Hook, Line and Sinker (TV program) Hook, Line and Sinker (TV program) Hook, Line and Sinker is an Australian fishing television program, produced by "HLS Productions" in Hobart, Tasmania and is hosted by Nick Duigan and Andrew Hart. The program premiered in 2001 and is broadcast nationally on the Southern Cross Television network. The show is aired on Saturday afternoons and runs for 30 minutes. The show features some light entertainment and comical behaviour from the hosts as well as serious fishing news and stories from around Australia. The University of Tasmania presents a regular segment on the show called The Deep End. The segment features
Reaper did not experience mainstream success and acceptance until at least 20 years after it was patented by Cyrus McCormick. This was because the McCormick reaper lacked a quality unique to Obed Hussey's reaper. Hussey's reaper used a sawlike cutter bar that cut stalks far more effectively than McCormick's. Only once Cyrus McCormick was able to acquire the rights to Hussey's cutter-bar mechanism (around 1850) did a truly revolutionary machine emerge. Other factors in the gradual uptake of mechanized reaping included natural cultural conservatism among farmers (proven tradition versus new and unknown machinery); the poor state of many new farm fields,