Recalling this journey, Wade stated that trip was very hard going. In 1982, Wade made his first overseas trip, to India's mountain rivers. My parents were happy for me to stay out all day and a big part of my fishing was wanting to find new places, a process that has continued to this day." My first attempts to catch fish, age 7 or 8, were unsuccessful, but then I had some guidance from a school friend and after my first catch I never looked back. So it was inevitable, I think, that I should be drawn to it in the same way that people born in sight of Alpine peaks become climbers. "The village where I grew up had a river flowing through it. He is fluent in Portuguese, which he studied during the many years he spent fishing in Brazil, and also speaks French and Spanish.Īt a young age, Jeremy Wade became interested in fishing he began as a child when he was living in East Anglia, on the banks of Suffolk's River Stour. Īt various times during his journeys abroad, Wade has caught malaria, been threatened at gunpoint, and survived a plane crash. He has worked as a secondary school biology teacher in Kent. He attended Dean Close School and has a degree in zoology from Bristol University and a postgraduate teaching certificate in biological sciences from the University of Kent. Jeremy Wade was born in Ipswich and brought up in Nayland where his father was a vicar. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished fishermen of all time, having traveled the world and caught a multitude of different species of fresh and saltwater fish. He is known for his television series River Monsters, Mighty Rivers, and Dark Waters. Jeremy John Wade (born 23 March 1956) is an English television presenter, an author of books on angling, a freshwater detective, and a biologist. Television Presenter, Author, Zoologist, Adventurer, Angler
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