Jeremy Wade is back with Season 5 of 'River Monsters'

Animal Planet's best-performing series follows extreme angler Jeremy Wade's worldwide search for murky mankillers 

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | June 28, 2013

For four successful seasons of Animal Planet's River Monsters, extreme angler Jeremy Wade has taken viewers along as he unravels freshwater fish tales of giant killers, where sometimes fact really is stranger than fiction. Animal Planet's best-performing series returns for a fifth season, following Wade on a worldwide search for harrowing stories of bloodthirsty fish. A fearless explorer, he aims to hook the finned culprits that are thought to attack humans and reveal how much truth lies in the legends.

In its new season, River Monsters takes the treacherous and mysterious to new heights with the most dangerous adventures of Wade's lifetime. His journeys include a mission to Chernobyl's nuclear wastelands in search of mutant fish in a tick-tock race against time to avoid radiation exposure, a trip to Nicaragua to capture an elusive killer torpedo, and a bloodthirsty quest on American soil in pursuit of a prehistoric underwater vampire. These fantastic voyages kick off on Monday, July 1, at 8 PM with the monster-sized season opener 'Face Ripper'. It will air every night at 8 pm from July 1.

“I realise there will come a point at which my searching must come to an end – once I've found every river monster and all the world's underwater mysteries are solved,” said Wade. “That time hasn't come; this season of River Monsters continues to drive my quest to reveal the fascinating mysteries of the deep.”

The eye-opening premiere 'Face Ripper' sees Wade investigate a horrific death in a Bolivian river. In an area crawling with cocaine smugglers, he treks through the dangerous jungle to discover the fresh water beast that ripped a man's face to shreds. Wade is astonished when one of his oldest adversaries reveals some new behaviour – but will he already be in too deep to learn a new lesson? It's a horrific mystery that Wade is intent on solving.

For more than 30 years as a professional angler, Wade has gone head to head with the world's most legendary river monsters – but there's one legend he has yet to tackle – that of the Loch Ness Monster. Wade will take viewers along on an epic mission from the depths of Loch Ness to the volcanoes of Iceland to track down the world's most famous water-dwelling monster.

Wade started fishing on the Suffolk Stour and went on to fish stillwaters for carp and catfish. At 16, he was the youngest member of the British Carp Study Group. In his early twenties, however, he hung up his rods as an antisocial response to overcrowded British lakes. Then in 1982, inspired by a magazine article about fishing for mahseer, he came to India.

Since then he has made expeditions to Southeast Asia, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), the People's Republic of Congo, India (again) and the Amazon. During these journeys he caught malaria, was arrested for spying, narrowly escaped drowning and survived a plane crash. In between, he has worked as a tour leader, motorcycle dispatch rider, supply teacher, art tutor, translator (Portuguese-English), public relations consultant, dishwasher and newspaper reporter. For a while he was senior copywriter at an advertising agency until the excitement became too much.

In 1992 he published 'Somewhere Down the Crazy River' (written with Paul Boote). This recounts the rediscovery of the Indian mahseer and the goliath tigerfish of the Congo and is considered to be one of the classics of angling literature.

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