FISHING IN BANGKOK
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:24 pm
Just got back from thailand. and spent a day fishing at a place called Bungsamran lake in Bangkok.
This place is awesome (although a bit hard to find), with thousands upon thousands of BIG Mekong Powertail to be caught.
If you go with a guide off the net it will cost you around $200-$300, but if you just rock up it cost me about $110, including one rod and reel, your own bungalow to relax in whilst fishing, all bait and a Thai fishing guide to do all the dirty work. Great value!
The bait used is a burley mixture similar too the burley used for herring (or tommy ruff for you croweaters out there) molded into a BIG ball on a berley cage with a trailing hook unbaited underneath. (See photos if they work!). They mix it up with what smells like banana essence.
From the first cast it was on with fish averaging 15kgs with my biggest about 20kgs, bit there are MUCH bigger fish here! I saw a pom catch one tha went 77kgs while i was there!
The gear that they used was a medium sized boat rod with about a 6000 size eggbeater with about 15-20kg line. The drag on mine was a bit sticky, and occassionly the gears would slip, resulting in a rapid clunking sound. Auto,auto (because it sounded like automatic gunfire) the guide would scream while laughing his arse off
All in all a great day out, and highly recommended
I have some cards i got off the guide if anyone is interested, he is a good bloke who knows what he is doing, although it might be worth waiting until you are in thailand before you call and getting another thai to talk to him as his english is poor. The website on the card from the lake i have is www.bigfishingbungsamran.com but i haven't checked it out yet.
P.S. Can someone tell me an easy way to downsize and post my photos. I'm not real good with computers and have just spent the last hour banging my head against a brick wall!
This place is awesome (although a bit hard to find), with thousands upon thousands of BIG Mekong Powertail to be caught.
If you go with a guide off the net it will cost you around $200-$300, but if you just rock up it cost me about $110, including one rod and reel, your own bungalow to relax in whilst fishing, all bait and a Thai fishing guide to do all the dirty work. Great value!
The bait used is a burley mixture similar too the burley used for herring (or tommy ruff for you croweaters out there) molded into a BIG ball on a berley cage with a trailing hook unbaited underneath. (See photos if they work!). They mix it up with what smells like banana essence.
From the first cast it was on with fish averaging 15kgs with my biggest about 20kgs, bit there are MUCH bigger fish here! I saw a pom catch one tha went 77kgs while i was there!
The gear that they used was a medium sized boat rod with about a 6000 size eggbeater with about 15-20kg line. The drag on mine was a bit sticky, and occassionly the gears would slip, resulting in a rapid clunking sound. Auto,auto (because it sounded like automatic gunfire) the guide would scream while laughing his arse off
All in all a great day out, and highly recommended
I have some cards i got off the guide if anyone is interested, he is a good bloke who knows what he is doing, although it might be worth waiting until you are in thailand before you call and getting another thai to talk to him as his english is poor. The website on the card from the lake i have is www.bigfishingbungsamran.com but i haven't checked it out yet.
P.S. Can someone tell me an easy way to downsize and post my photos. I'm not real good with computers and have just spent the last hour banging my head against a brick wall!