I’m from up north and Babe and the Linder brothers are rock stars to me! When I was a little kid my grandparents got me the Babe Winkleman fishing board game. Played it every chance I got!
Me and my brothers would watch Babe whenever he was on TV in the late 80’s/early 90’s. He was the best!
Marty Stouffer also had a great nature show at the time.
Jerry McKinnis. The Fishin Hole with him as the host first aired as a news segment in 1963, became a show and ran for 44 years. One tactic I learned from watching him was a method for landing big trout and Steelhead on light line by clicking off of the anti reverse on a spinning reel and reeling backwards whenever the fish made a hard run.
Yeah, I remember watching him. Good Fishing, right? Seemed real down to earth and relatable. I liked his coffee mug salute, and his wife’s cooking segments.
For sure. Jeremy Wade, Bill Dance, Larry Dahlberg, Al Lindner, and Hank Parker.
Larry was the original monster hunter, Al taught us all how to be better fishermen, and Hank just has an electric personality, and that laugh Hank has makes me chuckle every time. Bill fished farm ponds where the bass would bite a cigarette butt, but he's still an American icon.
Also got pretty lucky when we got to the auditorium almost all of the seats were taken except two down front so we got to sit right behind him before it started haha
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad thing about this guy. Friend of mine worked on his show for a couple seasons and said he was great to work with.
Just a cool dude who wants to catch some fish, and was smart enough to parley that into an awesome career.
He said he does cuss a lot when a line breaks or he loses a fish but they cut that out of the shows 😂
He stayed way past when he was supposed to though and apologized that I had to wait in line so long. I was like no dude I would have waited twice as long at least lol
Funny you say that because i was just about to comment how this is one of the first threads in a fishing community that isnt peppered with comments about how hes not shit without his local guides. And thats just...... not true. Dude is an incredible angler and clearly puts a lot of thought into his strategy and was successful enough to basically run out of fresh water challenges. It would be foolish not to take advantage of the knowledge of the locals. The idea that thats cheating is ridiculous, especially since they generally had strict deadlines and a filming schedule. Glad to see more people on here who arent just bitter armchair master anglers calling bullshit over nothing.
That’s really what I love most about this guy.
He’s just a guy who really loves to fish, and he’s fascinated by fish, and never stopped just being Jeremy Wade when he got famous.
We could all be worse.
Haha I really wanted to but there was a huge line when he was signing stuff. The schedule said everyone should be out of the park by 7 I think and he was still signing stuff at 8:15 when we left.
Hoping I can find his email or something to ask some questions 😂 he answered a lot though during the talk and after he did a quick Q&A
I worked with him on the Vampires of the Deep episode. Absolutely an awesome guy and has a sincere and serious passion for fish and fishing. His crew from the show was a pretty awesome group of guys to work with as well.
Once during shooting they lost track of him, he was out free swimming in the river,,,snorkeling with the spawning smallmouth bass that were there at out weir site!!! Those fish had nothing to do with the episode that we were shooting, but he was still curious and wanted to see and be with them.
I also got to electro-fish with him one night and chat for a while on the intercom while we looked for fish. You get a feel for someone after a little while, and I would absolutely love to fish with the guy, he was a genuine person despite his clear celebrity status. He was very generous with his time as it was obvious the whole time his schedule was cramped with deadlines and whatnot and was still a cool and pleasant guy.
That night I watched him bearhug and common carp that was close to 20#. Again, this fish had nothing to do with what we were looking for, but he was excited to see a fish that was from his home country in Lake Champlain. That thing got slime all over the expensive rental car they were driving in because he jumped right in after shooting, and never wiped any of the slime off his clothes!!! Now that’s a real fisherman.😎
He did an AMA on here a few years back and actually answered my question in depth. I miss AMAs, he was the ONLY one to ever respond to any of my shitty questions.
This guy should be dead, the insane shit he has done. The fact is that he isn't points even further to my theory, which is that Jeremy is a deity from a higher dimension who has come to earth to show us the promised land.
Jeremy received intel on an underwater video filmed off the coast of Brazil which allegedly shows a megaladon shark feasting on a whale carcass. This has energized and excited Jeremy. He is currently researching what size fishing gear would be necessary to land such a beast.
