To Brother roy64 @mr. Champion @RFREE
I know who you are, because you talk n d way you write are exactly the same style. Your trip with me was 29/2, 1/3, 2/3, total 9 anglers onboard. 5 are new beginners. Here comes the journey of your trip, before that, this is the tide table for Bagan Dato’, Perak.
29/2 1/3 2/3
Time Meter Diff Time Meter Diff Time Meter Diff
0320 0.8 0357 1.0 1.1 0637 1.2 0.7
0927 2.0 1.2 1038 1.8 0.8 1314 1.8 0.6
1520 1.0 1.0 1613 1.2 0.6 1946 1.3 0.5
2132 2.1 1.1 2253 1.9 0.7
Day 1 – 29/2 – Leave jetty at 10am to Hutan Melintang, S Mount, arrive at 2pm but unfortunately NW wind pick up with wave almost 2m high, make situation hard to do drift jigging, wait for an hour plus still no sign of slow down, no choice have to go P. Jarak slowly, on the way hopefully wind slow down so can jig other spot. Sadly mothernature not corporate, reach P. Jarak sunset, no choice have to park next to Island to look for shelter and that night the winds kept on blowing till next morning.
Day 2 – 1/3 – Start jigging after breakfast although sea still quite rough with ±1.5m wave, so the boat was rocking like rock n roll. When drift jigging no good result due to dead current, try other few sport but still the same, stop at around noon to cook for lunch. After lunch try to park at pinnacle but failed to do that because wind condition not allowed. Go to shipwreck later to try luck there but jigging still no result with still water. Bottom jigging also nothing with only market kembong and sotong we have as bait. This trip suppose to collect live mantis prawns at Tg. Karang, but SOMEONE?? Don’t want to wait when they arrive at supplier’s house too early in the morning. With no good bait you know the result. Around mid night, I woke up to toilet, Mr roy64 was cooking maggie mee for supper. I found out 10 packs of maggiee mee I purposely kept inside storage box for morning left only 6 packs so I said to him #61514; Alamak besok pagi, makan roti sajalah, pasal ini saje mee yg tinggal. Roti gardenia masih banyak!! Then we hit by storm, so up anchor and slowly to P. Sembilan, reach there about 4 AM!!
Day 3 – 2/3 – Breakfast (roti goreng telor / French toast) 2 cartoons, start jigging till 11am but nothing at all with totally dead water. Only 0.6m btw high n low tide. Go back to P. Jarak arrive at 12.40pm, normally 10am – 11am will cook Maggie mee with mantis prawn but only 6 pack how to serve 9 person? So I decided to go back 1 hour earlier so that they can have lunch at Bagan Dato’. This all my mistake forget to top up Maggie mee stock and if Mr roy64 ask me first before he cook d Maggie mee I will suggest him take the gardenia bread with curry chicken because I bought extra bread. And this make you angry, and you say I reduce food a lot right?
Here is my food menu for 3 days onboard GT Chaser:-
DAY 1 – 1pm Curry Ikan Mabong / Ikan Goreng (± 2kg)
3pm Pisang goreng
7pm Vegetable / Asam pedas crab (4kg)
DAY 2 - 8am Roti gardenia, hot dog 40pcs, fried egg (1 each), cucumber and tomato
1pm Chicken Soup / Ikan Goreng
3pm Pisang goreng
7pm Vegetable / Curry chicken
DAY 3 - 8am French toast
10am Maggie mee / mantis prawn
Hot drink – coffee 3-in-1 n tea bag, DIY with hot water in jar
(Note: Mid night supper excluded, pls buy your own)
So this trip cover total mileage of sailing 115NM, from jetty to HMSM, then P. Jarak, P. Sembilan back to jetty are 99NM. 115NM – 99NM = 16NM, so this 16NM is the distance of drift jigging and change spot. Let’s say only 5NM is the total distance of drift jigging cover area, with drifting speed less than 1NM due to dead current, how many times need to cover this distance and how many time left I can park the boat next to Island and sleep all time except for the 1st night? Don’t forget when there is strong wind and big wave during night time, I have to stay alert for watch out although we are seeking shelter behind island as there are other big trawling boat park there also. Sometimes park too close will be hit by them and the boat will go too near to rocks and island area too. I have no chance to sleep at all as this continue till morning. If this happen, normally I will request to start a bit late around 9am so I can rest for 2 hours. So? Do you think all I care is park the boat by island and sleep even during day time?
As boat captain, I have to take care the safety of all on board my boat. It is my responsibility. When there is 2 meter white cap out there, how to drift jig on this kind of condition? Maybe you can because you are the champion angler and weekend boat skipper, but how about the others on board? Specially new beginners, while they can’t walk, stand or anything except hide inside cabin, vomit, knock out, sleep 2 day 2 night no eating anything? How if someone fell overboard? I am the one to have to answer for all incidents happen on boat. So I request please think for others, you are super but not everyone same like you. I have to make decision according to situation, if this make you unhappy and not what you expected, I felt sorry about this. So after long story, I stop here. I want to apologize and say sorry again to those unhappy because of my service. Happy fishing!
Apa kit buat dan cakap, Tuhan melihat diatas!!
Ah Ho – GT Chaser 23/3
