| PREDATORS |
| Predators is a ten part series on Discovery Home & Leisure. It studies a range of well-known predatory fish, analysing how they operate and how to catch them. Hosted by angling journalist Kevin Green, the series captures the live drama and battle of wits anglers face when fishing for predators. The series features great underwater camera-work, showing the predators in action, as well as all the facts you need on each fish and advice on which bait and methods to catch it. FISHINGmagic has preview tapes of all 10 episodes and Norfolk predator specialist and journalist Chris Bishop will give his view each week. |
THIS WEEK: PIKE, DISCOVERY HOME & LEISURE, 11PM Kev hooks up with piker John “Watto” Watson for the third programme of the series. And it isn’t long before he finds himself attached to a clonking double, as the pair plot up in a likely-looking boatyard. Scientist Simon Scott gives a pike the once-over, showing us the sight grooves this ultimate hunting machine uses to draw a bead on its prey. Then we’re back to Norfolk, using a different attack plan. Wobbling deads in warmer weather sparks an incredible sequence as a fish hits a bait almost as soon as it lands on the water. It might only be a jack but it got my pulse racing. You owe it to yourself to watch this – even if you’re not a died in the wool predator angler. Smart money says Kev Green’s going to hang up his carp rods and start targeting fish of the toothy variety, if his infectious enthusiasm’s anything to go by. And the best treat of all – there’s another piking programme later in the series. Next week: Eels and Conger Eels |
