The species and parks pages on this site cover the what and the where of Thailand fishing. Field Notes — what other sites would call a blog — is the rest of it. Comparisons. Long reads. The occasional opinion piece. The places the editorial brain wants to stretch its legs without pretending to be a field guide.
These are the pieces we'd read in a print magazine, written in a register that respects the reader's time.
What's in here
The Field Notes section runs to a deliberately small number of long-form articles. We'd rather publish ten well-considered pieces than fifty thin ones. The launch lineup covers the questions and arguments that show up most often in Thai fishing conversations:
Comparisons that anglers actually argue about. Bungsamran versus IT Lake Monsters is the canonical Bangkok pay-lake debate. Arapaima versus Mekong catfish is the canonical big-fish debate. Wild Thailand versus pay-lakes is the comparison that overseas anglers most often want explained honestly, with no commercial interest dressing it up.
Listicles done seriously. The biggest fish ever caught in Thailand is the kind of piece that shows up everywhere on the internet in shoddy versions. We tried to make ours the version that's actually accurate.
Trip-planning long reads. Thailand fishing on a budget and the high-end options bracket the price spectrum. Solo traveller fishing in Thailand covers a use case the rest of the internet ignores.
The state of the sport. Is Thailand the best fishing destination in Asia? compares the competition. The rise of fly fishing in Thailand covers a genuinely new phenomenon worth tracking.
Conservation. Endangered species and Thailand fishing conservation is the piece we wanted to write before any of the others, and the one most likely to make us unpopular with parts of the industry. Worth writing anyway.
What's not in here
We don't run news. There are excellent Thai-language resources for current pond conditions, recent record catches, and ongoing legal cases — and chasing news on a small editorial team would compromise the depth that makes the site worth reading. We don't run reader trip reports as standalone pieces, although we cite them when relevant. We don't run sponsored content, ever.
We do not run a comments section, because moderating one well takes resources we'd rather put into writing. If you'd like to push back on a piece, email hello@thaiangler.com. Substantive disagreement gets read and sometimes gets a published response.
Tone
These pieces aim for the register of a good print magazine — The Drake, Outside, Field & Stream's better issues. That means specific over abstract, descriptive over declarative, and willing to take a position when a position is warranted. We try to write the way we'd talk to a friend who fishes — with affection for the sport, candour about its compromises, and a healthy resistance to clickbait.
The pieces are written by the ThaiAngler editorial team and by occasional outside contributors. Where a piece has a named contributor, it's marked. Where it doesn't, it's house-written.
Read what looks interesting. Skip what doesn't. The pieces don't need to be read in any particular order.
