Quotes from Jeremy Wade

My background is getting into the kinds of places where outsiders don't normally go, with enough energy left to put a line in the water.

One place that I have very strong memories of is the Congo. That's somewhere I've been to four times. It's not a place where normally outsiders go, which is what makes it very special.

You start off interested in variety and then it's always about bigger fish, bigger fish and I became fairly obsessive, I think, in my late teens and early 20s.

I've become an accidental anthropologist.

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 age, maybe seven or eight.