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[00:00:12]river.

[00:00:16]>> You got it coming now.

[00:00:17]>> Yeah.

[00:00:19]>> Just keep the pressure.

[00:00:20]>> I tell you what, he's putting on a bit of weight for small fish.

[00:00:28]That's >> a fresh.

[00:00:31]>> Usually a hook maron head seawwood, but this one seemed determined to make for the reef, taking us almost too close to the coral.

[00:00:40]>> Look where we are, boys.

[00:00:41]>> Gee, we're nearly on that coral. How much more do you reckon we got on the boat?

[00:00:46]>> Side about 60 ft. Look at it there.

[00:00:49]>> We're running about 15 ft. That just above you there.

[00:00:53]>> He's leading now. He's leading.

[00:00:54]>> Just in time, the fish change direction.

[00:00:57]And with the big tackle, we steered him back out to deeper water.

[00:01:05]>> Let's start going back on him.

[00:01:06]>> Whenever you're ready, Bernie.

[00:01:08]>> Okay.

[00:01:15]>> Small. He certainly was by can standards, but he was also very active.

[00:01:21]>> Yeah, you're right. There he is. There he is.

[00:01:25]Let's get that tag into the line.

[00:01:34]Oh, a little number. A beautiful little fish.

[00:01:39]>> Tagging one of these BS can be harder than it looks.

[00:01:42]>> Little fish.

[00:01:45]>> That snap's undone.

[00:01:47]>> A nice fish on the other side of me.

[00:01:49]>> Snap's undone. THAT SNAP'S PERFECT, BUDDY.

[00:01:52]>> YEAH. RIGHT. Just keep the wave under right.

[00:01:56]>> Okay, here go. Let's get a bit of stick.

[00:02:00]>> Get a bit of stick now, mate.

[00:02:02]>> Okay.

[00:02:06]What was an acrobatic piece to say in this chair?

[00:02:10]The double double lock up. Hey, look at the lit up.

[00:02:20]>> Here's the as well.

[00:02:24]There it is. Look at that double. Look at that smack wide open that little bit more.

[00:02:36]>> You got it. Got him up there.

[00:02:44]There he is. Brett, quick.

[00:02:48]Go for it. Run.

[00:02:57]Almost all small maron caught here in the north, like this 400 pounder, are set free. It makes a lot of sense in terms of the future.

[00:03:12]Tagging and releasing the fish as fast as possible also means that we can get new baits back in the water and start looking for another maron. And in this prolific tropical water, the action can happen again anytime.

[00:03:25]>> Yes, sir. Oh, yeah.

[00:03:30]Ready.

[00:03:32]Put the line on in. KEEP GOING, BUDDY.

[00:03:34]GO.

[00:03:40]STILL.

[00:03:41]>> YEAH. YEAH, HE'S STILL THERE. KEEP GOING. HE'S COMING AT US.

[00:03:47]It's all right. That's all right.

[00:03:50]He's still there.

[00:03:51]>> None of us saw this fish take the bait, and its reactions on the line seemed somehow unusual. Is he all there, Bernie? Pretty steep there now.

[00:04:00]>> Suddenly, we had another more pressing problem.

[00:04:03]>> Probably a hammerhead.

[00:04:04]>> Oh, what's happened?

[00:04:06]>> Broken. The chair's broken.

[00:04:08]>> What?

[00:04:08]>> The chair's broken.

[00:04:10]>> Okay, someone has to hold the chair.

[00:04:14]>> I'll sit on it.

[00:04:17]>> I have. I have. Yes, >> I'm back to about 20 lb of drag.

[00:04:20]>> The sloppy sea makes staying in the chair difficult. Now, we also had to keep the chair in the boat.

[00:04:26]>> A rope under hang on with one hand and fight the thing with the other.

[00:04:37]>> They'll have to drill it and bolt it to stainless steel bolts when we get back to the mother ship.

[00:04:42]>> Just hope we can catch this one. I mean, >> there he is.

[00:04:46]>> THERE HE IS. THAT'S A SHARK.

[00:04:48]>> IT'S A SHARK.

[00:04:49]>> Big Noah.

[00:04:55]>> Well, we got ourselves a bit of a handful here.

[00:04:58]>> Not only has the the chair decided to break at the wrong moment, >> but our mar down there has turned out to be a big oceanic whalish shark. Maybe a tiger.

[00:05:08]>> Another cut on the water.

[00:05:09]>> Oh, nearly had the double on the reel.

[00:05:12]>> Tag him. Cut him off.

[00:05:15]>> Oh, okay. Just get him up. He'll get rid of >> Let's have a look at him.

[00:05:18]>> Yeah.

[00:05:18]>> And then we'll cut him off. E.

[00:05:20]>> Yeah. All right.

[00:05:26]>> Watch the tail, fellas.

[00:05:30]>> That's nice work, Stanley. Nice work.

[00:05:31]Hang on, mate. Hang on.

[00:05:37]>> That's it. Cut him off now.

[00:05:40]>> Well done. Thanks, fellas.

[00:05:43]Now we'll have to put the chair back together before we get into these billfish.

[00:05:58]>> With the fighting chair completely broken from its support, any more mar fishing today was impossible.

[00:06:05]Plan B was to head for the mother ship, make our repairs, and call it a day.

[00:06:23]Since the early '7s, mother ships have changed the way anglers go maron fishing. Instead of a 2-hour run back to port fishing out from cans, home base on a mother ship is only minutes from the fishing. Such a luxury costs an extra $6 to $800 a day. But it puts a lot more great fishing territory in reach. And there's a lot to be said, too, for that shower at day's end and a pre-dinner drink in the sunset.

[00:07:01]In the mornings out here, there's time to go bait fishing. And catching the bait can be a sport all on its own.

[00:07:09]I think it's real.

[00:07:15]>> I don't know what we've got here in this bait fishing exercise, but I don't think it's small enough to hang out on a maron hook as a bait. It's a bit of a dead heat here at the moment.

[00:07:26]In these entrances between the reef, you can catch just about anything that swims.

[00:07:31]Could be a dog tooth tuna, travali, or even one of the bottom dwellers like a cod or coral trout. Whatever he is, he's a fair lump of a fish.

[00:07:44]>> Our larger bait fish are caught simply by trollling lures on 20 or 30 lb line.

[00:07:49]And there are times we could use something heavier.

[00:07:51]>> Yeah, he's a swimmer, whatever he is.

[00:07:54]Surprising sharks haven't got >> I'll probably turn up next and complicate things.

[00:08:01]>> Good. Whatever it is, it's a big fish.

