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EVEN the two blokes who came up with the idea seem surprised it worked.
Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan, who not only present but conceived the Tasmanian television fishing program Hook, Line and Sinker, are about to embark on their third full season of a combination of fishing adventures and fishing misadventures.
While not always madcap, the antics of Hart and Duigan are often more about good humour than good fishing, but it is a style that is winning over viewers as an alternative to the super-slick, highly produced interstate fishing shows that produce a steady stream of fish. Catching a fish for the Hook, Line and Sinker crew, while always the aim, sometimes doesn't happen.
In his characteristic droll tone, Duigan described the concept as "visionary".
"A fishing show where you don't catch fish -- that ought to work," he said, spinning for stray cocky salmon just near the boat ramp at Narawntapu National Park.
But that appears to be exactly the reason that Hook Line and Sinker does work.
Hart said people seemed to relate to the warts-and-all style of the show because it reflected what their own fishing trips were like.
"Everyone has those days where you just don't catch fish and it rains all day and things go wrong. That's fishing, and that happens to us -- all the time," he said. "We don't cut it out. If you left out those bits, it'd look like every time you went fishing...