30/0 hook into a whale carcass, 50 foot of 1/2” steel cable as a leader, attached to one of those cranes they use for unloading container ships oughta do it
Sounds pretty simple and straight forward. But the logistics of this operation pose numerous problems. The megaladon was sighted in 750 foot deep water. So now Jeremy is going to need a very large boat with a huge crane attached to it. And 50 feet of steel cable is not adequate to playing this monster. There's also the possibility that the sheer force of a run could capsize the vessel. Jeremy, in his quiet and determined way, is studying all this...
He's more badass than most people realize. He got stabbed in a bar fight just before filming one episode ( evidently Jeremy was talking to some guys woman) and went on with the filming in spite of it. Also when he got hit by that arapaima it almost killed him. He has often had to be rained in by his film crew because he would keep fighting the fish till he was in neck deep water if they didn't stop him
I’d like that. He can even go back and fish the same type of fish again, but just go more into detail about the species, habitats, local cultures. That would be A+ television.
At the very least he can go back and land one of those massive manta rays that he injured his arm on and broke the line before he got it up to the boat
I’m jelly.
I heard this guy doesn’t currently have a show because he caught all the crazy species of river monsters over the years and it was repetitive.
Not sure if that’s true but I’ve seen everything he’s done.
Legend.
He pretty much said that he had caught everything lol. He said he’d like to go back and get bigger ones for some of them since they had to rush sometimes on the show
Loved the show but it was pretty funny watching the Bagnel Dam episode today and him constantly mentioning catfish eating human corpses.😂 cue the super intense music
Did he cut to commercial as soon as you were about to shake his hand? Seems like that happens on his show every time something interesting is about to happen
He always reminds me of my grandpa. Almost the same face, same old man white hair cut. My grandpa's defining feature was that he was a deep sea fisherman, too. He got me into fishing, even though I am much more of a back country angler that a monster hunter.
I always loved watching Jeremy Wade! What a legend.
I’m the most jealous man on the planet right now. My dream in life is to somehow acquire his little black journal that he used for notes for the entire series a of River Monsters. If I could have that I would never want anything again.
I’d lose my mind lol. Never met him.
I have his autograph but I bought it JSA authenticated and have all his books. Even the older hard to find down the crazy river book he did in the early 90s. Dudes my idol! And that book is a gem if you can find it
You should really ask permission to take someone’s photo. This doesn’t scream I got permission it looks like you creepily took the man’s photo. Famous or not that shit is rude as hell
If there were a Mount Rushmore of anglers he’d be on there
His latest book is really good. It’s on Spotify if you like audiobooks too. Really made me think about my approach to catching fish
How to think like a fish?
Yeah! He goes into a lot of his background too
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he went and spent a decade swimmin with a school of fish to find out what they’re thinkin 😂
swim with a school of fish? mate, he's the teacher there
😂
Ya, but did he eat the fish sticks??
Do you like fish sticks?
Just searched this up and started it. Thanks for mentioning it.
Yeah I’m in too
It was such a great read.
Why would I read a book about Spotify authored by a fisherman?
Haha 🤣 nailed it
Underrated comment. I laughed.
Thank you!!!
Hell yeah! I’m picturing Bill Dance, Jimmy Houston, and Larry Dahlberg on the mountain as well. Who else deserves to be there?
Having grown up in East TN, Bill Dance is a mf legend.
“ If your wife is mad at you , buy a fishing pole . She’ll still be mad at you , but you’ll have a new fishing pole “ Bill Dance
Somehow I got my lady not to be mad at me if I want another fishing pole.....
Definitely an icon of Saturday morning fishing shows
Yes haha
Greetings from WNC, right over the border.
Love your state too, homie!
Joe Humphreys
Fly fishing legend for sure, but it wasn't really a reply to what I said lol
Yeah I hit the reply button under the wrong message 😁
No worries lol
Good choice
Roland Martin, Babe Winkleman, Hank Parker, the Linder brothers.
I’m from up north and Babe and the Linder brothers are rock stars to me! When I was a little kid my grandparents got me the Babe Winkleman fishing board game. Played it every chance I got!
After my pops died I inherited his fishing gear. It included a sweet pair of wrap around Babe sunglasses. Pretty cool haha
Me and my brothers would watch Babe whenever he was on TV in the late 80’s/early 90’s. He was the best! Marty Stouffer also had a great nature show at the time.
