Hook, Line & Dinner

Returning to the East Coast, Ben heads out to the eastern tip of Long Island, Montauk, to fish for striped bass and porgies and take part in the local Fall Festival.

After some rough weather, Ben finally lands in Sitka, Alaska where he fishes for halibut and takes part in some offbeat local traditions.

Ben travels to British Columbia and fishes for chinook salmon and spot prawns.

Ben heads down to Islamorada in the Florida Keys and teams up with Richard Stanczyk, owner of Bud N' Mary's Marina, to hook a big swordfish.

Off the mainland of Maryland, Ben travels to Smith Island and Tilghman Island, the homes of longstanding family fishing businesses.

On his home turf of Brooklyn, New York, Ben shows off his favorite local spots and activities including surfing and a tour of the Acme Smoked Fish Corporation.

Swimming with sharks, tackling an environmentally damaging invasive species, and dining on a potentially tainted fish all adds up to Hook, Line & Dinner's adventure episode from the sunny Bahamian islands of Bimini.

Ben goes fishing for arctic char and silver salmon in Kenai, Alaska. After flying to Crescent Lake with Mark "Badger" Barajas and witnessing a bear eating a salmon straight from the water, Ben and Badger catch a silver salmon that they cook up.

Ben arrives in Seattle to catch some species as quirky as the city itself: geoduck and sea cucumber.

After exploring islands off of Maryland, Ben visits Baltimore where he joins a pirate ship and fishes for white perch and the invasive snakehead.

Ben heads to Key West, FL, to fish for hogfish and mutton snapper. He also learns about an ancient Japanese art of fish rubbing called Gyotaku.

Ben is in the gateway to the Bahamas, Bimini, where he meets Ansil Saunders, a bone fishing icon who has guided Martin Luther King Jr. and met Queen Elizabeth II.