Around 8/27/2007 4:31 PM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Tonight on Discovery Channel - Tuna Wranglers...

Probably a "Deadliest Catch" rip-off like "Ice Road Truckers" but what
the heck - give it shot.

8:00 PM.


I've seen a couple episodes. It is a rip off, but it is kinda fun to
watch Aussies jump in a pen with a $75,000 tuna and wrestle sharks, and
the accents are cool. Not many episodes worth of fun and cool though;
They seem to spend a lot of time sitting around doing nothing but
looking for fish. I don't think it's going to even come close to the
popularity that Deadliest Catch has enjoyed, and I wouldn't be surprised
it it didn't make it to season 2.


Discovery also has another look-alike called Lobster Wars. That one is
almost as interesting as Deadliest Catch since they're on smaller boats
(with open transoms! OMG!) in the unpredictable north Atlantic and have
an actual (albeit small and nearly bloodless) war going on between the
different lobster boats. Sabotaged traps and cut buoy lines causing tens
or hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses makes for interesting TV.
Plus, they also have cool accents.


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~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats." -- Kenneth Grahame
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