Kretam #3 2010

As this will be my last deep sea fishing trip this year, I was hoping that by organizing this trip, I will be able to have an enjoyable time fishing with my fishing buddies. Unfortunately, Mr Bob, Juini and Bartholomew were unable to join us - Jepp, Zizudini, Bakry and myself. Like usual, we followed Ah Kong's 400hp speed boat to Kretam.

Ah Kong's 400hp speed boat.

Zizudini
Jepp

Bakry

Mr Chong

The condition of the sea in the morning.

Jepp was rewarded with a Kerisi on 40g jig.

Jepp with an ikan kayu on 40g jig.

Zizudini with 1kg ikan kayu on 40g Hinomiya's jig.

Myself with 2kg snapper.

The condition of the sea in the afternoon. The current was quite strong.Ah Seng with his 4kg ebek.

A 4kg jemuduk by Ah Seng.
The size of the jemuduk' compared to my sized 8 Crocs shoes.

Wong with a 4kg Ruby Snapper.
Zizudini with a 2kg barracuda on Hinomiya's 40g jig.

Our combined catches for this trip.

Myself with the jangkarman's catches.

Mr Chong with his catches.Myself with my catches.

Jepp with his catch.

Zizudini with his catches. All his catches were on his legendary Hinomiya's jig.

Bakry with his catches.

My catches.

A 2kg red bass.

2kg red snapper.2kg long nose emperor.
800g pink ear emperor.

1kg grouper.

Some of my catches were given to Juini who was not able to join us due to some personal problems. I will surely be back for deep sea fishing adventure again next year with better catches. For the time being, I will only go for inshore fishing.

spin fly

Tried the nymph fly Jepp gave me yesterday. It is cute and I think I need to start and try to make my own fly.

The target - gold fish and Japanese carp.

In less than a minute, I managed to get a solid hook up on the gold fish.
It was indeed my first fish on fly.

Location - fish pond at the compound of my house :).

I am lucky that the gold fish is still alive now. If it's dead, I'll surely get a scolding from my parents. Have to try the nymph fly in the wild soon.

Pulau Bai #4 2010

As planned few days ago, Jepp, Bakry and I went to Pulau Bai and Pulau Berhala. Fished from 7.30am to 3.30pm. The weather and current were good in the morning. We've caught a lot of golden and silver crocker, ikan jarang gigi, mata kucing, coral fish and also grouper.

We followed Nasib's boat.

The anglers for today's trip - Jepp, Bakry and myself.

Myself.Jepp.Bakry.Leaving the jetty of Sandakan wet market.

Bakry enjoying the scenery of Pulau Berhala.

Pulau Berhala.

Jepp with his ikan jarang gigi.
Jepp with an unidentified fish.

Jepp with a table-sized grouper.Jepp again with his mata kucing.
Bakry with a table-sized grouper.
Myself with ikan jarang gigi.
Jepp's and Bakry's catch.

It was about to rain at about 3.30m. We have to stop fishing even though the bite rate was good. Safety first......

Fishing and picnicking

Went to hunt for sebarau with Jepp, Bakry and Rasidan. The journey took about 4 hours and it was quite tiring. We started our journey at about 7.00am.

My weapon for today ( Navi 2000 and Alivio 2500FB ).

We followed Jepp's 'Blue Horse' to our destination.

The first spot which was about 2 1/2 hours journey from Sandakan.
There were a lot of strike in this spot but we were not able to get any hook up.

The second spot we went. It was about 45 minutes drive from the first spot.
It was almost 11.00am when we reached there. It was a very potential spot hunting for sebarau ( Hampala Barb ) but the water was cloudy.

Jepp ( doing his fly fishing ) lost a lot of fly lures in this spot.

With an 'in-line spinner bait', Bakry managed to land this sebarau.

After fly fishing and casting at the second spot, we went to 'Sungai Bogel'.
The water was crystal clear and the scenery was awesome.

Bakry, casting under a tree.

Finally, after few hours of casting, I managed to land this kelah with an in-line spinner bait.

Went for swimming and picnicking at Sungai Maliau at about 4.30pm.
It was a very tiring trip and yet, it's worth it. I really enjoyed the chicken wings marinated by Bakry and grilled by Rasidan :) .A lampam jawa caught by Bakry just a few minuted before we ended this trip.

Hope to have another session of fishing and picnicking trip again.