Fishing for History
Mike Lenton and Justin Gerbrandt are commercial fisherman who thrive on water and ice. After discovering magnet fishing on YouTube, the boys are convinced they can do it better than most. With Toban waiting at home to evaluate whatever artifacts they find, Mike and Justin take off across North America in search of places to dunk their magnets. The people they meet and the stories they hear are treasures unto themselves.
- 2024-2026
- 2 seasons
- Documentary
Mike Lenton and Justin Gerbrandt are commercial fisherman who thrive on water and ice. After discovering magnet fishing on YouTube, the boys are convinced they can do it better than most. With Toban waiting at home to evaluate whatever artifacts they find, Mike and Justin take off across North America in search of places to dunk their magnets. The people they meet and the stories they hear are treasures unto themselves.
Season 2 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2026
Episode 1
Chaffey's Lock
The boys head out to the UNESCO world heritage site of the Rideau Canal and explore the waters around one of the last hand operated locks in North America. The promise of stolen barrels of silver have them excited to see what is in the water.
Episode 2
Thames River
Known to be the burial site of fallen Shawnee leader Tecumseh, after more than 11,000 years of human settlement the banks of the Thames River (which eventually connects to the Great Lakes) in southwestern, Ontario, Canada may have more than secrets for the boys to unearth.
Episode 3
Assiniboine River Breweries
Shea and McDonough, Drewery and Blackwood are names that are synonymous with the late 19th century Winnipeg micro-brewery scene. Add bootlegging, mini golf and a pair of legendary Clydesdales and magnet fishing for the boys gets a lot more fun.
Episode 4
Frank Slide
Dateline 1903, 4:10am One of the largest and deadliest rock slides in Canadian history nearly buried the mining town including its local bank. In the years after, a legend of 500,000$ lost bank notes floated around and the boys will sift through the records to see if they can recover it.
Episode 5
Cochrane
The Boys play City Slickers spending time at WineGlass ranch nestled in the foothills near Cochrane, Alberta where evidence of First Nations settlements and buffalo jumps date back 11,00 years and tales of the real Sundance Kid still exist.
Episode 6
Rotterdam
The post WWII reconstructed fishing village of Rotterdam, might just be home to the largest, busiest seaport in Europe. Armed with the history of the old decimated city, the boys make their way through the canals to catch some of the past in the present.
Episode 7
Voorhaven
The Boys journey to Magnet fishing Mecca Voorhaven in the Netherlands also home to Windmills, tulips and canals filled with World War 2 weaponry waiting to be pulled from its murky depths. Enlisting the help of a local magnet fishing magnate to give them the 50-cent tour and new powerful magnets, they'll pull up from pillar to post, padlock to pinball?... they're literally cleaning up the waterways this time.
Episode 8
Kalkriese
Teutoburg Forest first was the site of an epic battle that sent the larger-than-life Roman Empire packing from Kalkriese, Germany (between 8 and 11 September 9 AD). From the shoulders of these giants, the boys cast their magnets hoping to reel in the riches.
Episode 9
Harbour Grace
The Harbour Grace landing strip was the site of the first transatlantic flight by female Emilia Earhart and also once the safe harbour of 17th century Pirate Peter Easton. The boys drop magnets in hopes of raiding pirate plunder and airplane relics.
Episode 10
Ferryland
The boys visit Sir George Calvert's historic Colony of Avalon, the best-preserved English Colony in North America dating back to 1621. Searching for backyard treasures of the colonists and digging for traces of their extinct Beothuk neighbours has the boys uncover the secrets of life in the 17th century.
Episode 11
Steamboat Arabia Museum
The boys head south to the home of Barbeque, Jazz and the Steamboat Arabia Museum in Kansas City, Missouri - the largest collection of intact pre-civil war artifacts in the world and hope to snag some amazing sunken pioneer treasures of their own.
Episode 12
River Quay Market
The arrival of the mafia to the Kansas River Quay Market area brought with it prostitution, drugs, gambling and eventually a little murder. The boys go fishing for mafia mementos and artifacts to see who else, if anyone, is swimming with the fishes.
Episode 13
Cape Canaveral
The boys blast off to Cape Canaveral Florida on a scouting mission to the American Space Museum, the sky may just be the limit as to what cosmic debris they can attract or unearth from both the waters off the coast and the ancient settlements below the launchpad in their never-ending quest to stump Tobin. Either way the discoveries will be out of this world.