iFish, just seems like a more professional show.

least they do some landbased fishing. That wally Paul on Ifish starts squealing if he looks like getting wet by a wave. Did anyone see that episode where they went drummer fishing.

Ifish better show the boys fish in all the different states and overseas,they use better gear,better boats,plus bit of comedy without going over the top like the fwa peanuts

I used to hate Paul Worstelling, at the start but after a while hes not bad.

Specially the epsiode i saw when he fell down a ditch, the night before they filmed the show. And hes out the next day, all bandaged up fishing with 1 arm.

Clasic.

Fishing Wa..because its fishing i can relate too.

I have not watched a whole lot of fishing WA but so far I still prefer Ifish. Sure, it's mostly over east but it's a show to watch when you are not fishing yourself.

Fishing WA epsiodes are probably recorded too long ago to be relevant for whats being caught. With Ifish, it does not matter because it is much more enjoyable to watch.

they both have redeeming and annoying qualities.

i think both shows have gone off a little, perhaps they are going over old ground too much & in the case of F/WA they have given up completely & gone to malaysia, perhaps one of the perks of havin malaysian airlines as a sponsor. still a long way to tow the boat. I record & watch most of them giving me the option of fast forwarding all the dribble that takes up all the good fishing time. I think out of all the shows, I Fish, Fishing WA, Fishing Australia & ET, i have to support the local show mostly because i can relate to the local content, but i'm not keen on the replacement for Jacko, shes a bit betta lookin but he at least put a bit of comedy/stupidity into it. Rob

i enjoy watching paul and the other dude catching all sorts of fish in all sorts of locations and the show is well structured and entertaining - i also used to enjoy rex hunt fishing adventures - " rex hunt is a bloody champion"

I don't get that excited with either albeit I would rather watch a shitty fishing show than nothing at all.

I like to watch Jason Kennedy on Fishin' Trip on Aurora.

Cheers
Dale

well fishing with et is good lol 1 becouse he doesnt know how to fish 2 becouse he uses the shitest gear out 3 he catches big fish lol wat a legend  and yes rex is my fav bring back the fish kisser

rex = hooker kisser

I prefer Steve C and his nutty antics on his online channel LocoTV. Especially the Salmon at Rotto episode. I actually learn something useful from him.

i rather ifish but if there isnt any fishing on tv il take fishingwa. Any fishing show is great:) Never seen loco tv but i did like steve so im guessing id like that show. What channel is locotv? is it foxtel or somthing?

Prefer IFISH to FWA.

Yeh Ifish, Paul is a much better host. Do like to see the fishing all over WA on FWA tho.

both aren't the best tho.

adverts and sponsorship and a quick bit of fishing.

they could fill there time slot with some really usefull info going into rigs baits and stuff , but generally they both fall short of good

I have only been in WA/Hedland for 18 months now, I actually enjoy FWA...one host who is a quality fisherman and then goood ole Jacko who adds a bit or humour and i think all of us have a little bit of him in us. Is really good to see them around all of WA......and really gives some good insight to the various locations. Ifish can be hit and miss, they are both reasonable hosts and Paul Worsteling can be a pain in the backside but he does have the skill and knoweledge....bit less stupidity from him and it would be more watchable i think.

 So the question is.......do we think there is room on TV/FOX regional TV etc for another quality Fishing/Boating program?????....i think the answer is yes. The unfortunate thing is that all of the shows need advertising which equals product placement...be it good or bad gear. Would be great to see a show that doesn't rely SO much on promoting a brand....maybe a variety of gear.......but i guess I am asking too much, be easier to pick the Lotto Superdraw!

Rex has had his day (was still good and broke the ground for all the new shows), ET is ok viewing...I just find he has very little charisma....but having met him he is a nice guy. Have seen Hook Line Sinker on Fox/Aurora.......they are ok but just miss the mark with overall performance.....and am now doing a google search on Loco TV for that fishing show.

Anyhow thats my 2cents worth...if i can't go fishing I will still watch anyone of them that's on TV

Fishing WA definitely but it sucks that Jacko's gone.

Theres a new one coming out on Aurora that specialises in sports fishing called Fishing Life
Think it premiers at 8.30 on the 15th of Feb

The trailier and sneak peek look awesome

i always miss FWA somehow, but have caught it few times...definitely cool to see our state featured.

