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Hey tok pla wey

(Bangkok)

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/2xfVvMxjm79HmqtF8

GPS: 13.842111, 100.721213

Price: 120 baht/day, 25 baht per bag of bread

Open: 09.00-22.00

Nets: free on the bank (not many so best take your own)

Species: tilapia, tubtim, sawai,

Tackle: 6-12lb line rated rod

A newly opened tilapia lake, which is fairly small and has quite a few thais trying to catch a fish supper! Lake caught tilapia tastes a lot better than that purchased from the local market/supermarket.

Quite a friendly place, but getting quite popular with the locals. Catching tilapia is quite a skill and takes good techinque and an ability to strike at the right time with fickle bites. Highly satisfying when you catch one though.

The location is a behind a restaurant which I believe is also owned by the same people as the lake. Good food and Thai beers served to your peg should you choose. I did an evening session from 4-8.30pm which was just right. Some people were float fishing, but I saw best results fishing worms on the hook with a small feeder of bread on the bottom.

You see some interesting fishing techinques at these tilapia lakes; 2 foot long nets attached to the feeder that the fish get caught up in, or 3 different hooks going from the same feeder with 3 worms in an attempt to hook or foul hook the fish.