My Dad told me about this lake in Bangkok with Giant Carp and Catfish...so I went around trying to locate it (Too cheap to pay a guide $150 a day!)
Found it in the end, it's reported on my blog, and if you want to find it too, let me know....
The fishes are really huge, but it is catch and release....you mix this strange bait with spices and coconut milk, squeeze it onto the huge hook (Bait is, by now, the size of an orange, I kid you not!) and throw it into the pond. If you are lucky, the fish will get stuck on your hook!!
I think the fish are really smart...they have already worked out that they will be released, so it is just a feeding method to them.... get hooked, come up to land, get blinded by flashes and get thrown back into the comforting deep pond again...
BTW, my blog is at
www.teacupcoffeepot.blogspot.comIt also has me record of the awful experience I had on Tiger airways....YUCK!