Among the venues they visit for the show is Dudley’s Himley Hall where they catch grass carp and crucian carp plus a couple of surprises that the TV people won’t tell me about. Matthew Hayes is a British angler [1] who is featured in televised angling shows on Discovery Real Time. Hayes also starred in the TV series Mainstream, in which he travelled down the UK's most famous rivers from 'source to sea', wetting a line or two along the way. MIDLANDER Matt Hayes stars in a new angling TV show in a difference in May in which he tries to catch 35 species of fish in the UK inside a month.

Says Matt: “There are very few fishing challenges left now. Everywhere has been fished,everykind of fish has been caught and that’s what makes thisshow unique. Plus, every angler in the UK is sure to have an opinion onhowtheywouldapproach this challenge, and will no doubt be arguing which tactics we should or shouldn’t have used from the comfort of their armchairs.” He also starred in 24 Hour Rod Race (Series 1 – June 2012) and 24 Hour Rod Race (Series 2 – October 2013) in which he has no companion. Both series involve episodes with Hayes being set a target which he must meet within 24 hours. They are basically tasked with catching every fish species in Britain in a month and some fish, such as the Ferox trout and stone loachvirtuallyimpossibleto find let alone to catch,” said a Discovery spokesman.