On an underwater ridge near the island of Samui

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In Khanon, which is located opposite of Koh Samui, I rode the night sleeper bus from Bangkok.

A distance of about eight kilometers. This, of course, big exotic move on the South-Eastern countries in this way.

Small cots pumps, placed in two tiers on both sides of the aisle, and around a lot of Asians are very different appearance. Sometimes companions are Europeans, seekers of the exotic and adventure. All I was able to find a common language.

Swaying in a small crib endlessly long night, I often go out at stops, but all the way was a downpour with the water flow on the earth that this is even think I should. But inexpensive compared to rail.

In the morning when the passengers (there were a lot of tourists with backpacks) went to the destination, the wet ground and puddles gleamed by the rising sun. Beyond the distant houses could be seen the sea. The soul was a bit happier.

From the Peninsula by a ferry, where I went to Samui. Arriving at the port of the island, rented a motorbike, bought a map and, believing that somewhere in the remote Outback to find affordable housing, went aimlessly along the asphalt road in an easterly direction.

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I must say that the fairly well-developed infrastructure of the island and the numerous beaches with different levels of accommodation all designed to accommodate Western tourists. And Europeans are really a lot, but secluded places enough.

 

Photo:Alexey Goryainov.

Overnight, quite a decent Bungalow with brand new beds and tiled floors, I found the road thirty kilometers from the port. Having the bike, it was easy to find inexpensive products in nearby towns. In the early days I studied the coast, driving along the ring road around the island.

Initially I tried to fish from piers and jetties, that on Samui are common. Morning and evening these are suitable for boats, ships and boats, unloaded on the shore catch.

Some fishermen sorted their catch right from the pier, so the piles can be observed many different fish. Come here on motorcycles and cars are caught from local piers at donkey flounder, small tuna, and some fish from perch and skumryev rocks, rays, bream. A few times I managed to successfully fishing from piers, I will tell you some separately.

I can only say that, in addition to the fishing market, the berths, especially in small ports, where there are far out to sea piers, use and other tackle: spinning, float fishing rods, and tiers. The piers in the night you can also catch squid, which take on a special spoon with brush bezborodny bends instead of hooks.

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In different places, met the dealers in fish and seafood. Some spoke English and explained to me that the big fish need to go far out to sea. From this I concluded that different fish around Samui enough, the main thing is to rent cheap vehicles.

 

Well, what fisherman would not want such a trophy? Photo:Alexey Goryainov.

In one village, passing on his quiet, overgrown with palm trees and exotic trees in the streets, I saw not far from the Parking lot in a small fish market. To be precise, just to be on the shady alley were several vendors with trays, and some fish just lying on the ground on newspaper pages.

I went to the dealer, who mounted the table was a shark. Impressed, I began to ask questions: where can I catch a decent fish and not whether he will take me to the sea? He said he’ll take it, but the fee was high, while the big trophies he didn’t promise me.

The Thais are smiling people, but sometimes very serious. We’ve been dickering over price, but in the end we agreed that tomorrow morning, we will meet at the same place.

At eight o’clock I was at Fish alley, as I called her. Vinay was already here. He sat behind me on the bike, and we went to his village, which was located two kilometers from here.

Housing Vinaya was unprepossessing — a wooden house on stilts and woven from branches, also on stilts, the bungalows in the yard. On the farm at the Bungalow swarmed his wife and daughter.

I rolled my bike into the yard, the owner took the tackle, and we went overgrown shrubs street to the sea. Untie the boat, Thai pushed her into the water and told me to climb into it. I sat down on the nose, it is near the motor, and we floated.

A mile offshore I saw a small rocky island. Making a semi-circle around the first island, Thai turned the motor transmission to idle and started the equipment of the two trolling rods. Putting them on the sides of the boat, at low speed began to release line.

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At the end of one was a Wobbler medium size, on the other silicone octopus. Blue-white elongated Wobbler, apparently imitated some fish food predators, are characteristic of the local waters, and octopus — a cephalopod mollusk that feed on many marine pelagic fish, for example, he have to taste the sailfish, tuna, Golden mackerel, caranx and other fish.

The sea was calm, waves barely swayed, shining in the sun. We moved to two remote Islands. Poklevok was not.

 

Photo:Alexey Goryainov.

After going a mile and a half, Thai turned back by the same route, replacing the bait on one rod. This time instead of the blue-white of the crank was set a white lure with a red head.

I began to ask Thais questions: what is the point to catch in the same spot if no bites, but he smiled, joked and argued that we catch on the route sailfish.

But we return to the first island of bites and have not seen. Then, full of peace, Thai turned from the earlier of the route is 90 degrees, and headed for the open sea.

But they sailed not too far — became crosswise in a zigzag manner, and along to sh known underwater site. My question is, what’s the big deal, Vinay gestures explained to me that in this place there is a peculiar bottom topography, near which sometimes hold Barracuda.

