Now there is nothing more peaceful than a day at the river bank with your fishing rod in hand, well apart from being in a nice aircon room down soi yodsak with a couple of gals and a copious amount of booze.
In the Uk I used to do a bit of the old fishing but never really excelled at it, but here they got these fishing ponds for the old catfish, the only trouble with that is you have to buy what you catch and then eat it, I used to give all the ones I caught to a beggar that used to hang round the bus stop in south Pattaya, those ponds they used to rent you a bamboo pole with some fishing line tied to the end and a cork as a float, half kilo fish using 20 kilo line, not really sporting.
Anyway now they got some proper fishing places where they don't let you eat your catch, you get to use a proper rod and reel, and they got some monsters in there, here's a picture from uncle sams fishing park, the guy that caught it didn't even bother weighing it as he said it was too small, fok i've never caught a fish that big.
But now I just goto eat and drink at the fishing parks and let me son dream of the day he catches some monster fish.