[00:08:05]>> By the look of it, >> in that case, we'll gap him in the mouth and let him go.

[00:08:13]>> See if we can get him in the behind the jawbone there.

[00:08:18]Watch.

[00:08:20]>> Never mind.

[00:08:21]>> He's gone straight there.

[00:08:23]>> A typical giant travali.

[00:08:25]>> Anyway, saves us having to let him go.

[00:08:29]There are over 1,300 miles of great batting of reef country like this.

[00:08:34]Millions of acres of living coral tapestry, much of it unfished. Catching our bait fish here is just a matter of traveling the reef's beautiful edges.

[00:08:44]>> Oh yes, sir.

[00:08:48]>> No worries.

[00:08:51]>> Sport fishing this place is almost idilic. On one side of the reef, endless flak >> and on the other, the waters of the giant black marlin.

[00:09:26]The bait fish most often used to catch marlon are called scad, but bigger baits work too. Fish like tuna, barracuda, and scaly mackerel. These large baits usually weigh between 10 and 15 lb, but monster marlin have been caught on baits weighing as much as 45 lb.

[00:09:55]As a fishing paradise, Australia's Great Barrier Reef has no equal. It is also vast. If a man could fish a square mile of it in a week, it would take him more than a thousand years to fish it all.

[00:10:11]>> Boys, let's go.

[00:10:28]This was my only other day on the Marlin water. And with the bait fishing done, we wasted no time heading for the deep blue water on the other side of number 10 Ribbon Reef. The more time we spend trolling our new baits, the better. If I'm going to hook a really big fish, it has to be today.

[00:10:48]Sometimes big black marlin action happens instantly and sometimes it doesn't. At other times it seems someone else has all the fun.

[00:11:16]or worse still, everyone else seems to have all the fun.

[00:11:27]Usually, the truth is that Marlin action breaks most often when you least expect it.

[00:11:36]>> Fish on the left. That looks a good one, too.

[00:11:43]>> OKAY.

[00:11:46]Let's go.

[00:11:50]Oh, yeah.

[00:12:03]Let's go back.

[00:12:10]Okay, let's go.

[00:12:29]Keep on him. Keep on him.

[00:12:38]Maron are not the biggest game fish in the sea, but they are without doubt the most exciting.

[00:12:44]>> Let's give a one. You reckon we can get some back?

[00:12:47]>> Okay, let's go back on now.

[00:12:48]>> RIGHT. LET'S GO.

[00:12:49]>> See you, buddy. We go.

[00:13:01]>> Still up there, buddy. Still up there.

[00:13:03]When the big fish stay up on the surface, all we can do is keep going back fast and try to get hold of that wire. We don't want to kill these great fish. Just tag and release.

[00:13:19]>> Oh, he's going to jump.

[00:13:20]>> He's coming up.

[00:13:21]>> You got to jump. HERE HE COMES. HEY, BUDDY. LET'S GO. LET'S GO.

[00:13:32]That's it.

[00:13:45]Oh, he's going the other way.

[00:13:53]>> He's good. He's giving me a good workout anyway.

[00:13:59]>> Just gone under there a bit now, Bernie.

[00:14:02]This contest between man and maron is not strictly onetoone. Rather, the Marlon is battling a highly practiced team, boat and skipper, crew and angler.

[00:14:13]>> Yeah, I got to get this bike in there burning.

[00:14:31]Point the chair a little bit left.

[00:14:32]That's certainly a little bit left.

[00:14:34]>> That's it. A little bit. I got a bit more now. It's coming up.

[00:14:41]Coming up. We go.

[00:14:49]That's it.

[00:14:57]Watch him. Good.

[00:15:00]I told everybody that's now >> doubles up. WE GOT THE DOUBLE.

[00:15:27]THE energy of this fish seemed inexhaustible.

[00:15:31]>> I lost it again.

[00:15:34]Let's go.

[00:15:35]>> All we needed was to get close enough to place that tag, then cut her free.

[00:16:01]Okay, let's go now.

[00:16:06]>> Hurry up.

[00:16:41]Get ready TO CUT HIM OFF, MATE.

[00:16:44]Come on. Ready down.

[00:16:47]Do this. Get another shot at him. That's it. Good boy.

[00:16:51]Well done.

[00:16:55]>> Fantastic.

[00:16:58]>> Thanks, buddy.

[00:17:07]Heat. Heat.

[00:17:37]This is Montigue Island, just four nautical miles off the southern New South Wales coast. It's not a very spectacular part of our coast. A few seals live here, a colony of penguins, some mutton birds, and a lighthouse keeper. Yet, for several months of the year, the waters around Montigue turn on some of the best light tackle smallboat sport fishing in the world.

[00:17:58]>> Oh, look at him. I tell you what he's go, MATE.

[00:18:04]>> OH, LOOK AT HIM GO.

[00:18:07]>> OH, BEAUTIFUL.

[00:18:12]>> OH, THERE HE GOES. FOUR OF HIM. And again, HE'S COMING BACK UP. JUST HOLD IT THERE, LOEY. HOLD IT THERE.

[00:18:18]>> ALL RIGHT, THAT'S FINE. HE'S COMING STRAIGHT FOR US.

[00:18:20]>> FINE. I'M DOING 400 REVS ALREADY. DO IT.

[00:18:23]DO IT WITH A BOAT. DO IT WITH A BOAT.

[00:18:28]KEEP GOING. KEEP GOING. WELL DONE.

[00:18:31]That's it. Come tight on him again.

[00:18:34]Well done, mate.

[00:18:36]>> He's a hot fish.

[00:18:37]>> Very, very hot fish.

[00:18:41]>> Just turn your boat into the wind a bit, please.

[00:18:45]>> We got him. We're all right.

[00:18:49]>> Coming up. Coming up. Here he comes. Oh, lovely.

[00:18:53]>> Magnificent dump with him. Come up again.

[00:18:56]>> There he goes.

[00:18:57]>> Turn off him a bit, would you, mate?

[00:18:59]That's it.

[00:19:00]>> Yeah, he's got his head down.

[00:19:02]>> I came here for a big yellow fin tuna, but the place was also thick with small black mar.

[00:19:09]>> Uh, I think he'll be okay as he comes up towards the surface here. I plant him up.

[00:19:14]>> That's good. That's good, Lori. It's well done.

[00:19:25]Oh, he's just outside. Right.

[00:19:28]>> Here he comes. There he comes.

[00:19:31]>> Doesn't go into the boat.

[00:19:33]>> Trying to keep him short there for you.

