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Arapaima

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Name: Arapaima (pirarucu).
Species: Arapaima gigas.
Thai name: Pla tjon Amazon.

Max length in excess: 5m.
Max weight: 400kg.
IGFA record: 154kg 339lb-8oz.
Stocked to: 180kg (400lbs).
Diet: Fish, pellet, frogs, animals and birds.

Alligator gar

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Name: Alligator gar.
Species: Atractosteus spatula.
Thai name: Pla jonakay.

Max length: 4m.
Max weight: 150kg.
IGFA record: 126.55kg (279lb-0oz.).
Stocked to: 20kg (42lbs).
Diet: Fish, waterfowl, squid, frogs.

Amazon red tail catfish

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Name: Amazon red tail catfish (pirarara).
Species: Phractocephalus hemiliopterus.
Thai name: Pla Amazon dang.

Max length: 2m.
Max weight: 100kg.
IGFA record: 56kg 123lb-7oz.
Stocked to: 33kg (70lbs).
Diet: Fish, pellet, boilies, squid, shrimp, scavenger of almost any food item.

Arawana

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Name: Arawana.
Species: Osteoglossum bicirrhosum.
Thai name: Pla tapat.

Max weight: 8kg.
IGFA record: 6.5kg (14lbs 8oz.)
Stocked to: 4kg (9lbs).
Diet: Fish, shrimp, prawns, frogs and insects.

Asian red tailed catfish

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Name: Asian red tailed catfish.
Species: Hemibagrus wyckiodes.
Thai name: Pla kot dang.

Max length: 2m.
Max weight: 80kg.
IGFA record: Vacant.
Stocked to: 40kg (85lbs).
Diet: Fish, pellet, frogs, shrimp, squid, scavenger of almost any food item.

Barramundi

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Name: Barramundi (snook, giant perch, white sea bass).
Species: Lates calcarifer.
Thai name: Pla kapong kao.

Max length: 1.2m.
Max weight: 45kg (90lb).
IGFA record: 37.85kg (83lbs).
Stocked to: 19kg (40lbs).
Diet: Fish, frogs, waterfowl, shrimp, crustaceans and squid.

Big head carp

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Name: Big head carp.
Species: Aristichthys nobilis.
Thai name: Pla tjin.

Max length: 1.5m.
Max weight: 45kg (100lb).
IGFA record: 28.9kg (63lbs).
Stocked to: 18kg (40lbs).
Diet: Water plants, banana, vegetables, insects, shrimp,
maize and boilies.

Black pacu

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Name: Black pacu.
Species: Piaractus brachypomus.
Thai name: Pla jermet dam.

Max length in excess: 1.5m.
Max weight: 40kg.
IGFA record: 24.9kg (55ib-0.)
Stocked to: 26kg (55lbs).
Diet: Fruit, nuts, insects, shrimp, maize, bread, fruit boilies and
pop-ups, pellet and occasionally fish.

Black shark

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Name: Black shark (black labeo, black river carp).
Species: Labeo chrysophekadion.
Thai name: Pla ka.

Max length: 1m.
Max weight: 12kg (25lb).
IGFA record: Vacant.
Stocked to: 5kg (11lbs).
Diet: Water plants, banana, vegetables, insects, shrimp, maize
and boilies.

Chao Phraya catfish

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Name: Chao Phraya catfish.
Species: Pangasius sanitwongsei.
Thai name: Pla tepa.

Max length in excess: 3m.
Max weight: 200kg.
IGFA record: 55kg (121lbs 4ozs.) caught here at Gillhams Fishing Resort.
Stocked to: 50kg (110lbs).
Diet: Fish, animals and birds.

Chinese seerfish

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Name: Chinese seerfish.
Other name: Yellowcheck carp.
Species: Scomberomorus munroi (elopichthys bambusa).
Thai name: Pla bambusa.

Max length: 3m.
Max weight: 200kg.
IGFA record: 131kg (288lb 12oz).
Stocked to: 5kg (10lbs).
Diet: fish, frogs, and waterfowl.

Common carp

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Name: Common carp.
Species: Cyprinus carpio.
Thai name: Pla nai.

Max length: 1.5m.
Max weight: 40kg (90lb).
IGFA record: 34.35kg (75 lb11oz).
Stocked to: 14kg (30lbs).
Diet: Shrimp, maize, worms, and boilies. Sometimes fry feeders.

Firewood catfish

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Name: Firewood catfish.
Other names: bagre, achacubo.
Species: Sorubimichthys planiceps.
Thai name: Pla planicip.

