Pulau Dayang Offshore Fishing

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This is my Pulau Dayang CR. A lovely island located near Pulau Aur, a divers paradise. It’s one of the furthest island, bout 70km from mainland Malaysia via Mersing, Johor. One can only but wonder if the Aur islands have been reserved specifically for the elite with a lot of money to spend. However, this really shouldn’t deter the traveller in a quest for the perfect island to explore, to laze about or to indulge in the culture and hospitality of the local fishermen and their families. Once you’re there, you’d know that all that hassle was worth every penny. The relief is that once the weekend crowd has disappeared, you will discover the true beauty of the islands and its waters…:smiley:

A few of us spent 3days/2nites at Pulau Dayang, one of the very popular dive site among Singaporean. Upon reaching Mersing(from Port Klang) and after a brief breakfast, we depart from Mersing Jetty to Pulau Dayang at about 9am in the morning…:smiley:

Pulau Dayang and Pulau Aur has always been a stopover point for fishermen. With a supply of frsh water and plenty of fish in the waters, a few later moved their families to the island…:smiley:

One of our deckhand is awaiting our arrival at the Pulau Dayang Jetty…:smiley:

If you have the time, you could hop on the weekend dive boats to the islands, stay a week and then hop back onto the next batch of boats heading to the mainland the weekend after…:smiley:

Some of our ‘weapons’…:smiley:

Once you’re there, you’d know that all that hassle was worth every penny. The relief is that once the weekend crowd has disappeared, you will discover the true beauty of the islands and its waters…:smiley:

Aur was never the peaceful island as we see now. The deep dark secrets of the wild days are only beginning to unravel within the historic data collected from salvaged treasures hoisted from sunken Chinese junks, sailboats and old merchants ships found shattered in its watery grave…:smiley:

They are rumoured to contain treasures and wrecks beyond our imagination. Perhaps they should left in peace in these graves together with their masters from a long forgotten era of great sea voyages…:smiley:

On our first day, upon reaching Pulau Dayang, we stop by a few ‘unjam’ for warm up…:stuck_out_tongue:

This trip, my ‘bangla’ aka elec reel not very productive but my custom jigging rod was overwhelm by attacks of Pulau Dayang monsters…:smiley:

Banny, my fishing buddy was the first to hook up a fish…:smiley:

It was a shark…hahaa…:stuck_out_tongue:

Bout 4-5 kgs i would say…:smiley:

Then, Shtan caught the second fish, it was a Kerisi…:smiley:

Then a grouper…:smiley:

Then a Ikan Timah…:smiley:

Then we called it a day and head back to our chalet at Pulau Dayang…:smiley:

Took our bath and dinner was ready…:smiley:

We had sambal fish, asam pedas style…:smiley:

Steam fish, teochew style…:smiley:

And a few more dishes which we wash down with a few cans of beers…:smiley:

We saw some notes on our chalet wall, wonder if any of those notes is yours…:smiley:

The next morning, at about 6.30am in the morning, we are ready for the battle and head to the jetty where our boat is waiting oredi…:smiley:

Manage to do a trademark post before alighting the boat, special to all my fans out there…hahaa…:stuck_out_tongue:

On this second day, we are heading to one of the furthest ‘unjam’ where Marlin dances and manta rays do somersault underwater…:stuck_out_tongue:

Upon reaching the ‘unjam’, we saw a school of Dorados playing around. No waiting liaw, we cast, we cast and STRIKKKEEEE~!!!

Once hooked on, they jump like mad~!!!

The Dorado bull powere and stamina is awesome~!!!

Gaff~!!! Gafff~!!! GaaFFFFFFFF~!!! We shouted at the boatman, hook ups after hook ups till the boatman takbleyyy tahan…hahaa…:smiley:

Finally, landed~!!!

How many dorados we caught that day~??? Donno, we was to busy striking one after another till lost count…hehee…:stuck_out_tongue:

I think got bout 50 kua…:smiley:

All dorado bull sizes bout this…:smiley:

The boatman was kind enuff to ‘bleed’ the dorados for us to take home. Dorados is a good eating fish too…:smiley:

This is how Fried Dorado look like, wooolalaaa…slurpps…[:D]

The whole day we was fighting dorados till no time to fish other fish, it was fun…hehee…:smiley:

Then we head back to our Chalet at Pulau Dayang and call it a day, pheeewww i must be getting old, back ache man~!!!:smiley:

On the third day, nothing much happen except for shark frenzy. We caught shark after shark…:smiley:

Shark attack our bait like crazy~!!! Taruk makan, taruk makan…:stuck_out_tongue:

Black tip, white tip, no tip,… you name it we caught it…hahaa…:stuck_out_tongue:

And that’s the end of my CR on Pulau Dayang Fishing Trip with Shtan, Banny(Landlord classmate) and Ronnie, Cheers~!!![:D]

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Looks like a good pre-monsoon day in Aur/Dayang. How come you didn’t CnR the shark lar, kesian sama dia olang. Anyway Aur is one of the best fishery and diving sites I’ve even seen in East Coast. Best kept secret too?? My sea fishing days glory was there too with a 80+kg Black Marlin [:D]

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thx for the catch report, nice one.
cheers

