I’m leaving Korea again on Sunday 30th back to Nigeria (gotta work to make money to buy more fishing tackle :lol: )
The small lake in JinJu was a bit strange today (25th), the water seemed cloudy in 3/4 of the lake and the fish were only biting in the clearer 1/4 of the lake. While I was fishing, 2 guys in an inflatable boat came and started taking water samples….and there was a few dead bass (which is not normally a rear sight) and a dead turtle.
I still managed to catch 6 bass and 1 slimy guy….my first Korean Catfish !! Here’s a few photos.
:lol: I even had #50 sun block, but I was tough...
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Dead fish? Water sampling Adoshis? I hope you didn’t eat any!!!
Damn I jealous,
I’ve been trying for a year and a half here to catch a catfish!
Trust me hunterdave, I wasn’t trying to catch that thing
Hmmm that’s not a good sign. I read recently that there was some sort of contamination in one of the rivers down south there but unless that river or one of its tributaries flow into that lake, that shouldn’t have anything to do with it. Are there any factories around that lake?
Are there any US military bases near that lake?
LOL Rob
Yea, there’s an AF base just over the road
Nomad, there’s only a small stream that runs into this lakes and it’s dry 90% of the time. This lake then overflows into Nam gang, but the lake level is still down about 3~4 foot from the overflow. Not sure if that river’s polluted tho, it’s normally very clean and clear ??
That catfish looks like the Europoean version of the catfish, which is called a Wells. When I was in Germany we went fishing to Lake Caspi in Zaragoza, Spain, where there are many Wells catfish that exceeed the 100 pound mark. The Germans love eating that fish and pay some good money for the fish at the local stores. One one of our trips, one of of my frinds hooked one using a crankbait on 20 pound line that towed us around for almost 45 minutes before he was able to get it up where we could see it. That fish easily went about 70 pounds and was as long as our boat. When I bent down to to try and remove the crankbait, it took off and broke the line taking my buddies crank bait with it. That was the largest fish I had ever seen hooked by anyone and we don’t know what the hell we would have done with it had we decided to try and land it as a keeper. Nomad, being that you are retired Air Force, you may know about the closed down Air Force Base that was in Zaragoza, Spain by the lake. What an assignment that must have been.