I'm an avid fisherman and LOVE this show. I have the entire series on my tivo. I never miss an episode.
I just wish I lived in a region with fish even 1/10th the size he catches. I'm happy with a 25lb catfish or 6lb walleye,hell, even a 4lb brown trout; not even in the same league...
You're complaining?
When I was growing up and we used to go fishing near where we lived, we were limited to 2-4 pound catfish, -zero- Walleyes, 2-3 pound Bass, and 1-3lb Trout!
However, we live fairly close to the lower Susquehanna river, near the Conowingo dam, and I've met 2 different divers who's jobs it was to dive near the dam and check on it. They both said that when they got down into the deep water by the dam, they saw catfish almost as big as a human! One guy freaked out and quit his job because of it!
One night, my friends Steve and "Haney"(last name), decided to go eel fishing in the White Clay creek near Haney's house, and they said that all you needed to do was wait until the sun went down, bait your hook, and cast into the fairly narrow creek(17 feet wide there), and into a deep area. So we did that, and almost immediately after it got dark, we began catching eels! These things were big, freaky looking and slimy as hell! They also had nasty teeth, so you had to cut the line instead of pulling the hooks out because they'd bite your finger off! After we caught one apiece, we quit........Of course we released them too.
I've also caught some pretty large Carp in the Octoraro Creek, about 15-30 lbs.