Update on the Pattaya Barra Fishing Park:-

In the rainy season last year there was one day of very intense flooding that saw most of Pattaya under water - the Pattaya Barra was one of the many businesses hit hard by this flood.

The big lake on the back of the property was completely overwhelmed and needed a fair bit of work to get it back to fishable condition - it needed to be fully drained and most of the fish were moved over to the front lake.

During this process some cracking fish were discovered and the front lake now contains around 20 Mekong Catfish up to around 50kg as well as all the Jalamet. This means that for now most of what you catch on the front lake will be Jalalmet, but the spin off from this is that you can avoid them by fishing on the back lake.

The back lake has been heavily restocked with Barramundi that are growing fast and will soon be a great place to spin and fly fish for this species.

I think the idea is to put some of the mekongs back in the larger lake to balance things up a bit as they get caught from the front lake - I hooked one last week and the bugger broke my rod after a 45 minute fight...

It's probably also worth mentioning that the previous manager Bob The Aussie no longer works there, he has moved on to other things.

The Pattaya Barra is still, in my opinion, the nicest fishing park in Pattaya and the back lake has the potential to be a great fishing pond as the fish in it mature.



Tom.

A decent fish from The Pattaya Barra Fishing Park smaller lake.

8.7kg - caught with a bare hook with poly ball on the shank to pop it up above bread flavoured with banana essence....

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