History Awesome / RiverMonsters

* "Atomic Assassin": Jeremy and his crew risk their lives at the site of the world's worst nuclear
disaster... and find the monster they're looking for: a mutated som catfish.

* The end of the season nine episode "Return of The Killer Catfish": Jeremy returns to India to fish for another monster goonch despite believing that they're extinct, though reports and rumours sayotherwise. Come the end of it he's in a duel with another goonch... but this one gets away. Still, he is still happy as he has found personal proof that the goonch still live.
** Moreover, Jeremy states that this has evened the score. He caught one goonch in season one, but with one getting away, they're even.

* In the series finale, Jeremy is investigating stories of attacks in Malaysia, and comes to the conclusion that the culprit is his arch nemesis, the one river monster he never caught: the Sareng (known locally in Malaysia as the Tapah). He catches one.

* When searching for an oarfish, he had to dive in water over a mile deep and was visibly unnerved by it, coming close to a panic attack. Despite this, he went back down at night was rewarded by seeing not one, but two oarfish in the wild.

* Jeremy has survived life endangering situations countless times, such as a plane crash, nearly getting struck by lightning (it was actually his sound man who got struck a few feet away), numerous close calls with Nile crocodiles, and at least two bouts of malaria.
** He once got his chest rammed by a giant Arapaima, an injury that still caused him great pain ''six weeks'' after the incident. Only a few days later, he went on to catch an even bigger one.
** He fished in the Pripyat River near Chernobyl. Then he fished in the plant's cooling pond. Then he fished AT THE MOUTH OF THE CHANNEL FEEDING REACTOR NUMBER 4.

* The whole Goliath Tiger Fish episode.

* When searching for an oarfish, he had to dive in water over a mile deep and was visibly unnerved by it, coming close to a panic attack. Despite this, he went back down at night. And was rewarded by seeing not one, but two oarfish in the wild.

* During filming for the episode "Death Down Under", the crew found a man who was stranded for 60 hours and rescued him, which became part of the episode. Also doubles as [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]].

* Jeremy hunting for the Muskellunge: After fishing for several weeks using gear meant for large fish and not catching anything, Jeremy decides to take a break to catch small fish to get his confidence back. He accidentally catches the exact fish he was looking for--while using normal fishing gear (that would normally break with the a fish the size of the Muskellunge), in an area the fish is not meant to be, and almost immediately after throwing tobacco into the lake as an offering to the "lake spirit," in imitation of a story that brought him to the area he was in.

* The Aboriginal tribe that catches blood-sucking fish by ''climbing directly int a giant waterfall to grab them by hand.''
* Jeremy hunting for the Muskellunge: After fishing for several weeks using gear meant for large fish and not catching anything Jeremy decides to take a break to catch small fish to get his confidence back. He accidentally catches the exact fish he was looking for while using normal fishing gear (that would normally break with the a fish the size of the Muskellunge) in an area the fish is not meant to be, and almost immediately after throwing tabacoo into the lake as an offering to the "lake spirit"in imitation of a story that brought him to the area he was in.

* Jeremy hunting for the Muskellunge: After fishing for several weeks using gear meant for large fish and not catching anything Jeremy decides to take a break to catch small fish to get his confidence back. He accidentally catches the exact fish he was looking for while using normal fishing gear (that would normally break with the a fish the size of the Muskellunge) in an area the fish is no meant to be, and almost immediately after throwing tabacoo into the lake as an offering to the "lake spirit"in imitation of a story that brought him to the area he was in.

* The fishermen of the Matis tribe in the Amazon, shown in one episode, are shown to hold electric eels ''bare handed''. Electric eels that can ''fatally electrocute horses, and '''[[NeverSmileAtACrocodile caiman!]]'''''

* The Aboriginal tribe that catches blood-sucking fish by ''climbing directly int a giant waterfall to grab them by hand.''

* The Aboroginal tribe that catches blood-sucking fish by ''climbing directly int a giant waterfall to grab them by hand.''

* The Abroginal tribe that catches blood-sucking fish by ''climbing directly int a giant waterfall to grab them by hand.''

* The fishermen of the Matis tribe in the Amazon, shown in one episode, are shown to hold electric eels ''bare handed''. Electric eels that can ''fatally electrocute horses, and '''[[NeverSmileAtACrocodile caiman!]]'''''

** And then he fished in Chernobyl. Not just near Chernobyl, IN THE COOLING POND FOR REACTOR NUMBER 4.

** No less so the man who crafted a technique for catching them that is essentially paddling an innertube with your feet and then using fly-fishing to catch these fish who, as we learn
over the course of the episode, can cause serious injury if they ram you at full tilt.

* The fishermen of the Matis tribe in the Amazon, shown in one episode, are shown to hold electric eels ''bare handed''. Electric eels that can ''fatally electrocute horses, and '''[[NeverSmileAtACrocodile caiman]]''!'''

* The fishermen of the Matis tribe in the Amazon, shown in one episode, are shown to hold electric eels ''bare handed''. Electric eels that can ''fatally electrocute horses, and [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile '''caiman''']]''!

* The fishermen of the Matis tribe in the Amazon, shown in one episode, are shown to hold electric eels ''bare handed''. Electric eels that can ''fatally electrocute horses, and [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile'''caiman''']]''!

** No less so the man who crafted a technique for catching them that is essentially paddling an innertube with your feet and then using fly-fishing to catch these fish who, as we learn over the course of the episode, can cause serious injury if they ram you at full tilt.

* After seeing the "Killer Torpedo" episode you will officially believe tarpon are badass.

* The whole Goliath Tiger Fish episode.

* Jeremy has survived life endangering situations countless times, such as a plane crash, nearly getting struck by lightning (it was actually his sound man who got struck a few feet away), and at least two bouts of malaria.

** He once got his chest rammed by a giant Arapaima, which still caused him great pain nearly ''six weeks'' after the incident. Only a few days later, he went on to catch an even bigger one.

* Jeremy has survived life endangering situations countless times, such as a plane crash, nearly getting struck by lightning (it was actually his sound man who got struck a few feet away), and at least two bouts of malaria. He once got his chest rammed by a giant Arapaima, which still caused him great pain nearly ''six weeks'' after the incident, but then pushed on catch an even bigger one.

* Jeremy has survived life endangering situations countless times. such as a plane crash and malaria He once got his chest rammed by a Arapaima and survived to catch and even bigger one.

* Jeremy has survived life endangering situations countless times.He once got his chest rammed by a goonch and survived to catch and even bigger one