Here the last report from top Thailand fishing guide Jean Francois Helias: "Two days ago (Feb. 27). on our
second trip to a new destination we are now guiding at, we caught an impressive
95.00 kg / 210 pounds on lure. The very reddish mega fish failed for a Yo-zuri
lure (I wish to not giving away the model details), courtesy of Yo-zuri American
big boss George Large.
Congratulations to French
angler Jean-Remi Plagne, from Montpellier in southern France, who hooked up that
giant fish on a 6’6 Pro Kik custom built rod coupled to a Shimano Twin Power
4000 spinning reel. It took him quite some time to tame the hard fighting beast,
which went airborne a couple of times, before finally giving
up.
An unforgettable memory for
Plagne and for his fishing partner Didier Montagnon! Both were on their second
trip with us, and already had some outstanding trophy fish catches on both of
their 2012 and 2013 trips.
That new lake, located close to
Bangkok, is lure fishing only. Live fish/dead fish bait fishing is not allowed
there. The fish species to be targeted are mainly Arapaima (the lake has the
biggest population of Arapaima in Thailand; biggest ones over 100 kilos). We
fished that lake only twice to date, catching 9 arapaima though there are
several others such as redtail catfish, giant snakehead, hemibagrus, etc. Some
Alligator gar there are up to 30.00 kilos. Also one Wallago leeri caught there
recently weighted 40.00 kilos.
From left to right on the
photo: Local guide, the lucky angler Jean-Remi Plagne (wearing red shirt), and
his fishing buddies Didier Montagnon and Gregory Gilles.