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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.

Stinker sets sail off the rugged coast of Kalbarri in Western Australia and we also hit the crystal clear rainforest streams of Far North Queensland chasing the elusive and rare Jungle Perch with Babinda Local Kymmy Adams.

Hear all about Anne's Kurumba fishing adventures on this episode of The Big Fish.

Last week we left our hero fishless at Glenlyon after a 1000 casts. Col Trenaman's shoulder had given out after pegging 30cm lures for trophy Cod for hours, when on his 1001st cast he hit the magic metre mark, hear the story on The Big Fish.

"I'd been in the water for about two and a half hours, the sun was going down, I was getting cramps...and then I got nudged". Listen to Stinker's amazing story of survival, battling to stay afloat in a 2 metre sea off the rocky coastline at Fingal Island.

The Big Fish reveals that 1,700 dozen Sydney Rock Oysters stolen in NSW were illegally harvested by the thieves when the estuary was closed by the NSW Food Safety Authority due to a sewage spill in the waterway. The Oysters could spread hepatitis and other deadly diseases. You will hear from the Oyster Grower and a food safety expert.