It's the astounding world of monster fish with monster teeth. Sporting mega-mouthfuls of razor-sharp weapons - they chomp, shred, slash and slice. What began with the prehistoric, 40-ton Megalodon - with teeth the size of meat cleavers - lives on today in toothy super-species, from sharks to Brazil's mysterious Payara, AKA 'Vampire Fish.' Reeling them in is a knockdown, no-holds-barred fight to the finish. And one intrepid ichthyologist's Amazon expedition to study them is the ultimate adventure.
Intrepid fisherman scour the depths of the ocean for some colossal beasts, including a 26-foot squid and 1,400 pound Tiger Shark.
A giant black marlin and a monstrous mako shark both feature, as the fishermen seek high-flying fish from all over the globe.
Adventure angler Jakub Vágner hunts down the mighty Goonch, a fiendish catfish rumoured to have developed a taste for human flesh.
Titanic beasts that defy the imagination. Mysterious and mammoth, they rule the underwater depths. Fearsome kings of the food chain, the have almost no natural enemies. Almost limitless in their capacity to get even bigger. To encounter these goliaths face-to-face, we must meet them on their turf... Experience the most astounding fishing you've ever seen. Witness the ultimate showdowns of man vs. whopper. Discover how Nelson Diaz battles a goliath grouper, stretching seven feet long and six feet around. Then, Marylin Stephens comes face-to-face with the ocean's fastest shark the mako. Next, witness how President George H.W. Bush catches a huge tarpon! Then, face the ultimate tug of war between angler Bo Haycox and a massive bluefin tuna. Last but not least, experience the ultimate face-off between Jason Bell and a monster stingray that can kill with the flick of its tail. Discover how all these incredible species grow into mammoth whoppers and what's being done to help their survival.
NGC goes behind the front lines of Alaska's fishing industry where crews of elite fishermen battle for the opportunity to make millions in a matter of minutes.
Asian carp are infiltrating major American waterways; with insatiable appetites they have the power to destroy an entire ecosystem by depleting a native food chain from the bottom up. NGC takes to the waters to understand these alien predators. How did they get here? Where are they going? And what are scientists and anglers doing to fight back? We'll also look at some of the controversial methods being used to combat the fish, including underwater electric fences and bow-fishing.
Watch as fearless fishermen confront the deadly weapons of monster fish wielding evolution's deadliest arsenals they shock, sting, stun and slice. NGC follows along as anglers dare to take on these weapon-wielding beasts: a world-record swordfish with a razor-sharp blade, an electric eel with charges strong as tasers, an enormous tail-thrashing thresher shark, a giant ray with a venomous whip and the chainsaw of the sea, the sawfish.
A snakehead has teeth like a shark, a taste for blood and even walks on land. It is an insatiable alien predator that can obliterate the food chain and overpower native life. It mysteriously showed up near a small Maryland town and now can be found coast to coast. Scientists are sounding the alarm. It is a showdown of man vs. fish as scientists and anglers work together in the fight to defy it, control it - and stop it from destroying everything in its path.
Go in search of the legendary Goonch, a ferocious catfish rumored to be a man-eater. Known as the Giant Devil Catfish, this vicious fighter is believed to have developed a taste for human flesh by feeding on burnt bodies from funeral pyres in India. Now, one extreme angler is determined to find out what is myth and what is real. Embarking on a daring expedition, adventure angler Jakub Vâgner is on a quest to come face to face with a monster Goonch in the flesh.
Daring anglers use a variety of nontraditional methods to make their catch. See a marine biologist rescue an injured sand tiger shark with a spring-loaded lasso. Then, meet an expert angler who literally dove off a cliff to make his catch -- a giant trevally, a fish that can grow to bathtub proportions. See a daredevil fisherman reel in a massive thresher shark -- from his surfboard! And watch a man hook a record-breaking snapper using a kite.
Two anglers wrestle a giant Wels catfish with their bare hands, and a man hooks a marlin as wild as a raging bull from his kayak.
Leave your rod and reel at home NGC is going inside the extreme fishing world of noodling. We'll travel overseas with an American fishing team to wrestle one of the world's biggest river beasts by hand a monster Wels catfish. It's a dangerous task, as Wels can stretch up to 15 feet long and weigh over 600 pounds! Elsewhere, fearless scientists are doing some hand fishing of their own to save a species.
A team of experts are on a deep-sea mission to study the migratory patterns of a celebrated game fish the striped marlin. Collecting the data needed is a formidable task the fishermen will shoot a tag nearly 25 feet at a tiny target moving at speeds of up to 50 mph! And all of it will have to be pulled off in just seconds as marlin dont hang around for long. Elsewhere, an angler is yanked overboard by a 10-foot blue shark.
Forget the notorious Great White. Today, a different shark is making headlines with stories of sightings and attacks not in oceans but far inland: the bull shark. With its special ability to tolerate freshwater, the bull can take its jaws where virtually no other shark can go: upriver! As human populations grow and bull shark habitats shrink, where and how will people and bull sharks collide? One obsessed team -- a famed marine biologist and an expert angler -- is determined to find answers and sets out to catch and explore this unique apex predator: fifty miles upriver!
Follow intrepid biologists Justin Grubich and John Odenkirk on their journey to tag and track the elusive Nile perch. On a voyage through Egypt well uncover the ancient myths of this sacred giant. Come along as Justin and John dare to do the seemingly impossible on Hooked: Lake Monsters.
Marauding mobs of huge Humboldt squid are spreading northward along the Pacific coastline, devouring salmon stocks already diminished by other threats. A team of scientists and divers have a disturbing theory, which if proven true, could mean the end of West Coast salmon altogether. To investigate the mystery, the team heads to ground zero, the Sea of Cortez, where they'll suit up in stainless steel chain mail and jump into squid-infested waters to perform new field tests.
