Best fishing trip for ever!

Pictures says it all.

Jari communicated well before the trip and collected us from apartment to go to the pier. Experienced and very friendly Captain(s) . Good local knowledge and took us to several places where there were always fish.

Caught a lot of small fish while waiting for bigger bites and so were always busy reeling something in and then around 10 minutes before we were about to head back in hooked the black marlin. Fantastic catch

Even if we had not gotten the marlin it is still highly recommended

Huge thanks to Jari and his team

From the moment I phoned . Everything was set up , from the date I wanted to fish to sandwiches I wanted for lunch . I can’t fault the communication between the first phone call and the actually fishing day ,may is not high season for sea fishing in Thailand but having said that ! The captain and crew worked very hard to find us some good sport .we were picked up at about 7.30 am from hotel and Taken straight to the boat ’ a trip of about 45 minutes bought us to our first spot were we fished for some bait fish , good sport in its self on light gear , giging , once we had enough bait fish and the tide started to move we moved to a small reef to fish for long tom ( which I know as alligator gar )
With a light wait rod and 20lb line with 12”” wire trace and 3 single hooks about 1’’ apart ! First cast I was into a fish of about 1.2 m
Stayed there for about 2hours and caught 3 fish till the tide stopped ! You need a good run of water for long tom to bite ! Once tide stopped we then went on to see if we could find some King mackerel ! Put out a few live bait fish on heavy gear but no kings ! Bought lines back in only to find one had been bitten for head down , so unlucky , from there we went to a other small reef were we had a few more long tom all about 1.m long . But all in all a very good day out
Thanks to the crew

This trip was by far not our favorite. The owner Jari was very kind. However we were told when we booked our 8 hour day trip there would be a bathroom on the boat. That was not the case. The Captain and deck hand seemed more into fishing themselves than taking care of the customers. Us also taking our 12 year old son with us was more work for them to help him. They didn’t seemed pleased with it. We had to ask several times to use the poles. At one point the Captain even took the time to nap, and didn’t interact with us on the boat.

The boat was well equipped, and we had local skipper and deck hand, both had good local knowledge of the waters, unfortunately the owner could not join us. We had only one bit on the main lines which got away more to my lack of experience. we did find a good spot and caught many smaller snappers and barracuda, and little shark. 

The guys did drop us off on the return to swim at a local island which is a nice break for us .  Jari is very kind and friendly and even arranged to let us eat our catch at a local restaurant.
Overall we had a great of day although the big fish still waits me.