On day four of fishing in Thailand our guide John had arranged a boat for us to fish the Chao Phraya river. This was not part of the original plan but upon arrival in Thailand John told me we had a chance to do this and would be one of very few foreigners to fish this part of the river and his first foreign clients so I said, I'm in. We changed our day of barrimundi fishing to the wild river fishing. I was looking forward to barrimundi but the excitement of fishing in the wild on a huge …
Bungsamran Lake
On day three of our fishing vacation in Thailand we visited Bungsamran Lake. This place is likely the most well known fishing lake in Thailand, all the videos you see on YouTube and most of the pictures you've seen on the internet of a Mekong catfish on a dock are at this place. If you read my story of Palm Tree Lagoon I wrote you will know we needed a good day fishing after that experience the day before and man did we ever get one. The giant Mekong catfish can grow up to several hundred …
Palm Tree Lagoon, Ratchaburi, Thailand
When I was booking the trip and doing the research for Thailand I was impressed with Palm Tree Lagoon, I knew it was small but we've all fished farm ponds before, except this one had 300 pound fish in it so I thought I could come to terms with fishing two acres. Turns out the two acres wasn't my issue with this place. On several occasions before arriving I mentioned to John, my guide, a fish that had been caught there that I had seen on facebook and how they had 30+ species in the lake. …
