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Monster Fishing ~ Ao Nang, Krabi ~ continued
By David Wilson
By David Wilson
Andaman Adventures: What is your most popular fish?
Gillham: Certainly, the arapaima are the headline fish that almost everybody comes for. They’
re the fish that guys travel from all over the world to try and catch. We have a guy coming
here who has spent 20 years of his life trying, on-and-off and unsuccessfully, to catch an
arapaima. He has just been given six months to live, due to a terminal illness. So he phoned
me up and asked how long he should stay here. Generally, if you fish here for five days, you’ll
catch an araipama. So we’ve said nine days and we shall pull out all the stops to catch him
his arapaima. This guy’s not going to get a return holiday. We have 60 fishing rods here and,
if needs be, we’ll put the lot out.
Gillham: Certainly, the arapaima are the headline fish that almost everybody comes for. They’
re the fish that guys travel from all over the world to try and catch. We have a guy coming
here who has spent 20 years of his life trying, on-and-off and unsuccessfully, to catch an
arapaima. He has just been given six months to live, due to a terminal illness. So he phoned
me up and asked how long he should stay here. Generally, if you fish here for five days, you’ll
catch an araipama. So we’ve said nine days and we shall pull out all the stops to catch him
his arapaima. This guy’s not going to get a return holiday. We have 60 fishing rods here and,
if needs be, we’ll put the lot out.
Andaman Adventures: How rare are arapaima?
Gillham: They’re very, very rare in most of the wild. They were brought to Thailand probably
20 years ago for the aquarium trade. They grew too big for the aquaria. The Thais took
them out and threw them in ponds. Thailand just totally suits them. They are becoming
extinct in Brazil but are numerous in Thailand. They grow from nothing to a metre long in
just a year.
Andaman Adventures: So what’s the secret of catching arapaima?
Gillham: Patience. You put a bait in the water and they’ll look at it for four or five hours and
then decide whether to eat it or swim off. When you catch one, because it’s so big and
because of its temperament, it takes five guys to tackle it.
Andaman Adventures: Arapaima are said to be very aggressive.
Gillham: That’s right. In the fish farms in Brazil, over ten kids a year are killed by arapaima.
One of only two fish in the world which can swim backwards (the other is the Wells catfish),
it launches itself at you like a battering ram and smashes into you with its bony, prehistoric
head.
Gillham: They’re very, very rare in most of the wild. They were brought to Thailand probably
20 years ago for the aquarium trade. They grew too big for the aquaria. The Thais took
them out and threw them in ponds. Thailand just totally suits them. They are becoming
extinct in Brazil but are numerous in Thailand. They grow from nothing to a metre long in
just a year.
Andaman Adventures: So what’s the secret of catching arapaima?
Gillham: Patience. You put a bait in the water and they’ll look at it for four or five hours and
then decide whether to eat it or swim off. When you catch one, because it’s so big and
because of its temperament, it takes five guys to tackle it.
Andaman Adventures: Arapaima are said to be very aggressive.
Gillham: That’s right. In the fish farms in Brazil, over ten kids a year are killed by arapaima.
One of only two fish in the world which can swim backwards (the other is the Wells catfish),
it launches itself at you like a battering ram and smashes into you with its bony, prehistoric
head.