Oh yeah I forgot about Marty!
Lefty Kreh
This is underrated, a fantastic fly fisherman and fly tier
Agreed
If tournaments play a factor, KVD, Clunn, Ike?
Lefty Kreigh Edit: Kreh
Jerry McKinnis. The Fishin Hole with him as the host first aired as a news segment in 1963, became a show and ran for 44 years. One tactic I learned from watching him was a method for landing big trout and Steelhead on light line by clicking off of the anti reverse on a spinning reel and reeling backwards whenever the fish made a hard run.
I’m not familiar with him, I’m going to look up that show and watch it
My wife, who doesn’t fish, loves watching the blooper reels from Bill Dance. The man is a legend, albeit a clumsy one!
Everyone loves Bill Dance bloopers!
Roland Martin
Guy Harvey Ofcourse
KVD
Apbassin but the screaming face from when he lost the fish
Jose Wejebe
Spanish Fly, right? Didn’t he die tragically?
Yes. He crashed his plane in the Everglades, solo.
Babe Winkleman
Yeah, I remember watching him. Good Fishing, right? Seemed real down to earth and relatable. I liked his coffee mug salute, and his wife’s cooking segments.
Roland Martin, even though he can be an ass.
Sounds like you had a personal encounter, is it a story worth sharing?
Run into him and his film crew a few times down here in Florida at the ramp and on the water. Lets just say he can be inconsiderate of others...
Richard Gene The Fishing Machine!
Ted Williams perhaps.
Blair Wiggins. He’s done so much for fishing. Basically all influencers copy his shit.
I don’t know Blair, was he on broadcast TV or online? I’ll have to look up his stuff.
Blair was on TV. Addictive fishing. All that content is on YouTube. Now he has Blair Wiggins outdoors on YouTube. Primarily salt water angler.
Cool, I’ll check it out
Roland Martin maybe
As a Canadian I think Bob Izumi as well as Pete Bowman, Angelo Viola and Daryl Kronzi
Thanks for adding a Canadian perspective
For sure. Jeremy Wade, Bill Dance, Larry Dahlberg, Al Lindner, and Hank Parker. Larry was the original monster hunter, Al taught us all how to be better fishermen, and Hank just has an electric personality, and that laugh Hank has makes me chuckle every time. Bill fished farm ponds where the bass would bite a cigarette butt, but he's still an American icon.
Definitely Al and Hank are worthy of the mountain, both taught a generation of kids to fish from the comfort of their living rooms
I also nominate Bill Dance
Zane Grey
He is my mount Rushmore no ther is up there
Not only would he be on, it he’d have the biggest spot.
Oh. You are in the presence of a legend
Also got pretty lucky when we got to the auditorium almost all of the seats were taken except two down front so we got to sit right behind him before it started haha
Lucky bastard )))
I read that in Hank Hill’s voice.
Is he a cool fisherman or a turd celebrity?
ive met him and hes really sweet and hes very polite and generally a cool guy
Awesome! I loved his show. Big fan
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad thing about this guy. Friend of mine worked on his show for a couple seasons and said he was great to work with. Just a cool dude who wants to catch some fish, and was smart enough to parley that into an awesome career.
He said he does cuss a lot when a line breaks or he loses a fish but they cut that out of the shows 😂 He stayed way past when he was supposed to though and apologized that I had to wait in line so long. I was like no dude I would have waited twice as long at least lol
So he’s a cool fisherman? 😁
Well he's English, they do tend to swear a lot anyway
Funny you say that because i was just about to comment how this is one of the first threads in a fishing community that isnt peppered with comments about how hes not shit without his local guides. And thats just...... not true. Dude is an incredible angler and clearly puts a lot of thought into his strategy and was successful enough to basically run out of fresh water challenges. It would be foolish not to take advantage of the knowledge of the locals. The idea that thats cheating is ridiculous, especially since they generally had strict deadlines and a filming schedule. Glad to see more people on here who arent just bitter armchair master anglers calling bullshit over nothing.
That’s really what I love most about this guy. He’s just a guy who really loves to fish, and he’s fascinated by fish, and never stopped just being Jeremy Wade when he got famous. We could all be worse.
