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.

Satang Island,Borneo

Finally,after about 6 months of waiting,we went out to the sea for fishing.All this time we were fishing on land(lake,river,seaside and even pay pond,which was the most!) while waiting for the monsoon to be over and the sea 'calm' enough for good fishing.

The location was around Satang Island,about 30 minutes boat ride from Telaga Air fisherman village,using a boat with 15 hp only.
The weather was good,except few times of thunder sound from afar,lightning can be seen far to the southwest,around Sempadi/Lundu area.Small wave,enough to cradle our 18ft-long boat and caused sea sick for a beginner.:P
Dinner on the boat next to the island with beautiful sunset view made fried Luncheon tasted like bacon!
Ironically,there were no squid come up for the light,made us short of fresh life bait.
First catch was a small stripe fish called 'ikan gok' by the local.And then quiet till the night.Heard sound of surfacing turtle couple of time and dolphin whistling,which worried us a bit since the locals belief that the sight of dolphin might be the sign of thunderstorm.But nothing bad happen,maybe because it was just the sound.
Next catch was baby stingray fish..and again stingray fish...and again stripy 'ikan gok' fish....all in baby size.What the heck..where is the monster?
A couple of similar size boats also fishing around that area.One of them followed us and stay near to us.Maybe they thought that we are catching a lot of fish around that area.Well,the blinds always follow the blinds.
Took a nap for a few hours,felt like a baby sleeping in a cradle,with the small wave touching the boat.The nice view of the star and full moon(yeah,full moon with king tide,perfect time for fishing huh?..smart!),didn't last long since it was so cold from the 'romantic' wind of the sea,so we moved inside for a nap.
Woke up again just before sunrise.Caught nothing,so we moved nearer to the river mouth.
A crab got my friend hook and didn't want to let go till he landed on the boat.Prodigy!
No barramundi(siakap) eventhough we did some casting.And the current near the river mouth was so strong until at one time we were drifted for a couple of kilometres.
So,we called it the day and headed back to the fisherman village.The boat owner told us that the water was 'too thick' for fishing and wrong timing.The other guys on the other boats caught nothing!
Had coffee and roti canai before we heading back to Kuching.
Next time we'll check for the perfect time,water and moon before we go for sea fishing.
Anyway...Good try...'Seasick Pirate'! :)















The captain....












Approching the islands.






















Weapons ready...
















Sunset..look at the rod.Bend it like Beckham!















Dinner with options,squid or prawn?






























Baby sting ray.

























Aliens are coming in the cloud!





















Sunrise...beautiful!














Sunrise over the legendary Mount Santubong.

















Captain Jack Sparrow!
















Heading back to the river mouth.



















Prodigy!
















Lets call it the day.Mount Serapi is the landmark to find your way back to the fisherman village.


See ya..don't want to be here....

Hunting for the giant snakehead

We still can't get the giant snakehead by casting from the lakeshore.So,we decided to buy a small boat to navigate around the lake.Plus,we heard from a local guy around the lake that there are also another species in the lake,call 'Siong'...which are big and always swimming in a group of 5-7.
Anyway,we went to another place and caught the catfish...just to 'buang gian'.

The giant snakehead territory.

Some anglers trying their luck casting for the snakehead.3 snakeheads about 2-3kg big shown up but didn't catch their lure.

Another view of the lake.

The other part of the lake can be seen from here.But only can be reached by boat.

Sunset is nice here.

The regular catfish.

Patin again.

The ordinary day.

My friend went to Sabah last week and took this picture of the new sea creature at Pulau Manukan.Can anybody here tell me what species is this?

Since someone asked me how is a giant snakehead fish look like,below is the picture of the fish.This fish is one of the best fighter in the tropic fresh water.