Robson touches down in Papua New Guinea, a volatile, volcanic island that is home to multifarious tribes who speak over 800 languages. It is also home to the Papuan black bass, cited by many as the top prize when it comes to freshwater fighting fish.
After a journey involving 3 flights and 5 days, Robson Green touches down in Papua New Guinea, a volatile, volcanic island that is home to multifarious tribes who speak over 800 languages. It is also home to the Papuan black bass, cited by many as the top prize when it comes to freshwater fighting fish. In Kimbe, the capital of West New Britain, Robson meets hunter Riccard Reimann who takes him to the jungle rivers where the fiercely territorial bass makes its home. And its reputation as one of the world’s toughest fighters is soon confirmed as the first specimen they manage to hook has no intention of getting in the boat. A volunteer is sought to dive into the crocodile infested river to see if the monster can be brought to the surface.
Away from the water, Robson gets his hands dirty on the hunt for megapode eggs in the smoking shadow of the volcano Mt Tavurvur. The megapode, a kind of tropical turkey, incubates its eggs in a pungent cocktail of sand and rotting compost. The eggs are highly prized and they make the perfect gift for Robson’s next hosts – fishermen who ply their trade on the edge of a reef, using just hand lines that reach a depth of over 500ft. It is hard graft, but a tropical feast awaits after a day’s toil.
His last Papuan mission sees Robson sail out in the open ocean in the biggest boat he can find to see if he can bring in a goldfish. The ruby snapper, or giant goldfish as it is commonly known, turns out to be one of the most bizarre creatures he has ever landed.
This escapade leaves just enough time for one last fisherman’s tale about a mammoth of the deep, with the power to break 250lb lines, and which no one has ever brought to the surface. Robson’s reel goes from twitchy to smoking and maybe, just maybe, one of these huge predators is about to make its presence felt above the waves.
Comments (88)
1 year ago
Lewis extreme mad
I cant watch it man
1 year ago
Chris
Because its not out yet ! :)
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1 year ago
ART
I love this program, fishing is cool =p
12 months ago
connor
amazing sport cant wait to catch some monsters !! has anyone been to kingsclere, fobry farm
12 months ago
Fishman
When is it going to be available?
12 months ago
Sam housego
Omg i wanted to know what that mammoth of a fish was sooo badly it surely should've been a shark or something mahusive absolutely love extreme fishing fancy tryin to get that monster of a fish sometime haha need to go there sometime
12 months ago
bryan
how long before its on missed it @ 9
12 months ago
craig
whens this avalible to watch??????
12 months ago
ants
hopefully within the next ten minutes
12 months ago
beertec
it came on about 11 ish last week so hopefully the same this week!!!! Great show ch5 dudes
12 months ago
claasboi
no it wernt it was 9.25
12 months ago
Chinka
if u like this as i do try watching river monsters thats good too
12 months ago
jay
c'mon i'm dyin to watch this. i love this show
12 months ago
TA
Channel 5 you're killin' us! Been working late and missed it at 9 and am dying to see this episode! Need. Fishing. Fix.
12 months ago
badara
can they employ more staff from ads money to post it fast so we can watch it?
12 months ago
Chloe Hodgson
hurry up! i want to watch this!
12 months ago
nick
im waiting up only for this program now lol and river monsters is awesome to chinka your right
12 months ago
TA
I will pay channel 5 50p of my own money (by cheque) if they let us watch this NOW!
12 months ago
Arron
same I am staying up to watch it as well and I am in year 11 and its my last day tomorrow and I leave.
12 months ago
jay
i too will pay 50p to channel 5 or anyone willing to brake in and press the play button
12 months ago
blakemore
will it deffinetly show it on here tonight?
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12 months ago
nick
i hope it does i havent waited up this long for nothing got to be up early my seat box comes yippeeee :)
12 months ago
Smithc48
FIVE this is the only half decent show on your channel ... at least let us watch it ~!!
12 months ago
rachel
i keep refreshing the page with the hope it will have become available but it hasnt!
12 months ago
craig
i give up been waiting since 10! thanks channel 5.....bbc in the futre i feel mr green!!!!
12 months ago
Plucky
Loooong!!! Whats going on? Every week my misses deletes this off Sky planner and when I come in I can watch online. Im best man at my mates wedding tommo, come on chnl 5 sort a brother out!!! :)
12 months ago
Stephen
Waiting, read the blurb, desperate.
12 months ago
NotWack
This $#%* is wack.
12 months ago
ally
has it ever taken this long before?!
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12 months ago
rick
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry......... ME WANT FISHING
12 months ago
NotWack
Why spend time moderating comments, just put the show up...
