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.

Sg. Tahan 3d2n Trip

I slot in a fishing plan to Taman Negara on September 3rd to 5th. After the Thailand trip canceled, fellow fishing mates decided to have a freshwater trip within September itself so the trip was set.

We left Kuala Lumpur on dawn of Friday and after some wrong road we took, we reached Kuala Tahan approximately 7 30am.

I have heard about how great Kelah fishing was in Sg. Tahan and took the chance to see what when how who sort of exploration in the trip.

I have to say I like the freshwater spots and enjoy every moment when we were sitting at our camp, chatting, and fishing became second in priority.

The process to reach these fishing camp site, however, was quite tough physically for me. Our boatman will stop before rapids and anglers shall either took a short jungle walk or rapids walk.

Journey to the destinated camp site took us about 2 30hrs, with a prompt stop at Kelah Santuary. No long after Kelah Santuary, we changed from long boat to smaller, shallow boat and boatman will row whenever he could.

We did spoon casting along our way up and JT was awarded with couple of juvenile sebarau.

I got a good hit on my spoon in one of my casts but was unable to set the hook. Recheck on my rig setup, I guess perhaps the treble hook that came together with killer spoon ULTIMA was too small.