River Monsters - Anyone Else Watch This Show ...

[Felix77]

I enjoy watching River Monsters.  I am posting because I had a particularly fun episode watching the latest one which took place in the Ukraine.

 

My wife is from the Ukraine and took an interest in the show so we watched it together.  Note she never watches my shows.  Especially if it has to do with fishing ...

 

What made this one so much fun was that fact that she understood everything the natives were saying.

 

Some moments worth sharing with all of you ...

 

1)  When he finally gets a name for the monster ... The "Somm".  My wife yells out "It's a freakin' catfish!  We eat them all the time!".  Somm apparently is catfish in her dialect.  Her reaction was priceless.

2)  When the Ukranian is describing the fish Jeremy Wade said something like it's 8 feet long and over 200 pounds.  According to my wife the guy actually said 6 feet and 120lbs.

3)  When he finally says "It's a Wales Catfish" ... she shouts out "Duh!"

 

Priceless episode because I got the inside scoop from a native.  LOL.  

 

I wonder how other episode's compare after this experience.

 

 

[Raider Nation Fisher]

That's awesome. I love watching that show.

Where is she from in the Ukraine? I got family over there still.

[Felix77]

That's awesome. I love watching that show.

Where is she from in the Ukraine? I got family over there still.

 

She is from Kiev.

[flyfisher]

One of my favorite shows. I am not one to watch much tv except sports but this is one I look to see when it is on and watch it.

My favorite episode is stil the Goliath tiger fish....that thing is prehistoric and lives in some gnarly water.

[BrettD]

Most of the time he knows what species he is going after. The show where he treks way up a river in south america to a little lake to catch arapima was my favorite episode..

[mtaag3]

I enjoy it and DVR it most of the time. There are some incredible fish there. The hand-lining the shark in Fiji was impressive. 

 

BTW, I've been to Kiev, beautiful city.

[NEjitterbugger]

Love that show, was planning on making a topic like this lol....

[Raider Nation Fisher]

She is from Kiev.

We got family in "pahdimisk""padimish" or something along those lines. Its where my great grand mum was born. My great grandpop was born in the foot hills of the Caspian mountains. And I know we had family that was living in Chernobyl way back when and in Kiev. If I ever get time I want to go see them some day.

[NorcalBassin]

Somehow my 10 and 7 year old daughters got into the show so they love DVR'ing it and watching it together. Not sure how that ever happened, but I'm pretty stoked it did.

[Darren.]

It is a favorite in my household (not of my wife's, but my boys and me). Enjoyed the Chernobyl episode quite a bit.

[Bluebasser86]

I DVR it as well. One of my favorite episode he's fishing for the Goonch catfish and catches what looks like a monster softshell turtle. They drag it up on shore and the thing snaps at one of the guides I believe and it's freaking neck was like 2' long. I like guessing what kind of fish it's going to be before they actually say what it is. 

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Great show!  Seen all the episodes that they have on Netflix and I've been watching the new season.  I was kind of hoping to see some sort of mutant fish monster on this last episode cuz of all the radioactivity but the giant Wells Catfish was pretty cool.  I'm pretty sure he did another episode on the Wells though and the one he caught on that one was quite a bit bigger.

 

I've also watched a couple of the behind the scenes type episodes and that guy goes through some pretty sketchy stuff to catch these fish.  There was one where he was in this little village somewhere in Africa or something and the chiefs brother went missing.  The people there were really superstitious and because the brother went missing right around when Jeremy Wade arrived, they were going to get together and stone him to death if the brother wasn't found.  Then there was another one where they were gathering crabs for bait on a little rock island in the middle of a river and the sound guy got struck by lightning.  Those guys are really committed to making a quality show.

[TrippyJai]

Me and my girlfriend love the show. I like watching him travel to remote areas and fishing. My girlfriend likes him as a biologist. His catches are pretty cool as well. My favourites would be the Goonch catfish and the Tiger Fish. I also like Jeremy Wade because I don't find him annoying, which is a good thing since I get annoyed easily from all the crappy shows they have on TV these days.

[flyfisher]

The recent show where he was in Guyuana was pretty cool too because they caught that arapima and it turns out it was a new species.  I know for me, not being a biologist it would be pretty freaking cool to catch a new species.

[dave]

I really enjoyed it a couple of weeks ago when they station ran it all day.

[webertime]

May 19th Episode is on Champlain for the Dreaded...

Carp, Gar, Sturgeon and Sheepshead.  Responsible for many divorces.

[Bankbeater]

Loved the episode with the killer piranha.

[jwhowells]

My son and I watch it.  After watching the snakehead episode that's all he talks about when we go fishing. "Dad when are we going to catch a snakehead?"

[Trailer]

I love River Monsters! Sometimes late at night I'll catch the episodes with the captions of bonus info.

[Fishes in trees]

For the most part I like the show.   Some times I think he is a little pretentious.  The show about the Tiger fish   is a perfect example, where it shows him experimenting, measuring, act, building a steel leader.  

 

Really son, you're building a quick strike rig.  Guys who bait fish for muskies, pike, large catfish use them all the time.   The manufacture and various uses of quick strike rigs were exhaustively documented by Al & Ron Lindner when they owned In-fisherman magazine.    How much trouble can it be to bubba up a quick strike rig?  It looked to me like he was re-inventing the wheel.

[Sam]

Yep, when I catch it by accident when trolling for shows on the TV or noticing it in the TV section of the newspaper.

 

Excellent show.

 

Enjoy it very much.

[BassinB]

For the most part I like the show. Some times I think he is a little pretentious. The show about the Tiger fish is a perfect example, where it shows him experimenting, measuring, act, building a steel leader.

Really son, you're building a quick strike rig. Guys who bait fish for muskies, pike, large catfish use them all the time. The manufacture and various uses of quick strike rigs were exhaustively documented by Al & Ron Lindner when they owned In-fisherman magazine. How much trouble can it be to bubba up a quick strike rig? It looked to me like he was re-inventing the wheel.

I agree. It is an entertaining show. But some of the things are exaggerated quite extensively, and the editing is often the subject of peicing many clips together to achieve a look different than what actually happened. The rods reels and baits will all switch while hes supposedly fighting the same fish. I know this is the norm on shows like this but i always notice it, and it annoys me.

[Felix77]

I agree. It is an entertaining show. But some of the things are exaggerated quite extensively, and the editing is often the subject of peicing many clips together to achieve a look different than what actually happened. The rods reels and baits will all switch while hes supposedly fighting the same fish. I know this is the norm on shows like this but i always notice it, and it annoys me.

 

I saw an episode where his "fight" kept switching from a baitcaster to a spinning rod/reel setup.  I thought I was crazy until I caught a rerun of it.

 

LOL

[AR Fishin Hodge]

No doubt there are exagerations, but you have to ask yourself, how many shows would there be unless they felt around a little for a few extra "river monsters".  In a lot of the situations I am sure the local legand of a river monster is completely believed by the locals. 

 

Heck Jeremy went to Lake of the Ozarks to catch the man eating catfish that live there.  The story was the fish where man eaters down toward the dam.  Funny thing is I've heard the exact same story on Bull Shoals Lake just 100 miles to the South of LOZ.  I do enjoy watching the show a lot though.

[J Francho]

Not a big fan of it, overly dramatic and sensationalistic.  Larry Dahlberg has caught most of the fish River Monsters details, and it's much more entertaining.