When Scott Hillier lands a fish, as he does with regular ease, everybody knows about it.
The host of Seven’s popular water recreation program Creek to Coast instinctively hollers, yells and whoops it up, his catchphrase: “ring a ding ding, Scotty’s the King” ringing out loud and clear.
But it’s never an act for the camera. Because Scotty is irrepressible. His humour, his friendliness and his love of everyday life seem to know no bounds. And it’s contagious – as guests on board his new fishing charter operation, Hook Up With Scotty Hillier, will no doubt discover.
Hook Up with Scotty Hillier is a new luxury fishing charter business that Scotty’s been dreaming up for years. It gives him the chance to share with the public, the fishing knowledge he’s built up over a lifetime – wetting a line everywhere from Cape York to New Zealand, South Africa to Miami.
Because Scotty’s always been drawn to the water – ever since he was old enough to toddle over the sand dunes to the beach from the family home on the Sunshine Coast when he got his first "foamy" (surfboard) at age 5.
Originally, Scotty studied for a career in hospitality and spent a few years as a recreation supervisor at a swanky Sunshine Coast resort. But he eventually needed to be closer to the water, and joined the Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol as a patrol officer.
Viewers first got a taste of Scotty’s larrikin style of TV storytelling on Brownie’s Coastwatch in the late 90s. Then, after few years as the resident Far North Queensland fishing expert with Creek to Coast, he took over as host when the show re-launched in 2005.
These days, Scott has a stack of media commitments in addition to Creek to Coast. He is a member of Seven’s Queensland Weekender team of travel presenters. He co-hosts a magazine panel chat show on SEA FM Townsville every Friday morning and his fishing reports appear each Friday evening on Seven's Local News in Townsville and Cairns.
For newspapers, he contributes fishing reports to The Courier-Mail and The Cairns Post.
Although born and bred on the Sunshine Coast, Scott loves North Queensland. He is based in Lucinda with his wife Helga, and their two sons Ben 12, and Bailey, 9.
Scotty’s personalised fishing charter, Hook Up with Scotty Hillier, runs from his hometown of Ingham – taking guests offshore to waters near the Great Barrier Reef and barramundi fishing or mudcrabbing in the Hinchinbrook Channel.
Scotty has current manning certificates and holds his senior first aid certificate, so you can be assured you’re in good hands.
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