Goin' Fishin'? - Now with PICS & VID

[kolobos]

A good friend of mine 'Jimmy' has a cracking fishing lake, in fact he has two and in his own words "they are the best fishing lakes in the whole of Pattaya".

 

If you fancy doing something different with your day or if you are already a keen angler and want to catch a MONSTER...Check his website out and give him a call to BOOK.

 

He is a canny lad from Manchester UK, and if you don't have a good days fishing you'll certainly enjoy his company!

 

BIGGEST AND BEST FISHING....CLICK HERE!

Edited October 22, 2007 by kolobos

[sabang]

Agreed, went there for a day out recently. Neat and tidily kept, and a nice bar & pool table as well- some people just come for a beer.

 

Unusually for a fishing pond around here, what you mostly catch is carp- but there are other species. We got 5 carp in about 2.5 hours.

[jambo]

I have visited and would confirm that it is a really nice complex and is the most natural of the fishing parks in and around Pattaya.

 

Good facilities on site and Jimmy will make you very welcome.

 

Well worth a visit for a "different" day out.

[joekicker]

kolobos, that link didn't work for me. It worked when I put the "www" in, i.e. this worked:

 

http://www.jimmysfishingpark.com/

[kolobos]

kolobos, that link didn't work for me. It worked when I put the "www" in, i.e. this worked:

 

http://www.jimmysfishingpark.com/

 

It works for me but I changed it all the same.

 

Cheers!

[nohlsson1]

Nice site. hopefully I will have time to give this a try.

[Emil]

The site says that in the fun lake the fish are smaller and range up to 80 kilos while the other lake is where you catch the larger fish. Sounds like at that lake you'll need to be fishing from one of those chair where they strap you in.

[kolobos]

Fishin' freaks...

 

Jimmy has an advert on Pattaya TV (Sophon I think) and I have captured a few shots off it.

 

Just gives an idea of whats available.

 

I am also trying to upload the vid onto Youtube though without success at the moment, once I have sorted I will post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kolobos]

Here is the Promo Video for Jimmy's Fishing Park.

 

[jambo]

I decided to visit Jimmy's Fishing lake yesterday and actually do some fishing.

 

 

The weather was hot and sunny, a bit bright for fishing I would have thought but fortunately nobody seemed to have told the carp!

 

 

The main lake is much more natural than the commercial fishing parks in and around Pattaya.

 

 

I caught one carp in the morning and hooked two others which shed the hooks.

 

 

I called a halt for lunch at about 1.15 and had a few cold beers in pleasant company and took Jimmy's advice not to have my first choice of a bacon roll but to switch to the liver and bacon which was excellent. Jimmy phones your order through and it comes back nice and hot by the usual motorbike delivery service.

 

After lunch the fishing really took off as I hooked and landed another 9 very healthy and hard fighting carp. No huge ones but the largest must have been close to being a double which in fishing speak means it was probably about 8 pounds!

 

 

 

Forget all about boilies, pop-ups, hair rigs etc etc. Thailand carp seem to basically like one thing - bread! I used one fresh sliced white loaf as bait plus the feed Jimmy supplies at the lake. The set up on Jimmy's rods is basic, as are the rods themselves, but does the job.

 

 

 

More photo's of the fish I caught today.

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, they were all carp but there are other species including some big catfish. Another guy fishing told me that the day before he caught a fish which had teeth like some kind of Thai pirana. He could not get the hook out and the girl who helps out came rushing over with a pair of foreceps and promptly went to stick that down the fish's mouth. Unfortunately the fish had other ideas and clamped its teeth into the girl drawing a spurt of blood! You have been warned!

 

A final two photo's

 

 

 

I really enjoyed my day and according to Jimmy my haul of 10 reasonable sized carp is about average. Total cost at 700 baht for the fishing, lunch and 4 beers is IMHO great value for money.

 

I will probably post this reply in the "trip report" section of the Board as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The site says that in the fun lake the fish are smaller and range up to 80 kilos while the other lake is where you catch the larger fish. Sounds like at that lake you'll need to be fishing from one of those chair where they strap you in.

 

For some reason best known to Jimmy he has a couple of enormous fish in the fun lake along with all the small carp etc etc. I have visions of some small kid fishing for a tiddler and then hooking "Jaws" and disappearing into the lake!

 

There are some biggish catfish in the main lake. I am going to have another go at trying for one of those - we shall see!

[jambo]

Day 2

 

I enjoyed my first trip to Jimmy's lake so much I decided to visit again yesterday but this time I intended to try for one of the big catfish whick lurk in the main lake.

 

How do you go about catching a Catfish in Thailand you may ask?

 

Fucked if I know! :shhh:

 

I decided to fall back on using a bait I used to catch big barbel in the Dorset Stour years ago!

 

 

Unfortunately that was luncheon meat which I couldn't buy in Foodmarket so I settled for good old Spam made immortal by Monty Python - "Spam, spam, spam, spam!"

Needless to say, the catfish said you know where you can stuff bloody spam! Well they might not have liked it but I found something that did:

 

 

That is one of Jimmy's many dogs who stayed by my side from 11.00am when he got fed his first cube of spam until I packed up at about 5.00pm.

 

I did hook and land a couple of these which Jimmy called (phonetically) a "Gerrimet" ????

 

 

Pound for pound this was the hardest fighting fish I have ever hooked and great fun on light tackle.

 

In total I caught another 10 fish, with 8 of those being carp again. No catfish but the next time I go I will be a bit more prepared for a real try for one of the big ones.

 

Two final photo's from day 2 at Jimmy's.

 

 

[Emil]

I have visions of some small kid fishing for a tiddler and then hooking "Jaws" and disappearing into the lake!

 

or some 40 kilo TG. So did you have your TGF cook those fish for you for dinner?