April 4-5 - Rompin

I got an invitation from Derrick to fish at this date ... what can I say?

I got back from Rompin late last night. We had choppy waters during the 2 days fishing and below average fishing catch. Nevertheless, it was good revisit for me to Rompin after approximately 2 years. Will write more later when time allows.

We left KL during peak traffic hours where the going-back-home crowd coupled with some ching-beng crowd I guess, and it was after shower in KL. It was traffic jam everywhere as expected, but Derrick and his girl friend, Dave and myself drove in a car, inch by inch, we move out from KL and had a good dinner at a Chinese restaurant near Bukit Tinggi.

The journey to Rompin was smooth. We stopped by Pekan at ikan masin house as I need to pass some of Ah Boy fishing tools that my fellow collagues have packed his in my bags. Ikan masin asked me to chat for while when we met in his house and we took the chance to get some updates on the sea condition.

We move on from Pekan about 10 20pm, and reached Rompin at around 11 45pm.

Photo of sail fish statue in Rompin town.

We called the boatman Ah Pui and arrange to meet and get something to bite before we finish for the day. The accommodation that has been arranged in Ah Liang "hotel", a private house arranged with facility for anglers that is.

We started off on our fishing on the day after, and Derrick have his good-reading fishing report here:-

http://www.fishing.net.my/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17325&whichpage=1

Photo of around 2 years old new wooden jetty built for fishing charter only.

Restaurant built just next to the jetty. This restaurant supplies everything we need in our daily fishing trip; food, drinking water, even facilitated with fish cleaning table and washing area for fishing gears.

Our dinner after our first day out. We had fresh catch as our dinner and couple of vodka+lemon+tonic. Was refreshing.

This was how heavy the rain at the morning on the second day. I felt this photo was not able to capture the actual situation.

Another photo of the rains when we were on our way out to unjam, last from Rompin. With Derrick mackerel and sail fishes of others, the effort was worth while.

Rainbow in the sky after we passed through the rains.

The fishing in this trip was nothing spectacular for me. I understand from Derrick on his earlier trip there, catch of diamond trevally, or by local name, "ebek" was reported at one of the major coral area. Unfortunately they are not around this time when I was there.