Jeremy John Wade (born 23 March 1956) is a British television presenter, an author of books on angling, and a biologist. He is known for his television series River Monsters, Jungle Hooks and Mighty Rivers.\n', '

Wade was born in Ipswich and brought up in Nayland where his father was a vicar. 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. He has worked as a secondary school biology teacher in Kent.\n', 'At various times during his journeys abroad Wade has been detained as a suspected spy, caught malaria, been threatened at gunpoint, and survived a plane crash.\n', 'He is fluent in Portuguese, which he studied during the many years he spent fishing in Brazil, and also speaks French, and Spanish.\n', '

Wade\'s interest in fishing began as a child when he was living in East Anglia, on the banks of Suffolk\'s River Stour. "The village where I grew up had a river flowing through it. 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. 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. 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." \n', '

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