[00:19:38]Here he comes.

[00:19:42]>> There he comes.

[00:19:44]>> There's your shot, Julie.

[00:19:46]>> Right. Well done. Nicely done.

[00:19:48]>> Get the second tag.

[00:19:51]>> I feel a bit upset about that. I'm going to have to >> He's not a bad >> Just hold him. You got the second tag all in there, have you? Good on you.

[00:19:59]>> Turn to the right a bit, Lord.

[00:20:02]>> Just tag him. You'll be right.

[00:20:03]>> Julie's got him.

[00:20:06]>> Got him. Beautiful tag.

[00:20:07]>> Nicely done, Julie.

[00:20:08]>> Beautiful.

[00:20:09]>> Well done.

[00:20:10]>> On light tackle from a center console sport fishing rig, even small maron can be a handful.

[00:20:17]>> But that's what makes it all such fun.

[00:20:20]>> It's all right, fella. We'll get it off you in a minute as soon as we get you untangled.

[00:20:24]Okay, Julie.

[00:20:29]>> Well done, mate. That's terrific.

[00:20:32]>> Yeah, it wasn't hurt at all. He's just hooked in the very corner of his mouth.

[00:20:35]Yeah, cut him off really close. That's good. Great bit of boat driving.

[00:20:42]>> Montigue Island has been at the pressure waves building up as the runout tide funnels between the narrow entrance walls can be a hazard for inexperienced and visiting boatmen.

[00:22:04]The drill is to look, wait, pick your moment, and then go. There's a chance.

[00:22:11]Okay, this morning it was no problem.

[00:22:24]My fishing mates on this trip are a team who know these South Coast waters well.

[00:22:29]Luri and Julie Mcinelli acknowledged experts on the fish we've come here to catch, the yellow fin tuna.

[00:22:38]Since the mid70s boom in small boat sport fishing in Australia, Montigue Island has become justly famous for its big yellow fin tuna. And happily, the local reefs are also loaded with the right kind of bait fish.

[00:22:54]Sport fishing for big yellow fin and maron on this part of the coast more often than not is a job for live bait.

[00:23:01]And about the best live baits they use around here are a small fish called a yaker or yellow tail and something called a slimy, one of the mackerel species. And catching the bait is a very simple process. All you need is a light hand line and a small hook. And it all begins with a burly slick. It can be almost as much fun as catching the elephant.

[00:23:35]Almost any patch of reef or weed just off the Naruma foreshore will produce bait fish like this if you burly.

[00:23:53]Doesn't take long to fill the live bait tank to capacity.

[00:24:01]When the warm current runs from the north past Montigue and the water temperature is around 22° C, game fish move in to feed on the bait schools.

[00:24:11]stripe marlin, black marlon, blue fin tuna, dolphin fish, and yellow fin up to 200 pounds and more. Montigue is a very exciting angling prospect.

[00:24:23]And it's not only an attractive spot for porpuses and fishermen. Seals think Montigue Island is a good place, too.

[00:24:37]Feeding is their major preoccupation, and it helps your fishing to put some distance between them and your boat before you drop that first live bait over the side.

[00:25:02]Just like the system we use to catch our bait fish, the method we employ to catch these big yellow fin tuna, big pelagic fish like them, involves a burly slick, a big one. Apart from keeping the burly going, we're also throwing small chunks or cubes of bait fish into the burly slick every few seconds just to help attract those big yellow fins right back here to the boat. Apart from keeping the burly going and keeping the supply of cubes up, there isn't a lot else to do but wait.

[00:25:30]Birding could be a matter of minutes or of hours. And always it pays to stay alert for any surface signs of action that mean the big predators are there and feeding.

[00:25:45]>> First take and Julie's was the bait to go.

[00:25:48]>> Just get everything out of the road and I'll get your harness for you.

[00:25:50]>> Take a lot of line.

[00:25:52]>> Okay.

[00:25:53]>> Into him any minute. He's right.

[00:25:54]>> Right.

[00:25:55]>> You're right. Don't let go. Go.

[00:25:58]>> Got him.

[00:26:00]tight.

[00:26:02]>> You're in business, Julie.

[00:26:03]>> The hookup's good. From now on, it's up to Julie.

[00:26:07]>> Okay, >> get into him, Julie. Keep working him.

[00:26:14]>> Get yourself set. Keep at him. Keep him lifting. Keep lifting. That's it, Julie.

[00:26:18]Very smooth, mate.

[00:26:20]>> When a yellow fin starts doing circles anticlockwise, it can be a problem for whoever's doing the driving.

[00:26:31]Okay. I deserve that.

[00:26:33]>> Upset him.

[00:26:34]>> Yep.

[00:26:34]>> Yeah.

[00:26:38]>> Coming up, Julie.

[00:26:39]>> Yep.

[00:26:40]>> Good on you, mate.

[00:26:44]>> He's still spotting at the tail of your boat round, Lori.

[00:26:46]>> Yeah, cuz he's going anticlockwise.

[00:26:47]Typical yellow fin. Your circles are getting smaller, too. Lori, where you need to run ahead?

[00:26:54]Circling makes it very hard.

[00:26:59]Okay, >> you got color down there, Lori.

[00:27:00]>> Color.

[00:27:02]>> He's still a long way down though. All right, a good fish. Look at him down there. What a beauty.

[00:27:08]>> That's a bigger fish, mate.

[00:27:09]>> Golden nugget.

[00:27:11]>> Beautiful fish. Look out. Coming under the boat. Going to run.

[00:27:15]>> Top little fish.

[00:27:16]>> What's >> Okay, you're off him.

[00:27:21]>> Try and start looting him. 30 lb quality tackle, a shoulder harness, and a good boat driver are the basic tools of a standup argument with a big yellow.

[00:27:30]>> That's good.

[00:27:32]>> Do your best to steer him up with the rod.

[00:27:34]>> Yep.

[00:27:38]>> I can't take a respect.

[00:27:40]>> I'm losing a fair bit of line. Can I get down there to sit down? Move out. Watch him.

[00:27:53]Well done, Lori.

[00:27:58]>> All right. Where's the G?

[00:27:59]>> Gail rope.

[00:28:14]Tail rope. M. Okay.

[00:28:18]All right. Tail ropes on him. Right up.

[00:28:22]>> You right.

[00:28:23]>> Yep.

[00:28:26]You didn't know. A bit better than 60.

[00:28:27]>> Yeah.

[00:28:28]>> Good fish, Julie.

[00:28:29]>> Nice fish, Julie. Look at the color.

