by Robson Green
5. Show-off! If I could leap like that I could be my own stunt double
6. The sailfish. The marine equivalent of a Ferrari!
7. ‘Sometimes I hear, and sometimes I don’t!’
8. Dinner is served, Costa Rican style
9. A survivor of the terrible massacre in Room 25
10. The setting for the iconic 1970s movie Jaws. I don’t think my tackle is big enough . . .
11. A bluefin tuna that really put the Extreme into Extreme Fishing
12. Two crayfish and a prawn
13. Has anyone seen my drum kit?
14. Even in the Amazon jungle there’s always a pap lurking in the undergrowth. Thankfully I’m not topless
15. How on earth are we going to top this? I came in search of the ultimate angling experience, and I think I’ve found it!
16. Check out the mahi-mahi (and the Mangina!)
17. It’s the only way to travel, especially if I’m at the controls
18. The last picture ever taken of the bloody cockerel that kept me awake in Costa Rica
19. An actor with a harpoon, what could possibly go wrong
20. Mine’s bigger than yours, Tarzan
21. If I run the caiman gets me, if I swim the piranha get me, it’s a Catch-23 (which is like a Catch-22 but worse!)
22. Cuba. A 1950s paradise, and one of my favourite places on the planet
23. A rose between two thorns. Or should I say barracudas?
24. What more does an angler need? Well, a bathroom would be nice!
25. And then a storm removed our humble abode from the earth
26. On its day, Ascension Island is the greatest fishing destination on the planet
27. The one that didn’t get away
28. Honestly, it was THIS BIG!
29. On this adventure I have caught the weird, the wonderful . . . and the downright dangerous
30. During this extreme journey it was only a matter of time before I caught king crabs
31. Wouldn’t a worm be better?
32. WE.ARE.IN!
33. A bigger version of something you might see in a bowl at home
34. Some of the scenery on this trip can only be described as simply breathtaking
35. ‘Team Extreme’ living the Dream in Patagonia
36. Not for the first (or indeed the last) time, we play the waiting game
37. Rarely a case of ‘one man and his boat’ and barely enough room to swing a minnow, you could cut the atmosphere with a cricket stump
38. There are so many lovely folk in the world, and my philosophy is you should try to meet as many of them as you can
39. Table for two, please
40. Travelling the globe and catching fish most anglers only dream of, where do I sign up?
41. Err. . . Erm. . . I think this is its head
42. One lean, mean, killing machine
43. The crew in Costa Rica
44. Pound for pound the Papuan black bass has to be the greatest fighting fish on the planet. Think of it as Muhammad Ali in fish form
45. Spot the guy who thinks the plan for today isn’t a good one
46. My Uncle Matheson, the Obi-Wan Kenobi of fly-fishing and the man who taught me everything I needed to know about angling. Can you tell he’s genuinely gutted I got the gig and he didn’t?
47. My dad, Robson Senior, or Big Rob as he is known to his mates. My Rock, well, more a mountain