October through March are considered the best months for deep sea fishing in the waters off Pattaya Bay. As a rule, fishing is good just before and just after the new moon. Normally during the summer months the local waters get so hot the big game fish like the large Sailfish and the large Marlin leave the area. They start to return in late September when the monsoon rains begin and the water begins to cool off.

The best method to angle for these large game fish is to place your bait near the surface of the sea using some type of float. Many use a balloon, plastic water bottle, or a piece of Styrofoam to float the bait. Most prefer to use live small red fish locally called pla dang, but some prefer live squid. Occasionally some anglers will troll using artificial lures, but this method of fishing is not so popular here. Within the past five years the largest Sailfish landed in this area was about 55 Kilograms or 122 Pounds. This fish was taken by Selwyn Lightly, fishing near Koh Phai, early in 1997. Many are brought in each year from 20 to 35 Kilograms. Where as the largest Marlin landed during the same period time was a Black Marlin weighing in at 60 Kilograms plus or more than 133 Pounds. This fish was taken by some Japanese anglers, fishing near Koh Rin. The Marlin are much more scarce in this area than the Sailfish. Few Marlin are landed each year.

Once one of these fighting fish is hooked, it takes a skilled angler to land the fish. These fish will leap high in the air trying to throw the hook from their hard bill. They will run away from you at high speed and then turn and run directly at you at high speed trying to throw slack in the line. They will always take you around the boat several times before they can be landed. It is definitely a contest between the angler and the fish as to who can last the longest. You must let the fish run, you cannot force the fish in, you will surely loose it. The fish cannot be landed until it has become too tired to fight any more. It is almost 50 / 50 odds.

 Barracuda, there are 18 species of Barracuda a long, slender, predaceous marine fish with small scales, a large mouth with fanglike teeth, and a protruding lower jaw. The tail fin is forked, and the two dorsal fins are widely separated. Barracuda are found in tropical and subtropical waters off the Thai coast. Smaller species swim in schools, but larger species tend to be solitary fish. Most anglers catch Barracuda by trolling spoons, feathered jigs with strips of fish, or brightly colored rubber tubing, which are eel-like and spin as they move through the water. The trick to catching the species seems to be lure action as much as anything else. Trolling or retrieval speed must be rapid and the lure action should be erratic to excite the fish into biting.