Big Game Fishing, Phuket - Interview with John Pearce Wahoo

Simon: What changes have you noticed since you started sport fishing in Phuket?

John: Over the past two decades Phuket has earned the right to be regarded as true for major game fishing, offering boats, hotels and standard of well-heeled anglers expect. In the last eighteen I lived and fished the waters around Phuket as captain charter fishing, I have many changes, some for better, sometimes for worse - and some things that not change.

Simon: Is that fishing was even worse?

John: It's not worse, it is different if the fish I have always moved from one island to the sudden appearance of an island or another in greater numbers. My personal comment on what is happening is that we have a huge increase in commercial boats behind what I call "bait had seen" not only for human consumption, such as fish sauce, but also create chicken feed. Fish are creatures of habit, and when suddenly the food they were used to obtain a certain place is gone, they will move and find another source.

Simon: So with all that happens, Phuket is a great fishing destination?

John: Absolutely, yes it is! Many of our fishermen have the best fights of their lives, especially with a large number of boats around the islands of Racha Yai and Racha Noi, even in the low tourist season from May to September. Some fishers