Hooked on competition
ROBSON GREEN’S EXTREME FISHING CHALLENGE
C5, 9pm
ONE man against a world of fishing. I like to think of Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge as a bit like the Eurovision Fish Contest, except it isn’t Eurovision, it’s Worldvision, But, in any case, Robson is our guy, the one we’re rooting for, and he’s got all those other national fishing talents, with their own peculiar styles, to go up against. And actually so far he has done pretty well.
But, of course, in the end, really the competitive thing between him and the other anglers isn’t what it’s all about. This is a tale of man against fish and the variety of different means, globally, we use to get them out of the water.
For the first in this new series, Green travels to Tasmania, a country in which fishing is jsecond nature. There are more boats per head there and more fish landed than in any other part of Australasia. So this is a place where they really know what they’re doing. However, it could be argued that Robson now, with his extensive global experience, and the skills he’s learned through all his previous series, must be up there with the most widely travelled anglers out there. When it comes to fish, he’s seen more than most.
His story here begins with a hunt for the Mako shark, a creature that has been known to attack humans – though only when aggravated.
Later he goes on to hunt for bream against a champion and current holder of eight fishing titles. In the final section, Robson takes on a fisherman who is descended from one of the first convict settlers in Tasmania. Against all that handed-down knowledge, does Robson stand a chance?