Arapaima gigas was originally regarded as the only species in the genus Arapaima, The species is among the largest known freshwater fish, commonly measuring 200 cm and exceptionally reaching lengths of up to 450 cm. Adults may weigh up to 200 kg.[4] A. gigas has a streamlined body with dorsal and anal fins set well back towards the tail. While the body is mainly gray to gray-green, its Brazilian local name "pirarucu" derives from an indigenous word for "red fish", thought to refer to either the red flecks on the scales towards the tail, or the reddish-orange colour of the filleted meat.

You don't have to fly to brazil amazon rainforest to target your dream arapaima fish anymore.
Over here in the tropical climate of Thailand , we have plentiful of arapaima fishing places to fish.
One particular and rather unique place is this New Arapaima Fishing Park, strictly only for luring & fly fishing enthusiastic fisherman.

I just want to share the wonderful fishing experience my clients had while fishing at the said fishing park.

Fisherman from SG and China BKK.

Enjoys the photos and our youtube channel.

Highlights catches of the day.

 New ground we found at 30 knots. Produced!

The last 6 months have been a blast. There are so many options in WA. 

While I haven’t managed to get out as much as I would of liked, when I have, the fishing has been second to none.

There are so many options in WA for trailerboat fisherman, from chasing demersals, pelagics, tasty crustaceans and cephalopods. I’ve managed to catch my PB snapper, dhu, as well as land my first billfish and deepdrop species on my boat.

With the water getting cooler now and my son getting older, we’ve been having a great time targeting some big squid, inshore snapper and KG’s all writhin a couple of miles from the boat ramp. 

Who knows what what the next 6 months will bring. Hopefully another run up to Exmouth, possibly the Abrolhos, and hopefully fine tuning my skills with metro deep dropping!!!!

It has been a while since I last shared my Thailand catch reports.

"The giant snakehead or giant mudfish (Channa micropeltes) is among the largest species in the family Channidae, capable of growing to 1.3 m (4.3 ft) in length and a weight of 20 kg (44 lb).[1] It is native to the fresh waters of Southeast Asia"

The asia anglers will consider giant snakehead (toman) the strongest freshwater fish in asia.
It can smash up any lures easily with their razor sharp teeths.
Pound for pound it give fisherman a good fights in the wild.

Here are some for our recent wild snakehead catch reports and youtube videos.

Hope you guys like & enjoy these youtube video clips.

Japanese angler- 8kg Giant snakehead landed.

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Catch of the day !!! Photos highlights..

Epic north metro session! Fresh bait from Shore Catch and Beachmaster medium XL / Evo from Assassin Coming up with the goods. 94 &78cm for me and 81 & 84 cm for John

 Haven't put any pics up for a while, so here's a couple. Been all over the place fishing, swan river for mullys, big sharks off the beaches down south, sight casting bream to 40cm, salmon fishing, slide baiting and heaps more. Cheers, Max. 

 Decided to go and get some fresh bait for some whiting. got a few more than anticpated over two nights.

 Hi  fishos, anyone any reports from busso? 

 Hi everyone,

I occasionally go for a snorkel along the cliffs of rocky bay to look for mullet for bait (and sometimes lunch). And on Wednesday, I am sure I saw a single, juvenile Golden Trevally swimming naturally. I was snorkelling on the drop-off you can see in the satellite image and about 5 metres away from me I spotted the golden trevally. It was probably just over 30cms. It had the exact colouring and exact porfile of a Golden Trevally, and had distict stripes. I could not believe my eyes. I followed it for about 5 seconds until it spooked and swam down to the depths. I didnt believe myself, but I couldnt see any other explanation. I thought about it for the whole night and resarched and throughout school today and I have decided it mustve been a Golden Trevally, if not a very similar species. I have no explanations as to how it got here though... Any ideas?

I found on an australian aquarium enthusiast forum post where members talk about Golden Trevally being kept in brackish water, and actually, an aquarium store called Vebas sometimes even stocks them and puts them on display, in brackish tanks. Check it out: www.perthcichlid.com.au/forum/index.php

Also, straight ftom a wiki, i found: "In the Philippines, a population of giant trevally inhabit (and were once common in) the landlocked fresh waters of Taal Lake, and are referred to as maliputo to distinguish them from the marine variant."

