All You Need to Know About Fishing in Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh has plenty of ponds, rivers, and reservoirs teeming with many kinds of fish such as carp, trout, pike, etc. Therefore, it is an ideal place for anyone who loves fishing. Moreover, Ho Chi Minh city is among the busiest city in Vietnam, it sometimes can cause much stress for people who live, work here, or even visit for a short time. Fishing is a way that tourists, or ex-pats to relieve stress.

Besides, relieving stress, practising your patience, fishing in Ho Chi Minh is a lot of fun, where you can not only show off your fishing talent in the fishing competitions but also make new friends. Weekends are more crowded than weekdays, so you can go fishing on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday if you like both fishing and meeting new people

If you have had fishing experience in this city before, you can go on your own. Otherwise, there are many guide fishing tours in Ho Chi Minh for you to choose from. These fishing tours will give you fishing tools from basic to professional levels.

The below list is recommended of 10 best places to go fishing in Ho Chi Minh city, so keep reading if you plan to go fishing some day in the future.

1. Eco-Tourism Area - Recreational Fishing - Spring Wood Family Restaurant

This fishing area is located inside an eco-village and food court near district 7. There are 4 ponds in this area: three for fishing by the hour, and one for fishing by weight. Snakehead, tilapia, silurus are popular kinds of fish in this fishing area

• Address: Hamlet 5, Binh Hung, Binh Chanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Opening time: 8:00 – 22:00
• Price: VND20,000-25,000/h 

2. Ut Phuong fishing lake

The first impression when you come Ut Phuong fishing area is a cool green space, wide aisles. On the surface of the quiet lake are the huts made from leaves lying close to the lake. The fishing lake has a large number of fish in the lake such as snakehead, tilapia, pomfret, basa, scattered throughout the lake. So if you come here fishing, you will most likely get a lot of loot. While waiting for the loot, you can enjoy the fresh air of nature, and the beautiful scenery around.

Besides fishing, tourists can enjoy the delicious dishes in Ut Phuong restaurant which was built to serve different kinds of tourists. You can also ask the staff in the restaurant to process and cook the result of your work here. Besides, they serve chicken, shrimp, squid, etc.

• Address: 78B, Tan Tao A, Binh Tan, Ho Chi Minh city
• Opening hours: 8:00 – 20:00
• Price: - VND200,000/5hrs. (spinning rod) & VND80,000/3hrs. (regular rod)

3. Dong Dieu

Located not far away from the city center is the Dong Dieu fishing area. Dong Dieu has beautiful, clean, rustic and unspoiled scenery that makes visitors feel like being lost in peaceful countryside. The clean lake is located next to the cool shade of trees creating a romantic, quiet space, suitable for relaxing and releasing the soul after tired working days. The fishing lake in Dong Dieu is also stocked with a variety of fishes like carp, snapper, tilapia, pomfret… that are diverse and rich for visitors to freely fish and feel refreshed when "pull the rod".

Dong Dieu fishing area is divided into 4 different areas: one fishing lake by weight, three fishing lakes by the hour (including regular fishing lake, spinning rod fishing lake, and shrimp fishing lake). Depending on your interest and price, you can choose the lake that you like best.

As soon as you catch fish in the lake, you can give it to the restaurant to process and enjoy the fish. Moreover, fishing competitions are also held here to make fishing more interesting. Therefore, the number of visitors coming here on weekends is quite crowded. Dong Dieu fishing area is the ideal place for those who want to relax and enjoy the delicious food caught on their own.

• Address: 33/2 Cao Lo, Ward 4, District 8, HCMC
• Opening hours: 07:00 – 22:30
• Price:  - VND80,000/5hrs. or 50,000/3hrs. (regular rod) & VND100,000/5hrs. (spinning rod)

4. Binh Quoi tourist village

Song Yen fishing lake is located in Binh Quoi tourist area, and it has become a familiar meeting place for fishing enthusiasts. Anyone who comes once will come back because the fish here is very big, the space is very quiet, cool, and close to nature thanks to the rustic and poetic rural design style. In addition to fishing services, Song Yen also serves some drinks such as coffee, drinking water and many popular dishes for people to come here to fish and enjoy. Popular fish in this area are snakehead, silurus, basa.

