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van Thailand: Lees een artikel hier door Jean-Francois op deze reuzekarpersoort
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Dear Jim,
I believe you will love that pic of my good friend Lung Dam posing with the biggest catlocarpio ever caught with a rod and line here in Thailand. That helluva carp was estimated at 110 kg. (~243 lbs.!) It took him some time and a lot of team work (you need to be at list 3 guys to help) before landing that fish as you can guess.
I already fought a dozen of specimens I estimate being largely over 80 kg and unfortunately I lost them all. They are more than very powerful and there is nothing you can do to stop them on the first rush. The fish snagged everytime my line in the various obstacles of the lake I am fishing often.
We are experts for years to save the catch. We have to do that all the time with huge Mekong Giant Catfish. The operation is to swim, find the snagged line underwater, spool out the line from the reel, free it, cut it, tie it again, and fight the fish again. But those giant carps are much smarter than Cats. They don't snag you once, but 6 or 7 times around the pillars of a wooden bridge. By the time you find out the last piece of snagged line, those giant fish have either broke the line or got unhooked. No worries, that is part of the game fishing, one of these days I'll land one helluva carp ! It has to happen !
Jean-Francois Helias, Thailand
NOTE: Read an article by Jean-Francois on this giant carp
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