New personal best Mekong . Hilarious..

I Finally broke the 200lb mark with this awesome fish.

I caught it fish Float fishing with a little added excitement .
I had just cast out my second float rod and fired out a half dozen ground bait balls around the float. I was speaking to a new Gillham's guest and sat down to make some more groundbait. The guest calmy said " your rod!! your rod!!" I looked down and saw my rod sliding towards the lake.
It looked like slow motion but I knew i had just seconds to react . I jumped up knocking over the groundbait bowl and staggered towards the rod . The rod was already in the water when i followed it into the drink with a graceful belly flop .The Russian judge gave me a 8.8 for water displacement:).
The odds were against me according to the few onlookers as the rod was already under the water when i made my big splash .I reached out under water in desperation and unbelievably grabbed the end of the butt . I came up coughing and spluttering with more than just a mouthful of water .
I started to desperately flounder/swim to shore while holding the rod up with one hand . I quickly got next to the shore and shallow enough where i could put my feet down . It was then quite the struggle to get out of the lake unassisted of course in case the fish was a record .

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Back on dry land and on my feet the fight was on .. I battled for an hour with this great fish before landing it . No wonder i had trouble swimming to shore as this monster was all of 210lbs.
What a great fish and well worth the crazy dive .
I am glad i could be such a source of entertainment for at least 6 people who were literally pissing themselves laughing after seeing me jump in ..

This isnt the first time I have pulled this stunt as i did it before and lost my glasses in the lake .I had to rely on the Thai Guide Gollock to find them who then claimed a $100usd reward .
You think I would have learned from this and thrown my glasses off before i jumped in . Well I didnt and it took only a few minutes before thrifty Shawn Gillham was over to see if I had left my specs on . I was busy fighting the fish and announced that yes i was really that dumb and that yes the reward was the same ..
He was back in 5 minutes with my new glasses . At least he had cleaned them but that was still a fast 100 bucks ...
All's well that ends well . A fun story , a great fish released healthy and my expensive new glasses back on my head .Not only that but rod and reel back on dry land too.

So I am getting closer to the current world record and now only 50lbs to go :)..

I have also added some great live footage of catching 100lb Mekongs float fishing .. check out the video bar at the bottom of this blog ... We are talking INSTANT MEKONG lol what a blast!!!!

Fishing in November and December

I was able to fish a few times in November and caught lots of fish but nothing huge.
I set a new personal best for number of Mekong in one day with 3 fish all around 90lbs

I also managed to get a live video of a Mekong I caught while float fishing .
It was really quite difficult to catch a fish basically at the exact time I needed to to get the footage .
The fish was caught in the prime time for them though which seems to be from 4;30pm. to 5;30pm and also by using a catapult to put out lots of bait prior to filming to draw the fish into the area..