Wild Fish Wild Places Snag Huge Lakers and More in Season Finale on Sportsman Channel Saturday Night
Wild Fish Wild Places 12.06.12
Sportsman Channel, the leader in outdoor television for the American Sportsman, is taking viewers north of the boarder to the great waters of Canada for non-stop fishing excitement on Wild Fish Wild Places. The vast and impressive waters of Lake Athabasca is the perfect setting for the “WFWP “team to ‘set and strike’ the biggest lake trout the fisheries have to offer. The fish are biting fast and furious and audiences will NOT want to miss this two-part season finale! Do not miss the heart-pounding action on Saturday, December 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT.
The lake trout start biting early and often on Lake Athabasca, however they are not quite ready for the enormity of the fish they bring into the boat. The trip includes a personal best for host, Denis Isbister. After trolling these waters for just a few hours, he reels in a “monster” – a 36’ lake trout! After a short break to enjoy some fresh catch for lunch, host; Alan Broderick also catches one of the biggest “Lakers” and Northern Pike on the trip. Not to be out done, Captain Bruce (Lakers Unlimited) reels in one of his top fish in a long time. Despite challenging conditions throughout the trip, the entire crew turn out some of the most impressive episodes of Wild Fish Wild Places in Canadian waters.
“We have fished in many places, but Lakers Unlimited on Lake Athabasca is far and away my favorite,” said Denis Isbister, co-host of Wild Fish Wild Places. “There is no other place I would rather finish out our season than on this remarkable lake. Every time we fish inNorthern Canada, we are rewarded with great fish and impressive scenery.”
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.
