Expo Guest Appearance in 2008 comming soon.
If Creek to Coast had to nominate the program’s equivalent of the class clown, there’s no question that Scott Hillier would get the nod. But that’s not using the term "class clown" in a negative sense. It’s in that "lovable larrikin" way. Scotty is irrepressible; his humour, his friendliness and his absolute enthusiasm for every day life and living seem to know no bounds.
Television viewers have taken to Scott’s natural and unpretentious style of TV story telling. Reeling in a big game fish for the cameras as host on Creek to Coast, or before that on Brownie’s Coastwatch, Scott would holler, yell and whoop it up, his delight saying more than any detailed how-to-fish guide could.
But that’s how Scott is, and how he’s always has been, ever since he could 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 Scott 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.
These days, Scott has a stack of media commitments in addition to Creek to Coast.
His fishing reports and are heard on McQuarie Regional Radio in Townsville. He’s also on Seven’s Local News in Townsville and Carins every Friday, and he contributes fishing reports to The Courier-Mail and the Cairns Post.
Although born and bred on the Sunshine Coast, Scott now lives in Ingham with his wife Helga, and two sons Bailey and Ben, who’ve also inherited their dad’s love of the water.
Scott appears as host for Creek to Coast every Saturday and as a reporter on Queensland Weekender on the 7 Network .
Scott we be in person as the Special Guest and MC all weekend at the Townsville Sportfishing Club's fishing and Outdoor Expo 2nd and 3rd June 2007 |