I really felt sorry for this poor guy fishing the Mekong. He must have been at it for 4 hours today and never caught a fish. He caught my attention though and there was something relaxing in the rhythm of his casts. As you can probably tell I wasn’t up to much today other than eating and relaxing.

Then there was this guy on the Mekong and his fishing contraption…he didn’t seem to have any luck either.

So many fishing and the Mekong has been receding the past 2 weeks. I would guess it’s pulled back about 10-12 feet since my arrival in Nakom Phanome and you can literally walk to Lao from Thailand in many places.

But not all is lost. On my walk this afternoon I met a Thai man who has a small motorcycle repair shop who was thrilled to share his english skills and pictures of his big catch the night before…I took a pic of the remnants and I’ll leave it to you to decide if he really got a big one.