[00:28:32]Isn't he magnificent?

[00:28:33]>> Beautiful.

[00:28:34]>> That make you feel better?

[00:28:35]>> Yeah. Makes me feel better. Not my back.

[00:28:44]>> This one knows where home is.

[00:28:46]>> Yeah. Hey, I think you got a decent one of them.

[00:28:51]>> Today, sport fishermen catch other fish around Montigue aside from the maron and tuna. Taylor, snapper, due fish, and these yellowtail kingfish are prolific here. And light jig tackle is a great way to catch them.

[00:29:10]>> There you go, Julie. I'll just take the hook out of here for him. Hop into him.

[00:29:14]Sorry.

[00:29:16]>> Give us a yell when you want the gap, mate.

[00:29:22]>> Yellowtail kings can grow a lot bigger than these BS. At least six times as big. There he is.

[00:29:27]>> But these are a great size for eating.

[00:29:33]>> Jelly out.

[00:29:39]He hasn't done much this fella.

[00:29:45]It's all right. I'll just wrap him.

[00:29:47]>> There we are.

[00:29:48]>> Jigging kingfish is always fun, but the surface action was getting back into gear all around the boat.

[00:29:55]Time to put the baits back over the side and cruise slowly out to where those big tuna were starting to feed again.

[00:30:05]Half a mile off Montigue and the big tuners were really smashing into the bait schools.

[00:30:12]It couldn't be long now.

[00:30:18]>> There's a boy out the back.

[00:30:20]>> I don't know what it is. I always thought it was a splash.

[00:30:22]>> See the splash?

[00:30:23]>> Yep. All over the place out there.

[00:30:25]>> It's going Oh [ __ ] Run.

[00:30:58]>> I know. Okay, we're clear. You're in business. I know. You want it?

[00:31:01]>> All yours.

[00:31:02]>> Yep. Stay with it.

[00:31:07]>> Getting mine back.

[00:31:08]>> Yep. All right, there's a lot to get back to there. What a run.

[00:31:15]Just Just after he took line off, he must have swam around back at us.

[00:31:18]>> Definitely a jeez move.

[00:31:26]>> If he's anywhere up around 100, I'll put the fire in.

[00:31:29]>> Anything under 60, just belt the fix into his shoulder and hang on. I'll help him put his hand on the top of it. 20 minutes later, the fish still going strong and we're nearly back at Miguel.

[00:31:40]>> Still a fair way down there, actually.

[00:31:41]>> Oh yeah, >> that's one way the old elephant does know how to go, mate. They go straight straight for the bottom.

[00:31:52]>> Feel those tail shakes, Malvin?

[00:31:53]>> Yeah, you can feel him working there now.

[00:31:57]>> It's pumping away down there.

[00:32:00]>> It's definitely a final.

[00:32:03]That's a good angle actually on the fin cuz you're leading him upwards.

[00:32:06]>> Yep.

[00:32:06]>> Putting strain directly on his mouth.

[00:32:12]>> He's getting upset now.

[00:32:14]>> Yeah.

[00:32:17]>> Oh, he's opened up now.

[00:32:20]>> The shadow of the boat with the sun going this way will spook the fish.

[00:32:23]>> Yeah. He's just woken up.

[00:32:25]>> Yeah.

[00:32:32]Yeah, it still wants to go down.

[00:32:34]>> Yeah, I know. I think I think you'll be pretty safely for sure that you've got a decent sort of yellow pin on.

[00:32:38]>> Oh, that's good.

[00:32:39]>> No, you got a world record kingy.

[00:32:43]>> Otherwise, you got the biggest king that's ever come out of here.

[00:32:46]>> Just laying there with those big petrols out. You can barely feel the hook is right through his up. No worries.

[00:32:58]Quick.

[00:32:59]>> Yep. Got it. Well done. You're right.

[00:33:01]>> Beautiful looking behaving himself.

[00:33:03]Really?

[00:33:08]Right.

[00:33:08]>> He is one active little fish.

[00:33:11]>> Are you getting your money's worth now?

[00:33:14]>> Okay.

[00:33:15]>> Oh, you mate.

[00:33:18]>> About that is a fin, eh?

[00:33:20]>> Just on 100, mate.

[00:33:21]>> Aren't they nuggets?

[00:33:22]>> He is a nugget.

[00:33:23]>> He's a nice color, too. He's got a lot of color on him.

[00:33:25]>> Oh, look at this. The hook wasn't even in his tail. It was just tail wrap around him here. Incredible.

[00:33:30]>> Goodness gracious.

[00:33:31]>> Okay.

[00:33:33]What a wonderful fish. Oh, the bus.

[00:33:36]>> No, he's 100.

[00:33:38]>> He's fat. He might be 90 long, but he's 100 wide, >> aren't they? Massive. Beautiful fish.

[00:33:44]>> That's how to catch him on the tail.

[00:33:46]That's very good.

[00:33:50]>> Well, that's what the long wait is all about. soaking baits around here, trying different methods, being frustrated at times because we could see these BS jumping on the surface, but we couldn't get one to take a bait. And finally, one of them made the mistake and grab one of our live baits. And we seem to do everything else correctly. So, we've come up with what amounts to a beautiful fish, top eating fish, great sport fish, 100 lb of big yellow fin.

[00:34:20]The best thing about a captured yellow fin is its superb eating quality as a raw delicacy. In Japan, this fish would cost you $5,000.

[00:34:36]For Larry, Julie, and me, our day fishing the golden fins of Montigue had felt about as good as it gets.

[00:34:45]Although the locals will tell you of sport is 32 kg. That one >> about 65 lbs in old.

[00:36:03]>> Yes. Yes.

[00:36:04]>> Beautiful neck, too.

[00:36:06]>> Really nice.

[00:36:06]>> All right.

[00:36:08]>> Bring the other one in now.

[00:36:14]>> This is a big rooster. It's not bad, is he?

[00:36:21]>> Give yourself a hand.

[00:36:23]>> Not a bad lump of a fish, is it?

[00:36:24]>> That's a ripper.

[00:36:35]>> What's it going?

[00:36:36]>> 50 51 52 about 52 1/2 kg. Just under 120 lb.

[00:36:44]>> Very nice fish.

[00:36:45]>> Nice. She did a nice lump of >> sh.

[00:36:50]That's good. Very pleasing. Very, very pleasing.

[00:37:00]>> Tomorrow night, more deep sea fishing awaits. Giant blacks and great whites.

[00:37:06]Part two.

