Hook, Line & Dinner

Follow Ben Sargent to Oahu, HI, where he surfs, farms seaweed, pounds poi in a loincloth and hunts for octopus. Ben finds himself in an exciting cooking challenge with a local award-winning chef in this amazing island paradise.

In Oklahoma, Ben Sargent takes part in a catfish noodling competition where a local expert teaches him to fish with just his hands. Once Ben learns the art of "noodling," he challenges a local legend in a high-stakes team battle.

Ben takes us on a tour of his home away from home -- Puerto Rico -- where beautiful surf, great friends and food all meet for an exciting show. He catches local grouper in a crash boat and braves blue water hunting with a spear gun.

Join Ben on the idyllic island of Maui with a world champion spear fisher Kimi Werner as she and her family introduce Ben to all the types of traditional Hawaiian fishing. He learns how hard spearfishing really is.

Ben joins a seasoned local Maine lobsterman out on the water pulling traps as best he can, and convincing folks to sample some city-style lobster rolls in an underground bar in the backwoods of Maine.

With a crafty recluse in the Catskills on the Delaware River, Ben rebuilds a weir and learns to fish for and smoke eels. He searches the local area and takes his catch to a farm to table restauranteur at the Beautiful Andes Hotel.

Ben heads to the beautiful Colorado Rockies and gets back to nature on a fly fishing adventure with Chef Kelly Liken where he not only fishes, but herds cattle and prepares fish by fire.

Ben Sergeant travels to Michigan for smoked whitefish. It's a battle of Lake Huron vs. Lake Superior and each claim to have the best smoked whitefish. He takes a salmon fishing trip on the Au Sable river with a world class guide.