Fishing

    Yesterday me and Chelsea rented a charter fishing boat to take us out fishing for the whole day.  Juke, Erk, Samsong, Wipa and Lamp came with us.  I wanted to do something for the guys since they have been looking out for us this first week and driving us around, cooking for us, and bargaining for us so that we get the best deal.  The captain looked like Jack Sparrow - and although he spoke no english he sure understood when we told him that!  We hit three different fishing spots off the coast amidst a million of these little islands off the Navy base.  The first one, was forty meters from a big rock sticking out of the ocean.  We dropped our lines and immediately were catching tons and tons of fish.  Little tiny guys, the size of a small bass.  You can keep any size of fish you catch here, so we were loading up on all sorts of tropical, six inch fish.  I asked Lamp what they call the fish and he said they have no name, so I could just call them "Spiny Yellow Fishy".  Ok!  Chelsea caught a bunch, I cought a couple and Erk was going to town.  At one point, Juke caught two at once!
    The second spot was on the other side of the rock - not much luck though.  Deeper, a few different types of fish.  I cought some sort of red fish that was supposedly worth a couple hundred Baht in the market.   Since nobody was catching anything, we busted into the food.  Juke had prepared for us a feast (as everyone we have met here has).  It was deep fried chicken and pork ribs, sticky rice, Long Gong (fruit that is like those little jello cups from uwajimaya) and varius deserts and beers.  We ate and ate and ate, all day long.  I told him that his fried chicken was better than KFC, but not better than Ezell's.
    Then we went to the deep water spot in order to catch big fish.  Now the action slowed down.  Erk cought some sort of deep water monster rock fish, and I reeled in (after Jack Sparrow hooked it) some sort of expensive fish, similar to a tropical salmon.  About 4 kilos, said it was worth over a thousand baht at the market.  We took that fish back to Juke's house, small, navy housing, and he turned the one fish into a feast for ten people.  So much food, we ate and ate and ate, then sat as people took pictures with us.