• Address: 1074 Binh Quoi, Ward 28, Binh Thanh District, HCMC
• Opening hours: 09:00 – 22:00
• Price: VND300,000/5hrs. 

Fishing in tourist village

5. Thap Nga

Thap Nga is an eco-tourism area which has its own campsite, swimming lake, restaurant anYYd fishing lake. Fishing in this eco-tourism area, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the 6-hectare fishing lake which is divided into many lakes. This area has many different types of fish such as bird fish, perch, snakehead, catfish, pangasius, howler, guillotined fish. The price for fishing bait is 10,000 VND.

• Address: 168 Nguyen Huu Tho, Xa Phuoc Kieng, Nha Be
• Opening hours: 07:00 – 21:00

6. Vuon Thu Gian

This is a great place for you to relax after a hard day's work. Space here is very airy and cool. The huts made on the lake are very unique. They are the places where you can listen to music, go fishing, and enjoy many delicious specialties on the huts from specialties of the West, Central, and North. The beautiful scenery, delicious food, the quiet place makes it a great choice for your weekends or free days.  

• Address: Nguyen Huu Tho, Cau So 2, Phuoc Kien, Nha Be
• Opening hours: 10:00 – 22:30

7. Thanh Truc

Thanh Truc is a shrimp pond campus, which is spacious and airy, with a harmonious and luxurious setting located under the canal bridge in District 7. It is an ideal destination for you and your friends and relatives to relax next weekend after tired and stressful working days. Besides the entertainment shrimp fishing service, there is also a restaurant with a cozy space, with melodious, soothing music for you to enjoy fresh seafood.

• Address: 793/35/4 Tran Xuan Soan

8. La Vong Quan - Cau Ca Giai Tri

Located 8km from the center of District 1, La Vong Quan is also a great stop for fishing lovers. With only 40,000 VND for 5 hours fishing, you can enjoy the fishing, gathering with your family, friends, eating… in thatched roofs area. Every week, there is a fishing competition with many valuable prizes. Besides fishing, coming here, you can also enjoy local specialties such as chicken (porridge or grilled), snakehead fish (fried, or grilled).

• Address: 1072 Binh Quoi, Binh Thanh

9. Phu Cuong

It is a quiet, airy space with hammocks for fishing and relaxing. You will be able to freely fish a variety of fish and enjoy your product at the restaurant. Besides fishing, the restaurant's fresh cuisine is guaranteed to satisfy all visitors. Therefore, if you have a chance, do not miss this place.

• Address: 18, Vo Van Bich, Binh My, Cu Chi, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Opening time: 6:30-17:30 (closed on Mondays)  
• Price: VND100,000/4hrs. for small ponds, and VND160,000/4hrsfor big ponds, or 320,000/day

10. Tri Rau

Tri Rau fishing area has large aquariums, which are surrounded by cool thatched-roof hidden under green trees. This creates a cool and fresh scene, so many tourists choose this place to "change the wind" at the weekend. Fishing huts are built around the lake to create a closed space but no less comfortable. The fish in the lake is quite abundant, mostly tilapia, silurus, and evenly distributed in the lake area, so the chance for you to catch fish is very high, whether you are a professional or an amateur. Fish can be brought home or you can ask the kitchen at the restaurant to process into attractive dishes.

• Opening time: 07:00 - 21:00
• Address: Vuon Lai, An Phu Dong, District 12, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Price:  - VND70,000/3hrs. (spinning rod) & VND50,000/3hrs. (regular rod)

• Fish usually prefer to live in slow-moving water because they will not waste energy swimming in these places. So you can fish in the places with rocks in the water, or at the junction of two streams.
• Fish also do not like noise, so you should fish in a quiet place.
• It is no problem if you cannot catch any fish. You can just relax and enjoy the beautiful fishing days.

Hope that the above information is helpful for your fishing trip to Ho Chi Minh city. There is nothing to worry about, just enjoy. Explore more interesting activities in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

Jenny

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