I've been stabbed by a catfish. They've got quite sharp spines on their pectoral fins. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I have caught some big eels in New Zealand, where the climate is very similar to Scotland. But they grow to around… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Once I started catching fish I was very curious to see what other fish there are. This happens to most people who… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Fishing as a spectator sport in real time is the most boring thing you can imagine. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
There are some species, one was the Goliath Tigerfish, that took me six years to track down and catch. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
When the fish relaxes, that's when I bring the rod down and reel in. But you don't rush it. If it runs,… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
You start off interested in variety and then it's always about bigger fish, bigger fish and I became fairly obsessive, I think,… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I did a series in 2002 called 'Jungle Hooks.' We did a show on the arapaima fish, which is thought to be… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I was 7 or 8, and my parents gave me a rod and reel as a way to get me out of… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I've had some hands on experience with some very big bull sharks. One false move you could be minus a few fingers… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Lake Garda it's very different. The northern part of the lake is very much Loch Ness, deep sides, but as soon as… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I have feared for my life on fishing trips - I was once in a plane crash in the Amazon, for example,… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I have caught eels from Loch Ness, as we did a River Monsters episode which started off there. They weren't very big… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago my two main target species were goliath tigerfish and arapaima from the Amazon. Each took me six years to… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The stream at the end of your street can be a place where you make contact with this whole other amazing world… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The most fascinating and satisfying encounter so far was the goliath tigerfish of the Congo. I first caught one in 1991, and… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I made a series set in India that was more of a conventional fishing show. The fish were very uncooperative, so we… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
But the whole reason I fish is that you never know for sure what is down there. Unless you drained Loch Ness… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The 'Amazon Nessie' turned out to be a malformed pink river dolphin, so not a fish, although quite fish-like in appearance. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
One of my favorite fish is the Arapaima. It lives in the Amazon and they grow maybe nine feet long and one… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The great thing about freshwater fish is most of them are incredibly ugly, a lot of them are, so no one can… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Fishermen can be very superstitious and sometimes you do find yourself thinking, this fish has got a curse on it, it's just… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Fish don't have hands; to investigate, they open their mouth, and sometimes it's someone's foot. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I think fish do have personalities. Fish have very small brains so there's not much going on in there. But different types… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
With rivers, you don't have a lot of room to work, and with the bigger fish that I'm catching, you might have… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
A lot of fish that live in the sea, they are your normal, nice, pretty, silvery, shiny fish. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The thing is, if you always catch fish then you lose interest because any achievement is related to facing difficulty; having to… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The first time you catch a fish, it's amazing. You make contact with this whole other world that exists, hidden, under the… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Most sharks can't tolerate freshwater but bull sharks have a quirk of their physiology that enables them to. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The other thing is, visibility is often not very good in fresh water. So if a fish bites something, a part of… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The arapaima, found in South America, has an elongated body and a head so bony that the male fish will sometimes kill… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Starting in my late 20s, I would go on one fishing trip a year to an exotic location. I went to India… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I did catch a bull shark, and also accidentally caught two very large groupers. The bigger one was not far short of… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Normally, you want the river when the water is low and not when it's flooded. For example, there are parts of the… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Fishing is quite a good metaphor for life. You do your prep, you do your thinking, you put your bait out, and… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
A fish with a big mouth, like a catfish, they've been known to bite people's legs. Normally not because they're hungry, but… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Normally, you want the river when the water is low and not when it's flooded. For example, there are parts of the Amazon where… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
The way that we live with potentially dangerous animals is not to kill them, but to understand them and to coexist with them. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
I grew up in a little village in England that had a river running through it so I've been fishing from a very early… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
I actually found contracting malaria in the Congo fascinating. Observing your body under attack from this microorganism and seeing how it responds is simultaneously… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
Sea water is clear and you can put the camera in sea water and you can see stuff, whereas freshwater is often zero visibility. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
Florida's nice and warm, there's all sorts of stuff living there that shouldn't be there! — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
I have caught some big eels in New Zealand, where the climate is very similar to Scotland. But they grow to around five feet… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
The most fascinating and satisfying encounter so far was the goliath tigerfish of the Congo. I first caught one in 1991, and then again… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
The worst thing that happened when filming 'River Monsters' was the time when our sound recordist was hit by lightning. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
I made a series set in India that was more of a conventional fishing show. The fish were very uncooperative, so we were casting… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
The great thing about freshwater fish is most of them are incredibly ugly, a lot of them are, so no one can fail to… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
With 'River Monsters', I am the investigator: here's the crime scene, I talk to witnesses, I establish a suspects list, I narrow it down;… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share
