Tarpon on the 3rd day of Aidil Fitri

Its the third day of Aidil Fitri and finally after 1 month of fasting I get to go for fishing at my In-law's nearby river canal. I woke up at 630am this morning and it was a very quiet morning due to everybody that is still busy celebrating the festive season. It was quite cloudy and tide is low with the fish is rising everywhere. This time, I managed to get my brother in-law to be my photographer which is very uncommon since he is not fond with fishing. Anyway, Thanks to him, I have somebody that could take my pictures nicely instead of me taking of my pictures myself.

The road is mostly dried out due to the drought season, this means that the salt level in the canal is slightly high which is good for fishing Tarpons and other estuary fishes.

Oooh ,country road~

And the first fish on the first cast. Using Crazy Charlie pattern. Its small but on a 3wt rod, its REALLY fun.

Too small to be called Atlantic Tarpon

And the 2nd cast, with the 2nd fish. Could this day get any better?

The mini Silver King

The Second Tarpon on Fly

Then, the fishing starting to get a little bit slow. I cast my line and leave it there for awhile. I started to chat with my brother in-law and he was really amazed with the fishing today. As I was chatting, I could feel nibbles on my fly, and I quickly jerk the rod but it was too late. So I recast and let the fly sink to the bottom. As I begin to strip, there was a tension in the line and I quickly give a hookup resulted with this.

3rd Tarpon : slightly bigger and can feel the muscular within the fish

After that I pack my gear and slowly I started to make a move. As a conclusion, during this trip I learned to overcome the situation where most of the time when anglers fish for tarpon they have the trouble to land the fish because it normally will throw the hook during the fight. This is due to its mouth design with a shell-like lips that gives difficulties to set the hook properly. To overcome this, I use branded hooks (well in this case, I'm using Gamakatsu hooks designed for bonefish size 8) which is sharper, stronger, and hard to bend so that when I hook the fish it maintains its angle.

Tarpon in action

Fly fishing for Puyu

Fly fishing puyu

On Goldbead Pheasant tail nymph

Cast where it rises and let it sink

Puyu

Normally puyu can be found in small canals that are nearby with paddy field. However, this place where my friend introduced to me is a bit differ, the puyu lives at a huge shallow pond and it is everywhere.
The puyu here mostly attracts toward white coloured nymphs compare to Olive nymphs. I suggest to try using small white coloured Crazy Charlie which can be more effective.

Repeat peat peat peating

Well, there is a trend here, normally when a new pay pond opens and the fishing is good, it attracts a lots of anglers around KL until it will be overfished. Even if it is a catch and release pond, after lots and lots of anglers come around and keep catching and releasing the fish, the fish will later becomes very wary of lures and they started not to bite it anymore.

Thus, I wind up going to this Barramundi pay pond in Banting again even though I just went there few weeks ago. I was really determined to catch the Barras on lures but I somehow ending doing fly fishing until the end of the day.

For your information, they haven't restock the fishes since the last time I went there, but thank god there are still many left. Its a good idea to have a pond where they recycle the fish often.

I did enjoy fly fishing here maybe its because the pond is small and there is no need for distance casting. Most of the time I will be practicing my cast, controlling the loop, and once a while, there will be a hookup.

Anyway, enjoy the photos.

1st bite

and another

and another

 Anyway, the flies that I use is still Crazy Charlie, slow retrieve. I did tried Clouser but no luck in getting solid hookup.

I also invite my colleague to join me.

Apparently his friend catches more than him

Fishing is not only about the catch, but also the company that you bring along

My colleague jerked so hard that it ends up tangled at a tree behind him

And the tree full with Red Ants, talk about bad luck

Barramundi of Banting

It was a saltwater pond located in one of the village in Banting. The entree fee for this pond is only RM3.00/rod and you can fish for the whole day. However, you are not allowed to release any fish that you catch and you need to pay extra RM15/kg for all fishes that you landed.

The speciality of this pond is that it allow any fishing techniques even lure casting and fly fishing which most of the local saltwater pond owner doesn't allow.

Barramundi on Crazy Charlie

Well today I decided to do some fly fishing. Using a 3wt outfit and mostly using white-coloured Crazy Charlie pattern for this application. I did bring my baitcasting outfit but the fly fishing is really intoxicating :-).

As for the lure casting part, I let my friend to do the job.

 

 

Barramundi on storm flutterstick

And another Barramundi

Lastly, the fishing only can be started at 8:00am until 12:00am midnight during weekend. After several hookups, we only manage to land the total of six barramundi which costs us RM46.00. It was fun but by 12:00pm we had to leave due to the hot weather.

Freshwater prawn fishing

Its a fun and practical kind of fishing where you can even fishing no matter if its raining or sunny day because you could do this under the roof..

Just another visit to EAK

Fishing in Empangan Air Kuning is starting to become more tough day after day. Every weekend is full of families and people fishing. However it still doesn't stop me getting fish.

The first catch is pacu, having a boat is really helpful when there are too many people by the side.

 Using grub is really effective in alluring pacu.

Every now and then, there are still some Peacock Bass taking micro lures. Its kinda fun.

Today is Fly Fishing day

Its been long time since I have been to streams for nymphing and dry flying. Above is one of my favourite patttern which is CDC Deer Hair Caddis. Tied it this morning along with several others dry flies and nymph.

The water today is crystal clear, slightly higher level than before. However the Malaysian Trout are nowhere to be found. I only manage to land a Sebarau using Copper John.

Small Size but twice the fun

My friend also manage to land another small Sebarau on spoon.