Lankayan 2011

Date : 10 December 2011
Time : 7.30am - 4.30pm
Location : Lankayan
Boatman : Botak Jack
Cost : RM205 per person
Members of the trip : Myself, Jason, Amiludin, Khairul, Palmin and the Kinabatangan Anglers.

The Sea Master
Palmin

Amiludin

Khairul

Jason

Amiludin, myself and Khairul

The Kinabatangan Anglers

Selingan Island

Palmin with his best catch of the day

Jason with his trigger fish

Amiludin with his pink ear emperor

The best scenery seen on our way back to Sandakan

My catch

Amiludin and Khairul's catches. The total weight of their catch was 30kg.

Jason with his 8.7kg catches

The best catch of the day, the Jangkarman's 5kg Yellow Fin Trevally

Here are my catch:
1.35kg and 1.2kg Red Snappers

An 800g Japanese Red

3 Juvenile Emperor Fish

4 standard size pisang pisang

900g, 800g and 650g trigger fish

6 dinner plate sized groupers

2 dinner plate sized juvenile GT

6 pink ear emperors with the heaviest catch was 1.1kg

3 coral fish

All the fish were scaled with my digital scale.

It was a successful trip for most of us. Since it's the first time we reached Lankayan Water after several attempts, we felt happy. Will surely go to Lankayan Water again. For 2011, this was a good year end trip and I'm not planning to go for another trip again this year. So, see you all again next year.

Bai Island and Dulang-Dulang Island 2011

Date : 26 November 2011
Time : 8.30am - 4.30pm
Location : Bai Island and Dulang-Dulang Island
Boatman : Nasip
Cost : RM25 per person
Members of the trip : Myself and the Facebookers' JORAN SANDAKAN team
The weather was quite cloudy in the morning but in the afternoon, it's hot. I had sunburn on my face, arms and legs. Forgot to use my sunblock as I was quite sleepy as the bite rate was not that good.

Heading towards Dulang-Dulang Island

Palmin with his first catch of the day.Palmin's second grouper

Victor with a better catch - a 500g GT

SaudinSaudin with a 400g grouperAndrusI almost fell asleep fishing in Dulang Dulang Island.After not having any catch the whole morning, I was awarded with the biggest and heaviest catch of the day.

A 600g and 550g catfish

Although I did not have any catch the whole morning, I enjoyed myself sharing fishing experiences and techniques with the members of Joran Sandakan. There were a lot of jokes and laughter. Will try to join their trip again in the future.

Berhala Island 2011

Date : 19 November 2011
Time : 7.00am - 4.30pm
Location : Berhala Island
Boatman : Kim Sui
Cost : RM40 per person
Members of the trip : Jepp, Bakry and myself

The scenery.

Not many pictures were taken in this trip as the bite rate was quite low.

Bakry with his best catch- a flat headed shark

Jepp with another 600g flat-headed shark

Myself with a baby flat headed shark

A Stingray

A 500g GT

550g Agohot

Not many fish were caught in this trip but we enjoyed ourselves fishing together. Looking forward for another recreational trip in Berhala Island with Kim Sui in the future.

Taganak-Pulau Burung

Date : 22nd October 2011
Time : 7.00am - 5.00pm
Location : Taganak - Pulau Burung
Boatman : Botak Jack
Cost : RM1600
Members of the trip : Rodney ( myself ), Bob, Andrew, Amiludin, Ustaz Ismail, Ustaz Razali, Halim and Mus.

Jack's 200hpx2 speedboatMyself and Bob

Mus and Amiludin

Halim and Ustaz Ismail

Mus and Amiludin

Ustaz Razali and Bob

HalimAndrewUstaz Razali and Ustaz Ismail

Some of the scenery along the way from Sandakan to Taganak-Pulau BurungTaganak Island

Halim with some of his first catches of the day

My catch

Ustaz Razali's catch

Ustaz Razali and Ustaz Ismail's catches

Ustaz Ismail's best catch of the day- a 2.3kg red snapperAndrew's best catch of the day- a first grade 3.15kg coral trout

Amiludin and Mus' catch in their first half of this fishing trip

Our catch

Mus and Amiludin with the most catch

Andrew

Myself

Ustaz Ismail

Ustaz Razali

Here are my catch for today's trip.
4 average size japanese red
2 average size pisang pisang

A 800g grouper

A 700g pink ear emperor

5 juvenile GTs

2 trigger fish

The weather was OK but the current was quite strong and we experienced a lot of terrible tangled line most of the time. Most of us were tired but happy.