On our last day on Phuket, we decided to make use of the hire car and headed up the island’s east coast to Yamu Pier. It was another dull, cloudy day, but the long pier had a roofed area at the end of it. Good thing it did, because just after we walked out there, and I started fishing, it started raining heavily.
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| Yamu Pier, fishable in a variety of weather conditions. |
Keeping my hooks and baits small, it didn’t take me long to start catching a few fish, and most of them were additions to my trip tally or even better new ones. The diversity was great, and before too long I was approaching the milestone of one hundred species.
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| My first ever duskytail grouper,.. |
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...was followed by a Chinese demoiselle. A species I caught in Singapore last year.
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| I was over the moon to catch a couple of these spectacled shrimpgoby. |
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| They do look like they are wearing spectacles! |
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| Next up, I caught a couple of ponyfish species, both new to me. First was this toothpony,.. |
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| ...followed shortly afterwards by this decorated ponyfish. |
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| At first glance I thought this was a dory snapper, but it was in fact my first ever striped snapper. |
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| After catching my first ever common silver biddy,.. |
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... I freelined a chunk of prawn, which this houndfish greedily ate. Another first time catch!
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By this point, the rain had stopped, and the clouds had lifted, so we decided to walk halfway back up the pier and try fishing there. This area didn't produce anywhere near as many bites, but I eventually caught a couple of fish. Nothing new though.
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| The first fish I caught was this conguturi halfbeak. |
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Shortly afterwards, I caught a whipfin silver biddy. Nothing tried to eat this one as I wound it in.
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Requiring two more species to hit one hundred, I tried in vain to catch a Boddart's goggle-eyed goby from the muddy area near the beginning of the pier just before we left, but they were happily eating algae and despite my sustained efforts, I couldn't trigger a violent assault on my bait. It would have been cool to catch one of these colourful mudskipper, but it wasn't to be. Admitting defeat and heading back to the car, we hit the road again, heading further north to a pond that I'd been told had some juvenile Indo-Pacific tarpon in it. Now that would be a cool fish to catch, particularly on my Rock Rover!
Tight lines, Scott.
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