Monday 4 May 2009

Thailand

Just spent a fantastic couple of weeks travelling round some of the islands in the south of Thailand.
This surely earns me enough brownie points with Mrs C to enable me to spend the rest of the summer on the river bank.

The angling bug got the better of me though & after several Singhas & Sangsom buckets I got chatting to a Mr Sak who promised me a 80-90% chance of landing a Sailfish!

Here's Mr Sak skippering his Longtail boat - basically a long wooden skiff with a dirty diesel engine attached to the back, powering a propellor at the end of a long shaft... genius!

First off, we jigged some feathers for the live bait.

Then we set them off in a channel & waited... alas no Sailfish were hooked, just this Garfish looking thing with some mad dentistry!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hiya nick,

nice garfish type thing!

not really been out fishing as have been waylaid a little. need to take a leaf out of your book and arrange a charter.

send me news!

oners

Nick Carter said...

you been kidnapped by FARC again?