Pekan 12-13 July 2008

Been on hiatus on my blog for quite sometime. Reason being, the catches for the past 3 trips were not as productive as the earlier trips. That would mean there are less interesting photos to be posted :(. Last week we've headed to Pekan again ith Ck, Jason and Thum. It would be CK's first ever trip to Pekan.

First timer luck was on his side as he hit the first fish in the morning and was rewarded with a 3kg`ish Coral Trout. Not bad for a first timer! The day has been quite slow with only baby table sized groupers landed. At about 3pm in the evening, while everyone's morale was low, 2 cuttlefish came up and tried hard to attack the jigs that was left on the water surface !

Without waiting any further, boatman and Thum rigged on their eging lures and hit cuttlefish after cuttlefish. At the end of the day, we had a total of 23 cuttlefishes! On the 2nd day, action was still pretty much slow after Thum landed his rainbow runner. Was quite bored for a moment until CK yelling he got a hook up. 20 minutes fight and he landed a cobia. At the end of the day, as we were happily teasing Ck that he got all the first timer luck and everybody was getting 0 catches, I managed to get a hookup which i thought it was hooked on to some coral but it turns out to be a green eyed grouper. Apologize if my writing is abit long as i've not written in a long long time :P

Ahh ...good morning Pekan !Lucky CK with his first fish in Pekan, his first Coral Trout
Jason's first fish for the day, a nice dorado
Thum's rainbowrunner on the morning of the 2nd day
CK having fun with the monster with his PE1.8 and Branzino setup

The first timer luck strucks on the 2nd day, a hefty 15kg`ish Cobia

My one and only sizeable fish for the trip, a green eye grouper

Pekan 31st May - Jun 1 Catch Report

Wee Lee with his baby veloo, Darren with his barracuda 29 Pounder cobia
Another shot

Taken on IMA Gunpeki 30
My 2nd ebek on jig Hooked on IMA Gunpeki 40gm

Boatman's Ebek

Darren's Golden Trevally

The long missing jig in action, Evergreen Javelin Jet

Stefan hit his first cobia

Stella SW5000XG cherry popped with a 2kg dorado

Champion hits an Ebek

My first Golden Trevally, fights like a fish double its size

Stefan's 2nd cobia taken on Madai jig

Triple + 1 hookup Golden Trevally party.

The yellow royal carpet

Total catch for the trip

The groupers n coral trouts

Fishes on Shout! Lighten 50gm from previous trip

Darren's Golden close up Darren's Golden Mac on Lighten Close up of Mac

Labour Day - Tiger Attack Day

This trip was 2 days before the previously posted trip, the gang had decided to go for a day's fishing on a boring Public holiday which fell on a Thursday,

Stefan's Golden Trevally

On IMA Gunpeki Darren fighting a what seens to be a monster tongkol on 4lb outfit phweeeweet ! A 2kg`ish tongkol Mac man is back On Caprice Kid 50gm Boatman Jr with his fair share of the Golden Trevally Also on IMA Gunpeki Darren's Tiger De jig, Caprice Kid 50gm !

Pekan 3rd - 4th May 2008

Ahh ...morning has never been so beautiful...

First catch of the day, Coral Trout

The lucky boatman...with a Selar Papan

Cobia from Boatman.....this is really testing our patience

Darren breaking boatman's luck run.

Gets his luck run back back on track with a Sagai on IMA Gunpeki

And another coral trout on IMA Gunpeki 40g

Darren's Ebek

A double hookup, right after the boatman started the engine to leave the scene

Ebek by Daren, Cobia by me...weird fishes to be in the same school.

1st Fish of 2nd day Boatman Jr with Darren's EBEK

Herring by Darren

Yours truly, 18kg Cobia on Mangrove Studio Volador

Boatman Jr with his Ebek

Total catch