Another days of fishing and this time i'm in Maldives. Onboard "Kandi Hibaru" for 7 days 6 Nights. Technically casting/popping and jigging.
Why Maldives? "I've been there ... something to experience".
Why? A good fishing place to get me near 100 species and that's my lifetime target.
Anyway, thanks so much to Kenny Chee from Extreme Anglers to supply us with their jigging rods range from PE1, PE1.5, PE2hp and PE4.
Thanks to Tackle Fever for the trip arrangement especially Lothar as their representative. Its a good experienced and great excitements for us all. Those who are interested to give it a try or trip of your lifetime please do contact me via email steveraa78@gmail.com or mobile +60168865510. I'll get you guys connect to Tackle Fever. Are they organizing it every year? Yes! Definitely, you will enjoy the fishing trip and able to make new friends.
Here are some nice pictures.
Maldivian Giant Trevally on Stickbait
Close up on Giant Trevally
Red Bass on Slow Slide jig
Fierce Triggerfish
Coral/Red Grouper on Xesta jig
Correct me if am wrong ... is it golden jack or golden trevally?
Another Grouper
Good size Giant Trevally
Bluefin trevally
Grouper again and again
Another species in the pocket .... Rusty Job Fish
Great friends of mine...having a lot of good n fun times with all of them!
After planning the trip for almost 6 months and here we are at Bakun Dam, Bintulu, Sarawak. For those that not familiar with the name of "Bakun", its a place that near to Bintulu town approximately 3 hours journey by car. For those that coming from Kuching it will takes 1 hour flight or more than 10 hours drive to get to Bintulu town. To be brief, its a remote area under hydroelectric project in the Island of Borneo.
All the channels and the upriver streams are famous with Sebarau which is locally known as Adong or Juak and widely known as Hampala Macropiledota (correct me if i'm wrong).
Other specimens that been caught there were Semah/Empurau(Masheer or Tor), Tengalan, Tapah(Wallago), Baung, Lampam sungai dan keli.
Below are the pictures from the last trip:
Sebarau aka Kampala caught using Siam Spoon. Set up Extreme Anglers Custom Rod and Daiwa Zillion TWS bait cast reel with a 20lb Powerpro main line/30lb fluoro leader.
Thanks to Kenny Chee from Extreme Anglers for giving me chance to test their new custom prototype rod that will be soon in the market. Easily lift up the 2kg freshwater beast the Sebarau aka Hampala.
I did caught a smaller size Hampala with a micro jig from Eupro 7g.
Kenneth really enjoying the trip and even spend sometimes to fish some Baung (type of catfish).
Nice Hampala caught by Kenneth.
Dom with his catch..still Hampala even small in size. hahahaha
This is the Tengalan fish given by the local fisherman for our dinner. Hardly caught by lures.
Big smile for a big Hampala with a big lure from Storm Thunder Barra.
Please check some of the action in the video below:
This 2nd fishing trip was a last minute planning in October. After more than a months without any fishing activities and i've decided to fly to Pontianak, West Kalimantan to search for the Wallago Leeri & Begahak.
Daiwa Crossbeat & Daiwa Ryoga 1016 set a badly tested by monsters from the West Kalimantan rivers. Belows are some pictures on our catches.
Tapah @ Wallago Leeri caught using Storm Thunder Barra Lure, Daiwa Ryoga 1016 RBC & Daiwa Crossbeat Rod. Loves the fight!!!
Its not easy to lift up monster Tapah @ Wallago Leeri 23kg
Tapah measured at almost 120cm.
Begahak @ Belodontichthys dinema @ Toothed Catfish @Lais Tembiring caught using the same set up. Again Storm Thunder Barra does it.
A 4kg Begahak @ Belodontichthys dinema with Storm Thunder Barra, Daiwa combo reel & rod did it again.
Above is the short clip from the trip that i've uploaded to Youtube.
After a 2 days fishing trip in West Kalimantan with a good trophies in my catches list and yet i felt not gonna stop hunting for predators there. Definitely be back there in near future for others monster trophy.
Keen to give it a try in landing in a Wallago @ Tapah?? I might able to help but still we can't fight nature. I'm reachable via email steveraa78@gmail.com or add/follow me on my facebook King Revets.
I've started saltwater fishing with a bottom technique. With mullet, sardine, squid and many other as a fresh/live baits. These pics collection was about 2-3 years ago when all the light jigs wouldn't worked in a fast current...definitely need a weight(batu ladung) approx. around 350gm up to 900gm. It is heavy!!!! sometimes it might heavier then a fish that we caught!
Locally known as Jan or Mayong and most probably different depends on districts.
Delicious Jenahak/Golden Snapper
Known as Umpak in Sarawak...some says Gerut-gerut
Biggest Manchong i've ever caught
Ketarap/Bayan
Some collection of Red snapper
Ikan Kaci/Minyak
Telinga Gajah...well some says Toshiba?? hahahha
Another golden snapper...its hard to catch a good size golden snapper nowadays.
I caught 2 sting rays of a same size in a row at this trip