[00:37:07]>> The temperature here at the moment is about 9°. Over there in the tops of those ranges, there's snow. And every now and then the whole lake is swept with cold showers of either rain or hail. Believe it or not, this is high summer down here in Tasmania, mid January. It can be fine and warm here just like anywhere else in Australia.

[00:37:28]But Tasmania is just close enough to the Antarctic to produce this rugged and very cold weather right out of the blue.

[00:37:34]And the changes happen very, very quickly. The only good thing about it is that it doesn't stop us fishing.

[00:37:45]How and where you troll for Lake Ped's big trout depends on the time of year, what the trout are feeding on, and water depth. Naturally, trout like to be where the food is. In warm weather, when summer's insects are available, the trout will be mostly in the shallow water along the tree lines and will probably eat small artificial lures.

[00:38:06]when that a few insects and small native fish and yabies of the trout's targets in deep water, big deep diving lures should work. Today, we were trying everything and nothing was working. The weather just got colder, the rain and hail more frequent, the wind stronger.

[00:38:24]Our only answer to troll the tree lines relentlessly and hope.

[00:38:32]He's coming. I got a fish. All right.

[00:38:34]Trick will be now tonight is to steer him around all these twigs and trees.

[00:38:37]>> It's up to you. You're the experienced fisherman. Still with you?

[00:38:42]>> Yeah, still with him.

[00:38:44]>> Not much I can do. M.

[00:38:47]>> Come across this tree.

[00:38:49]He swam straight over the top of that tree.

[00:38:51]>> You got him.

[00:38:52]>> Still coming through.

[00:38:53]>> Still got him through the tree. Yep.

[00:38:55]>> Yeah. Got the net.

[00:38:58]>> It's more good luck than good management here, mate. There's not much I can do about it.

[00:39:02]>> Skilled. All skill.

[00:39:08]>> You got him. He's a beauty.

[00:39:10]>> He's a be He's a five or six pounder.

[00:39:12]>> Thanks, Nigel.

[00:39:15]>> Yeah, he's not a bad fish. Good condition.

[00:39:17]>> He's a beauty.

[00:39:18]>> Yeah. Great.

[00:39:19]>> Yeah. I tell you what, it was nice of him to swim through that tree the way he did. Otherwise, we'd have been in tons of trouble.

[00:39:24]>> He's not a bad fish, is he?

[00:39:25]>> He's a beauty.

[00:39:27]After several hours in the kind of weather that makes me glad I spend most of my life in Australia's tropics, this was a very welcome capture.

[00:39:35]>> It's not the biggest fish that's ever been caught in Lake Ped, of course, but for us, having persisted with the cold weather and put the hours in trolling, he's a bit of a reward. He'd be about five, maybe six pounds and not in bad condition. brown trout, a male by the look of him, and certainly makes up for the almost sub-zero weather and the sleep and the rain and the hail.

[00:40:02]With the weather looking anything but pleasant, we readily conceded that one fish on this day was enough. In the morning, with Bill and Allan, weather permitting, I'd try something different.

[00:40:36]there. Good ones just come up here in front of me. Almost.

[00:40:39]>> Yep.

[00:40:40]Since the days of 17th century an anglers like Isaac Walton, fly fishing has been a great way to catch a trout.

[00:40:48]For someone like me, a visitor to the island state and more used to tossing lures at big tropical saltwater sport fish with spinning tackle, it's also a very challenging and rewarding way to fish.

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[00:43:45]As a fly fisherman, Bill Beck has been trout fishing for most of his life. In Tasmania, he has no equal.

[00:43:54]Others of us, for whom the fly rod is a new experience, still have a lot to learn.

[00:44:04]>> Did you see that, Bill?

[00:44:06]>> Yeah, he moved again. See, I'm just out to the left of it.

[00:44:11]Good on you.

[00:44:12]>> You'll take a bit of getting out of here, though.

[00:44:16]>> Well done, Al.

[00:44:20]>> Nice looking fish.

[00:44:20]>> I got him up on the surface now.

[00:44:22]>> Yeah, he's just puddling out here in front of me.

[00:44:25]>> Yeah, he's not big. He's only about 4 lb.

[00:44:28]>> Yeah, he's got lots of sting in him.

[00:44:29]>> Alan Felmingham, too, is an expert fly fisherman with decades of practice behind him.

[00:44:35]>> Keep him coming.

[00:44:37]>> Got him done now. Al. Yes, he he's around that stick. I'll go and get him. I think >> Allan is probably Tasmania's best known trout guide and like Bill Beck has fished Peda since it opened.

[00:44:50]>> Well, he's a lovely condition fish, isn't he?

[00:44:53]>> Well, >> what weight, Alan?

[00:44:55]>> About three and a half to four. Malcolm.

[00:44:57]>> Oh, nice.

[00:44:58]>> We'll quickly unhook him. He's right in the corner of the jaw, too.

[00:45:01]>> Oh, good.

[00:45:02]>> And let him go because he he's pretty tired after working through all those sticks. Well, he deserves to be let go of that fish.

[00:45:10]>> Fly fishing on Lake Ped is often done with a fly that imitates a mud eye, the slow swimming lavi of the dragonfly.

[00:45:18]Bill makes his own mud eye flies. Good enough perhaps to work even for me.

[00:45:27]>> There about 30 35 ft just slightly to your left.

[00:45:31]>> Saw him. Saw him. All I got to do now is put this on top of him.

[00:45:38]Oh, that's a nice cast.

[00:45:40]>> It's a bit short, but >> yes. I think you leave it there and let him see if he'll come to it. I think he probably will cuz it's only about seven or eight ft away.

[00:45:48]>> Hope he's got good eyesight, mate.

[00:45:50]>> Yes, >> now what?

[00:45:53]>> I'll wind in quickly and come and help you.

[00:45:56]>> I can't. He's taking line at the moment.

[00:45:58]I'll just >> Right. Just >> that's it. Yes. Just keep the keep the pressure on him.

[00:46:05]I didn't see quite how big he was, but he looked sort of >> Well, that run >> six plus >> I would say so by though you never tell can tell with >> Uhhuh.

[00:46:15]>> Oh, don't give him any slack.

[00:46:17]>> Try and keep tight. I think he's We've got him now. Taking the initial sting out of it.

[00:46:23]>> Just keep a a hold on him.

[00:46:26]>> Okay, that's got him. Oh, he's not a bad fish, Alan.

[00:46:30]>> He looks nice.

[00:46:32]Hang on. That's right.

[00:46:35]I'll just uh I think I'll put him on the beach, mate.

[00:46:40]>> All right, >> come out of there, fella.