I think this is pretty crazy and reminds me of when that GT that was spotted and speared south of Perth

I know there will be disbelief, but I wouldnt make this up.

Id like to hear what everyone thinks.

Tight Lines!

Its nice to be bagged out and releasing some good snapper and dhuies by sunset, only took pics of half the fish that were landed. My fish came on the assassin reaper 4-8lb stick, the dhu bit through the light leader but I nailed him next drop!

Cheers for the trip out mark.

Couldn’t let these captures on 24 April go by without a Fishwrecked post. Well done mate.

Well the Montes product testing trip is done and dusted. The dreaded clean up and pack away has also been done. 

First of all I'd like to thank Slugger on here for the invite and pointing us in the right direction.

Few observations:
1) When jigging 3oz Bucktails around the bottom in 30+m, make sure that you are switched on when dropping them down as you often don't get a second chance to flip your bail arm over when a big trout drills them, and you into the reef.
2) Big fish eat little jigs - flicking small 1/2oz bucktails in the shallows can turn up anything, including a cracking blue bastard for the crewy. Light berley trails work a treat.
3) Jig heads for soft plastics were much more effective when they contrasted with the tail, rather than matching it.
4a) Take a heavy outfit to minimise losses when jigging plastics around the reefs in 30m+: and
4b) Make sure your jig heads come with bullet proof hooks if you are fishing them hard on 80lb braid. Mine passed with flying colours.
5) Saltwater Leadheads are a great option for fishing by leaving the rod in the holder, whilst you actively work a plastic or bucktail on a second outfit. Especially if there's a bit of boat rock.
6) Try and use the lightest jigs you can get away with, even in a quick drift. Cast forward of the boat and strip line quickly to get the jig working just above the bottom for the maximum amount of time, continually repeat the cast and strip during the drift.
7) Multi coloured braid is great for quickly stripping a jig to the desired depth.
8) Lightly weighted plastics often get smashed on the drop.
9) If fishing nylon or fluoro leaders, wind your jig back slowly. Had plenty snipped when winding them back fast.
10) Hard Head Leadheads or Spire Points fished with a strip of fish flesh (skin attached) hanging from the hook are still a deadly way of fishing.

 Some nice ones from Terry in the MAAC inshore ANZAC Day Comp on my boat.  Biggest was 1.56kg. 

 Well-done to 12 year old Sarah and Terry for winning the Wally.  The combined bag was 9kg+ for 2.5 hours of inshore fishing.

 G'day all, been a while since I posted here. Thought I'd just quickly share my recent trip to whats become one of my favourite destinations behind Kalbarri. Got up there Tuesday just gone for the school holidays thinking it would be busy but nope, it was an asbolute dream, plenty of spaces and was able to set up right near the main beach access. There were quite a few day trippers and groups of offroad enthusiasts coming by during the day for some fun and it seems to me to have grown in popularity since my first visit in 2015. The weather was perfect (except for Wednesdays drizzle) and only light arvo sea breezes. For those who haven't been up for a bit, the place now has a food van so if you get bored of the old instant coffee swill you bring with you can you can grab something a little better from there plus you can also get bags of ice if a ten minute drive to Jurien is too much of a bother.

The first morning was a bit discouraging as I failed to land anything and also had to call it quits due to the rain sweeping in. There was quite a bit of seaweed lurking about as well which did not help (fishing the back beach would've been an absolute chore on all but the last day) but the next day things picked up, pulling up five decent sized tailor. The following morning saw six landed, lost a couple more and the sizes got progressively bigger before todays morning shenanigans. Took my wifes friends teenage son out back for his first ever tailor adventure and whilst I was essentially landing a fish each cast, the poor sod (whose no slouch himself) kept dropping them. He finally landed a couple to take the morning tally to twelve (kept four), with one 50cm specimen, with the bite lasting longer than the previous days. Lost several horses that I just couldn't bring up over the reef even with 30 pound mono and my trusty 12ft penn. I'll land one of them one day.  Plus I finally broke out the old Smiling Jacks on my spin rod and landed my first fish on a lure ever which was quite exhilarating. Got enough feed for a few days plus some fillets to provide temptation to any hungry mullas.  Cheers. 

