Worlds biggest carp

A 265 LBS SIAMESE GIANT CARP CAUGHT BY FISHING ADVENTURES THAILAND PRO GUIDE KIK!

Jean-Francois Helias' Fishing Adventures Thailand commission is famed internationally to be the a large number of qualified pro guides for freshwater sport fishing in Southeast Asia.

That board of pro guides has accomplished different angling achievements, and also up to today racking up an extraordinary general of 129 IGFA market writes (114 homologated + 15 by now imminent an homologation), or setting a good number of non-official puts this type of as the highest of the Southeast Asian largest fish constantly caught on rod and string properties a great deal have up to such a day for the catch on August 26, 2001 of a humungous 185 Kg Arapaima .

Very recently, on July 2, 2007, Jean-Francois Helias' Fishing Adventures Thailand collection did it once again in a acutely extraordinary way!

This tad through the catch by Fishing Adventures Thailand pro guide "Kik" of the world's highest carp always caught on rod and series in the history of sport fishing. Kik who has carried on guiding in Jean-Francois' assembly from the time of its inception is renowned locally as the a large amount of thorough local angler of the country. He is too Thailand's top rod service provider and top handmaker of top water lures. Though he performs not fish even as he depleted to do in his younger days, prefering guiding visiting anglers nowadays and writing them catching our Thai fish species, he a great deal has it short of his skin.

On July 2, 2007, additonally guiding an American customer at Bung Sam Lan Lake, Kik had brought in him a type new fishing rod he had just recently wrapped up to personalized build. His objective was just to hook up and to play one or two Mekong giant catfish so he can test his rod. His karma on overly day was going to turn in a way he ought to experience never expected.

Instead of a hardfighting Mekong catfish, Kik hooked up alternatively the brand of catch of a lifetime select anglers will transaction such a soul to the devil for. A Siamese Giant Carp or Catlocarpio siamensis we predicted weighing merely in 120 kg (265 pounders). She may be a compact bit higher but 120 kilos is presently remarkably magnificent surrounded by us. On the contrary of plenty of anglers we suffer regularly favorite estimating the weight of our fish catches at the least alternatively as opposed to exagerating or hyping it.

Even amongst a collection of kilos missing on her true weight, Kik's catch is anyhow the most massive Siamese carp always caught right here in Thailand on rod and line, and on top of it, the world's utmost carp always caught on rod and line!

Isnt' the catch twice better the size of the latest IGFA All Tackle sector pinnacle for overly species? Yes it is!

Has the fish carried on caught according to the IGFA rules? Yes!

Does it qualify afterward for a new record? No!

The simply scales we had such a day at the lake got our typical certified 100 kg scales. No way we will suffer concept we got going to catch so humungous carp.
Knowing she was weighing far more than the 100 kg mark there was no seek for us to bother among the weighing procedure. We had no greater number of selection as opposed to identifying costing the time to find overly exceptional catch amidst the IGFA for a record. By the way I undergo bought the previous period according to the USA a set of 500lb digital scales specially while I notion we may experience to weight fish catches in the 100 kg mark Other of such days. The 500lb digital scales are that much at my home.... expected for me to come across free of charge little bit so I can bid them to the calibration institute to hold them certified. Too busy guiding and fishing, as innate not adequate moment to do anything I ought to or I should!


Kik's humungous carp catch is the moment carp consistently taken at Bung Sam Lan Lake from what i read in the 5 "super biggies" stocked at the lake 23 ages ago. These 5 carp showing according to the wild, precisely from what i read in the Chaopraya River in the Ratchburi province at which properties got netted, got currently all weighing above the 90 kilos (almost 200 pounds) mark when purchased to the lake owners.

In within two decades, one and only one of them has of all time been heard landed by an angler. It is the predicted 110 kilos Siamese giant carp caught by our local friend Lung Dam. Any dedicated European carp angler knows nearly overly renowned photo springing Lung Dam in a straw hat posing behind his capture. A picture that has kept on published in close to most every European fishing magazine.

For the anecdote, the present really giant carp caught by Lung Dam was so end to be caught a time period endure year. We got guiding a provide customer based on England, Nicholas Dean, a lovable guy and a remarkably have had to deal with angler as well. Nick hooked up Lung Dam's through 200 lb carp - no mistake around it - it was her 200 % surrounded by her truly strange pattern of dark black scales nuances on her body. Nick played her the properly way all along the fight. He did not let the powerful carp entangling his series nearly the end neighboring structures. He was working at essentially fine. The carp got in the end tamed, roughly forecasted to be netted.

Apparently, the absurd size of the carp commencing at the surface in front of him had Nick costing his focus for a few seconds....enough for the carp to play the common Siamese giant carp trick that is to play tamed, and all of a sudden working at a the preceding and surprising rush towards the angler, ratification merely underneath his rod and his feet, and escaping short of the bungalow by running within its wooden stilts. Next the succession is entangled across the stilts. The carp got cost free by either turning out unhooked or breaking the line....

Nick had lost in a split moment a catch of a lifetime, his rights to be proud of his achievement, to deserve fame and exposure in the angling drive media. Sad, especially sad situation. We got all sad something like it. Having somebody you similar to costing an exceptional fish is not clearly mentally painful for the angler but for his guide too. It was the brand of day you seek all of it you had just now felt did not happen....

Though Kik had no difficulty to side yards successfully the grandma carp, we had to cope upcoming amongst a group of issues to manage a perfect photo session. For this kind of a catch of a lifetime no crisis to say how even one wants to immortalize both the fish and the second of livlihood at its best. We are in the monsoon season. It was raining and a heavy storm was coming. So we had to be rapidly and to hurry everything. Also when as if us you are utterly to protection and to catch and release you do not would like to still be overly brand of exceptional fish too long. You fancy a few fantastic pics and release consequently the fish in the essentially ideal circumstances to assure its survival.

Let me inform you the goal did not go easy. Kik had labeled an employee of Bung Sam Lan to boon him handling the mammoth carp for the photo session. But the duo got not adequate firm to lift and still be the carp out of the water additonally my wife Lek & Kik's wife Pim got picking the photos. The boys got dealing in the water to deal with the powerful grandma carp, buying slapped a few times by her powerful tail. Almost all the pics taken by Lek & Pim sadly turned out bad. A pity for these kinds of a catch of a lifetime! I had to delete something like all of them to the exclusion of for just about a dozen of all but top notch sites I saved.

Our Fishing Adventures Thailand committe has now 3 non-official but chiefly lesson records: a 185 Kg Arapaima catch that is a good deal today the Southeast Asian top fish always caught on rod and line; too 120 kg Siamese Giant Carp, the world's utmost carp caught in addition on rod and line; and a 100 kg freshwater giant stingray we fought for 6 hours that is of my knowledge the uppermost of its type continually caught in Thailand on rod and line.

You appreciated what? The Fishing Adventures Thailand rocks & is right here to stay!

So do not be surprised if in a pretty near coming years you be given an email informing you we own it's about time succeeded to front yard a Mekong giant catfish through the 100 kg mark.....