Over three cracking seasons, Wright has caught crocs of all shapes and sizes, and yet, as the series returns for a fourth season, it’s apparent there are even bigger (and badder) crocs out there just waiting to be wrangled.

While he and his team have so far never encountered a croc they couldn’t handle, season 4 dives straight in at the deep end, with a particularly troublesome reptile terrorising a cattle ranch. If you aren’t on the edge of your seat as he and his mates wade through knee-high swamp water from which a monster croc could emerge at any moment, then you are probably Matt Wright.

It’s nerve-jangling stuff, but Wright’s ever-present wit and his mates’ banter add a much-needed sense of levity. We sat down with the Croc Wrangler himself to find out more about what made him take on this particularly toothy line of work…