This week Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge takes place in a country that’s an epic 32 hour flight from Newcastle. It’s the place every angler dreams of fishing…New Zealand. Robson starts with a ‘rock hopping’ challenge. Dropped onto inaccessible islands and craggy rocks by helicopter, this is an extreme form of angling that requires an extreme form of angler. Teaming up with two fiercely proud ex-pat Brits Robson takes on the might of a local All Black angling team. Unfortunately things don’t quite go to plan! A day’s fly fishing in the unexplored rivers where The Lord of The Rings was filmed, a bout of traditional Eel fishing and a brush with a brazen Albatross give Robson an extreme challenge to remember!

This week Robson’s off to a country you’d normally associate with romance and honeymoons – but he’s going for a completely different reason. Its home to the marlin world cup, it’s got the third largest coral reef in the world, and well – it’s the idyllic paradise island of Mauritius! Robson jumps in at the deep end with some dangerous surf casting against a man most locals won’t fish against. Standing chin deep in the thundering surf gives Robson a serious wake up call and a pretty amazing Barracuda! Then its hunting time…as Robson struggles to find one of the best kept secrets on the island, a private lake filled with Large Mouth Bass. There’s a very early start when he takes on a local fisherman who handlines for Tuna six miles off shore and a battle of minds when Robson tracks down and challenges the very man who first thought him to deep sea fish. Its master versus apprentice!

In the first challenge of the series, Robson finds out just how tough they make them up north by travelling to Greenland and into the Arctic Circle. The largest island in the world boasts a coastline that could almost stretch around the equator and it's not all Green either.

Robson returns to Africa to fish the jewel of the east coast's crown: Tanzania. He will travel over 4000 miles to a country that brushes close to the equator and is home to the highest peak and largest lake in Africa.