Monday, September 27, 2010

Farm Fishing

Was invited many times by my friend who own a plantation cum fish farm to make a trip to his farm and decided to do that on September 24.

He built bungalows right in the middle of his farm (pic. attached) with 100% wood as the construction material.

Friends having fun with pond patin (pangas catfish) fishing. Hooked fish will just follow tamely when we reel the fish back. Upon sighting creature with limbs they will start sprinting.

Those are escaped patin from cage and we are supposed to transfer them back to cage.

I brought my Conolon 12lb for the fishing and got the rod tip guide ring broken by a 3 kg-ish patin.

The twinpower 3000 screamed for sure but for some reason, the thrill is entirely different with wild fishing.

Patin boiling for fish pellet during feeding. I was told that patin will never stop eating and the consequence of feeding them non stop would kill them.





A wild baung (asian redtail catfish) caught using live fish as bait. The owner has never stock any baung in the ponds so this fish came from the natural stream. In fact the owner was surprise with the first baung caught in the wild ponds. As for me, I was only thinking how it taste like when it is steamed.




We had soya sauce steamed patin as dinner. The fish has no "soil" smell and I was told that afloat cage-farm fish will have no soil smell because they are rear above the soil. Hmmm ... not sure how true or not it is ...




Preparing food at the barbecue hut. The bungalow was built with barbecue hut with huge oven, complete with electric motor that can accommodate a whole lamb. That night itself we had beef soup and free-range chicken with chinese herbs soup.






Rain came during night time and our plan to fish then was postponed till it stopped. We did some 1 hr fishing in the midnight but register no bite at all.






Haruan (snakehead) that caught using live bait fish. Overall, lure fishing is tough as the water in the wild pond is murky. Small fish and small prawn exist in abundance in the wild ponds which has made up a complete food chain within.

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