Teak Tree Fishing Lake Chiang Mai, Thailand, Day 1 of 5, August 020

Welcome to our first installment of Teak Tree Fishing Lake Chiang Mai, Thailand, Day 1 of 5, August 020. This first video documents our departure from Pattaya Friday 7th August & arrival & first days fishing on Saturday 8th August at the fantastic & awesome Teak Tree fishing lake in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. There are many different exotic fish species to go at, so lets see how we go on, on day 1. Enjoy :)

Fun Farm Fishing Pai

These are a blast from the past, I am not sure how they just published them selves buy hey. I do remember going here about 4 years ago and having a great time! 

Another wonderful day at Dreamlake!

5am, up-washed-dressed, on the bike and go.

Fishin here I come. It’s been over 6 months since I wet a line .I NEED a fix.

Arrived at Dream lake at 5:45.  Conditions were not good,cloud,overcast and smirry rain.

Never mind here now, happy just to be at the water.

A lovely red tail catfish!

Said good morning to Riener and walked round to bungalow 1 where I had left my gear yesterday,while I was prebaiting the 3 swims with sardines, chicken hearts, pla nin,(tilapia), tabtim,for the predators and lam, bread crumb, sweet corn, peas, coconut and diced carrots for the Giant Siamese carp.

I grabbed the rods and cast the first dead bait rod baited with sardine 30 yards under a huge overhanging tree, (very fishy looking spot) sat the rod in the buzzer and started to get the other rod ready,BEEEP ,spun round to see the buzzer flashing and line pealing of the reel,struck into the fish ,5 mins later a beautiful redtail catfish was in the net, a quick photo and slipped  back,20lb+,great stuff, what a start.

Recast the 2 dead bait rods 1 with sardine the other with chicken heart, and the carp rod baited with bread,veg mix and poly ball on the hook.

Not really expecting to much more action due to the worsening weather conditions I sat back and admired the photos of Mr. happy redtail.

Rods set for the red tail catfish

Less than an hour later. BEEEEEEP the other dead bait buzzer baited with chicken was flashing like a cheep karaoke bar with line screaming of the baitrunner,lifted the rod and struck into it,OHH  this felt bigger,all I could do was hold on,taking line she ran over 50 yards before veering right and heading towards the undercut banking,putting as much pressure on as I dared just managing to stop her. After 10 minuets and 3 more powerful runs she gave in,Riener slipped the net under the  beautifully marked red tail and gently lifted her into the weigh sling the Avons spun round stopping at 26.7lbs “Lovely”,A quick picture, back into the landingnet and into the water,10 minuets later she had recovered,swam away no worse for her adventure.

My fishing buddy Simon who loves fishing in Chiang Mai, showed up around 2pm we spent the rest of the day catching pasawai,freelining bread on the surface, always exciting watching fish take bait.

Sunset at Dreamlake in Chiang Mai

7pm time for a celebratory beer.

The moral of this story is don’t pay to much attention to conditions use them as a guide,”If you don’t go you’ll never know”.

Thanks again to Riener for another wonderful stay at Dreamlake this is my favorite place for fishing in Thailand.

Dreaming of Fishing Soon!!

It has definitely been a while now since I got my tackle out.  I have had a very busy year which has not allowed time for fishing. So, I am sorry to all those that follow my fishing blog. This year I have made a promise to myself that I have to make time for the fishing.

I am sat at my desk at work dreaming of catching Arapaima and other huge fish. I must admit I am also keen to go after a Julian price carp this year. I tried a few times before but I kept catching giant Chinese carp which is not a problem really.

Huge fish in Chiang Mai

I have also seen on a catch report that a 56kg Giant Meakong Cat fish was caught from Paradise lake while fishing with one of Dreamlakes guides. This is a huge fish for this lake. There are many rumors of fifty or sixty kilo fish but they are normally just the normal fisherman's tales.

Fishing in Chiang Mai with my daughter

I am a lucky father my daughter enjoys fishing, too. Well I think she does. I took for an evenings waggler fishing at one of Chiang Mai's local fishing lakes.

We enjoyed bagging several hard fighting striped catfish. These little fish fight hard and fast and do not really want to give up. The fish were caught using a waggler fished about a foot under water on a  nice piece of fluffy bread.

I just love fishing in Chiang Mai

Fishing in Chiang Mai town Center

Large Fish from the Ping River in Chaing Mai

The floods in Chiang Mai town brought a surprise catch for these guys as the large fish came from the river ping. 

Huge Fish in Chiang Mai

What a huge fish Caught in Chiang Mai

Giant fish in Chiang Mai

Great Fish Caught at Dream Lake in Chiang Mai

This Choapraya Catfish has huge mouth