Josh88

I'd have to go with Giant Trevally, Kingies are certainly up there, striped tuna are always good for their size too.

We were in Thailand last december, I remember on the boat to Phi Phi we saw sail fish carving up groups of bait on the surface, even chasing the some of the flying fish we saw. Then on the boat back there was a massive school of sizeable tuna going mental in a big ball of bait. We're going back this January so any feedback from you guys heading over there in the next couple of months would be great. Cheers Josh

Outstanding fish mate, I know a lot of Jews caught from that area can be up around that 50-60lb mark, haven't seen one for a while though. Great job!

Yeh they are still around, we caught some rats on yakkas on friday, along with heaps of trevs. Water was freezing though only 17 degrees, got up to 18.5 outside near manly.

Really great effort KT, you're an inspiration.

Nice fish, I lost a big Jew on 4lb Braid last week in the harbour had it on for about 10min didn't make a great deal of line back but it was slowly coming, the 12lb vanish leader i was using was chafed the whole way up so must of been rubbing against the side of its body when it took line and must of been a fairly long fish as well as it was about 6 foot of leader chafed nearly to the mainline connection, eventually wore through down lower.

Nice work Jim, another plastics session? Off to NZ again tomorrow so hopefully get a few big ones, spoke to our guide today said he got smoked on real heavy gear this morning so fingers crossed!

Cheers guys, been away in thailand the last 3 weeks so been missing the harbour commotion, saw some sails chasing baitfish in open water over there which was pretty cool but hopefully kings will be on the menu in the next couple of days. Cheers Josh

Thanks for that info guys all sounds real helpful, Dicko we're staying in Koh Tao for 5 days so i reckon i might have a go out from there, at least if theres plenty of fish to be caught that will keep the boys happy. May have a go out from Phuket as well but I'll have to see what the others think, not always easy when you're the only mad fisho in the group! Cheers Josh

Hi guys, Heading off to Thailand next week for a couple of weeks with a bunch of mates, we're going to be going all round but Im not too sure if it would be worth going fishing over there. I was thinking maybe whilst we're in Phuket or Koh Samui or the islands off it, it may be worth a shot going out on a charter but just wanted to know if anybody had been over and fished before and what they thought of it. Cheers Josh

Yeh I think it voids the insurance if you've got higher than the max rated HP, I know with our boat we have a 75 Optimax on it and were looking at putting a 90 on it as the 75, 90 and 115hp all weigh the same which was under the max transom weight but the dealer said it would void the warranty and insurance if something went wrong.

Thats a monster mate, how big was it?

We'll get em mate.....sometime

Think we may have seen him out there, we lost most of our squid to pickers, killed a couple of live ones too which gets pretty annoying!

G'day guys, Going to be heading over to Thailand in December with some mates and thought it would be a good opportunity to get some cheaper tackle (mainly reels). Just wondering if anyone has previously been to Bangkok and could recommend any tackle shops that will stock high end gear. Probably going to be travelling around a bit as well so even places in Singapore, Vietnam or those countries in the area I'll probably be visiting at some point. Any help is much appreciated. Cheers Josh