[00:46:42]>> Back yourself back quick.

[00:46:46]>> Not a bad fish. Oh, look at him. He's a beauty.

[00:46:50]>> Oh, he'll go very close to 10 lb.

[00:46:53]>> It might be eight anyway. I'll just >> Okay.

[00:46:56]>> Hey, he is a nice looking fish, too, >> isn't he?

[00:47:00]>> Oh, beauty. Oh, >> yes. You got him.

[00:47:04]>> He didn't look that big when he took it.

[00:47:05]You know, >> he looked like a fish half that size.

[00:47:08]>> Yeah. See, you'll go very close to 10, I would say. Mel, >> I don't know whether this is >> entirely legitimate, but >> beaching a fish like this, incidentally, is not the best way to handle a trout you intend to release. Far better to lift him straight from the water.

[00:47:23]>> I heard that. Look at Look at the hump on his back there, too.

[00:47:26]>> Yeah, he's not bad.

[00:47:27]>> Yeah, he's >> he's lost a bit of condition, but >> Yes, but he's not bad, though. Well, he'll go very close to pit.

[00:47:33]>> I tell you what, >> your biggest trout.

[00:47:35]>> It's the first decent trout on a fly.

[00:47:37]Yeah.

[00:47:38]>> Well, >> really good one.

[00:47:40]>> Uhhuh.

[00:47:41]>> He's not one of your monster pet fish, but jeez, a good one.

[00:47:45]>> A rough old saltwater fisherman like me.

[00:47:49]That's very satisfying. Come on, fella.

[00:47:53]>> Give him a little bit of your >> Just working backwards and forwards.

[00:47:57]>> Get him to revive a bit.

[00:48:01]Come on, mate. You got a little bit left in you yet.

[00:48:03]>> Yeah, he's got himself into gear now, Alan.

[00:48:06]>> Beautiful.

[00:48:23]Flying in a chopper over truly wild country like this is about as close to a magic carpet ride as you can get. There are some 20 high country lakes tucked away here in the lofty folds and buckles of these ancient weathered ranges. Mount Surprise, Bluff Tarn, Orb Lake, the Moat, and the one we're heading for now, Lake Jud.

[00:48:48]Tasmania's Inland Fisheries Commission has stocked hundreds of readily accessible lakes with trout. But in some remote mountain lakes accessible only to determined bushw walkers, the only trout would be those thought to have bred from stocks carried in as fingerlings in water bags by pioneer bushw walkers half a century ago. Such lakes see few fishermen. It's possible Lake Jud has never been lure fished.

[00:49:17]So dense is the virgin bush here that landing a chopper is a problem. A small patch of spongy yabbyhold moss was our only helipad. From here you walk.

[00:49:46]Of course, one of the good things about wilderness adventures of this nature is that at least half the fun is getting there.

[00:51:02]time to take a good look at this lake.

[00:51:04]And I guess I've only probably had a look at about something less than 1% of its shoreline. But in the time I was fishing, I did manage to see two small trout. That's small by Lake Peda standards. They would have been about 2 lb, I guess. which means that as far as these naturally occurring Tasmanian highland lakes are concerned, somebody stocked them with trout either unofficially or officially sometime or other. But even without fish, they're very beautiful places, very special places ive ways of catching trout in a water like Lake Ped is by spinning casting small lures in amongst the timber and snags on ultra light outfits like this.

[00:52:27]And so we can do that as effectively and as quietly as possible. We're using a cat dingy and an almost noiseless electric outboard motor. All we need to do is to get in the timber and see a bit of kick in this one, N.

[00:53:14]>> Good on you.

[00:53:14]>> She lobbed onto that, Nigel. Like she was waiting for me to cast it to her.

[00:53:19]>> He's fighting well. He's a beautiful little fish. He's a good fish.

[00:53:21]>> Yeah.

[00:53:23]>> Little hen fish, I think. cuz she's not in the size range as a normal lake bit of travel.

[00:53:27]>> Oh, she's a beauty. You're going to have to play.

[00:53:31]>> You're going to have to play right out.

[00:53:34]Flame right out.

[00:53:35]>> Wasting a lot of energy there, isn't she?

[00:53:37]>> Flame right out.

[00:53:38]>> Yeah, >> she's well hooked.

[00:53:43]>> Put a Baramundi fisherman's lip grip on her.

[00:53:46]>> Forget that she's got teeth.

[00:53:49]>> Good. Oh, beautiful fish. Look at the condition on it. Yeah, >> beautiful fish.

[00:53:54]>> They'd have plenty of food in a place like this, I imagine, and amongst all these sticks.

[00:54:03]>> Yes, m.

[00:54:04]>> Yes.

[00:54:04]>> Right. Let's get mine.

[00:54:06]>> Right. Right alongside the edge of those trees.

[00:54:08]>> Back out.

[00:54:09]>> I'll swap over them. Motor's already going. Oh, he's in the sticks.

[00:54:12]>> He's a big one.

[00:54:13]>> He's a beauty.

[00:54:15]>> You've got him. Yep. Stick with him.

[00:54:17]>> He's coming at me. He's a good fish.

[00:54:19]>> He's a beautiful fish. Hold him. Yeah, I really >> just stop us in the middle there and we'll drift down. Get him out in the open there. All >> right, >> bring him out.

[00:54:28]>> He looks a beauty.

[00:54:30]>> He's off. That'll do. Just leave the motor out again now.

[00:54:34]It's >> a ripper. We forgot that painting.

[00:54:36]>> Look at him.

[00:54:38]Huh? Yeah. Easy. Come on. Take it easy.

[00:54:41]We're going to lose this one.

[00:54:43]>> Okay.

[00:54:44]>> He's a beautiful fish.

[00:54:45]>> He's not a bad fish, is he? M.

[00:54:46]>> Look at the size of him. Look at him.

[00:54:48]I'm just going to lead him over and try and gill him if you balance me up in the dingy. All right, cuz we He's not as big as I first thought, but he might be double figures.

[00:54:57]>> He's double figures. No trouble at all.

[00:54:59]If >> I could just get him under the gill there. Still a little bit green for this caper. Shorten him up a bit.

[00:55:04]>> He's a monster.

[00:55:09]Down here, fella.

[00:55:13]Come here.

[00:55:18]Oh, just got to get in there behind the gill.

[00:55:24]There he is.

[00:55:26]Not a bad little fish, mate.

[00:55:28]>> Beautiful fish.

[00:55:29]>> Okay, just get that those hooks out of him. There we go. Those cobras have yours work well, mate.

