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Phuket Fishing March 2016
Ahoy me hearties and welcome to another month of Pirate Jimmy’s ramblings. A couple of months ago I wrote about the El Nino affect which unfortunately for the PGFC’s (Phuket Game Fishing Club) annual competition was still causing unseasonal weather which seemed to have lured all the billfish down here to Chalong rather than their…

September Fishing Banter
This month’s yarn starts with a trip back in time, back to 1606 when Williem Janszoon (Australia’s Columbus) was the first European to discover Australia on a little “privateer” called DUYFKEN, “Dutch for Little Dove” making this cute little ship the Aussie equivalent of the Mayflower, Santa Maria or Mary Rose.Now you may ask, “What’s…

Fishing – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once again “felicitations” to all my fellow friends and fisher folk. As usual at this time of year (August) unreliable weather curtailed some of the greatest fishing of the year as the fish, also as usual, are here in quantity as everyone who managed to get out between storms will confirm. So this month starts…

Sailfish Abound in the “PST” Fishing Comp.
Now, half way through the first month of “high” season and the wind and rain continue to reflect the world’s changing weather patterns. Fortunately, stormy conditions seem to favor the fish, well at least here in Phuket – slap dab in the middle of Thailand’s Andaman Sea, the nursery of the Indian Ocean. November is…

June Fishing News
Now hark to me fable, me beauties. Early in the month, June, there were Sailfish galore it’s just a pity the same can’t be said for the fishing tourists who, in contradiction to the official tourist figures, are most definitely in short supply. So “Charlie don’t surf” springs to mind. The fish were that plentiful…

Begged, Borrowed or Stolen, Revisited
Coming to the end of September things here have not improved as regard business, the boats are there, the fish are there, but where are the tourists. The few boats that have ventured out report great fishing, which is normal for this time of year, but Thailand seems to be in the doldrums as everyone…
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