Austrian angler Thomas Frieberger and his mate Günther visited Chiang Mai and Dreamlake during the Songkran Festival. That was a perfect combination for having fun and serious fishing. The keen anglers fished the early morning hours and late afternoon into the night and succeded with fish being caught in specimen size. During the heat of the day they enyoid the waterfestival downtown and being completely soaked with water for 3 days. Great fun stuff.

Many ups and downs in April and May, due to the very hot and dry weather conditions. Good sized fish being caught in the early morning and at nighttime, during the heat of daytime fish were rarely landed. We were desperately waiting for a few days with rain, but different from former years, the monsoon arrived very late this year. Lure fishing at the dams was poor, according to the low water level, only jungle perch being caught recently.

Returning austrian carpangler Andreas Kabas visited dreamlake end of may. The well expirienced angler managed to catch peacock bass and tiger shovelnose catfish in a decent size by using live,-and deadbaits. He enyoied light tackle fishing as well and got hooked up with dozens of asian carp species like Rohu, Mud Carp and Silver Carp.

Great action at Barramundi Ponds German lureangler Florian Hennhöfer visited the barramundi ponds at Chacheangsao, just outside Bangkok, for a full day session. Using his own homemade jerkbaits, he bagged a haul of 14 individuals up to a specimensize of 7.5kg.Action non-stop throughout the day, an amazing sport with this remarkable highly acrobatic fighting species.

Thailand catfish fishing haul for UK angler Daniel Teuma and his girlfriend Valentine on their guided fishing trip in Chiang mai. Daniel and Valentine visited paradise lake for a short half day session in the morning. Steady action during the morning and both anglers succeed in their quest and landed striped,- and mekong catfish to max. 50lb.

Amazing Thailand fishing days for German angler Florian Hennhöfer during his fishing holiday at dreamlake resort in Chiang Mai. Florian managed to hook into some real beauties at the best fishing lakes in North Thailand. On his first day Whilst ledgering on the bottom using sausage as hook bait, he caught Red tail catfish, tiger shovelnose catfish and alligator gar. that same afternoon he fished with a float and a live bait near the surface, targeting one of our big peacock bass. Unfortunately, the bass ignored his bait totally, nevertheless one of our very rare chao prayha catfish picked up his bait and put up an awesome fight on his light tackle setup. After a 40min battle with the big cat she was landed and estimated to a perfect specimen size of 75lb.

There was very good fishing action to be had in February at Dreamlake Thailand, even though it was not as cold as is usual for this time of year. We had many nice carp, redtail catfish, and peacock bass being caught. Best results came in the late afternoon's and at night time by simply ledgering with sausage for the predators and a lum-mix (Rice flour mix) for Thai carp and catfish species.

German angler Peter Bernard, pro-guide for the wels catfish at the river po in italy (www.waller-guiding.com) visited dreamlake early january for a couple of days. According to the cold weather conditions in chiang may, the fishing was a bit slow. Nevertherless the well expierienced angler managed to hook into a couple of our big individuals. He caught a monster gar, estimated to 30+kg and 168cm (66.14") in length, one of our biggest Arapaima with 192cm (75.59") in length, one of the very rare Chayopraha Catfish at dreamlake, estimated to 35kg and two beautyfull Peackock Bass 3+4.5kg.

Catfish haul at paradise lake, for 11 years old angler Kai Birmanns (germany). Respect to this wonderfull young boy, Kai visited paradise lake early january and caught during the day 14 mekong+striped catfish. His last fish was the biggest with 22kg, after battling the mekong cat for 30min, kai was done for the day.Congratulations!

Still excellent condition during november and the first half of december at dreamlake, many siamese carp, mekong catfish and redtail catfish being caught in superb conditions, lure fishing at the reservoirs was good as average. In due to the cold weather conditions the fishing slowed down a bit in the second half of december at dreamlake. Fishing for mekong catfish at paradise lake was excellent at all times, with lots of individuals up to 60-70lb being caught.