Melvin Roper Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Hello everyone, I am an American but will be living in Thailand for the next year or so. I recently went on a Chao Praya River tour on a longboat and saw probably hundreds of fish. Being an avid-fisher stateswide I was wondering what types of fish there are in there and if you have any good spots to fish from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 MOVED to the Fishing forum . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adumbration Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 If it is legal to catch these fish and they are edible, there will be lots of Thais fishing for them, especially given the current economic situation. So I suggest that you just keep and eye out for a thai fisherman and then have a look what he is doing and then imitate. If you are an avid fisherman like myself then it will not matter if you speak zero Thai, because you will be able to see what tackle and bait he is using and buy the same. If you want to ask more questions just find yourself a "cute" uni girl who has reasonable English and then ask her to work for you for half a day as a translator. Might as well cast as wide a net as possible. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jak2002003 Posted April 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2022 I would not eat anything that came out of that river! Where there are any temples it's illegal to fish...don't know about the rest of the river. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwill Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 When my family came to visit me we stayed at the IBIS Riverside for a few days. There were people fishing at the bank there. If I remember correctly when I asked what they were fishing for they said catfish. If you google 'fishing in Chao Praya river' you will see some youtube videos and another thread on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny202 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Not sure about the Chao Praya but probably depends where you are talking about. Near Bangkok I wouldn't waste my time. I was a keen fisherman back in Australia but catching fish that were considered nuisance fish (Carp, Catfish) back home and were always thrown back, its hard to get excited over catching them here, particularly when it involves cooking outside in the blistering sun. One very sought after sport fish here is the Snakehead which they catch usually with lures in the flooded rice fields. They look like a lot of fun to catch as a light sportfish. Google it see what you think 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post swm59nj Posted April 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2022 From what I hear about the pollution in that river. You would probably glow in the dark from eating any fish in there 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKJASE Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 the fish i mainly see in the chao praya is the sawai fish. a type of catfish. they sell this fish at the market, so it is edible, but i am not sure how tasty it is. there are lots of lakes in and around bangkok too to fish. more thai style ones, for 100 baht a day, and some farand ones where you can catch a larger variety of fish - carp, redtail catfish, amazonian arapaima etc, butthese are more like 1000 baht up freshwater fishing in thailand is great. i saw a 100+ kg arapaima pulled out the other week. gave the guy one hell of a fight ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 As said the pollution would deter me, and any way 'fresh' water fish i have tasted in Thailand have mud flavour, that's why Thais tend to mask the flavour with heaps of spices, sea fish only for me thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony125 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 It's not really fishing when you can reach down and pull them out of the water. Don;t need any lures or even bait. They have signs near temples "no fishing alowed" but other areas I'm sure you could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtrnuno41 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Fishing for Thai actresses? You better do it on land, then they might still be alive 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairynuff Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 On 4/29/2022 at 4:04 PM, Adumbration said: If you want to ask more questions just find yourself a "cute" uni girl who has reasonable English and then ask her to work for you for half a day as a translator Just listen to yourself 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny C Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 See feeding silver catfish on YouTube. There must be millions of it in the river. There could be reasons why the local do not fish and eat it. Unless they are very poor. Maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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