I watch iFish, bc hey....it's fishing....but i reckon the host is a bit of a tool.  have only seen a few episodes but i've never seen them catch anything all that impressive....so it's a bit like watching myself fish! just with better gear....haha!

what no way jacko is a goose lol hes such a slow person doesnt know anything about fishing haha but i like him becouse he is a character

More content.

MEfish

not watched an ifish personally and living in the backwoods in bungole I dont have regular access to fishingWA.

been enjoying the full suite of the ABT from a US site. Yep old but as above.............

the vids here keep me entertained, least their reel (sic) so keep uploading

jacko get exited if he sees baitfish, he yells and screams if he lands a fish. im sure he gave the cameramen and woman migranes. goofball

In the UK sometimes they have fishing shows on one cable station 24 hours straight for a week.

I wish now that Free2air is digital that one of the channels would go down the same path or at least late night or something.  You couldn't critic Jacko for being boring or average in the excitment department. 

The more fishing shows the better.  Some of the fishing shows from the US are pretty cool.  Surely one of the stations could pick this up and run with it on one of their off digital channels?  A back to back would be great as the shows tend to be too short or fluffed up.

Id rather watch ABT highlights or some comp highlights than any other sport.  Bring it on.  Considering places like Karratha have some of the highest boat ownership rates per head of capita in the world back digital channel broadcasting do a whole lot worse at present.

Fishing appeals to a broad based section of the market.  It beats much of the current summer garbage.  Theres more than a few people chasing method on how to go about even the simplest of things such as beach tailor fishing. Enviroment, times, lures etc etc.  Basic principals of setting a drag related to the knot strength etc is so not knowin by general public fishermen. 

Even old stuff repeated would be fine. 

If you want people buying digital set top boxes.

The worst fishing show is better than the best garbage summer broadcast at present. Even doc shows like salmon fishing in Russian canyon streams venture outside the fishign demographic.  Nile Perch in Africa.  Dorado in South America.  GT popping in Karratha.  I-Fish; Digital Free2Air now has the room;

If your bored, run through the favorites on this. 

http://www.youtube.com/user/bluewatertackle#p/f

Many graphics cards have a cable outlet from your graphics card to your TV.  Youll running youtube to that soon enough if the TV channels dont get it happening.

The time is now; Bring it on.

Ifish

You can even run a cable from the back of many laptops through your TV

  http://tv.shimano.co.jp/movie/dvd/2009_exsence/

http://tv.shimano.co.jp/movie/original/tsurikibun_45/

Hit the full screen icon in the bottom right corner of the movie. hit ESC to release back to normal.

If the movie stps and starts hit pause for 2 minutes then play again.

Don't forget the fishwrecked videos.  Theres 112 there and I haven't updated it in ages, more like 120 odd.

http://fishwrecked.com/content/videos

i dont get to watch too much tv on the weekends anymore but i cant realy say which is best to watch , i just like sitting back and watching any fishing shows . just cant get into fresh water stuff

i dont think you can compare the two

ifish is a national show that gets to many more people, and fwa is a local show that is specialised in fishing in WA (although the go up north far too much)

Ifish has also got way more ads even in the show  and they do shit all in W.A.

P.S all the smart alecks that will say fwa is on foxtel, yeah it is but thats the old series. 

fishing shows I have seen on Foxtel. They get excited catching a big goldfish. One episode these blokes travelled for miles to sleep out in the rough to try and catch a mullet.
On another episode one of the commentators had the temerity to say that one of the carp type things they were catching must be the hardest pulling fish in the world.

Sorry Roger, but from what I have seen the English fishing shows are as crap as your cricket team (Lol).

The only interesting thing about the UK fishing shows is the different gear they use.
The only thing interesting about the English cricket team is how low will they stoop to try and win a game. First it was using botle tops to rough up one side of the ball, then it was rubbing lollies on the ball (aledgely) and now it is alledgedly stomping on the ball.

I watched one were they lobbed what looked like a 20kg onion sack full of burley out into the middle of a lake, then set their rod up on an electric buzzer (so it would set off an alarm when there was a bite) and then went to sleep!

To me, thats not fishing.....

I was watching a fishing competition, and most of the guys didn't even have reels on their rods.