Congratulations to the winners of the ORSSC Masons Bar Beach Fishing Classic following weigh-in today. Difficult conditions over the period with swell and weed, but some excellent fish were presented.

Mulloway - 12.76kg - Chris Webb

Pink Snapper – 7.76kg – Bernard Bouteloup

Salmon – 5.76kg – Dale Wright

Herring – 0.417g – Ken Riches

Whiting – 0.170g - Dylan Hutchinson

Tailor – 3.76kg – Graham Bently

Samson Fish – 19.32kg – Russell Grover

Skipjack – 1.09kg – Kai Grover-Boyce

Bream – 1.83kg – Russell George

Flathead – 0.615kg – Bronwyn Gaston

 Salmin covs

 Just got back from my new job with Cone bay Barramundi working 3 on 3 off and couldnt help myself and had to see what was going on at the jetty• The tides wern't very big and i got there just after high tide got some small mullet in the shallows with my thrownet then pinned them through there nose and walked them on the edge off the light with 5 minutes i was hooked onto a nice size tarpon doing plenty of acrobatics then i beached him got a quick snap and released it then my next drop got another one. They are a awesome fish and one day will want to go to America and catch a monster. 

Just got back from 9 days in Exmouth. Got some great fish, but it was super hot.

Fished tantas, top of gulf, west side of muirons and back of peak.

 Hi

 We are heading to Steep Point ( Blackies West ) on the week of the 23rd April via Boat from Denham this year

 This is our 8th Year in a row, such a world class fishing destination, unfortunately one of our boating parties had to pull the pin so we are solo, which is all cool

 Just reaching out if anyone on the forum is also going to be around Shelter Bay in a boat that week at this time, say G'day

 We are in a Boston Whaler 255 Conquest, Call Sign/Rego| DT406 Elite | New boat this year from the Gemini Rib in years gone past

 Some random Pics to get the forth on 

 It is amazing the variety we have had in the years too, but also the increase in sharks out wide. but more so the relatively new resident bullshark in close in Shelter Bay and the southern side of Dirk H, makes for getting Crays  and swimming to the boat a fair bit quicker....

Fished the MAAC comp yesterday with the daughter in what were atrocious conditions in my small boat. It actually became dangerous mid to late morning and we had no other choice but to come in early. Nice work weather forecasters!

The catches for the day were generally down on normal, EXCEPT Dave’s massive mackerel. In a combination of skill and luck Dave landed the fish on a snelled mono rig where the top hook had set in the corner of the jaw. Apparently, the first run was very close to spooling him too.

The fish was an absolute beast in real life and the photos don’t really do it justice. Well done Dave for a truly momentous metropolitan capture.

Thank goodness for retirement as today gave a real opportunity to enjoy what has been really scarce good conditions.  Launched well before dawn and to the moron who went out with NO lights whatsoever honestly FFS.....you were invisible !   I headed out initially to the high 30's but bites were really scarce apart from a good KGW and some fox fish very little doing. The wind dropped to nothing making drifting impossible so I headed out deeper and simply sounded until I found a good show....actually the screen lit up ......dropped three baits all of which were monstered within seconds.....what to do when you are by yourself, took what I thought was the biggest expecting a good dhuie but pulled up a stonka baldie, second rod going ape so fought that fish to the surface , a good dhuie around 8kg but the final rod was now bent double making it hard to get out of the rod holder, now this was a fish, deep surging runs with strong tail beats.......a male fish over 94cm so the smaller one went back and swam away strongly.  Came home at 26 Knots @ a nautical mile to the litre....just love the yammy! 

Started off good Friday taking the kids out for a squid session in Cockburn sound. fished one of our usual spots alongside G.I with only 1 squid in about 6 drifts. we moved to another spot near the causeway which resulted in 3 good size squid in 2 drifts. this included my eldest son getting his first squid.
Sunday was spent at whitehills with the family and managed to get in a sneaky fish before the sea breeze. 6 good size herring in less than an hour.
Monday was time for me to have fun. Left point Perron ramp around 6.00am headed to the 40's. the easterly was gusting and the chop was pretty rough. first couple of spots nothing and the days was looking bleak. we headed to the 3rd spot of the day and first drop landed a sea sweep. Second drop resulted in the first sized Dhui for the new boat. the mood shifted dramatically on board. Next drift 2 blackarse. esky was looking much better now. 3rd drift resulted in a nice Baldy. happy with the mixed bag and sea breeze immanent we headed home.

