideshow” Brian Woolverton fight over who gets to drive the Milf Hunter 5000 to the fishing expo, we stuff a water wolf in the freezer and financially ruin our parents, glide bait our way to internet trolling, and die eating Montana sushi.

This week, Joe and his best bud, Mark Wizeman, muscle through a show after chasing a 5-year-old rainbow slayer around all day, Pastor Ted drops by to bless their quest for “orange trout,” we get kicked out of a bar for underage flyfishing, and impress the ladies with our mud stockings.