Platform

The AFN team go head to head in a North Vs South Challenge. Using the same lures, Nige Webster targets tropical reef fish, while down south Bill Classon chases southern bluefin tuna. The day has plenty of surprises, including a monstrous and deadly visitor!

Extreme Polycrafting

Nige Webster and Jase Medcalf do what that do best – go fishing, and try to break things. The boys chase pelagic fish offshore before turning their hands to target estuary fish. The day takes on a twist when the boys are asked to test a boat in a very different fashion!

Nomad Game Show

The AFN spring a surprise visit to the Nomad sportfishing operation. The crew hold a game show to choose somebody to front the cameras and have a day of fishing with Nige! A Sydney angler jumps on board, and while we get to know our new mate, the tropical fishing action goes absolutely nuts!

Coral Trout Metal Challenge

Nige heads out on the water with plumber and avid fisherman Jamie, and tries to convert him from bait fishing to metal lures. Can they catch enough coral trout to change Jamie’s mind, or will he stick to his ways and continue to fish bait?

Ballarat Fly Vs Lure & Gold Coast Mackerel

It’s Fly V Lure as Nige joins Trevor Hawkins on Lake Windouree and engages in a friendly trout competition. Then Kord takes Nige out to the mackerel grounds, where they utilise some unwilling participants.

VIP Raffle Adventure

Nige takes a BCF raffle winner out on a fishing expedition, targeting both reef species and pelagics. If they can’t catch enough species across the two environments, Nige is stuck packing boxes for BCF.

Mackerel Surfing Challenge

Nige takes champion longboard surfer Nic Jones offshore, and sets a few challenges for the rookie angler. Then they hit the surf, and the tables are turned, as Nic sets Nige a few challenges of his own.

Surface Plastics and Cod

The AFN Fishing team heads to NSW to try and catch Murray cod on surface soft plastic lures: a task they have never achieved. The crew then heads to Victoria and pits two teams against each other in a unique fishing tournament.

The Brynterview

Today we conduct a job interview on the water as the team takes on a budding journalist intern. To get the job he simply has to catch a big fish! We then head north and give a barramundi pro very limited time to catch fish.

Mission ‘Shut Dave Up’

The AFN team have a ‘lippy’ cameraman that challenges Nige to better a ‘Personal Best.’ Nige and a fishing guide work hard in the tropics to silence their noisy work colleague!

Father Son Trout Challenge

The AFN Fishing Show heads to the tropics with a special father-to-son fishing challenge. A fishing guide is put to the test to catch a large coral trout on soft plastics or pay the price of failing.

Sneaky Tricks

Today we put a fishing journalist to the test: he gets one day to prove he can catch NSW luderick using an artificial technique he has written about in magazines. The team then heads to the New Zealand South Island to target trout in fast flowing rivers.

Gold Coast Trifecta

The AFN Fishing team heads to the blue waters of the Gold Coast. We enlist a game fishing crew to help us test a theory. After the shock of hearing about their strange challenge, the crew quickly get to work and take on a rough ocean.

Survivor Island

Today starts on a deserted tropical island with only a box of lures and a challenge to survive! To help us catch fish, we use the help of some touring Texan anglers. Then we target Murray cod in NSW and conduct an on-water job interview at the same time!

Gold Coast and New Zealand

The AFN team take on a multi-species fishing tournament on the Gold Coast that also aims to raise money for paramedics with a great cause. We then head to New Zealand and target cruising lake trout with soft plastic lures.

Weipa Barra Challenge

Nige brings the challenge to fishing guide Nicolai Fewtrell – catch 20 small barra, or one over 75 centimeters. The downside? For every bi-catch that comes aboard, Nicolai has to eat a random item from the dreaded ration pack!

Eucumbene Trout Season

Nige and Trevor head to Eucumbene for a rematch of their fly vs lure challenge. The boys make some competitive catches, but as they bash through the bush, things take a dramatic turn for the worse. Stranded in the middle of nowhere with a man down, this suddenly becomes a tougher challenge than they ever expected!

Tasmania Trout & Copeton Dam

Peter Morse and Simon Gawesworth join the locals fly-fishing the stunning waters of Tasmania. Then later, Nige Webster and Benny Lockwood break out the soft plastics to hunt for golden perch at Copeton Dam.

New Zealand Trout

Nige Webster joins Frank Prokop in New Zealand and puts his Aussie pride on the line – can he snare that elusive 20 pound trout?

