Extreme angler Jeremy Wade talks to Sky News about new series Dark Waters - and recalls his scariest River Monsters moments.
Absolutely. That surprised me for two reasons. First of all I'm surprised we managed to keep finding material, but the thing about fishermen's tales is that there is this inexhaustible supply out there.
I think part of that is there is a fascination with beautiful creatures, but there is also a fascination with ugly creatures. And if you live in muddy water, if nothing can see you, there's no point being good-looking. So a lot of these fish are not very good-looking. So there's fairly hideous-looking things down there but they have a certain fascination.
In terms of fish, I haven't really come unstuck. I've been in situations where if I'd been careless I could have been missing some fingers or a hand or something like that, or a very, very bad bleed or whatever. But if you know what you're doing and you are focused you can avoid that. It's interesting because that's almost the boring answer. A lot of the fish I deal with do have a very real potential to cause damage, but if you know what you're doing then it's not going to happen. So for instance, I caught a 10ft bull shark up a river in South Africa that could have had half my arm off.
Very, very much so. We did a series, Mighty Rivers, last year which was looking at all the problems which affect rivers. In rivers it tends to be micro-plastics. We spoke to scientists on the Mississippi and it's almost a morality tale. The river ends up full of these micro-plastics but they all wash out into the Gulf, they've gone away. But the phrase I heard a few people say is that there's no such place as"away".
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