Teenagers hooked by new TikTok fishing trend

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Social media influencers are getting young teenagers hooked on a new craze - fishing. The online community labelled FishTok has seen fishing videos uploaded more than 10 million times. Today the New South Wales government hosted a meetup to encourage young Aussies to get outside.

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00:00Reeling in, the catch of the day.

00:09How do you feel about your catch?

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00:11This morning, dozens of teenagers couldn't wait to meet their favourite Aussie angler,

00:15who's earned a huge following on social media.

00:18Fishing in general is popular worldwide, but on TikTok, with the fishtok community,

00:23it's just taken off in the last couple of years.

00:25I noticed some of the areas he was fishing that I lived around,

00:29so, you know, I tried to go out.

00:31And once I caught a fish, I'm like, it's kind of an addiction really.

00:35Found out about it online and I decided to come down here, check it out.

00:39Yeah, I came down because my brother came down,

00:41because, like, we didn't really have anything today, so we just wanted to fish.

00:44And learning all about it is about to get easier

00:47with an expansion of the state's fishing education program.

00:51It has been in primary schools previously,

00:53but now we've expanded it into high schools across New South Wales,

00:56which is, again, a great opportunity for young people to learn the rules,

01:00but also how to have fun.

01:02The Get Hooked program has attracted more than 750 primary schools

01:06since it was first started in 2008.

01:09Its success has now secured $500,000 in funding for the next three years.

01:15I think this is a fantastic opportunity. The more outdoors, the better.

01:19You'd never normally get me out this time of morning in school holidays.

01:22Like, so, he's a very lucky boy.

01:24Just bring my nephew down for the experience, you know, something different.

01:27He's just gotten into fishing.

01:29From tick-top to tackle boxes, these teens are hooked for life.

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