Fishing In Thailand

Fishing in Thailand

Fishing

At 110kg or 242LB, the carp pictured below remains the largest Carp ever caught on a rod and line. They don't get this big in Darenth Valley!

The largest Carp ever caught on a Rod & Line

This fish is what inspired us to try and persuade the UK's keenest Anglers to come and be our guests in Thailand and help us catch what are surely one of the most prized freshwater angling specimens anywhere on the planet.

Phil

Damian

Aom

Aom enjoying a day's fishing at Bungsamran

Kumari

Kumari as well as preparing meals, keeps the accomodation clean and tidy.

About Siam Fishing Tours

Who are we? How can we serve you?

The idea of Siam Fishing Tours, was first hatched between 3 friends from Kent in the UK in late 2005, all 3 of us had been frequent visitors to Thailand for many years. The partnership was subsequently dissolved things change once your living and working in Thailand. But the desire to carry on exploring Thailand’s fishing scene, and publicise it in English hasn’t stop for Jules, who is the author of this website.

Siam Fishing Tours - Our Mission

As we started to research Thailand’s Freshwater fishing scene, it became clear to us that despite the fact it had already been explored or “pioneered” as some people like to call it, by one or two guiding operations, it’s secrets had been largely withheld too the wider English speaking general angling audience. Names of venues where changed or not even mentioned, information on what fish swam in these undisclosed venues was kept quiet, as was how to fish them, information was quite simply in scarce supply in the public domain, written in English. The aim of the Siam Fishing Tours website is to ultimately become the solution to that problem. And become a frame of reference for all visiting anglers wishing to explore the Thai Fishing Scene

That’s not to say we are going to provide an address, map, telephone number, detailed set of instructions on how to “go it alone” fishing in Thailand as some have done or are trying to do. They would be of little use, since even once an individual has that information, organising fishing expeditions around the country is never straightforward, and many visiting anglers who have tried it on their own (including our customers who have subsequently tried organising their own trips, only to return with us the following year!) struggle with both the language barrier, and the logistics of travelling around a country where 95% of road signs are written solely in Thai. This combined with the (not so) little cultural differences between Westerners and Thai’s often makes it extremely difficult to get things organised in the short time frames such as those available too angler’s on holiday.

We believe that the majority of visiting anglers will appreciate a service that is based upon openness and an enthusiasm to share with you, the visiting angler what we have learned. Our mission is to explore for you, advise you what’s “out there” expose it through our website, and then offer to organise everything for you at fair and reasonable prices. That is what we do in a nutshell.

Before you ultimately decide who to book your trip with all we ask is that you consider the following:-

1.Where will you be staying?

Siam Fishing Tours are the only operator to offer you the choice to be fully hosted staying with us as our guests OR to use hotels of your choice or ones we can recommend, we are completely flexible, offering far more choice.

2. What’s the advantage of being fully hosted?

To be fully hosted means we get more fishing in and less tiresome Bangkok traffic and travelling around. You also have our ear at anytime. We won’t be staying miles away, and leave our Thai guides to try and organise everything for you, when perhaps they don’t even have very good English or an understanding of your needs. When we take people fishing, WE take people fishing! That means 100% accountability and availability to our guests, not just the guests that suit us, but all of them. You don’t have to work for a fishing magazine, or tackle manufacturer to get our undivided attention. That means we share with our guests the frustration of a slow fishing day, as well as the joy of an exceptional capture, we will be there with you through it all. Sharing great fishing with friends is what we like to do.

3. Are you going to be fishing with a truly conservation/humane minded operator?

It’s easy to claim to be interested in conservation, or perhaps to align yourself with those that claim they are, but it’s not so easy to practice what is preached, especially in an environment where conservation is much lower down in the list of priorities than in Western Countries, and when adopting a certain style of rig (A barbless hook for example) might mean a higher percentage of dropped specimen fish, but we persist with The same conservation and humane minded principles as we would have in Europe. That means, barbless or flattened hooks when applicable (predator fishing), unhooking mats, sleeved braid, a Bottle of clinic and a general attitude of putting the fish first, regardless of whether it is of specimen size or not. It means not encouraging inappropriately light fishing lines in attempt to make a record. We are STILL and have been now for nearly 2 years the only operator to land every single fish at Bungsamran on an unhooking mat regardless of the species or the size of the fish. It will be a good day for inhabitants of Bungsamran when we are no longer able to make that claim, and perhaps if all the tour companies did the same it would not be long before everyone was providing a "Sofa for the fish" as one lady Thai angler described so beautifully when she saw the unhooking mat for the first time..