Tuesday, June 9, 2009

July 4-5 - Pekan

I took my colleague fishing some 2 months back and seems that they got hooked on it. Just few weeks back our office got awarded with a job in Saudi and I said we shall make another trip to Pekan before they mobilize to Saudi.

So the trip is now set with ikan masin and we gonna take the blue (bigger) boat, as that is the last boat remain vacant.

Update: 7 of us boarded charter kiam hu boat with skipper Mat as the captain. On the 1st day out we were targeting on squid and apollo (sabiki). We caught some 10kg of squid, mostly small size squid with typical weight around 200g each. Strange thing was the kembong fish were no where to be seen but the big eye kembong.

On 2nd day the renown skipper Azahar took us out and we went to unjam at some 20nm from shore. Probably because of the distance from shore, squid were bigger in size and obviously the youngsters on board got good time with the catch. We caught few chicken fishes (trigger fish) too for our dinner.

I did not do much fishing because of space constraint. Fishing generally were bad; we were hit by south wind and white cap waves at height of 1.5m were there, causing few newbies went flat and completely silent.

However, 7 of us had good time with flower crabs, local Pekan durian and chicken fish cooked at restaurant.

I was thinking then, 2 more weeks I shall come back to Pekan for a serious fishing trip.

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