Itinerary
At our Day Trip we travel arround Racha Yai and Racha Island, 18 Kilometres south of Phuket. This area boats an all year round fishing season with an abundance of fish species thriving in these tropical waters. Wahoo, Dorado, several species of Tuna, Rainbow Runner, Blue Finned Trevally, Cobia, Giant Travally, Narrow Barred mackerel (Tenggiri), and Barracuda are all plentiful.
For the game fishing enthusiast, Black Marlin, Sailfish and several species of sharks can be found in deeper waters around this area. Both trolling and bottom fishing are techniques used on this Join on trip. The trip is included all equipment, lunch, softdrinks and pick up from your hotel in Phuket.
Itinerary
• 07:30am – 08:45am Pick up time at your hotel.
• 09:15am Depart from Ao Chalong Pier.
• 10:00am Start for trolling.
• 11:30am Arrive at Racha Yai Island.
• 12:00am – 01:00pm Lunch served on board. Option time for swimming and relaxing.
• 01:10pm Back to the fishing by handline.
• 03:00pm Trolling back to Ao Chalong Pier.
• 04:30pm – 05:00pm Arrive at Ao Chalong Pier and Transfer back to hotel.
*The tour program is subject to change due to the weather & sea conditions*
Stop At:
• Ko Racha Noi, Ko Racha Noi, Phuket
• Ko Racha Yai, Ko Racha Yai, Phuket
See Availability.
Traveler pickup is offered
• You can also get picked up from anywhere in Phuket. An extra charge will be applied for transfer in some Phuket areas(To be advised)
• The exact pick-up time will be confirmed by email after you have made the booking
• Please plan to meet your tour guide at your hotel lobby at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled pick-up time
• If you arrive more than 10 minutes late or after we have moved from your hotel, you may be considered a no-shows
09:00 AM
8 hours(approx.)
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
Not wheelchair accessible
Child ticket age between 4-11 years
Adults (12-80) who don't want to do fishing please choose the price for child
Children (4-11) who want to do fishing please choose adult price
Guests who are pregnant or have high blood pressure, heart disease and bone diseases are not recommended to join the tour
On the rare occasion that we should be required to cancel a tour, we will inform you in advance and offer a different tour date, an alternative tour or provide a full refund
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Posted By : Gavin_R
Unless you have never been fishing before, don’t waste your time and money.
Let’s start with the crew!
Captain was Thai and deckhad was from Myanmar and neither could speak a word of English as promised in the itinerary.
Normally this would not be a problem as my wife is local however the captain would not come out of the wheelhouse unless it was to fish for his own dinner leaving the deckhand who could speak neither Thai or English.
Unfortunately they also had no interest in sorting out the numerous tangles that occurred due to ten people bottom fishing at the same time leaving myself as an experienced fisherman doing their job for them.
Next is the equipment!!
Old, antiquated and broken is the best way to describe it.
The rod I was given had 3 broken eyelets and many others had broken reels that failed when trying to retrieve the terminal tackle from 50 metres. Lucky there were no larger fish caught.
When I pointed out the damaged equipment my wife was told by the captain that we should have spent more money on an expensive tour which, considering they changed 2800 Baht per person with 10 people on board makes it a 28000 Baht trip is much more than a private fishing trip.
Finally the game fishing!!
Well if that’s what you want to call it.
I would call it catching bait and not much of it.
They advertise with photos of sailfish which are obviously taken from another site.
The lures that were trawled behind the boat were only a couple of centimetres long, similar to a samaki bait jig so there was never any chance of raising a sailfish , but I guess it would have been possible for a sail to come up on one of the few 25cm queen fish that were hooked.
Imagine my surprise when the deck hand insisted on the customers reel in a 25cm fish in the game chair, what a joke.
Funnily the largest fish of the day was a dead cod that had died and floated to the surface because of barotrauma which the crew promptly gaffed to take home and feed the family.
Everything else that was caught is what I would refer to as bait.
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Posted On : 2024-05-06
Posted By : Edward_W
None three hours trolling one hour to fish. It was just a boat ride. Worst ever, wasted money, pictures showed were incorrect no large fish
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Posted On : 2024-02-24
Posted By : 888reesey
Not great. Fishing was so-so, didnt get to touch a rod the entire time. Started with trawling then proceeded to do drop lines with a spool instead of a rod. Crew was distant and just did their job (which is fair) but didn't interact with the people on the boat much. Seeing as how we didn't manage to catch many fish I thought they would make the effort to chit chat and entertain us a bit- point out maybe some islands/ introduce us to some local things that we passed etc. But the crew kept to themselves and we just sat in the boat in silence for almost 7 hours.
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Posted On : 2023-10-10
Posted By : troy_w
Boat was good,staff great, good food, swimming snokling great, the fishing wasn't what add says, there was 15 of us so u all pick numbers 1 to 15 then 1st fish 1st then 2nd so on we caught 3 fish total 3 people got a go. Hand line fishing for 30 min in like 45mtrs of water not fun at all
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Posted On : 2023-07-01
Posted By : Jürgen D
Very nice staff, good food, nice people, good boat.
We enjoeyed our day very much. The kids loved the day and the fishing.
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Posted On : 2023-04-20
Posted By : Juergen_D
Good daytrip for families. Very good organised incl. transfers, food, guides, boat and route. Pickup and return was on time. We had a small breakfast, very good lunch + snacks and drinks of very good quality. Very nice guides and boatcrew. Everything in good condition. We got fish! Small ones but that was ok. Maybe if you are only interested in fishing big fish there might be other options. We enjoyed our day a lot. Thank you!
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Posted On : 2023-04-11
Posted By : michael_o
Me getting a fish never fished before yep my mate done tons of it but did not get one ha ha ha everyone should try it
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Posted On : 2023-01-03
Posted By : Jordan_B
Great trip. Enjoyed the fishing. Tour operators were very helpful. Random characters to get to 100 character minimum.
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Posted On : 2022-11-13
Posted By : khantnyizaw-eddie
The unpleasant experience started even at the booking stage. Upon booking, all dates are available to book, however I was then communicated that the tour only operates three days a week, so I had to reschedule my other tour plans. [They communicated that only after I sent an email to confirm my booking and it’s not them communicating to me about it first.]
The tour itinerary was okay and we did catch some fish. However, the guide is really unfriendly and her face, the whole time, looks like she doesn’t even want to be here. The other thing is there’s no fishing rod assigned to each person. There’re only like four rods on the boat and the whole group has to take turns pulling the rod according to the number randomly assigned to each person. And guess what, that guide keeps missing up numbers and I had the chance to pull the fishing rod ONLY ONE TIME for the whole trip. That’s ridiculous.
The horror doesn’t end even after we arrived back to the pier. The minivans that’s supposed to take us back to our hotels weren’t there. We had to wait for around half an hour for the vans to arrive! I mean what kind of management would let that happen.
Overall, this is definitely one of the bad, if not the worst, tours that I’ve ever experienced in Thailand.
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Posted On : 2022-07-10
Posted By : Theron_W
The website is totally false advertisement. One guide said there hasn’t been a marlin caught in 10 years.
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Posted On : 2022-06-22