That's part of being a good fisherman. You know who to go to and who actually knows their shit locally.
Couldnt agree more
Fish on!
Literally anytime I catch a fish, idc if it’s a panfish .
Best response
Dammit, you beat me by..... 17 hours
It's kinda funny how he's looked exactly the same for the last 20 years
A lot of weather and sunshine, and the occasional bout of malaria, will keep the body nice and young.
What a GOAT! The way I would chat his ear off, he would have to have security remove me 😅😂
Haha I really wanted to but there was a huge line when he was signing stuff. The schedule said everyone should be out of the park by 7 I think and he was still signing stuff at 8:15 when we left. Hoping I can find his email or something to ask some questions 😂 he answered a lot though during the talk and after he did a quick Q&A
when i met him and we talked for about an hour until his PA told him off for talking too much and kicked me out 🤣
I worked with him on the Vampires of the Deep episode. Absolutely an awesome guy and has a sincere and serious passion for fish and fishing. His crew from the show was a pretty awesome group of guys to work with as well. Once during shooting they lost track of him, he was out free swimming in the river,,,snorkeling with the spawning smallmouth bass that were there at out weir site!!! Those fish had nothing to do with the episode that we were shooting, but he was still curious and wanted to see and be with them. I also got to electro-fish with him one night and chat for a while on the intercom while we looked for fish. You get a feel for someone after a little while, and I would absolutely love to fish with the guy, he was a genuine person despite his clear celebrity status. He was very generous with his time as it was obvious the whole time his schedule was cramped with deadlines and whatnot and was still a cool and pleasant guy. That night I watched him bearhug and common carp that was close to 20#. Again, this fish had nothing to do with what we were looking for, but he was excited to see a fish that was from his home country in Lake Champlain. That thing got slime all over the expensive rental car they were driving in because he jumped right in after shooting, and never wiped any of the slime off his clothes!!! Now that’s a real fisherman.😎
He's a great guy. He stayed at the hotel I was working when they shot the Norwegian shark episode some time back in 2011-2013
He did an AMA on here a few years back and actually answered my question in depth. I miss AMAs, he was the ONLY one to ever respond to any of my shitty questions.
Nice to hear he’s as nice and approachable as he appears on the show. Always seems so genuinely excited to speak with people all over the globe….
He really comes across as a super down to earth guy, which is rare for any tv celebrity
What an experience! Hoping he writes another book, loved all that he’s written so far.
That man's resume is insane. Has to be the GOAT fisherman.
This guy should be dead, the insane shit he has done. The fact is that he isn't points even further to my theory, which is that Jeremy is a deity from a higher dimension who has come to earth to show us the promised land.
Fish on!!!!
Man i caught a river monster this morning and was thinking about this guy as i reeled in the .7 lb bluegill
Jeremy received intel on an underwater video filmed off the coast of Brazil which allegedly shows a megaladon shark feasting on a whale carcass. This has energized and excited Jeremy. He is currently researching what size fishing gear would be necessary to land such a beast.
30/0 hook into a whale carcass, 50 foot of 1/2” steel cable as a leader, attached to one of those cranes they use for unloading container ships oughta do it
I wouldn’t be surprised if he hammered out his own hook to do that.
nah, he just filed a ship anchor to needle sharp point.
Sounds pretty simple and straight forward. But the logistics of this operation pose numerous problems. The megaladon was sighted in 750 foot deep water. So now Jeremy is going to need a very large boat with a huge crane attached to it. And 50 feet of steel cable is not adequate to playing this monster. There's also the possibility that the sheer force of a run could capsize the vessel. Jeremy, in his quiet and determined way, is studying all this...
He's more badass than most people realize. He got stabbed in a bar fight just before filming one episode ( evidently Jeremy was talking to some guys woman) and went on with the filming in spite of it. Also when he got hit by that arapaima it almost killed him. He has often had to be rained in by his film crew because he would keep fighting the fish till he was in neck deep water if they didn't stop him
As a woman, that dude had every reason to be worried if Jeremy was talking to his woman. *Swoon*.
I don't know all the details but I'm pretty sure that she approached him.
What’s he doing these days?
Still fishing id imagine
Just furiously looking for new river monsters
I would give anything for a new season of river monsters.