Snapper Fishing Tactics

Lee Rayner runs through all the techniques required to catch a snapper in our bays and estuaries. Along the way he catches snapper on bait during the height of the snapper season on Port Phillip Bay. Learn step by step on how to rig for snapper, what are the best baits as well as when and where to fish. He also demonstrates correct anchoring techniques, how to read your sounder, boat fitout and all the little things that will increase your catch rate. He then embarks on some pinkie/rugger action on soft plastics and proves that snapper action continues during winter.

Barra Tactics

Join Kane Dysart and Bill Classon on the Daly River in the Northern Territory as they cover barramundi tactics, tackle and lures. Kane has extensive barra fishing experience having been a fishing guide, managed a tackle shop in Darwin and he is now a trained fisheries scientist. In this terrific instructional DVD Kane demonstrates trolling techniques, casting, lures and a piece on bait—with some great barra action.

Pelagic Fishing Tactics

The Sport Fish DVD crew have spent the past two years chasing and filming the capture of pelagic fish around Australia. We have caught a huge variety of fish in many exciting ways and the best techniques have been compiled into this action packed DVD. A selection of top-class anglers will take you through all you need to know about catching pelagics such as tailor, kingfish, tuna, mackerel, dolphin fish and marlin. Lure and bait fishing techniques are covered, as is targeting inshore bay fish to our larger offshore speedsters. If you are an accomplished angler looking for something different, or are new to the sport of catching pelagics, then there is definitely something in here for you.

QLD Surf Fishing Tactics

Learn the techniques, baits, locations and gear to use to effectively catch fish in the surf.

Baja 8: Wet Dreams

A seamless blend of action, tips and techniques including various methods of attaching wind-on leaders, using offset hooks, EALS and gyros. A comprehensive look into a few things that just might make a difference the next time you see a tailer or present a bait to a fish in the pattern. Filmed entirely off the beach at Hotel Palmas de Cortez, BCS, Mexico.

Baja 9: WFO

Timing is everything and once in awhile you hit it just right. 135 billfish raised in 7 days. In the 20 years we’ve been filming down here, I’ve never seen it go off like this. This is as good as it gets. Non-stop action including the most exciting underwater footage ever shot as the marlin went off. Multiple fish in the pattern, fish up finning and tailing, it was simply a marlin stalker’s dream trip come true.

Mazatlan Billfish Classic

Join us for one of the most incredible offshore tournaments in history. The world-Class Mazatlan Billfish Classic, from the beautiful El Cid Marina & Resort in Mazatlan, Mexico, where some of the best teams in the world completed for the coveted top honors. Over 290 billfish were caught & released in just 3 days. Todd Mansur, skipper of The Boardroom, & Marc Higashi onboard Tiger Spirit, both provide valuable insights & tips into not only the importance of, and how to pre-fish tournaments, but why team chemistry & dynamics on board any boat competing at this level are critical to finishing in the money.

Mixed Bag

The fish rich waters of the Southern California can be some of the most productive fishing in the world. An established breeding ground and nursery for both mako and thresher sharks, these waters are also a home to a number of other hard fighting game fish. From yellowtail and white sea bass, to calicos, barracude, bonito and halibut, both the inshore coastal and island, as well as the offshore fishing here can be spectacular.

A Tribute to Zane Grey

Few individuals have had as direct and as powerful an influence on the sport of fishing as did Zane Grey. Join us for the most spectacular archive fishing footage ever released, as we travel the South Pacific with Grey, in his pursuit to become the fist man to ever land a 1000 pound billfish on rod and reel. Thrill to epic battles with giant blacks and blues, strippers, sailfish, yellowfin tuna, tigers, threshers and even steelhead, with this unique and rare glimpse back in time, as we honour one of sportsfishing’s all time greats, Pearl Zane Grey.

Lake Barrett

An up close and personal look at fishing what many consider one of, if not, Southern California’s best bass lake. Tips, tackle and techniques support this non-stop action!

Fishing San Diego Bay

Join Doug Kern of Fisherman’s Landing Tackle shop and Rick Maxa of Let’s Talk Hook-up as they open up their bag of tricks on how they ‘long line’ the bay for bass and halibut.

Baja: A Perfect 10

From heart stopping blue marlin, and big 100+ pound yellowfin being caught less than 50 yards off the lighthouse, you’re going to love watching these young ladies battling not only their first billfish, but tackling tuna, jet skis, ATVs, scuba diving, and the swim up margarita bar with equal enthusiasm. Non-stop action, not only on the water, but on the beach as well. We’re not calling this a perfect 10 for nothing!