That’s when he discovered his love for fishing and the outdoors, which allowed him to stay out of trouble, he said He grew up just outside Portland, Oregon, and was in and out of group homes and foster homes.

Johnson moved to Johnstown from Fort Collins about three years ago.

Johnson and his buddies have been making videos for years, which got them on Animal Planet’s radar to create a show for their network. It was a rare and fascinating opportunity.” “It’s like being able to see what the Poudre River was like a thousand years ago. “It’s mind-blowing to build relationships with people who are so far removed from everything we know - that have never seen a cellphone, that have never seen a store, never had shoes,” Johnson said. That was Johnson’s favorite part of the expedition, he said.

The pilot episode follows the quartet deep into the heart of Bolivia along a tributary of the Amazon River to catch the golden dorado, dubbed by the stars of the show as “the holy grail of jungle fish,” a toothy apex predator found in South America’s freshwater.Īlong the way, they work with the indigenous Tsimane people to help get through various legs of their trip through the Amazon, and also learn their way of life.

In that time, they visited 10 countries across five continents. The guys filmed the series from this past July through last month. Johnson and his three longtime friends - Chris Owens, Tad Robison and Brian Jill, Johnson being the only one from Colorado - will trek deep into remote and uncharted areas of the planet to find, catch and study rare fish in their natural habitats.

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