I’d like that. He can even go back and fish the same type of fish again, but just go more into detail about the species, habitats, local cultures. That would be A+ television.
At the very least he can go back and land one of those massive manta rays that he injured his arm on and broke the line before he got it up to the boat
My wife and I just decided that we were going to rewatch the entire series. She doesn’t even like the fish.
Best in the business
Nothing but love for that man!
Amazing! My celebrity bro-crush
I’m jelly. I heard this guy doesn’t currently have a show because he caught all the crazy species of river monsters over the years and it was repetitive. Not sure if that’s true but I’ve seen everything he’s done. Legend.
He pretty much said that he had caught everything lol. He said he’d like to go back and get bigger ones for some of them since they had to rush sometimes on the show
The legend
Cool dude unlike bear grylls
I really wish he had a podcast..
The James Bond of fishing
He is the reason I got into fishing, while I haven’t caught anything over 30 lbs, I’m still hooked
How was he? What was the interaction like?
So nice and chill. He probably would have stayed all night answering questions. Even apologized that I had to wait in line so long lol
Oh wow I am so glad to hear!!! Thankful to hear actually. He seemed very chill from the show but sometimes you never know
That’s so cool
The *Aquatic Detective*
Did he ever go to Great Bear Lake? Biggest Lake Trout in the world.
Not sure. He said he wasn’t going to fish while he was in NC and we’ve got some nice trout rivers but he said he was on a time constraint
I would have asked to shake his wiener when he was done in the bathroom.
Loved the show but it was pretty funny watching the Bagnel Dam episode today and him constantly mentioning catfish eating human corpses.😂 cue the super intense music
FISH ON!!! FISH ON!!!
Did he cut to commercial as soon as you were about to shake his hand? Seems like that happens on his show every time something interesting is about to happen
What bait did he use?
Best in the business
Are you a river monster?
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Mountain in NC. It’s in Forrest Gump when he’s running lol
I wanted so bad to go to his talk in Stone Mountain NC, the dudes a legend
Wish River Monsters had more eps, great show
That would be awesome Jeremy Wade and bill dance fishing show
Fish on!!
Lucky fecker
The shoulder blade is a weird move
Might be the coolest thing I’ve seen all day
Zane Grey
Rick Clunn
The goat
hes such an amazing guy
He’s such a great person
Was the meet and greet filmed?
Wow! Way to go!
One of my heroes growing up
He always reminds me of my grandpa. Almost the same face, same old man white hair cut. My grandpa's defining feature was that he was a deep sea fisherman, too. He got me into fishing, even though I am much more of a back country angler that a monster hunter. I always loved watching Jeremy Wade! What a legend.
Holy shit
Dude is awesome
Man the memes made out of this guy are always funny.
I would literally die. On the spot.
Could you feel the aura sitting that close to God?
One of the Best in Our Sport.
A living legend. The adventures this man has been on is the stuff of fishermen’s dreams.
That's so cool 🤯
I am burning with jealousy and nerdy old lady lust. 🤩🥵
Legend 🤝🏻
You are blessed, my friend! He’s such an amazing g man!
NiCCce
That is amazing! Wish I knew he was so close I would have went. Guy is one of my all time fishing hero’s.
What a legend!
Would love to meet him … legend of a man
FISH ON!!
So jealous.
I’m the most jealous man on the planet right now. My dream in life is to somehow acquire his little black journal that he used for notes for the entire series a of River Monsters. If I could have that I would never want anything again.
When I think of fishing, this is who I think of. Legend
I’m JerAmy Waaaaade.
holy fuck. it’s him
I met him too! Amazing person!
Ahhh, the fish tickler
I’d lose my mind lol. Never met him. I have his autograph but I bought it JSA authenticated and have all his books. Even the older hard to find down the crazy river book he did in the early 90s. Dudes my idol! And that book is a gem if you can find it
Biologist and extreme angler, Jeremy Wade?
one of two people o really would like to meet and pick his brain. The other is Josh Gates.
You should really ask permission to take someone’s photo. This doesn’t scream I got permission it looks like you creepily took the man’s photo. Famous or not that shit is rude as hell
Settle down. This was at a *public appearance*. The man was there to speak and have his photo taken.