Max length: 1.5m.
Max weight: 50kg (110lb).
IGFA record: 16kg (35lbs 4oz.)
Stocked to: 5kg (10lbs).
Diet: Shrimp, worm, molluscs, fish and squid.

Giant featherback

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Name: Giant featherback (black featherback).
Species: Chitala lopis.
Thai name: Pla satu.

Max length: 1.5m.
Max weight: 25kg.
IGFA record: 9.8kg (13lb 6oz).
Stocked to: 15kg (32lbs).
Diet: Small fish, shrimp, prawn, frogs, worms, crustaceans,
and insects.

Giant freshwater stingray

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Name: Giant freshwater stingray.
Species: Himantura chaophraya.
Thai name: Pla kabeng nam djut.

Max length: 3m.
Max wing span. 2.5m.
Max weight: 600kg.
IGFA record: Vacant.
Stocked to: 80kg (170lbs).
Diet: Giant water snail, fish, shrimp, prawns, crustaceans, squid.

Giant gourami

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Name: Giant gourami (let).
Species: Osphronemus goramy.
Thai name: Pla let.

Max length: 1m.
Max weight: 14kg (30lb).
IGFA record: 5.6kg (12lbs).
Stocked to: 12kg (25lbs).
Diet: Fruit, water plants, nuts, fruit, vegetables, insects, shrimp,
maize and bread.

Giant snakehead

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Name: Giant snakehead (shadow tomen).
Species: Channa micropeltes.
Thai name: Pla shado.

Max length: 1m.
Max weight: 30kg (65lb).
IGFA record: 10kg (22lbs).
Stocked to: 8kg (17lbs).
Diet: Fish, mice and frogs.

Hoven’s carp

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Name: Hoven’s carp.
Common names: Mad barb, mad carp, river carp.
Species: Leptobarbus Hoevenii (cyprinidae).
Thai name: Pla ba.

Max length: 1m.
Max weight: 10kg (21lb).
IGFA record: 6kg (13lbs.3oz).
Stocked to: 3kg (6lbs).
Diet: Seeds and nuts, shrimp, worm, molluscs, insects, boilies,
maize and bread.

Java barb

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Name: Java barb (silver barb).
Species: Barbonymus gonionotus.
Thai name: Pla tapien kao.

Max length: 60cm.
Max weight: 6kg (12lb).
IGFA record: 2.31kg (5lbs 1oz.)
Stocked to: 2kg (4lbs).
Diet: Insects, shrimp, bread, maize, aquatic plants.

Julian's golden carp

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Name: Julian's golden carp
Species: Probarbus Jullieni.
Thai name: Pla yissok.

Max length: 2m.
Max weight: 70kg.
IGFA record: Vacant.
Stocked to: 22kg (45lbs).
Diet: Aquatic plants, Insects, shellfish, prawns, maize, pellet,
boilies, sticky rice.

Mekong catfish

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Name: Mekong catfish.
Species: Pangasianodon gigas.
Thai name: Pla buk.

Max length in excess: 3m.
Max weight: 300kg.
IGFA record: 117.933kg (260lbs), caught here at Gillhams Fishing
Resort.
Stocked to: 136kg (300 lbs).
Diet: Plankton, plants, shrimp, sticky rice, boilies, pellet, cereal,
maize and fish.

Mrigal carp

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Name: Mrigal carp(Asian grass carp, silver carp, small scale mud carp).
Species: Cirrhinus cirrhosus.
Thai name: Pla nuan tjan.

Max length: 1.2m.
Max weight: 20kg (43lb).
IGFA record: 8kgs (17lb-10oz.)
Caught here at Gillhams on the 3rd January 2012.
Stocked to: 10kg (20lbs).
Diet: Water plants, banana, vegetables, insects, shrimp, worm,
pellet, boilie, maize and bread.

Nile perch

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Name: Nile perch.
Other names: Giant perch, Victoria perch, African snook.
Species: Lates niloticus.
Thai name: Pla khapong perch Nile.

Max length: 2.5m.
Max weight: 250kg.
IGFA record: 104.32kg (230lb).
Stocked up to: 7kg (15lbs).
Diet: fish, frogs, crustaceans and waterfowl.

Piraiba, or Lau lau

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Name: Piraiba, or Lau lau.
Other names: Bagre blanco, blanco pobre.
Species: Brachyplatystoma filamentosum.
Thai name: Pla pireeba.

