"What is an "extreme angler"?" Topic

There's one who has a TV show that is advertised on the M<ilitary Channel a lot.
I think he is looking for Nessie in the Susquehanna River, but I can't be sure.

I would consider a guy that parachutes into the Amazon basin with nothing but his tackle box, rod and reel and a PZ time at least two weeks in the future an 'extreme angler'.

On the other side of the coin would be Smokey, wearing a wife beater, jorts and his crocs fishing and drinking in Biscayne Bay. That could be pretty extreme too!

Jake

Surely an extreme angler is one with more than 90 degrees….

Nude piranha fly fishing.

I would consider this:

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or this:

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extreme fishing of some sort….

There's a creature in the Amazon that will swim up your urethra…that's pretty extreme.

I think, in this instance,they mean a bass boat without a sonar array that would grace a USN FFG and lacks a 4000hp outboard. Or could be not enough cheap swill-beer on board.

"What is an "extreme angler"?"

Depends, John. How many calibres is he totin'?

Extreme is internal. Doesn't matter that you are with a film crew in the Amazon or on the banks of your local golf course pond.

You fighting a fish, and he wraps you around a rock or structure, and will cut you off if you don't figure out how to pass the rod over/under/around the structure and free the line.

The Extreme angler would without hesitation dive into the water to land the fish, whether there are gators, snakes, sharks, oyster beds, whatever.

He will jump in, with knife between teeth, and wrap around a fish to land him, will take on interloping wildlife (bears, sharks, cudas, jewfish, birds) and put himself between the catch and the interloper, fighting him off if neccessary.

Something like that. :)

Extreme angler – a geometrist gone mad ?

One off his meds??????????????????????????????????

AHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……….

Are you talking about that guy on River Monsters, or whatever the hell its called?
Yes, that's extreme and the guy's a bit of a loony.

"Today we'll be fishing for the legendary mfanemfane, a monstrous kind of perch that has rarely been caught, yet is responsible for an estimated 100,000 deaths a year on the Lower Zambezi. The local populace live in absolute terror of this fish, and quite right too! So, for help we've had to hire a motley assortment of criminals and lunatics, which ought to make things quite exciting. Unfortunately my sound crew has refused to go within a hundred feet of the water, so if the audio is a bit dodgy you can blame it on the paranoid schizophrenic who's handling the boom mic…"

A crazy person, who takes his hobby way too seriously.
-Kle.

He is great. Not about image or melodrama. Will fish in a city drainage ditch to make a catch.

The "Snakehead" episode, where he caught one every cast in South Florida, was the canal system I grew up on. He was within 50 feet of I-95 and dense population at all times.

Forget noodling for catfish, I want to see noodling for Tiger Shaks. Now thats extreme.

Of course watching a couple of rednecks in a 12' Sears aluminum "John Boat" with a rusted Evinrude outboard trying to bait a hook with an electric eel would be pretty entertaining too.