Mackerel Hunter #1

Joined my new group of kakis from the last Kuching trip to fish at Gelang Patah on board Mackerel Hunter. Target fish is the Kurau aka Threadfin Salmon.

Early morning transport and we were in the boat by 8am.

Fished around some structures for baitfish and some kakis ended up hooking into a few Queenfish.
Boatman caught a small Tenggiri Papan aka Spotted Mackerel on live bait.

After lunch then I finally managed to catch something. The familiar Chao Xi aka Sickle Fish.

Next we anchored near some large tankers and started bottom fishing. Fish took my live prawn and sped away! Fish ON! Slowly reeled the fella back and it turned out to be another familiar fish, Kaci aka Painted Sweetlips.

We moved to another anchored vessel and dropped our baits. Boatman managed to hook up a pretty good sized Kurau. Then another 2 kakis hooked up too! Pretty good fight from the looks of it!

The Kurau didn't managed to find my hooks so it was not to be. Will be back for another shot!

Raffles Marina Trip #1 - Lucky fish

Joined a boat trip operating out from Raffles Marina. This trip was with David Ho, the creator of the Kurau jigs. I guess I'm also looking to learn some tricks from the guru.

Set off in the morning and jigged all the way. Somehow the fishes were not cooperating. Nobody was getting any action. Later on in the morning, I managed to hook up a small Grouper, too small to keep so it was released. I was happy to hear that David is quite a conservationist so he was glad the fish was released.

I then hooked up another fish. But this one turned out uglier! Haha! It was a Toadfish, also released.

Boat captain said better change to tenya style fishing as jigging wasn't working today. So he lent me his 80g tenya and I hooked a live prawn on it. As we were bouncing around the bottom, I felt a giant take and rod bent over! Fish ON!

As I was only using a lighter setup, the fish was giving a good fight. Slowly reeled it up and it was a pretty good sized Grouper.

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Some pictures before David iki jime and bled the fish accordingly. Very professional!

Another kaki managed to catch one giant Eng Ko aka Blackspot Tuskfish!