Mekong Giant Catfish

[Mr.Ocean]

This is 13 kg Mekong Giant Catfish or local name is Pla Buk,Cited in the Guinness Book of Records as largest freshwater fish.

[Mr.Ocean]

this one 20kg

[Mr.Ocean]

;D

[Mr.Ocean]

powerful fish

[Mr.Ocean]

fighting with 7kg drag

[cHiCo]

they are some serious fish, what bait did you catch them on?

[Dr_Dan]

How big do they actually grow?

[jewies]

i read an article about them in fishing monthly or modern fishing. I think they grow to about 60kgs or was that 90 ???

[Maria]

Lol....some good pics there mate. You fishing on your lunchbreak from work or something? Pretty well dressed for fishing. ;D Good effort mate.

Ben

[el_carpo]

I'm Jealous! ;D

I sure wouldn't mind catching one of those brutes! Congratulations!

[Mr.Ocean]

Hi all

This fish could grow more than 300kg and I use the bread to be bait.

cheers

[Mr.Ocean]

Lol....some good pics there mate. You fishing on your lunchbreak from work or something? Pretty well dressed for fishing. #;D Good effort mate.

Ben

Hi Ben

I'm really was fish on friday afternoon ;) keep quiet! don't tell my boss mate ;D

Cheers

[Quinny69]

Is that Ban San ran (Something like that :-/) fishing park in Thiland. I read that story in Fishing World, The Aussies described them as "very Cobia like" and 1 of the strongest things they have ever tried to land. The fishing park has Barra too. Looks like a fun place to visit, right in the middle of the city . MQ

[Mr.Ocean]

Yes Quinny!that's Bung Sam Ran fishing park.

[Maria]

Hi Ben

I'm really was fish on friday afternoon ;) keep quiet! don't tell my boss mate ;D

Cheers

Hahahahaha.....good work mate, secret is safe with us. ;)

Ben

[yalla]

awesom fishin mate looks like ur fishin off a balcony or somethin hey i readin russia they get cat fish to 150 kg in rivers
yallah i cant tell ya if its right i aint seen no pics

[jackash]

WE are doing the Mekong catchment and the dams and stuff on the river atm in geography and aparently those fish are starting to totally dwindle in numbers, becuase of how messed up the rivers becoming:S
Cehers,
Jackash

[Dazway]

If you used bread to catch that one, would you have to use a bakery as bait to catch a 300kg one.

[thumps]

now thats some catty....

saw this,,,thought ya may like a look

[paz]

holy crap :o :o :o....i wouldnt even get in the boat if we had them here in the river ::).....

[szopen]

Thumps,

That one at 300kg is pretty big. It made internet rounds earlier this year.
They are vegeterian fish so bread based dough bait is used.

As far as I know that park close to Bangkok is a catch and release place.

Catfish in rivers in Rusia, Europe and parts of Asia is a different species, predatory fish, they also grow big and can go over 100kg.

Here is a small model I got about a month ago.

[reddyclaw_wal]

di ya know that peeled yabbies make good bait and the can not resist the worm. ;D

[Ozwald]

Bung Sam Lan lake is an interesting experience; bit like fishing in a trout farm. Some interesting fish in lake such as siamese carp, arapaima and pirahna (which is definitely not native!). At the end of a days fishing there I had had around 15 catfish in the 20-45kg range and one siamese carp - picture attached. Excuse the stupid expression but my arms ached that much I had trouble holding the fish up.

[Maddrooter6991]

Looks like a bloody cobia ;D

[sojourner]

Pirahna in there and you're in the water?? :-/

[Canoedle]

;D nice carp m8

[Jonli]

;D

Here is another one of those Giant Mekong Catfish .

JonLi .

[szopen]

That one is nice size too.

Shows that boat size doesn't matter.

[Slient]

Here another one on boat... how smart asian could pull it on the boat ::)

[Kevin_B]

Hi mr.ocean. I must admit i had a bit of a laugh when i saw you using a saltiga in the first photo, but the joke was on me when i say your rod locked up under 7kg of drag in the other shot #;D i always thought they pulled like carp ::)

Great going m8. Keep posting, like seeing fishing from other parts of the world.

[phatty]

i laughed when i saw that too.. fishing with the saltiga.. they must go pretty hard..

what size is that .. the 4500?.. what sort of line.. braid? what break strain?

[mitch_05]

silent,

what brand outboard is on that canoe looks like a huqvarnha ;D

[cool_deaf_dude]

cool dude . i would like to go over there with my stella it would be fun . ;D

[robdiep]

that would be so awesome to catch them.. !!! :D

check out this site.. some huge catties! also some nice exotics that would be worth hooking up to..

rob

[robdiep]

http://www.carpecarpio.com/exoticfishpictures.html

rob

[TinarooTriumph]

Bloody catfish ;D . Cant stand them

T'Roo 8-)

[onerabbit]

awesom fishin mate looks like ur fishin off a balcony or somethin hey i readin russia they get cat fish to 150 kg in rivers
yallah i cant tell ya if its right i aint seen no pics


Wow, those things are huge, how do they get them in the boat???

I found this pic of a european catfish a while back.

Muzz

[trevelly-40kg]

LOL THAT WOULD BE FUN

[Kevin_B]

Yeah, im pretty sure the saltiga in the photo is a 4500.
Would be great fun catching them, but wouldn't want to touch them without gloves on. Yuk! ;D