 Well thats exmouth for 2018.

Tough time with the southwesterly winds this year and a swell that was breaking across the north chanel on the first day making us turn for home. We lost a couple of days to wind but turned those into beer days

With the winds up making trolling for bills to uncomfortable, deep dropping was the next plan and we did well. Loading our freezers with our limit of ruby and 8 bar fillets made this a great trip none the less. Minimal issues with sharks made life easy.

Still managed to raise a handful of small black marlin and chrisG getting to issue his first tag on a acrobatic little rat marlin was a plus. 

Make sure you hit up mick and the boys at shore catch for quality bait, we had ordered some squid for this trip and man they were huge ruby lollies. We tried herring for first time this year and the 8 bar demolished them. Thanks again mick callum and hutch. 

If your looking for accommodation close to tantabiddi ramp then i suggest yardie homestead. The new managers have got the place looking great and enjoy a beer. Being 2min from the ramp is huge bonus

Not a great amount of photos and funny how water looks calm in these pics.

Already planning nexts year trip

Blue 19 kg. Huge harleys. Nice dhues. When it was to windy ,they went for trout. They had a few good days. They left today to Beat tomorrow's traffic..

Being a teacher has its perks. Recently, we had a week of school holidays in March. I found some cheap flights to the Canary Islands and decided to spend 7 days there. We started with 4 days on Fuerteventura followed by 3 days on Tenerife.

I haven't had time to write the blog yet...I just managed to edit the pics and upload them onto the blog. Maybe I can work on the writing on Easter Sunday.

Let's start off with a bang with some panoramic views...

Parque Natural Jandia



Cofete and Pico de la Zarza



Fuerteventura



La Entallada



Parque Natural Corralejo



Punta de Teno



Masca



Masca



Even more Masca



Teide



Teide Caldera



Chinamada



Some extra scenery shots...

Hornos de Cal de La Guirra, Fuerteventura



Antigua, Fuerteventura



View around Mirador de Morra Velosa



Castillo del Toston



La Entallada



Parque Natural Corralejo



Punta de Teno



Teide



Teide



Anaga



Did you expect me to go anywhere without catching some new species? There was a bit of overlap in species with the Mediterranean, so it wouldn't exactly be easy to do well on with a large number of new species in the Canaries. However, with a bit of determination, I did catch 21 new species :)

White Seabream (Diplodus sargus) - Species #772




Guinean puffer (Sphoeroides marmoratus) - Species #773



Canary Damsel (Abudefduf luridus) - Species #774



Golden Grey Mullet (Chelon aurata) - Species #775



Azores chromis (Chromis limbata) - Species #776



Madeira Goby (Mauligobius maderensis) - Species #777



Rock-pool Blenny (Parablennius parvicornis) - Species #778



Bastard grunt (Pomadasys incisus) - Species #779



Axillary Seabream (Pagellus acarne) - Species #780



Common Two-Banded Seabream (Diplodus vulgaris) - Species #781



Salema (Sarpa salpa) - Species #782



Sharpsnout Seabream (Diplodus puntazzo) - Species #783



Black Scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus) - Species #784



Saddled Seabream (Oblada melanura) - Species #785



Madeira Rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis) - Species #786



Red Porgy (Pagrus pagrus) - Species #787



Pearly Razorfish (Xyrichtys novacula) - Species #788



Emerald wrasse (Symphodus trutta) - Species #789



Molly Miller (Scartella cristata) - Species #790



Rock Goby (Gobius paganellus) - Species #791



Macaronesian Sharpnose-Puffer (Canthigaster capistrata) - Species #792



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And some non-lifers

Annular Seabream (Diplodus annularis)



Comber (Serranus cabrilla)



Mediterranean Rainbow Wrasse (Coris julis)



Cardinalfish (Apogon imberbis)



Painted Comber (Serranus scriba)



Flathead Grey Mullet (Mugil cephalus)



Ornate Wrasse (Thalassoma pavo)



Planehead Filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus)