Yesterday I was lucky enough to be treated to an afternoon fishing at Giant Fishing Park, thanks Bill 🙂 . Giant is a fairly large pond stocked with predator and scavenger species. The set up is a simple ledger rig using chunks of dead fish as bait.
Use of the park’s tackle, transport and a meal is included in the price but you may want to bring your own gear as some of their reels are pretty rough. Most of the fish are fairly small at Giant and don’t pull anything like a Mekong so you don’t need particularly heavy gear. I used some fairly light tackle with 20lb line although this may not be strong enough if you hook a stingray. Thread a weight onto your main line followed by a bead, then tie on a swivel. You then use a braid hook link of 6″-9″, I used a size 14 hook.
I started the day with an alligator gar of around 3kg followed by spotted sorubim (aka leopard catfish) of around 3kg, neither of them put up much of a fight.
I ended the day with another alligator gar, this one around 2kg and an Amazon red tail catfish of around 4kg.
More information about Giant Fishing Park.
