Thailand Barramundi Fishing

Snookmeister

I will be going to Thailand this summer for couple weeks. I am going to try and book a trip to do some freshwater barra fishing, anything related to a snook is top on my
List, hahah. Anyone ever done this? Just looking for any input. Thanks

Permit Rat

Snookmeister wrote: »

I will be going to Thailand this summer for couple weeks. I am going to try and book a trip to do some freshwater barra fishing, anything related to a snook is top on my
List, hahah. Anyone ever done this? Just looking for any input. Thanks

I will be there this coming April and have been researching the fishing in Thailand, with barramundi as a prime target. I have been to Thailand before and did the same thing for that trip too. But I was there in October and the rains had the rivers all swollen and unfishable.

It seems that outside of some pay-to-fish farm ponds that have exotics in them, such as barramundi and arapaima, none of the Thai lakes have been stocked with barras. Why, I do not know.....it seems that they would thrive, since Thailand is about the same latitude as northern Australia, except on the other side of the equator.

In 2010 when I first started looking, it seemed that the area for barras was the esturary system in western Thailand, just south of the border with Myanmar (Burma) But more recent searches, have them in a river, just east of Bangkok. However, the web page was an old one and the "guide" was an American who seems to be out of business there. Haha....he was probably trying to charge American prices, just like the guides in Mexico do.

I am very interested in the same as you, so if you find out more, post here.

Snookmeister

I think I am going to go to the Boon Mar farm ponds. I am pretty sure barras are native to Thailand. However, they are a main food staple so I think it is hard to catch them in the wild. I am booking through Siam Fishing Tours. It may not be the most sportsman like thing to fish stocked ponds, however I just really want to catch some. Catching a barramundi is on my bucket list. Also, I will likely only have the time and money for one day of fishing. It is 6500bht which is like 212$ or something now for 6 hrs of fishing. This includes gear, food, guide, and transit to and from hotel in Bangkok. I am still totally stoked. I don't care if its stocked lol. I need one!!!! I am going to shoot mad go pro footage, will
Post here

Permit Rat

If you just want to catch a barramundi, for that matter there is a pay to fish farm somewhere in Florida. Several people have commented on it in other forums.

Barramundi are native to Thailand, but they are not found in the same numbers as in Australia. This is probably due to pollution, as Thai rivers run brown and dirty, due to farmland runoff. Other than that I think the wild fish in the rivers run about the same size as those in Australia....5-15 lbs. The real big fish are found in fresh water, like Australia's Lake Tinaroo.

Snookmeister

Yea, i really just want to catch one. There is a place here in FL, Osceola outback. However, pretty much all of their barras died in the freeze in 2010, atleast that is what the owner told me about a year ago. I figured I am going to Thailand anyway, the price is much less, more time to fish, and barras up to 30 lbs apparently.