Bungsamran lake in Bangkok Started by Tom, Feb 03 2011 06:47 AM

[Tom]

Bungsamran (sometimes also called Bangsamran) is probably Thailand's most well known freshwater managed fishery.

Located in North-East Bangkok it's easy to get to and compared to allot of other Thai owned fisheries - and quite well put together.

It's jam packed with Mekong Catfish, Giant Siamese Carp and many other species of fish - because it's been around for over 25 years allot of the fish in the fish have reached record sizes.

There is also a very good tackle shop there called 7 Seas - I would say at this time it's probably the best tackle outlet in Thailand.

They have a very basic website here:-

http://www.bungsamran.com/en/

We also list them in our database here:-

http://www.farangfriendly.com/Company/B ... 81973.aspx

We're going back there to fish this Tuesday with the guys from Fishing Adventures Thailand, we'll post a full review after this trip.

There are also loads of YouTube videos out there for this fishing lake - we've trawled through most of them and here are some of the better ones. Allot of what you see in these clips applies to Mekong and Striped catfish fishing in general - we've used these techniques elsewhere with great results.















100kg my arse but interesting technique with the towel lift at the end of the video - the nets at Bungsamlan can't really handle the larger Mekongs and this is obvioulsy one of the ways to deal with them without getting into the lake:-



And finally a quick reminder that even though you may think that the 30kg catfish you caught from Bungsamlan makes you a real catfish master - there is always somebody better:-

[Tom]

Great time had by all with Jean-Francois and his team on Tuesday - here's a few pics of what was coming out:-

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Paul holding a Mekong that looks more than a little like himself...

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Joe with a nice 20kg+ Mekong

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Jamie looking a bit too happy for some reason...

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Knackered.

The Fishing Adventures Thailand guys were relentless - it was fish after fish from the moment we arrived.

Soon we'll return to do things at a slightly more leisurely pace, we'll post a full report on doing Bungsamlan the DIY way shortly.

Tom.