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Well, you can have some stocked ponds here, but it won't have the same potential here unless you have a pond filled with 4-5' hatchery raised Lake Sturgeons LOL. No one would pay a hefty price to catch a local readily available fish if they can just drive somewhere to catch them. Most of these ponds in Southeast Asia are stocked with rare local fish (difficult to catch in the wild) or exotics from Africa and South America. It is the good chance to catch novelty fish that is really the selling point.

As for the pond I fished, it cost CAD $120/day (8am-8pm) as a base cost. However, there is the price of bait and tips added on top of the base cost. At the end, I think I paid something close to $150. It's so cheap it's hard not to do it! People may think $150 to spend on a day of fishing cost a lot, but considering I usually spend at least $50 in gas to successfully catch a new species locally in Ontario, that is pretty on par with my standard costs.

Bung Sam Ran cost a little more, and they do not have the same opportunity for various species as the pond I fished. Some other ponds can be much more expensive though (some barramundi only pond cost around $150 for only 4 hours, same with some peacock bass only ponds). There are some predator lakes that cost about $300-400/day.

Yes, they have a much cheaper local price. Locals usually pay only 10% of what tourists / expat would pay to fish at these ponds. It's a bit of a highway robbery. But at that price, it is still very cheap to us. Compared to fishing in Europe, Southeast Asia is about the same as fishing in a carp pond in the UK. That's why a lot of Europeans visit Thailand to fish there.

But relatively speaking, these are all very cheap compared to a $5000/week BC salmon trip, sturgeon trip, Atlantic salmon trip or Arctic Char trip, and most of these are single species focused. Even with the cost of flight (major cost), accommodations and food (really, really cheap) and the fishing, it would still be cheaper to fish in Thailand for a week than to go to Newfoundland to fish for Atlantic salmon for a week.