Watch The Big Fish Travel Channel online: Episode 8 Beach fishing along the Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road is one of the world’s finest scenic drives but one of the most difficult places to fish. Marc’s trip is based around beach fishing for Australian Salmon beneath the spectacular Twelve Apostles rock formations. The trip starts well when Marc throws caution to the wind and rents an expensive convertible sports car. Along the way some of locals don’t think too much of the fancy car, but as Marc twists and turns along the Great Ocean Road he knows he has made the right decision. Marc’s first beach fishing training is at the impressive and windswept Levy’s Beach with Gary Warren. Marc and Gary persevere but frustratingly there is only one bite and Marc loses the fish just as he was beaching it. Marc had also planned to fish on the only boat that works from Port Campbell but when he arrives in town he finds out that the skipper is in hospital, and it’s rumoured to be alcoholic poisoning! In the tradition of country hospitality “Fuzz” and Vince, two of the sick skipper’s mates, agree to help Marc out and put the boat in, although Fuzz isn’t too sure he has made the right decision when he sees Marc’s fancy sports car. Once out on the boat the boys all get along fine and soon they are pulling up a wide and wonderful variety of fish species in the shadow of the magnificent Twelve Apostles. The next day they get onto a school of one of Australia’s best table fish and it is a “Flathead Frenzy” Later at the pub they decide to go beach fishing and surfing the next day and suddenly what looked like a disastrous fishing trip is turning into a beauty, courtesy of country hospitality. Cheers! As dawn eases in Marc meets Fuzz who takes him to his “secret spot” at the base of one the Apostles and soon Fuzz is showing off his moves as he and Marc surf an area usually reserved only for locals. That afternoon Marc is able to bring in his first beach fish and his first Australian Salmon and so the trip is complete! As Marc winds his way back to Melbourne on the Great Ocean Road he can’t help but reminisce about Fuzz, Vince and the kind of people that help others out when they are stuck. The snappy rental car is returned, but the memories will remain.

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