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  parkaner > 29/09/2016, 01:38

  It's quite like Top Gear, except it's about fishing.
  
  Three blokes travel to exotic locations and have a few capers, poke fun at each other and don't catch anything.
  
  
  Last week, they spent the whole show building up a dive with giant squid, telling us how dangerous it was, flew the world's best dive support team and a special chainmail suit to Chile, then at the last minute decided the sea was too choppy and didn't do it. Anticlimax.
  
  
  This week, they went to the Falklands in pursuit of some mythical giant 'toothfish', built a comedy contraption to fish for it with, left the bait out overnight, then reeled up a line of empty hooks and went home with nothing.
  
  I know you don't always catch anything when you go fishing but if you're making a tv series about it, maybe don't show the ones that didn't work out?

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  parkaner > 19/10/2016, 15:17

  There was a better result on last night's show, with a couple of hefty sized sharks caught from the beach in South Efrica.
  
  But then they set up a heavy metal band in the back of a fishing boat to try and attract some lop-toothed sharks to come and play with them. But it didn't work so they decided to do a bit of chumming instead, sounds a bit iffy to the untrained ear.
  
  And who knew there was such a thing as the Shark Hearing Research Institute, nice work for someone who can't be arsed with a real job.
  
  Overall it isn't a bad watch, better than that show with Dean Macey (although I'm looking forward to the episode with Casey Batchelor! )

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  Clitterbug > 19/10/2016, 17:08

  Whattt!!! Youve never heard of the '' Shark Hearing Research Institute ''
  Its right next door to the ''Sharks Have Intermittent Tinnitus Establishment''
  The fucking things fucking students/researchers get grants for, seen one on HIGNFY last week where some daft cunt in government gave away £300,000 to some smart arse to find out do Cod have regional accents, seriously, apparently Cod can make sounds and the Cod in the Channel are different to the Cod in Scottish waters and the girl Cod dont get the boy Cod chat up lines!
  Well who the fuck can understand a Glaswegian Cod anyway, Jimmy!

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  parkaner > 26/10/2016, 15:11

  In Thailand spear-fishing for Moray eels last night.
  They met a man who had his thumb bitten off, so the doctors cut off one of his toes and sewed it on to his hand as a replacement. Bet he's got a few weird party tricks.
  
  They also claimed that the native spear-fishers spend so much time in the water that when they get out on to dry land, they suffer from "land sickness", they probably just made that up.
  
  Also that needlefish can turn around and stab the fishermen dead. Reminds me of a headline in the Weekly World News (do they still publish that?) about an angler stabbed by a swordfish, but you never knew what to believe in that paper.

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  parkaner > 01/11/2016, 22:54

  It's full of top tips, this show.
  If you want to catch a devil catfish, you're going to need some stinky bat poo.
  This may explain why I have never caught one.
  That and not having been to Laos.
  
  But they didn't catch one either, so technically that means I am just as good as they are at it.
  Yibbida yibbida........ :D

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  Coop > 08/11/2016, 22:23

  So i have never been fishing but i really enjoy fishing shows like this. I really enjoyed things like Extreme fishing with Robson Green and River Monsters. This show i also enjoyed a bit when i was watching the first episode. I think i preferred some other fishing shows but it is still quite enjoyable to watch. The fishing was good and the guys seemed quite cool as well.

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  parkaner > 09/11/2016, 00:51

  I thought tonight's episode was the best of the series.
  They travel to all sorts of exotic places, but tonight they were in some place called Scotland. I like it better when they do something I can actually relate to, like fishing for cod off the rocks, and winding up a ling from the boat.
  Did all the other 20 rods he had hanging over the rails of that boat magically disappear as he lifted the fish into the boat? There is no way I would have the patience to set up that many rigs, the camera crew must have helped out a bit. Imagine if 5 or 6 of them had went off at the same time with bites, in real life that would have been tangle-central.

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  parkaner > 23/11/2016, 02:18

  Wow, Norway is the place to go. A 37 pound cod!
  
  Then fishing with the world's smallest rod through a hole in the ice. Looked a bit ridiculous, but pretty cool to be able to carry your entire gear in one pocket.
  
  Then finishing off with a giant King spider crab, they are quite freaky looking. I have caught a few normal sized spider crabs, unintentionally, and their long spindly legs give me the creeps trying to get them off the hook.
  
  That was the last of the series, I quite enjoyed it, definitely needs to come back for another run.
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