Thailand - Sport Fishing

Freshwater Fishing in Thailand

Freshwater sport fishing in Thailand can offer anglers a bewildering variety of native and introduced fish species to target.

Many of the native freshwater fish species of Thailand and can only be found by actually fishing in Thailand and some close neighbour countries.

The freshwater fish species of Thailand listed below are the main target species which anglers visiting Thailand can expect to see being caught.

Asian Redtail Catfish / Black Ear Catfish / Chao Phraya Catfish / Giant Mekong Catfish / Giant Seacatfish / Grey Eeltail Catfish / Redtail Catfish / Striped Catfish

Bighead Carp / Common Carp / Giant Siamese Carp / Golden Price Carp / Grass Carp / Indian Carp (Rohu) / Mud Carp / Small Scale Mud Carp / Soro Brook Carp / White Lady Carp

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Thai Mahseer / Jungle Perch / Smith's Barb / Golden Belly Barb / Silver Barb / Mad Barb / Mrigal / Tricolor Shark minnow / Great Snakehead / Snakehead murrel - Chiana striata / Striped Snakehead / Giant Featherback / Bronze Featherback / Clown Featherback / Indochina Featherback / Clown Knifefish / Freshwater Stingray / Pacu / Barramundi / Arapaima / Giant Gourami / Fourfinger Threadfin / Alligator Gar / Nile Tilapia

The above freshwater fish species of Thailand are listed by common name so anglers can easily identify which freshwater fish species to target whilst fishing in Thailand.

We went rod and line freshwater fishing a a few times during our stays in Thailand:

Fishing on the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok

We had little success using rods and light spinning reels even though we were copying the local fishermen on the riverboat jetties.

Fishing at a lake in Chiang Mai

We had little success using rods and light spinning reels even though the locals were catching. We put this down to the fact we were not familiar with the tactics. Locals were using stale jam sandwiches and catching quite large fish!