Wild Fish Wild Places Debuts on WFN October 6
Wild Fish Wild Places 09.18.13
Wild Fish Wild Places is adventure fishing on the outer edge featuring Nevadan, Denis Isbister and Irishman, Alan Broderick.
Come along with Denis and Alan as they take their rods and cameras across the world in pursuit of outsize predatory fish and join them as they explore the legends, culture and history of the places they find themselves in.
Part travelogue, part natural history, and part sport fishing — all woven together in an exciting style, told through some high caliber camera work.
Wild Fish Wild Places Television takes fishing to a new extreme by bringing the viewer around the world and introducing them to exotic, hard fighting, giant predatory fish. The program’s success lies with its upbeat humor, great music and ‘things happen’ approach to the many wild and interesting places visited in pursuit of extraordinary predatory fish and characters that the Wild Fish Wild Places team meet. This will be a monster season on WFN! The Wild Fish crew will take you from Alaska, chasing giant Arctic Char and Rainbow’s on the fly, The Amazon for top water Peacock Bass, Golden Dorado in Uruguay, Finland to meet lure legend Ensio Rapala, Florida for massive Redfish and Northern Saskatchewan for Lake Trout and Pike.
So get ready for a whole season of fantastic fishing adventures in the company of Denis and Alan starting Sunday, October 6 only on WFN.
Air times:
- Sundays @ 1:00 & 10:00 PM EST
- Mondays @ 04:00 AM EST
- Fridays @ 12:30 & 9:30 PM EST
FISH AND FISHING. TWO WORDS HAVING A MYRIAD OF MEANINGS TO A MYRIAD OF PEOPLES. TO FISH FOR FOOD, FOR LIFE, FOR SURVIVAL; OR TO FISH FOR FUN, FOR SPORT, FOR MONEY.
When, almost 5,000 years ago in China, man first attached a hook and line to a bamboo rod to catch carp a little further from the river’s edge, little did he know that this creation would evolve into an industry which at the early part of this, the twenty-first century, is worth over $108 billion annually to the US economy in terms of sport fishing alone!
The variety of fish species is infinite. From cold water inhabitants such as members of the Salmonidae family, to warm water, tropical dwellers like the Cichlids. From the gigantic Tarpon of the Florida Keys to the gentler Arctic Charr spectacularly attired in their vivid courtship colors in the frigid rivers and streams of the arctic tundra. Take the celebrated Coelacanth, over three hundred million years old and still found today in the warm seas of the Indian Ocean around Madagascar, or the seemingly ubiquitous Golden Orfe, or the goldfish, which completes endless circuits in so many glass bowls in family homes in every corner of the world.
In this series, we will seek out great predatory fish. Fish that are much revered, fish that strike terror at the very mention of their name and fish that are the staple diet of many peoples subsisting along the shorelines and riverbanks of the great waters we will visit during our odyssey. Positioned at the very top of the food chain, these apex predators reign supreme in their own domain, be it mighty river, great lake or ocean.
Our quest will take us across cultures and continents to exotic locations of immense beauty and wealth as well as lands poleaxed by poverty. We will explore not just these wild and wonderful places, but the significance of our target species to the different groupings of peoples in terms of social, economic and cultural values.
Our travels in search of extraordinary predators will take us from the cold, unforgiving waters of the West of Ireland to the steaming jungle swamps of India. From the frozen, pristine wilderness of the Canadian subarctic to the sun-baked backwaters of Northern Australia. This will be a series of contrasts and comparisons where we will meet people who live to fish and people who fish to live.
