Big Fish

Commercial Trap and Line Fishers and Ocean Watch Australia are working on innovative solutions to avoid entanglement in commercial fishing gear. 

First cast, tips on fishing the "fresh" with Alex Bellissimo, Sydney land based guru. Stinker is back with the tale of the escapee mud crab and a whole lot more. 

Kendl Cramer and her all-female crew are back from the Barra Nationals in the NT with everyone on board catching fish.Along with dodging Crocs, logs and Sharks Kendl also achieved the lifelong goal of a legal Jewfish, even though it was a Black Jewfish from up North, it still counts.

Our first cast on The Big Fish is with Ben Galbraith who launches his 12ft tinnie off the beach at Gisborne NZ (sound familiar?) catches tons of huge Snapper and Kingfish and recently scored this massive Yellowfin Tuna out of his tiny boat.

"The Beard" after serving onboard the ABC's long running podcast "Tales from the Tinny" has put the kayak on the roof racks and moved back to his old stomping ground the South Coast of NSW and shares his adventures on The Big Fish.

Anne Michie from the New England North West chapter of OzFish joins us from the banks of Lake Keepit for a great, regular, Easter family fishing event, the "Carp we don't Keepit" Carp muster.

This week on The Big Fish, Stinker shares a great fish cakes recipe, using one of the most sustainable and under rated fish, the Australian Salmon. 

This episode of The Big Fish we talk to OzFish on plans to rehabilitate the Richmond River to prevent future blackwater events that lead to massive fish kills.

This week chasing whiting on surface flies with Brett Clarke from BWC flies.

The mal de mer led Alex Bellissimo to become one of Sydney's best land based fishermen and he shares his Snapper secrets on this episode of The Big Fish.

Jonah Yick, Fisheries Manager with Inland Fisheries Service Tasmania and leader of  the Carp Management Program has the first cast this morning on The Big Fish and what a good news story it is! 

Stinker has been mugged by a pack of marauding pelagics whilst fishing for Snapper and he is not happy!

Bag the podcast of The Big Fish with Scott "Mullet Guts" Levi as we take you on a virtual cruise.

Bag the podcast of The Big Fish with Scott "Mullet Guts" Levi as we take you on a virtual cruise.

Bag the podcast of The Big Fish with Scott "Mullet Guts" Levi as we take you on a virtual cruise.

Bag the podcast of The Big Fish with Scott "Mullet Guts" Levi as we take you on a virtual cruise.

Bag the podcast of The Big Fish with Scott "Mullet Guts" Levi as we take you on a virtual cruise.

Bag the podcast of The Big Fish with Scott "Mullet Guts" Levi as we take you on a virtual cruise.

Bag the podcast of The Big Fish with Scott "Mullet Guts" Levi as we take you on a virtual cruise.

This edition of TBF we take you to the crystal clear margins of Lake Eucumbene for some spectacular sight fishing for big Brown Trout with Steve Dunn and Stinker has fallen victim to a "Jack attack" on the Tweed.