Achievement Quote by Jeremy Wade

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

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

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

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

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

I've never caught muskie. That would be quite special.

— Jeremy Wade

Florida's nice and warm, there's all sorts of stuff living there that shouldn't be there!

— Jeremy Wade

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

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

We all need a bit of mystery in our lives, and rivers offer plenty of that.

— Jeremy Wade

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

The worst thing that happened when filming 'River Monsters' was the time when our sound recordist was hit by lightning.

— Jeremy Wade