Mekong Catfish

Alright we are a few days behind on the blog. We apologize, but we are just having so much fun, it's been tough to make the time. But here we are at the almost end of our trip, and ready to share the past few days with you. As you have read in our previous blog, our friends Chad and Monica were in Chiang Mai as well for a few days. We caught up with them and went fishing with Chad a few days ago. We were fishing for Mekong catfish. It was not your usual fishing scene, but never the less very fun, and even a work out. We arrived at the lake outside of town in the early morning. We were anxious to see what Chad had been talking about from his previous experience here last year. We had a wonderful guide, his name was Mr. Tuk Tuk. He baited and cast the poles for us. I allowed him to do this all day, but Robbie eventually baited his own pole. Guess what we used for bait? Come on, think outside the box, way outside. Give up, left over 7 Eleven ham sandwiches. Mr. Tuk Tuk cut it all up into small pieces and then stuffed it into some sort of cage. I have a picture, and will post it once we are back in the states. It didn't take long at all to catch fish. Well actually it didn't take me long to catch fish. The largest fish I caught was 46.3 pounds (21kg), and I caught a total of 5 fish, and then lost 3 others. It was hard work getting them into the shore. Robbie did well also. He caught 4, his biggest being 42 lbs. It was non stop action, and there was only a handful of us there.