Animal Planet Catches Second Season of ‘Off the Hook'

Exclusive: Fishing series to return with 18 episodes in summer 2013

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/8/2012 5:47:35 PM

Animal Planet has renewed its fishing series Off the Hook: Extreme Catches for a second season.

The order is for 18 half-hour episodes to premiere in summer 2013. In its freshman season, Off the Hook averaged 620,000 total viewers per episode.

The series follows professional wrestler Showtime Eric Young, who is also an avid outdoorsmen, as he travels the country to learn the best and most unique fishing practices.

Off the Hook is executive-produced by Gregory Henry and David Shadrack Smith for part 2 pictures and Vaibhav Bhatt for Animal Planet.