12 months ago
matt
it's past midnight, dont think tonight is the night! :(
12 months ago
tom
this is a joke!
12 months ago
DAVE
COMPLETE JOKE
12 months ago
Andy
No, my comment was a joke. Was tryin to lightin the mood. ...OK, come on Robson, you are cool!
12 months ago
Thomas
This is bull man, I'm not going to bed until this is up :P
12 months ago
matt
can you wear out a refresh button :p
12 months ago
NotWack
Ohh, your comment was supposed to be a joke Andy?
12 months ago
david
its working
12 months ago
simon
comon this is completly ruining my night shift scheduel lol
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12 months ago
ben
hurrryyy up
12 months ago
Andy
Yeah, it's the only one I know. Thought I would share. ...watchin Apprentice till its on. Everyone hang in there. .......we are all really sad btw.
12 months ago
rick
this is redonculous whats taking so long
12 months ago
NotWack
You should probably learn another one Andy. Nothing sad about Greeny, he is the Chuck Norris of England. For example: Some magicians can walk on water; Robson Green can swim through land.
12 months ago
matt
time to go to bed, channel 5. shame on you!
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12 months ago
kp
Disappointing to say the very least.
12 months ago
rd
well definitely looks like it won't be up tonight...disappointed.
12 months ago
dave
it will not let me watch it
12 months ago
Jake
Very frustrating! Channel 5 you need to pull your fingers out and get it sorted
12 months ago
shadow
come on whats wrong with you put it up man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 months ago
Dr Miles Dyson
Is there a possibility that everyone at 5 has died and its all being run by machines gone mad a la skynet?
12 months ago
ste
Check PB if you are tired of waiting for Channel 5, it's up on there.
12 months ago
nick
whats pb?????????
12 months ago
kp
If everyone has died at Channel 5 I wish they would have updated the computers before they popped off. The current ones are rubbish.
12 months ago
Luke
This best hurry up and come to channel5.com. I really want to watch this. :)
12 months ago
BJ
It looks like they are trying to milk the program and playing it again Sat 28/05 11.05. I dont think it will be available here until after that. Hopefully they dont do this every week now.
12 months ago
Jonathan
come on 5! When you gonna let us see it?
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12 months ago
ozzy
why does it say blocked by ad blocker, its always worked fine before hand, also no other videos work on 5 now. whats going on i need to watch this!!!!
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12 months ago
Anon
Nice one five yet again showing your reliability.
12 months ago
kp
Still....worth the wait in the end. Good episode.
12 months ago
NotWack
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Thass more like it. Only 26 hours late and I get to watch Greeny. Time for some sweet, sweet kush.
12 months ago
bazar
robo make david attenborugh look like mary poppins with his Extreme Fishin.
12 months ago
ashleigh
omg the fish broke a 250 pound line and messed an electric reel tht would have been beyond massive and to get it to 40 feet omg unfair....extreme fishing nothing like it
12 months ago
satanicslave
some great looking fish ....robson green you lucky bugger.
12 months ago
Peter Mason
Absolutely superb viewing!! Well done Robson, and well done channel 5.
12 months ago
Sylvia Lawley
Excellent programme. I tried to enter the competition today 30 May by text but was told it had already closed even though it says on the programme noon on 2 June! Whats going on!!
12 months ago
josh
i caught a blue marlin and nearly killed me =D
12 months ago
tom
quality job amazing show.anybody know what channel river monsters is on? keep missing it?
12 months ago
moke stannard
surely we need more fishing programmes come on channel 5 sort it out. ps if robson needs someone to carry bags im your man.
12 months ago
sean
does anyone else want a ruby snapper, that would need one hell of an aquarium :p And what was that beast at the end, breaking 250lb line !!! wow im hooked :P
12 months ago
Caleb
i was born in kimba, best fishing place in the world awsome show guys loved seen home againg cuz N.I not as good as P.N.G sad 2 say
12 months ago
davewinstanley
fishing at its best and places and people you dont always see
12 months ago
yabadabajew
tasty rice jane.
12 months ago
julie18
just the best..Robson you do it sooooooooooooo well xx0xx you've put the phoarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr back into fishing xx0xx
11 months ago
robson green
Ilove is is mintage
10 months ago
Ben E
What was that fish he caught on the 40 minute mark? Can anyone identify it? He says in the voiceover that it's a "couta" but that's just a south african slang terms for king mackerel. Love to see what it actually is...
10 months ago
Ben E
Ok, well actually I was looking at the wrong thing and know Barracouta as Snoek (not snook). However, my problem with that is where and how it was caught. Do you reckon we're looking at another or new classficiation/species in the snake mackeral family? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gempylidae
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1 month ago
buttercup
hurry up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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