Top Hooker

Top Hooker is an American reality fishing competition television series that premiered June 2, 2013 on Animal Planet.^[2] As of June 2013, casting for a second season is taking place.^[3]

Top Hooker
Genre	Reality competition
Created by	Craig Piligian
Presented by	Reno Collier
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	16
Production
Executive producers	Craig Piligian Keith Hoffman Mitch Rosa Ralph Wikke
Running time	40 to 43 minutes
Production company	Pilgrim Studios
Original release
Network	Animal Planet
Release	June 2 (2013-06-02) – July 21, 2013 (2013-07-21)[1]

Cast

Season 1

• Larysa Switlyk^[4]
• Dzifa Glymin^[4]
• Greg Mcnamara^[4]
• Kevin Vendituoli^[4]
• Patrick Crawford^[4] – Winner
• Danny De Vries^[4]
• Chris Wright^[4]
• Ian Esterhuizen^[4]
• Melanie Housh^[4]
• Attila Agh^[4]

Episodes

Season	Episodes	Originally aired
		Series premiere	Series finale
1	8	June 2, 2013 (2013-06-02)	July 21, 2013 (2013-07-21)

Season 1 (2013)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Original air date	U.S. viewers (million)
1	1	"The Oldest Profession"	June 2, 2013 (2013-06-02)	1.18[5]
2	2	"Wave Riders"	June 9, 2013 (2013-06-09)	0.78[6]
3	3	"River Rumble"	June 16, 2013 (2013-06-16)	0.47[7]
4	4	"Who's Got the Smallest?"	June 23, 2013 (2013-06-23)	0.86[8]
5	5	"Squaring Off"	June 30, 2013 (2013-06-30)	0.89[9]
6	6	"Walking on Water"	July 7, 2013 (2013-07-07)	1.09[10]
7	7	"The Final Four"	July 14, 2013 (2013-07-14)	0.99[11]
8	8	"High-Seas Showdown"	July 21, 2013 (2013-07-21)	1.00[12]

Reception

Andy Dehnart from Reality Blurred said a comment at the beginning of premiere episode almost lost him.^[13] Melissa Camacho of Common Sense Media gave the show a 3 out of 5 stars.^[14]