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Nice catch bro…especially those sharks…[:D]…luckily no Great White Shark in our sea…[:)]

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KK,

Really nice catch. Especially the dorados. Bring back the good old memories where I use to frequent Pulau Dayang at least twice a year to target the black marlin and dorados. Did you try the dorado’s on popper? Remember that during one year, we encounter a huge schools..about few hundreds of them..bascially one cast one fish. It was damn fun. But too bad the boatmen that I normally go with retired. Did you guys troll for the bonitos? I remember that the boatmen around aur area will use somekind of special made apollo and troll for the bonitos. Great fun on light tackle. You got the number for this boatmen? Cheers

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kurau kurau..
apasal la..ko suka gigit ikan?[:D][:D]

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Lapala, after learning from you and all CNR sifus here, i did actually released some of the shark we caught. Infact i did something which is better than CNR, i stop fishing knowing ‘down’ there is full of shark. I was actually doing ‘drifting’ with ballons hoping a billfish will see my bait but the current was kinna ‘dead’ that day so no luck lor…[:D]

Most of the shark was caught by the boatman and i was told that they will sell it at Mersing at Rm9 per Kgs to help support their ‘living’ as they do not have much visitor thus less boat rental this year and this is what i was told…[|)]

quote:
Originally posted by LaPala
Looks like a good pre-monsoon day in Aur/Dayang. How come you didn't CnR the shark lar, kesian sama dia olang. Anyway Aur is one of the best fishery and diving sites I've even seen in East Coast. Best kept secret too?? My sea fishing days glory was there too with a 80+kg Black Marlin [:D]
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Glad you like tis CR ktang…[:D]

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Originally posted by ktang
thx for the catch report, nice one. cheers
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Planning to go Africa to try those great white, was told they are great fighter…hahaa…[:D]

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Originally posted by butter
Nice catch bro...especially those sharks...[:D]...luckily no Great White Shark in our sea...[:)]
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Yoo Jerry, bringing back memory is not enuff, go visit Pulau Dayang to get the feel again laa. Yaa, i was told the old boatman has retired to become a Jabatan laut skipper, seeing him playing ‘tongkol’ with his apollo was really something that someone kenot forget…hahaa…[:D]

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Originally posted by JerryGK
KK,

Really nice catch. Especially the dorados. Bring back the good old memories where I use to frequent Pulau Dayang at least twice a year to target the black marlin and dorados. Did you try the dorado’s on popper? Remember that during one year, we encounter a huge schools..about few hundreds of them..bascially one cast one fish. It was damn fun. But too bad the boatmen that I normally go with retired. Did you guys troll for the bonitos? I remember that the boatmen around aur area will use somekind of special made apollo and troll for the bonitos. Great fun on light tackle. You got the number for this boatmen? Cheers

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Well fookie, that’s my trademark…hahaa…[:D]

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Originally posted by fookie
kurau kurau.. apasal la..ko suka gigit ikan?[:D][:D]

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Congrats on the good fishing and report!
50 Dorados tapau-ed? Any more left for me ka Mr.Kurau? Haha

One more into my must-go-place-for-fishing list = P.Dayang

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KK,some of the graffiti were left by us years ago…Damn…i miss that place



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oh my god, the water is so clean and clear! How do we get there?

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[quote]Originally posted by chuanjiek

oh my god, the water is so clean and clear! How do we get there?

Normally from Mersing. If you plan to go,get in touch with KK or you can e-mail me if you need a boat contact.I used to go there regularly but have not been doing it of late but after looking at this thread…the hands are itching again. [:p]



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jom… lets go tomoro… [:P]


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quote:
Originally posted by lannun
[quote]Originally posted by chuanjiek
oh my god, the water is so clean and clear! How do we get there? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Normally from Mersing. If you plan to go,get in touch with KK or you can e-mail me if you need a boat contact.I used to go there regularly but have not been doing it of late but after looking at this thread...the hands are itching again. [:p]



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Lets go weeeeeh…

No pain no gain, dont try dont know… muahahahahaha

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quote:
Originally posted by LuckySamurai
[quote]Originally posted by lannun
[quote]Originally posted by chuanjiek
oh my god, the water is so clean and clear! How do we get there? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Normally from Mersing. If you plan to go,get in touch with KK or you can e-mail me if you need a boat contact.I used to go there regularly but have not been doing it of late but after looking at this thread...the hands are itching again. [:p]



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Lets go weeeeeh…

Itching oredi la…will let you know…how does 5D 4N sound to you?



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quote:
Originally posted by lannun
quote:
Originally posted by LuckySamurai
[quote]Originally posted by lannun
[quote]Originally posted by chuanjiek
oh my god, the water is so clean and clear! How do we get there? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Normally from Mersing. If you plan to go,get in touch with KK or you can e-mail me if you need a boat contact.I used to go there regularly but have not been doing it of late but after looking at this thread...the hands are itching again. [:p]



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Lets go weeeeeh…

Itching oredi la…will let you know…how does 5D 4N sound to you?



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Don’t hear any sound oso… [:p][:p][:p]


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Haizz, sud have tot so cos we saw a pirate pic there too…[:D]

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Originally posted by lannun
KK,some of the graffiti were left by us years ago....Damn...i miss that place



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