A nice and relax trip fishing trip on 27 Mar (4 kakis) & 28 Mar (6 kakis).Started the journey from JB @ 1030pm, then drop by kota tinggi to get 100 live prawns(0.60/pc), TT at Mersing and finally reach Pekan @ 2:30am. The trip was mix of bottom (80%), jigging (20%), …
27 Mar (4kakis)
Weather: Cloudy and Relax
Current: Slow
Surprisingly slow current, 1st stop is at unjam, jigging for live bait using apollo. Only caught few tamban and selar then we proceed another spot target ebek using live prawn (since we malas to jig except our captain, boatman sound not so pro.. haha).. On the way, saw some frenzy on the sea, so stop & jig out.. within second, hook on a 1.5KG selar papan by captain !! very fast the frenz and the boat drift quite far away, so continue…the final result
Result:
Around 10 groupers from 500gram-2kg
Around 7 Parrot fish of 500G-3kg
Pari around 20-25KG [:(] captain advised to released but too bad we wanted to bring it up…
28 Mar (6kakis)
Weather: Nice and hot
Current: slow from morning to afternoon, fast late afternoon
2 more kakis joined us, and started 8am.. reach 1st unjam, alot of small kembong, but is not our target, we looking for selar or tamban.. then move to another unjam, too bad, that unjam full with people snorkeling armed with spear..[:(][:(]
Doing bottom except 2 kakis and captain doing jigging…not much action until captain hit something big on jig, everyone reel up and enjoy the show [8D][8D], sure is ebek [:D].. after 20-30minutes,a nice size ebek surface,initially estimated around 10kg, after weight in 11.5kg (wow, go see-see his rod & reel, using PE 1.0 rod & certate 3000)
we hit another 2 ebek (2.5 & 5.5Kg using live prawn), 1 x 4.3kg travelly with yellow strip??, 2 parrot fish 2kg-3kg, some grouper.
Some pics (part & parcel)
Jiggig: our captain/boatman, kalau rajin, higher chance to dapat.. too bad, i very malas to jig [:o)][:o)]
Big Big Pari,Ebek & Parrot
Ebek, grouper and bottom..
Overall: nice and relax trip with great company, great captain & nice beer (trying to practise occasionally cnr based on majority [:o)])