[00:55:36]>> That's a good fish.

[00:55:38]>> Yeah, beautiful. He'd >> be close to 12 lb.

[00:55:41]>> Yeah, male fish.

[00:55:42]>> Big cannibalistic buck.

[00:55:43]>> Yeah, big hook jaw on him.

[00:55:46]That's what the lake ped fishing is all about. Trout of that size. In most parts of the world, a trout like that would be considered a freak. And yet, this fella is about half the size potential of the trout that are in Lake Peda. This fish would probably go into double figures on the old imperial scale. And there are a lot more like him in this water around here.

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[00:59:31]These beautiful animals are Australian sea lions. They live on a small island called Hopkins at the seawward edge of Spencer Gulf, South Australia. For me, they are a fascinating introduction to what I regard as the most spectacular and intriguing fishing adventure I have ever undertaken.

[01:00:12]They are young female sea lions grown out of the nursery but not yet into full adulthood and their next role as parents of yet another generation.

[01:00:22]For them too, this swim is a fascination. They are curious about us and as entertained by our presence as we are by theirs.

[01:00:54]The longer we swam together, the more I felt less like the observer and more like the observed, being scrutinized like the oddity I was in an environment that belonged to the sea lions.

[01:01:23]Their lack of concern at our intrusion and their obvious curiosity contrasts with the tentative way they regard humans on land. The water is evidently where they feel at home and confident.

[01:01:47]Well, that was just fantastic.

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[01:02:09]We've come here for a creature for whom the seals unfortunately are food. A creature we call the great white shark.

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[01:03:11]We plan to observe, then capture, tag, and release a great white shark. An adventure depending on first class help from men who know great whites. Rodney Fox is such a man. A professional diver for 20 years, Rodney and his mate Bob Britcher have seen hundreds of great whites. In Bob's 70 foot troller, the Ninad, they're taking me to a place called Dangerous Reef.

[01:03:39]Dangerous Reef got its name because for 200 years, it has wrecked ships. It is also a top spot for great white sharks.

[01:03:49]The reef is not much more than a cluster great creatures began in 1963 when one almost bit him in half. For Rodney, our arrival here means perhaps another chance to observe at close quarters this largest of the carnivore sharks.

[01:04:46]In the morning, our search would begin in earnest.

[01:04:57]Finding a great white shark is a matter of inducing one to find you. Put something in the water they can smell and wait >> out on the rope, mate.

[01:05:06]>> Yeah. What I want to do, Malcolm, is to float one right out the back of the boat so that it gives the first warning.

[01:05:12]Usually, they can be quite shy.

[01:05:14]>> And uh I'll throw it straight out the back. And uh and we'll just hopefully that uh keep an eye on the float.

[01:05:22]>> Great. You can do all the work.

[01:05:27]>> The inducement we put in the water is called burly. And in order to entice a single shark from the hundreds of square miles of surrounding ocean, we need lots of it.

[01:05:44]This rather unattractive concoction is a mixture of minced tuna, tuna oil, and blood. And I'm glad you can't smell it.

[01:05:51]It's the basis of our burly slick.

[01:05:56]The idea is that the current will carry all those little bits and pieces and form a slick, which eventually might be miles long. And the shark, because it has a very keen sense of smell and it has very sophisticated sensory devices underneath its snout, will ultimately be able to follow that burly slick and that scent all the way back to its source. In this case, our boat.

[01:06:20]It's a process that can take hours, days, or a week to work, or it may even not work at all.

[01:06:32]One of the compensations about having to wait for quite a while for the sharks to come into the burly is that the burley attracts a lot of other local fish too.

[01:06:40]Fish like leather jackets, sweep, parrot fish from off the bottom, and even whiting. And all you have to do to catch breakfast around here is drop a small piece of squid down on a little hook and wait about 2 seconds.

[01:06:53]Oh yes.

[01:06:57]In and out the shark bait ropes >> breakfast.

[01:07:07]>> According to Rodney, who of course has done all this before, it's only wise to catch breakfast like this early in the trip. 3 days feeding solidly on our burly and every fish in the water here tastes just like it.

[01:07:25]Midday and our wait for the sharks looks like being a long one. We're also waiting for our game boat, the Calypso.

[01:07:33]But happily, Spencer Golf has some great diversions, including the Sea Lion Nursery on Dangerous Reef.

[01:08:26]It's places like this that almost make you forget the sharks we've come so far to find, but our game boat is on its way.

[01:08:38]Calypso is a 32-footer from Adelaide, the pride and joy of local sport fisherman Ralph Seasi.

[01:08:46]On board her, while Denad waits patiently for the sharks and skipper Bob does all the burlying, we could see some more of this remarkable area.

[01:09:07]The islands of Spencer Gulf are beautiful and unspoiled.

[01:09:20]It's with some surprise that you realize that all this is only just offshore and about 100 nautical miles from Adelaide, a city of 1 million people.

[01:09:34]>> Calypso 2.

[01:09:38]>> Yeah, it is Calypso 2, Bob. I'm on the moment.

[01:09:44]>> Great. Let's go right now, man.

[01:09:50]>> The news from Bob was good. There were two big sharks back at the Ninad.

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[01:14:01]The plan from here was simple. Into our wets suits as quick as we can and then down in the cage to meet the sharks at last.

[01:14:10]>> Let's get in.

[01:14:19]>> For Rodney, this was the culmination of weeks of hard work.

[01:14:23]>> Three sharks down there. It's going to be pretty exciting. I can't wait to see your face when you come up.

[01:14:27]>> Just as long as I come up again. That's all right.

[01:14:51]With a thrill like this ahead of me, I had no room for fear, except perhaps an uneasiness about actually getting into the cage. The hole in the top looked almost too small.

[01:15:18]But once you're in, you're in.

[01:15:25]No one knows how big great whites grow.

[01:15:29]A 21-footer has been recorded. One harpooned off the Azors was said to be 29 ft. And in 1930, a great white stranded in a fish trap off Canada reportedly measured a staggering 37 ft.

[01:15:44]These sharks are less than half that size.

[01:15:53]White sharks are said to be fearless.

[01:15:56]They exhibit less fear than other species certainly, yet they too can be shy, unsure, even timid. It was several hours before these sharks built the confidence to feed like this.

[01:16:26]Great whites have been branded in the past as vicious, cruel, angry, and ferocious.

[01:16:33]In fact, they probably feel no such stimulus. They do get excited by the smell of food, but all they're doing is actively feeding. It's my hope that one will eventually build enough confidence to take a tuna from my hands.

