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EXTENDED HOLIDAY RETURNS THRU JANUARY 31ST, 2025
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FISH OR DIE

Our four friends from Costa's award-winning GEOBASS and GEOFISH series are back embarking on a new wild adventure. Their name has changed, but their story remains the same. The crew will continue to risk life and limb fishing the most remote, dangerous, and undiscovered locations across the planet to catch fish like no one has before. Watch their new series FISH OR DIE airing Sundays at 10p ET on Animal Planet®.

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FISH OR DIE CREW SUNGLASSES

PHOTO FAVORITES

Sun sets on our next adventure, Christmas Island, home to the elusive red bass.
Nice pattern match on the gloves.
They say rubbing the head of a greenhorn is good luck. We're going to need it on this next Christmas Island adventure.
Keen eyes and stealth approaches are key for the GEOBASS crew when stalking the edges of paradise searching for red bass.
Searching for red bass can be hit and miss. Luckily we found some bonefish that got between em.
Red Bass have a reputation for vicious strikes and peeling lines from reels. Finding them is the hard part, getting them to eat a fly is easy.
With the day coming to an end the GEOBASS crew make their way back to camp to recount the days events and formulate the plan for tomorrow.
Meet Jared, the winner of our Casting Call Contest who won the chance to tag along on this adventure. He has no idea what's about to happen...
In this game, it's a win even if you break a black bass off on 100lb test. This is the hardest fighting fish in fresh water.
Pushing off from safe harbor aboard the K2O mothership in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. It's a day and a half of non-stop travel across open water and rough seas to get to the Black Bass holy land.
The time has come! We have flown half way around the world and traveled a day and a half across an angry ocean and we finally have reached the mouth of the river that is claimed to be loaded with big Black Bass. GEOBASS is here to RAISE THE ROOF!!
After 2 expeditions to PNG Thad pick his 1st Black bass out of the depths. Casting the biggest fly rods made can take a toll but believing that it could happen is what keeps you going.
ith a mouth like a bear trap and the power to break 100 lb leader like it's a joke as it swims back into its fortress of snags. This is looking down the barrel of the world's hardest fighting freshwater fish, the PNG Black Bass.
Redemption has never tasted so sweet. After getting beat up by these fish on our 1st go around we made sure to come out swinging on this return trip.
1000s of Big bats flying over head. They say these flying foxes only eat fruit but the 1st time you hear them and see their teeth, science can't help you feel calm.
You just flew to the other side of the world to find the fish that has haunted your dreams. Who's up 1st?
After making landfall at the local village we offered school supplies as donations and they welcomed us with a huge celebration wishing us good luck fishing in their waters.
The calm is the time between fury and it lets you remember all that you went through to get here.
Thad and Brian get ready to hit it for the early morning sunrise.
Chris and Jay strategize fly selection. Its always a competition to see who selects the best fly for the job.
Sometime it helps to get a birds eye view. Jay and Thad perch above the falls searching for any signs of fish.
Giant Guyana Black Parana were not only on the fly rod menu, but the dinner menu as well.
The payoff, Butterfly Peacock Bass, or what the team refers to as Guyana Gold.
Butterfly Peacock Bass ambush and explode on sub surface fly patterns.
Getting to where the bass are doesn't always happen by boat. Sometimes you have to hike a mile or two to find gold.
When fishing for Butterfly Peacock Bass in the Amazon, you never really know what will eat your fly like this Payara (Vampire fish).
The scales on Butterfly Peacock Bass are like a canvas of color. Its easy to see why this fish is so unique.
Where else in the natural world can you find colors like these on one creature? Nature's graffiti walls.
The boat that's been around as long as humans have. Who made your boat?