The Big Fish: Switch Your Fish

School Principle Chris Franklin has used his love of fishing to developed a program to engage the students and their families in the healthy and hip pastime of fishing.

The "Reel Gauntlet" is the fishing equivalent of football's state of origin with recfishers from around the country battling it out for the prizes, Jo shares the story in our first cast on The Big Fish.Stinker looks at the history of the Pater Noster rig and Peachy joins us with fly rod in hand, all coming up on The Big Fish.

"Switch Your Fish" A great sustainable recreational fishing idea from Queensland for your first cast this morning with Rob Paxevanos from Fishing Australia.

On this Gone Fishing Day weekend in NSW we check out some of the events and focus on boating and fishing safety tech.

In this episode Kendl Cramer from the Women's Recreational Fishing League explores the North Coast and shares a sharky offshore encounter with the man in the grey suit. Next week Kendl heads up the Richmnod River at Ballina to check out the fishing.  

The long weekend that get's Scott's casting arm twitching is here, the opening of the Trout season in NSW and Peachy joins The Big Fish with an update on conditions.

Col the "Weigh-master" Trenaman went to Windamere to chase Cod and Yellowbelly and hooked Carpzilla! A 10 kilo monster. 

Kymmy Adams from Babinda had just crossed a shallow tidal creek, heading for the beach flats and a spot of top water fishing for her favourites, Queenfish and Trevally, when this big fellow popped up! Hear the full story on this episode of The Big Fish. 

Hooking a BIG fish is just the start, landing a big fish takes skill, the right gear and, sometimes, a bit of luck.

This episode of The Big Fish you will hear about the incredible bounce back of the estuary at Mallacoota after the nets were removed and it was turned into a sustainable recreational fishery.