* {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}: Many of the catches.
** The goonch catfish he caught? Largest one on record.
** The climax of the Nile Perch episode.
** The Arapaima he caught in 'Lair of Giants'? Possibly a new species.
* {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}: The way the entire village celebrates when he brings back the Tigerfish.
** The baby Kaluga at the end of Russian Killer
* GoddamnedBats: Kind of a RealLife example in "Silent Assassin". When trying to catch a short-tailed river stingray, Jeremy constantly catches piranha, or has his bait stolen by (he presumes) piranha. He caught a couple of catfish, too, but the piranha were the main problem.
** It seems that whenever he goes to South America, he catches/gets his bait stolen by piranha before he actually catches the intended fish.
** It's either this or DemonicSpiders when Jeremy keeps trying to catch a Sawfish, but no matter where he goes, all he seems to pull out of the water are bull sharks.
* IronWoobie | StoicWoobie: The Sawfish. Not only is it really just a [[GentleGiant gentle giant]], but it's been nearly fished to extinction (and almost always ''just'' for its {{badass}} titular [[NaturalWeapon Natural Weapon]]). As a result, it's had to resort to breeding far upstream in rivers. In fact, the one that he finally catches at the end of the sawfish episode has bull shark bite marks, ''and'' crocodile bitemarks on its body. And this was just a ''baby''. It really says a lot about this animals plight when you remember that it's ''intentionally'' going into these areas as it's still safer than going out into its preferred areas where the humans are. [[HumansAreBastards Humans Are Bastards]], indeed.
** It isn't QUITE fair to blame the inland breeding solely on humans; in the ocean, there are sharks significantly larger than bull sharks, as well as quite a few other predators that would happily eat a young sawfish. Now, the fact that all sawfish species are critically endangered? Yeah, that's on humans.
* NightmareFuel:
** What ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' did for the ocean, he's doing for every river and lake he can find. Seriously, you know a show has a pretty high dose of NightmareFuel when piranhas are among the less dangerous creatures featured.
** The Goonch catfish. They live in a cold, murky river, and grow to extreme sizes after eating the cremated bodies dumped into the river, causing them to develop a taste for humans. Go figure.
*** Also, the one Jeremy caught is nearly six foot long and weigh 170 pounds, and it's still not big enough for a man-eater, meaning that the ones that hunt swimmers are still out there.
** Extra Jaws shoutout goes to the Bull Shark episode. Already not too much smaller than Great Whites, and meaner to boot, they're able to operate just as well in ''fresh water'', the only shark in the world to do so. They've been found in sea-connected rivers up to '''2200 miles inland'''.
*** And it's the *big* ones that tend to visit rivers; the larger ones can handle the stress better. In fact, the biggest bull shark ever caught '''anywhere''' was caught in a river.
*** Oh, and a bull shark was the actual inspiration for ''Jaws''.
* ParanoiaFuel: You'll never look at rivers and lakes the same way again.
* SoCoolItsAwesome: It's one of the few series from [[AnimalPlanet Animal Planet's]] [[NetworkDecay Surprisingly Human]] phase that would fit right in with ''[[CrocodileHunter The Crocodile Hunter]]'', ''TheJeffCorwinExperience'', and other shows from the network's heyday.
* TearJerker: The Goliath Tigerfish episode. One of the attacks was a little girl, whose shiny belt attracted the Tigerfish which killed her. The belt was supposed to protect her from bad spirits in the river.
** Although not as the little girl, try not to feel bad for Jeremy after the ''third'' time he tries to land the Tigerfish and doesn't. They way he voices his disappointment almost sounds like a DespairEventHorizon.
** The last few minutes of the 'Russian Killer' episode are largely about how screwed the featured fish, the kaluga sturgeon, is, due to the caviar market.