Finally, it was found that it is a long stone ridge with a depth of 12 meters. Wiring bait along the drop off the ridge and across it at different depths did not bring success: bites still was not.

Vina have had another three equipped with coils of the rod. Collecting trolling tackle, standing at anchor and fishing rod with longline snap, he handed one to me and, laying out of bags bags of catfish and boiled shrimp, and commanded to put the bait on their hooks and catching in a plumb.

Soon I felt the hand tremors — bite smaller fish, then fishing line hung a small weight and a few seconds different. I’m hooked and began to podmotat fishing line. It flicked two dimensional sneppera.

 

A small reef shark often becoming the prey of fishermen. Photo:Alexey Goryainov.

— Good will be hot! — with a beaming smile Vinay raised his calloused thumb and then, having made the trip, was to choose a catch.
I said nothing — not a fish hoping to catch.
— Three-two — smiled Thai and added something in Thai, I guess, he said that the score in his favor. Sensing my silent frustration, Vinay cheering me up:
— Here and the grouper is.

And as if someone heard his words — spinning Thai immediately after the cast nodded, then bent, and after the strike started a fight with someone in depth. Vinay was vivarelli beautiful: continuing to sit in his place, he skillfully held back the blows of a flexible end of a fishing rod. And here on the boards seemed weary mottled brown-green fish with a large head.

Admiring this work, I remembered the wisdom of the East, which I told in the North of Thailand in Chang RAE one teacher: “whatever you do — most importantly, of love behold the beauty of his work and the surrounding space.”

But I also thought that when you’re in such an exotic warm country, to contemplate and to love something easy. Especially if you have enough money, and you have a bike.

— Look, really, grupper! — I exclaimed. Wow, what a handsome man! Take a picture, and we ought to let him go back.
Thai smiled grimly, waiting for me to further action.

 

The coast is full of places where you can spend a few days. Photo:Alexey Goryainov.

I asked him to photograph me with a fish and then was going to throw her in the water, but a fisherman pulled me by the arm. Then I realized that it is unfair to forget to click the hero of the triumph, took the camera, confident that he wants to pose for me, but Thai silently put the trophy in a linen bag, and then began to shrug, a smile on my calls to photo posing.

Well, that was to do with it?! He is a fisherman, and by his standards, this production is expensive. He apparently delayed the fish for themselves.

I let go of the situation. Snapper and some are a bit similar to the black sea mullet fish, only with elongated flattened head and continued to peck at with varying degrees of success.

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Thai decided to change the tactics of fishing. He suddenly took the longest spinning and began to fit him with a float snap-in. The float seemed unwieldy. It was an elongated shape, made of dense foam and had a sliding snap. For quite a large forged hook Thai wearing one of those little silvery-green fish, caught on a tier.

The current dragged the float from the boat, the fish was moving somewhere in the depths, along the edge of the drop off. After the fifth portabrace snap the float twitched, and then quickly began to sink into the water. Spinning caved in under the weight, and began a new struggle.

“Man and fish… How many fishing pleasures of man,” think about it, I thought at the time. Well that fish was not caught me. I’d definitely go, even going to conflict with the Thais. But he paid, though not as much as he wanted, and half the time.

Maybe that’s why he wants to justify his work fisherman-Explorer additional extra earnings in the form of natural product. A big fish he will be able to sell to Fisherman’s alley, then buy yourself a nice snack and Roma, and this might somehow make his monotonous life.

 

Squid — a favorite tip for fishing in the ocean. Photo:Alexey Goryainov.

Somewhere in the depths on the solid line going round the big fish, and Thais had to sweat, keeping her jumps. Several times he pulled it toward him, but, fearing that the fishing line will snap, released.

Finally, he has brought under it under the feet of bagorik, but crotolaria fish with a tail like tuna, again powerfully lunged forward and went deep into the sea. I wish the fish had won and walked himself into the sea, delighting the photographs of divers in pursuit of shoals of small fishes, propagating and increasing the number krutalevich fish that can grow to this size. But Thai was stronger and smarter than her.

He had brought the fish to the side, and she’s moving up from the depths and going to the side, tripped all the beauty of my body, which is perfectly visible through the transparent water under the hook.

As soon as the head of the fish appeared near the side, Thai, without hesitation, picked her up by the hook under the gills and passed into the boat.
— Jack-fish! the fisherman for a moment relaxed, I saw his hands shaking from anxiety.
— Trevally — I corrected.
— Yes, he’s a Jack-fish, — followed by a confirmation.

Wonderful invented in the seas, the same fish can have in one place a few items. This is probably because in Thailand come to fishing anglers from all over the world. And because subtropical and tropical seas at the equator is inhabited by mostly the same fish species, but in different countries they have names, it turns out that many names.

In other regions of karanka called king-fish, karambizi, ulus, turrum
and Jack-fish.

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