Winning a Mekong Catfish Fight

As Jean Francois Helias explained about winning over the great Mekong catfish, you need to dominate from the start. Don't let the Mekong catfish to take a millimeter of line from you. First of all, you don't try to lift and pump them up to the surface. As soon as they see sunlight, they will go crazy. These powerful fish can drive a huge and well-built grown man to his knee after a few fight. The first half of the fight is to glide them in "easily" using your shoulders, arms and legs with the side-way sweeping motion of the rod. The second half of the fight is a bit tricky because you need to dig in with your legs and arms to stop the Mekong catfish from going into the stilts and other structures that would entangle your line with the fish. This video shows you what you need to do to land the Mekong catfish. Francois makes it look easy, but in reality the Mekong catfish takes a lot out of you.

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[outfishlivebait]

1st - don't force the cat up to the surface to see the sunlight because they don't have good eyesight don't there. let it stay down there.

2nd - guide the cat with the rod tip down into the water and don't give it an inch.

3rd - hang on because you should be in control and not the fish.

[brad2phillips]

Where is this place you fish I live in chonburi and like fishing thanks great video.

[djtmh]

got instruction

[mallowthim]

I love how this guy explains it...

[Jshelley89]

i didnt know he had a fish on it till 4:00 lol

and i need a fishing buddy like his to