Max length: 3.6m.
Max weight: 250kg.
IGFA record: 155kg (341lb.11oz.)
Stocked to: 6kg (12lbs).
Diet: fish, pellet, frogs, waterfowl, monkeys, scavenger almost any
food item.

Ripsaw catfish

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Name: Ripsaw catfish.
Common names: Niger, black talking catfish, plated catfish.
Species: Oxydoras niger.
Thai name: Pla niger doradidae.

Max length: 1.2m.
Max weight: 40kg (90lb).
IGFA record: 21.5kg (47lb 6oz)
Stocked to: 9kg (19lbs).
Diet: Shrimp, worm, molluscs, insects, maize pellet and bread.

Rohu

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Name: Rohu (yissok tet, rahoo carp).
Species: Labeo rohita.
Thai name: Pla yissok tet.

Max length: 1m.
Max weight: 40kg.
IGFA record: 13.55kg (29lb 13oz.)
Stocked to: 13kg (28lbs).
Diet: Shrimp, plankton, plants, fruit, maize, boilies, pellet, sticky rice and cereal-based baits.

Siamese carp

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Name: Siamese carp (giant barb, cahoor).
Species: Catlocarpio siamensis.
Thai name: Pla cahoor.

Max length in excess: 3m.
Max weight: 300kg.
IGFA record: 53kg.
Stocked to: 70kg (150lbs).
Diet: Shrimp, plankton, plants, fruit, maize, and cereal-based baits.

Spotted featherback

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Name: Spotted featherback.
Species: Chitala ornata.
Thai name: Pla klaey.

Max length: 1m.
Max weight: 12kg.
IGFA record: 6kg.
Stocked to: 7kg (15lbs).
Diet: Small fish, shrimp, worms, crustaceans and insects.

Spotted sorubim

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Name: Spotted sorubim.
Species: Pseudoplatystoma coruscans.
Thai name: Pla sira dang.

Max length: 1.5m.
Max weight: 70kg.
IGFA record: 53.5kg.
Stocked to: 25kg (50lbs).
Diet: Fish, squid, frogs, earthworms, crustaceans, shrimp.

Striped snakehead

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Name: Striped snakehead (chevron snakehead).
Species: Channa striata.
Thai name: Pla tjon.

Max length: 1m.
Max weight: 5kg (10lb).
IGFA record: 3kg (6lbs).
Stocked to: 2.5kg (5lbs).
Diet: Fish, shrimp, insects, prawns and frogs.

Tambaqui

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Name: Tambaqui.
Species: Colossoma macropomum.
Thai name: Pla jermet.

Max length: 1.2m.
Max weight: 40kg.
IGFA record: 32.4kg (71lb 7oz.)
Stocked to: 18kg (40lbs).
Diet: Fruit, water plants, nuts, insects, shrimp, maize, bread, pellet and boilies.

Tarpon

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Name: Tarpon.
Species: Megalops atlanticus.
Thai name: Pla tarpon Atlantic.

Max length: 2.8m.
Max weight: 180kg.
IGFA record: 130kg (286lb 9oz).
Stocked up to: 6kg (12lbs).
Diet: fish, shrimp, crabs, frogs and insects.

Tiger catfish

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Name: Tiger catfish.
Species: Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum.
Thai name: Pla sira.

Max length: 1.5m.
Max weight: 60kg.
IGFA record: 13.5kg.
Stocked to: 20kg (42lbs).
Diet: Fish, squid, frogs, earthworms, crustaceans, shrimp.

Wallago attu

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Name: Wallago attu.
Species: Wallago attu.
Thai name: Pla krao.

Max length: 2.5m.
Max weight: 50kg.
IGFA record: 18.6kg.
Stocked to: 25kg (55lbs).
Diet: Fish, squid, animals, frogs, birds, shrimp, crustaceans, and molluscs.

Wallago leeri

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Name: Wallago leeri.
Species: Wallago leeri.
Thai name: Pla ituk.

Max length: 3m.
Max weight: 100kg.
IGFA record: Vacant.
Stocked to: 25kg (55lbs).
Diet: Fish, squid, animals, frogs, birds, shrimp, crustaceans, molluscs... and humans!

Zungaro zungaro, or jau catfish

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Name: Zungaro zungaro or jau catfish.
Species: Pimelodidae siluriformes.
Thai name: Pla jauhoo.

Max length: 1.5m.
Max weight: 100kg.
IGFA record: 49.44kg 109lb.
Stocked up to: 6kg (12lbs).
Diet: fish, squid, shrimp, frogs, scavenger almost any food item.