GT Kuala Sibuti (Ursula Reef)

 It's been four years since the last time we fish here,mostly due to the scamdemic and other earthly factors.

This home/padang GT never disappoint us if the current and sea condition is permit able...

The reef is the continuity of the Niah Cave limestone hill some 10-20 miles on the shore and is rich of teeming unscared marine lifes(so far,and forever hopefully)... 

Eventho best record here(by popping) never exceed 40kg,but 15-30kg sizes are fun to play with and challenging,since the risk of getting your line cut here is high due to the depth of the sharp reef is just 5-20m below your boat.

We had 2 days of fun anyway, 3 Sarawakians and one Danish that even jumped into the sea to weather the hot sun on the second day,after being punished by the storm on the first day just after about 30 minutes of fishing...

And as always,the hospitality of the villagers of Kampung Kuala Sibuti is always at top notch,a lot of friendly familiar faces,and new as well...those kids that now grown up...and you can feel they sincerely miss you after the four years and there is that natural charm in this village,the food,the river,the beach,the sea and even the chicken and the goats!!!

And the ratio;

4 GTs landed ,3 on poppers and one on stick bait,all by SALACIA LURES.

2 GTs broke the main line,about 5 'spitted' out the lures and maybe 10 GTs miss stroke the lures...

Not bad for Miri' water standard.

Enjoy the pics...untill another time...

*Videos will be uploaded to our Youtube channel, Salacia Fishing

Goliath Grouper, GT and Queenfish .... it's the moment !!!!

Hello again...it's been a while...

well...more fishing than blogging.The more you catch,the less you want to take pictures or videos,until you come across to an unusual catch,like in this trip...

This Goliath made my knee shaking while reeling it in...it was not the speed,but the force of it's weight.Caught on a mid diving glow in the dark lure, the first thought was the lure is stucked to the coral,and the second thought was a turtle accidently hooked to the lure...until it ran,slowly,then you know that something not too small is at the end of the line.

It's bigger than me...

What keep an angler casting all day long?
Hope...faith...believe...and experiences...it happened many times before so it will happen again.

Queen on a popper...

This GT took the popper when the lure almost reaches the boat...it came fast from the dark deeper part of the sea cliff and gave a firm strike on the popper.

This very same spot has seen two bigger GT s escaped with the lures.On the first trip, it broke the 60lbs braided main line and on the second trip, it broke the 100lbs wyre leader!!

This time, Pakcik the boat men reversed the boat so the Speedo don't get to run to the rocks and breaks the line again.

Speedo and tail dancer...


Weapons that involved in the battle with the goliath grouper...

Reel:Shimano Jigger LD 2000(2)*(aka Talica outside of Japan) , Rod:Xzoga Takadum PE5G, Lure: Storm Deep Thunder (glow in the dark), Main line: Muzi Power 40lbs, Leader: 80lbs Steel Elephant Power

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Fishing at the tip of Borneo

Just came back from our fishing trip around Tanjung Dato' and the surrounding area.
3 hours boat ride from Sematan to Tanjung Dato,spent the evening there.Try to get as much live bait as we can and at the same time,try to 'play' with the aggressive Parrot fish.

2 strikes on our rods but none get landed.Not our evening.

From Tanjung Dato,2 hours ride across the international water border of Malaysia and Indonesia,to an area called Alor.

Here we got attacked by Barracuda,GT,Sea Snakehead,Grouper and etc.
Some GT got landed,great fight!.One sea snakehead,one lizard shark but no barracuda landed.They just bite the bait half,and even the other fish that we caught,left only the head of the fish to the frustrated angler.:)

Part of the team.

Ok,I take picture.

Its a long ride...take a nap.

Sunset..as always :)

The waiting.

Justin and Griffin...Gandalf and Frodo?

Stress!

Approaching Tanjung Dato',the west tip of Borneo.

The flying fish.Now everyone can fly!

Nature call.

Posing time.

Not too bad eh!

It's time to go home now...and i got this seasick.

We'll be back in August.Hopefully more GT and can play with the barracuda and parrot fish..and of course,can get rid of that seasick.I'm sick of it!

p/s CNR was not possible during this trip due to the norm of the boat team.