Alistair McGlashan
Journalist, presenter and mad keen fisho!

‘My gut feeling is in the future when the history of Australian angling is written this young man, Alistair McGlashan, will stand amongst the elite’. Rex Hunt forward to The Complete Fishing Bible Al McGlashan has fished all his life for everything from thousand pound black marlin on the Great Barrier Reef to black bass in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. A keen adventurer his love of fishing and the great outdoors ultimately steered him away from the corporate world and into a career as a photojournalist and presenter specialising in fishing. A decade later he is now Australia’s biggest fishing profile and is recognised as one of the industries most accomplished photographers and fishing experts! Spending more than 200 days a year on the water Al has an insatiable enthusiasm that is infectious and you can’t help but get excited. Despite having no formal training in journalism (in fact his English teacher still doesn’t believe he writes for a living!) Al regularly contributes to dozens of magazines both local and national magazines including Modern Fishing, , Bluewater Mag, Fly Life, Freshwater Fishing, Fishing Monthly, Modern Boating, Go Camping, Outback Magazine, Trade Mag, Qantas Mag, FHM, Fishing Wild and Ultimate Boating, etc. Al is also Australia’s biggest exporter of fishing images and articles and his work has graced many international magazines including Marlin Magazine, Sportfishing, Fly Fishing in Saltwater, Saltwater Sportsman, Gray’s Sporting Journal, New Zealand Fishing World, Voyager De Peche (France), Ski Boat (South Africa) and Worldwide Angler. He is also the only Aussie to have his work exhibited at the IGFA Headquarters in the US.

He has also published four books - Catching Australia’s Favourite Fish and Top Fishing Spots of Australia and The Complete Fishing Bible (a 450 page best seller) and is now about to release his fifth.

Over the years he has been involved with a number fishing shows including co hosting Networks Tens Fishnet TV. More recently he hosted the most successful series of River to Reef (Aurora Channel). His shark exploits have received worldwide coverage from the discovery of the White Sharks at Stockton to catching the biggest bull shark in Sydney Harbour. As a result he is regularly called upon as a shark expert

Al is also involved in radio and does weekly fishing reports for stations around the country including regular gigs on 2GB and more recently 2UE. On top of this he has also been working with award winning cinematographer Ron Croft to film the STRIKEZONE DVD series. With some of the most amazing underwater footage ever filmed this ground breaking series reveal the secret lives of oceanic predators like marlin and sharks and how they behave and has become a best seller in Australia and overseas.

Based in Sydney Al is also heavily involved in the community donating his time to fisheries research, visiting schools all in the name of promoting fishing. Fearless Al has caught crocodiles, hand fed Great White sharks and swam with marlin all in the name of science and to get the best footage!

Young and passionate,Al is hot property in the fishing world thanks to an international profile, and works with major companies like Honda, Furuno, Daiwa, Dunbier, Evolution Boats and Maui Jims.

It has been a long hard slog to build up a reputation in the fishing and boating industry, but Al would have it no other way, especially when he gets to do what he loves most - fish and then tell everyone about it!