Fishing for Mekong Catfishing by Y.C. Loh 26 July 2005
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Experience at Bung Sam Lan. A four day trip to Bangkok fishing, eating and shopping. Date 1-4 June 2005 This is my first experience fishing for this kind of giant, I thought it wasn’t too difficult like Pasir Ris pond fishing. Where can the fish go in the pond with just 10ft of water… I was dead wrong!! In BSL every fishes are power pack even the deepest part of the lake is 10 feet the one catch can ware you out! We planed for 2 days fishing and end up only fish for a day. The giant ware us out after 2 to 3 catches. Total the 4 of us caught about 20 Mekong and Patin fishes and burst about 10. In the morning warm up catch, below 10kg and after lunch 15kg and above. The largest landed was 40kg+ Mekong and smallest was about 5kg+ Patin . One of the burst believe to be more than 60kg+ , because this one cannot stop, just peeling lines from the reel until line bust. The experience guide said “very big!, 60gk+” . What species are stock in BSL Lake? Stock with the world largest fresh water fish, the Giant Mekong Catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) the Giant Siamese Carp Catlocarpio siamensis, and the river catfish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus are three of the largest freshwater fish in the world, measuring up to three meters in length and weighing 660 pounds (300 kilograms). All these can be fished at The Bung Sam Lan Lake in Bangkok. This lake is one of the most extraordinary fisheries in the world. The 20 acres swamp was converted to a lake 17 years ago. It is stocked with a huge variety of native Thai and imported fish: |
THE FISH SPECIES OF THE LAKE: Giant Mekong Catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) from 15 kg to 100 kg +, Striped Catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) from 5 kg to 15 kg, Chaophraya Giant Catfish (Pangasianodon) from 2 kg to 30 kg +, Giant Siamese Carp (Catlocarpio Siamensis) from 20 kg to 100 kg +, Amazonian Arapaima (Arapaima gigas) from 110 kg to 200 kg +, Pacu (Collossoma spp.) from 2kg to 9 kg, Giant Snakehead (Channa micropeltes) from 4 kg to 15 kg, Rohu (Labeho rohita) from 2kg to 10 kg, Small Scale Mud Carp (Cirrhina microlepis) 1kg to 10 kg, Hoeven's Slender Carp (1 kg to 8 kg), and many more Thai species |
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