Just looked at Loco & found the fishing vids. Thx Cammo i didnt know about it untill u mentioned it. I like the format of it, give ya a bit more info than the others. Little info bits like how fast does a dolphin fish grow, how to fish FADS & wot size are dhuis before they reach breeding size.  The best part is no ads  except for the sponsors at the end. Another fishing show to watch   woohoo.   Rob

Don't worry wopjrb.. I am an old POM as well. We came here in 1966 when I was 10. My Father worked for a land owner who was a purist fisherman and even went off to throw flies at Salmon twice a year (something not many POMs get to do in the UK).

The thing that intrigued me was the level of complexity involved in fishing over there. The farmer gave me a couple of books that I studied and they covered the art of catching various species from Rudd, Roach, Carp, Tench etc. You needed a very special set of tools (floats, weights, leaders, hooks etc) and were required to learn the art of reading the eddys etc in the water systems. It was all very complicated and the chances were that you would come back empty handed with a wet arse.

I did manage to catch some nice Trout on worms and once I even landed a decent Pike in an apple orchard in Sommerset. I only really got excited about fishing when I came out here.

It just doesn't make for riveting TV. The fishing competition was a classic. They had some guy crawling through the reeds and whispering like the old commentator on "Pot Black" about the types of maggots one of the competitors was using.Snore.

On ya Steve. Love the squidding episode on the calamari classic day.

fishing wa but its got a little lame lattely

does anyone rember go fish auatralia i rember watching it when i was a kid 25 years ago

it prob wouldnt rate against  todays shows i onder if i can buy it on dvd????

I only watch I Fish for Paul's missus !!!!!!! although it does seem alot more professional with better all round content...

Cheers fishfish...

i stoped watching fishing wa when jacko came on board for obvious reasons/ you had to watch it muted

Fishing WA hands down... No other show features our State and possible locations we can go fishing... I dont want to watch someone catching fish in another location across the country....

the new fishing wa is pretty crap especially when jacko came on as they only whent to one place, the mackeral islands, it got boring after the 2nd or 3rd episode of the same spot, why cant they go metro or down south

plus malcolm douglas is by far the best ishing show

If Paul Actually met his fans he would be 'ok'

At least I can say that I met Nicko at the boat show and he is a top bloke

Did any body see the end of the episode on 10 the week end just gone he fell off the back of boat droped his rod and reel into the water and almost fliped the boat in the raging current at the monties TOOL!!!!

I also think that fishing WA isnt any better the chick shouldnt be in it!

i think they both have good and bad points

but what i would like to see is a show that helps people show gear setups ect not just yay we got a show we can go get big fish

hooked is ok and  hook line and sinker they are just crazy

theres like 4 to 5 fishig sows on aura channel

River To Reef /Hooked /Fishin Trip /Hook, Line And Sinker

discovery has escape with et

For me though they dont show enough how to on setups ect and they seem to be more interested in just catching fish and mostly from boats what about us shorebased

show i do like is adventure bound that was good they explain alot more

Fishing wa for sure . They seem to have more of a laugh

FISHN WA M8 ALDA WAY

They are all crap now. A thirty minute show with 23 minutes of advertising their sponsors product, boat, fuel, flyspray, where they slept for the last 6 months, sunglasses, shirts, sunscreen, some prick who cooked their fish, you name it, its enough to give you the shirtz

Fishing WA for me as its WA and sumthin i can do so very relavent 4sure. Ryan comin back is good for the show with tech talk and local stuf too. he showed me sum higlight stuf oif the new series recently and oohh yeh looks awesum.

FWA Starts 12th Dec on channel 7 & GWN

Probably Ifish. Although I prefer the fact FWA is only WA and does a bit more LB fishing

Both shows have good and bad points.. but ive been watching a show called "Adventure Bound" on WTV (west television) tuesday nights at 10pm, they fish all over australia, both land based and boat fishing, give good advice and catch some cracker fish, not a bad show in my book!

IFISH by a mile. fishing WA drives me nuts with the carry on and lack of quality fish.

i agree john

itm nz fishing show is a country mile better than anything i've yet seen here. shame

there is a gaping hole ready for a really good fishing show to fill. unfortunately it'd probably be deemed too specialist.

can't stand the fact you don't really learn anything from any of them.

