Decided to do some barramundi (Pla Kapong) fishing over the weekend in Bangkok. There are pay ponds that offer Barramundi Fishing in Bang Pakong, but I will only be talking about the one I went to. It goes by the name of Bor Nom or Num (not sure about the spelling) in the Bang Pakong area.

For GPS coordinates, it’s at lat=13.508309426, lon=100.958586414

 

I have looked around the internet and found conflicting names with regards to Barramundi fishing ponds in the Bang Pakong area. Anyway, this place charges 100 baht per day per rod. Catch and Release is the order of the day and applies for lure and fly fishing. Of course you can choose to keep the fish if you want to. For baiting, you will have to keep and purchase the fish at 100baht/kilo. Fish cleaning service is available. Food and drinks are available and will be brought to you.

 

This is a good place for lure and fly fishing and is well known among the locals. Usually busy over the weekends and I heard that there are specimens up to 12kg inside but the biggest that I have personally seen is about 7kg caught by a fellow angler when I was there last Saturday.

 

Popper is quite popular here and is done with a fly attached about 1 – 2 feet behind. The fish here usually go for the fly rather than the popper. I was told that the fishes here even go for flies lying still in the water, was skeptical but I have to believe those words because I witness it myself on my setup. Was having lunch and decided to put those words to test and it resulted in a take but no hookup. Too bad, otherwise I will go into my own personal record book of amazing catch.

 

The barramundi were feeding that day because a truck came in the day and released the whole load of live tilapia into the pond. However the take and hook up rate was poor. Could it be due to the feeding? Hard to say because it was poor even before that but it did improve towards the evening.

 

Some pictures to share of that place and if you are looking for some spot of barramundi fishing when you are in Bangkok, you can check out this place.