After all week of trying, I caught this grouper this morning on the last day of me hols. I used same lure that got stuck in my finger yesterday, figuring that if it was that hard to cut out of my finger it should stay attached to a fish.
Will get the hotel to cook it up tonight.
You can stick yer ruler Simon! It's all coming together on my last day!
Added this beauty late morning. About 1.5kg, looks like a nice dinner tonight!
Trouble is we have no idea what fish it is. Can't find it on the net.
Any ideas? The hotel staff are calling it Pla Gabok, or something similar...
Mendip, its a wouldnttouchit fish. As Jeff says consider the source.
Thats a mullet or Pla Krabok and edible
The mullets or grey mullets are a family of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and some species in fresh water. Mullets have served as an important source of food in Mediterranean Europe since Roman times. The family includes about 78 species in 20 genera. Wikipedia
Family: Mugilidae; Jarocki,Jarocki 1822
Scientific name: Mugilidae
Did you know: Mullets are distinguished by the presence of two separate dorsal fins, small triangular mouths, and the absence of a lateral line organ
Heres an English Thai fish translator for you
Cobia = Pla Chon Thale
Baracuda = Pla Sak
Shark = Pla Chalarm
Mullet = Pla Krabok
Grouper = Pla Gow
Stingray = Pla Kabin
Sailfish = Pla tong rom
Marlin = Pla tong teng
Longtom = Pla tong keow
Tuna = Pla O/ Pla tuna
King Mackerel = Pla Insi
Mahi mahi = Pla Ee-to / Pla Tomon
Flatfish = Pla Lin maa
Eel = Plaa Lai
Batfish = Pla Oo chang
Coral trout = Pla Gow daeng
Sweetlips = Pla Hua-lek
Ribbonfish = Pla Dap
Flying fish = Pla Nok-ka-jok
Snapper = Pla Kapong
Longnose emperor = Pla Kuat
Rabbitfish = Pla Kitang
Threadfin salmon = Pla Oo-lao
Milkfish = Pla Men
some in the trevally family
Giant trevally = Pla Kamong
Bigeye jack = Pla hang-liem
African pompano = pla pram/ pla chom ngam
Queenfish = Pla Talang
Gold-spot trevally = Pla Klong
Bludger trevally = Pla Klong ngoo
Rainbow runner = Pla Jerman / Pla Rainbow
For freshwster fish; DD. Did a good list on here
Thai Fresh Water Fish - TeakDoor.com - The Thailand Forum
Thanks Dillinger, mullet and grouper it is tonight then. May even get on the dinner thread.
NPT, the sea looks pretty clean here so I'll risk the fish tonight. Need to lose weight anyway!
Interesting, however, I do not see the most common Thai fish
Tilapia - Pla Nin
Pla dohk = catfish
'Mini Mendip', I like that!
The rocks are covered in barnacles and mussels and are to sharp for her, so she collects shells while I catch dinner.
Also, problem is, she's getting older and growing up and starting to do her own thing as well. She left me making sandcastles on my own yesterday.
kata noi late arvo downpour
After a very pleasant few days on the coast, it's hot back in Isaan. Whatever happened to the wet season?
M'Sahib checked our animals vet cards this morning for their vaccination due dates. Gets into perspective how many we actually have now.
^ We only have seven! I also have to write the English translations of the names on the front of each book!
Barby! I hope that's a girl.
The vet came round this morning for vaccination boosters for our four dogs, plus rabies boosters for three that live out back which we feed. Managed to get one of the 'outside' dogs vaccinated but the other two took one look and took off. The vet left the syringes with me to get them at feeding time tonight.
Amazing what can be done with a couple of lengths of threaded rod -
I've slept on the sofa two nights in a row because she whines and wants to play with my daughter's dangling feet at 2am.
Sometimes income out here and mentally plan how it will look as my man cave.
I'd like to see what morning looks like
Don't wanna drink pint after pint
I wanna wake up without feeling sick
But I can't cuz I'm a drug-abusing alcoholic
fear and loathing at hualumphong
train to trang
trang - great place - clock tower and the trang hotel (dead set no worries about getting a root there a decade ago - dunno bout now)
The vet came today to give the dogs booster vaccinations. Our four dogs no problem.
We have another three 'outside' dogs we feed and look after. It was time for their rabies boosters. We did the first one no problem, but the other two scarpered, the vet left me the syringes.
So, wait for tea time...
And last but not least, Sewer Dog. He is of course called 'Tiger' following in the Thai tradition of having about three names for all dogs, but with my sloppy Thai pronunciation he is known as Sewer (Seaur... Seuar... ???)
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