There is somebody that will make you come back to the I fish and fishing Wa shows real quick.Gets on my nerves pretty much straight away

I  prefer FWA mainly  during Steve, Marshy and  Ryans run on the  program.

Jacko  and  Nick  got annoying.  I  dont  mind Lisa. What she  may lack in  experience she  makes  up  for  in passion.

Paul from Ifish is  really annoying. Lately his missus  has  been doing  her  own  segments. Shes  pretty nice  to look at.

Fishing Trips Jason"STOP THE BUS" Kennedy  gets   boring  after  the 100th episode  of  targeting pink  snapper out of  western  port  or  whyalla.

Dave Butfield  On Hooked  is  pretty  good   but  he's  an  uber nerd  on  the  tackle  and  equipment.

Theo on River  to  Reef  is  ok.  I  like  how  they  spend  much  time  on  Marine  safety.

The  2  guys  on  fishing  life  are  a  boring version  of  Nick and  jacko.

All 4 Adventure is pretty good. Bit homoerotic  though.

Malcolm  douglas  and  his   handlines  owns them  all!

Busted Arse is right about Dave Butfield he is a nerd who tries to be cool (they're the worst). Hooked is ok but it’s basically a long advert like all the other fishing shows on Aurora.

He seems pretty knowledgeable but lacks charisma (see Rex Hunt), I usually tape Hooked and watch it later to skip the shit parts.

Don't get me started on Jason "special ed bus" Kennedy as most people have said all he does is catch snapper and talk to the weird boat guy or go fishing with the weird pirate 2ic of Berkley guy.

Hooked, line and sinker with the 2 guys is alright, the skinny guy thinks he's awesome and the fat guy doesn't really do much.

River to Reef is alright I like the cooking segment and I would like to smash the blonde chick lol.

I haven't seen FWA before but I am going to record it from now on.

Ifish, I watched that today the Paul guy is alright but it seems like he is just an average fisherman who will never be on the level of Hunt or Douglas. Good at fishing but not as knowledgeable as you would expect from a guy who is a host of a fishing show.

River monster is pretty shit you might as well record it and fast forward it to the end of the show. Wade runs out of stuff to say and he just repeats himself a couple of times. 

There's 1 more show I used to watch when I was a kid it had 2 hosts, 1 of the guys had/has a wild moustache and they also have their own line of tackle that you can buy at kmart. I don't remember their names

Anyways my main grievances with these shows is that instead of teaching you about rigs etc they just advertise (understandable), talk shit and show them catching fish money shot after money shot lol.

I think Butfield is a reformed "lisper" and JK has a retarded voice for no reason.

So to answer your question I would have to say Ifish by default but in the overall category Rex Hunt and Malcolm Douglas will always win.

EDIT: how do i get rid of the normal false etc stuff?

Definately Ifish, Hooked. Ifish has done plenty of WA stuff and keeps it interesting with kids fishing, different locations and good tackle.  Adventure bound was good. Good luck to the rest of them, hope they go well so we can have some more variety.

I think were all ready for a new fishing show, without sponsors being shoved down our throat at every opportunity.

Yes I know they pay the bills however acknowledgements at the end should be enough.

Where average guys and gals do spectactular things.

Maybe Fishwrecked members could be used, some of the postings here are equal if not better than any I have seen.

People like Adam, Pilbra Brad, Jay Burgess, Daz  or any other member

when jacko was staring i couldnt watch fishwa

wtv advertizes for people with idea's for shows they want to produce local shows

fishing wa in the beginning was good now imo its just crap , ifish is much bettter show.

Adventure bound would have to be the best fishing show i have seen. Great hosts that know there stuff and are'nt annoying.  They cover some of the best places in Aus and abroad and most of the places are pretty accesable to all angelers as alot of it is tralier boat fishing.

Lee Rayner jumped on board last season and he's doing a great job so far taking over from Neil Tedesco who was the main presenter before he died. Neil was the most skillful fisherman i have ever seen and boy was he a good tv presenter.

I strongly suggest everyone check out AB, some great episodes in WA as well.

more like fishing the north west, fishing wa seems to only fish the nothern parts of wa and thats great but for people like me who can not get up there it really annoys the f>>>> out of me so im up for Ifish how ever that guy on the show really gets under my skins and watswith the laugh ggggggrrrrrrr lol