Another slow day at Baetong with one Nile tilapia and 6 small striped catfish landed. The water level is still very low.

Having never pulled a Mekong giant catfish out of Baetong I thought I’d try the the big fish set-up I usually use at Pattaya Fishing Park. A cage type feeder running free on 45lb main line, a strong swivel and 60lb braid tied onto a size 16 Gamakatsu hook. This seemed to work well for small sawai, others were having success floating bread on the surface. After dark the best technique seemed to be to use a float with the feeder set to about 75cm. In the 5 hour afternoon/evening session I landed 9 striped catfish weighing between 2Kg and 8Kg, the Mekongs remain elusive.
First cast I caught a very nice striped catfish of about 8Kg, a second came about 5 minutes later, followed shortly after by another one of about 9Kg. In the first 45 minutes I had reeled in four striped catfish. Then nothing, not even a nibble for the next four hours ????
It was a very slow day yesterday. We had four hours at Baetong and between three of us we landed one striped catfish. There were 17 rods fishing and I only saw about 10 fish pulled out in the entire 4 hour session. One guy near us caught two using some bait flavouring.