[01:16:51]Sometimes a shark makes a mistake about what can and what can't be eaten.

[01:17:27]For 48 hours, we have been lacing ing this water with blood and minced tuna.

[01:17:35]The scent has excited the sharks and they have their confidence. Now they speculatively mouth anything in the water.

[01:17:54]There is no anger here. No evil monsters attacking our boat. Just big, beautiful creatures innocently trying to feed, even from inside the cage.

[01:18:12]Man knows little about sharks, even less about this one. We do know now that sharks are not unpredictable mindless stomachs operated by blind instinct, but creatures with memories and the ability to think and learn. Creatures with remarkable sensory organs called ampuli of Lordenzini, sensitive enough to detect even the minute electric fields surrounding other living creatures. An ability 25 million times more sensitive than that of man.

[01:18:46]Through the ages, man has feared sharks.

[01:18:50]Now we are slowly beginning to understand them.

[01:19:15]That is one of the most incredible experiences I think I've ever had in my life. Four big great white sharks down there going round and around the cage.

[01:19:24]They came so close at one stage were able to reach out and touch them and virtually hand feed them. Absolutely marvelous experience. They're still cruising around here in the water and we really do have to watch ourselves.

[01:19:38]They'll eat just about anything once they get a little bit excited. And uh they do it purely out of making a mistake about what they're eating. They try to eat what they can smell. But anything that looks edible, they'll have a go at, including me if I don't get out of here.

[01:19:58]As a sport fisherman, there was something more I wanted to know about these magnificent great whites.

[01:20:05]What was it like to feel the awesome power of one on rod and reel? Taking on a fish that can weigh over a ton means your tackle has to be able to handle stress. Lots of it.

[01:20:22]This 130lb outfit is the biggest I fish with. Built for the job by international tackle designer Jack Erskin.

[01:20:35]>> Here he comes. He's coming around on the bait now.

[01:20:38]>> He's seen it. He's here. We go.

[01:20:42]>> He's got it.

[01:20:43]>> No, he hasn't taken it yet. He hasn't taken it. He's coming back. Let him have his that time.

[01:20:48]>> Yes.

[01:20:48]>> Yeah, he's got it.

[01:20:52]>> Okay, I'm going to hit HIM NOW.

[01:20:55]YELL IT TIGHT.

[01:20:58]That's it, Ros. Go, go, go.

[01:21:06]Yeah, we're tight to him.

[01:21:12]KEEP GOING, WOLF. KEEP IT UP.

[01:21:17]OKAY, he's up in now. We're clear of the B.

[01:21:22]Nothing much you can do about him when he's doing that.

[01:21:31]Oh, the rock. Oh, look. Coming back.

[01:21:34]Go the other way.

[01:21:47]>> He might be here for a long time. Yeah, >> he's just a bit confused about all the weight that's on him, probably.

[01:21:52]He's not doing much in a hurry, so you pro probably go the distance. No worries at all.

[01:21:57]>> That was that big one, wasn't it? Do you think that that the biggest one we had swimming around the cages at a 15 footer? I'd say >> Alan's record, you know, was only a 16' 6 one and his weighed over 2,600 lb.

[01:22:10]>> So, you got at least a couple of,000 lb on there.

[01:22:22]How your legs feeling? A bit tired?

[01:22:23]>> No, they're okay.

[01:22:26]>> Got a strain on them.

[01:22:32]>> Bit more right, Rodney.

[01:22:33]>> Just like Marlin fishing, the fight with a big shark is a team effort. And like big maron, sharks know about fighting back.

[01:22:41]>> 1 hour and 6 minutes.

[01:22:43]>> Feels like it, too.

[01:22:48]If I wanted to catch this shark before dark, I was going to have to hurry.

[01:22:52]>> Oh, he's got some power.

[01:22:55]So, nearly 70 lb of drag on there, and he's still inching it off.

[01:23:01]Can't get him up. He's got power he hasn't used yet, Rodney.

[01:23:09]Anyway, we keep this sort of pressure on him for long enough, he he'll come up and we can tag him and let him go.

[01:23:18]Gee, was just as well as 130 and not 50 or something. Be here for a week.

[01:23:25]Can't even sit down.

[01:23:35]Couldn't get a turner.

[01:23:59]Over an hour and a half into the fight and the big shark is still going strong.

[01:24:04]Might get a shot at him here soon.

[01:24:16]>> There he comes.

[01:24:17]>> There's the double knot out of the water.

[01:24:21]>> Ste.

[01:24:26]Reach for it, Gary.

[01:24:28]Reach for it, mate.

[01:24:31]This time, go for it.

[01:24:36]Oh, come here.

[01:24:38]Come here.

[01:24:41]Right. Reach for it. Go.

[01:24:45]>> BRING IT FORWARD. BRING IT FORWARD. COME ON.

[01:24:48]>> PULL UP HARD.

[01:24:49]>> COME ON. PULL up your head, Rodney. Hang on to it. Okay. Hang on to it. Pull up.

[01:24:55]>> Good tag. Oh, lovely. What would she be, Rodney? She's 14 15.

[01:24:58]>> Yeah. Good. 14. She go a couple of grand. She's a big one.

[01:25:05]Hold there, fellas.

[01:25:08]>> Beautiful.

[01:25:10]>> Lovely stuff, fellas. Well done.

[01:25:11]>> Lovely.

[01:25:13]>> Cut her off when you're ready, fellas.

[01:25:15]We'll let her go. Cut her off.

[01:25:19]Watch the mouth, Rodney. Ah, well done.

[01:25:24]Away you go, big beautiful girl.

[01:25:30]Oh, she's down. She's heading down.

[01:25:31]Straight down. Look at that tail fin go.

[01:25:33]>> Oh, lovely. Ah, that's terrific, mate.

[01:25:38]>> Good fight. Fun to fight, aren't they?

[01:25:40]>> Oh, just just to see them and feel their power and everything and and to get the look of them under the water as well.

[01:25:45]It's just a >> magic experience.

[01:25:52]>> Sharks have been evolving on Earth for at least 300 million years. And of all the sharks, the great white pointers are the most impressive. In the decades ahead, perhaps we will come to fear them less and know them better.

[01:27:03]Swim at your own risk if you dare.

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[01:38:04]>> So, this is a forest, huh? Wow.

[01:38:07]>> Oo, check out all these leaves. Wait, do we tell them back home at the South Pole?

[01:38:12]>> As I was saying, forests are great places for everyone to visit. Not only that, forests are where we get wood, and forests help keep our air and water clean.

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