Hi I am back. Must be the fishing trip that made me "fishy" in blogging. :)
Alrite, this time, I would like to share with you the experience we had for a REAL deep sea fishing last Friday (10 Apr 2009).
My last post was about the fishing activity we had on Monkey Beach. It was fun, since I have not done fishing for ages. But, nothing is as good as the deep sea fishing experience I just had. So my friend Hock Khim used to say, if the last fishing trip was considered "fishing", then it was not so real since we went out to the sea to catch fishes that were just 3-6 inches long. So this last one was REAL, real in the sense that we caught fishes that were close to 2 1/2 feet long.
OK, 4 of us in total, took a day off from work last Friday to do deep sea fishing. Of course, that included Uncle Hooi, who owned the boat, steered the boat, and guided us thru the trolling activity. The rest were Hock Khim, my twin brother Alvin, and myself.
We departed from Balik Pulau beach at around 10.30am, and it took us about 30-40 mins to reach the island called Ho Lo Su (in Hokkien). On the way there, the weather was just nice (a little cloudy), and the sea was as calm as a mirror. We could see quite a lot of jelly fishes floating in the sea. Before we reached the rocky island, Uncle Hooi and Hock Khim got the 3 trolling rods ready, and started to drop the lure into the sea, and there was our first round of trolling (wiki : Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water behind a moving boat). And walaa...we got a big Baracuda. :) Everyone was soooo excited, of course, we couldnt stop thinking that it must be our lucky day!!
Alrite, a little side track, Alvin and I dont have any fishing gears. We just brought sandwiches for lunch. :) So all those gears belong to Hock Khim. This guy is a pro in deep sea fishing. He brought 3 trolling rods, and 3 normal rods that we can use for fishing smaller coral fishes.
OK, back to the fishing piece. After we got our first catch, we went to some other spots to get smaller fishes, not because we hoped to get all small fishes, but the rubbish and trash coming down to the sea after last nite heavy rain spoiled all the fun for trolling (we got our lure hooked on rubbishes, which we had to pull the lure back, clear the rubbish, and start the whole trolling activity all over again).
So we did get quite a lot of smaller fishes. You know, Hock Khim gave us the rods tied with 3 apollo hooks each (we used prawn as bait), just enough to get all the smaller coral fishes. Hock Khim reserved himself a rod with big hook, with the fresh Kembong fish meat as bait. And surprised surprised, he got a 2-3Kg Pek Cho (in Hokkien). Damn, I wished he gave me fishing rods with bigger hook. :) Anyway, it was that bad for us with apollo hooks, we got some coral fishes that I brought back to rear in my aquarium now. :) (Yes, that was the whole idea, Hock Khim explicitly said if he did not let me get a few coral fishes to rear, I will kill him!)
Lets cut the story shot, we got 7 and 1/2 big Baracudas, 1 Pek Cho that weighed around 2-3Kg, and loads of smaller fishes, some we let them die in the ice container, and some we let them live in a buckle of sea wather with oxygen pump. :)
Are you curious about the 1/2 Baracuda? Let me tell you what happened. In our process of trolling, we got 1 big Baracuda hooked, we pulled all 3 rods back (1 with the Baracuda, and the other 2 empty), and while we were pulling the hooked Baracuda closer to our boat, there were two more BIGGER Baracudas in flanking position, and walluped 1/2 of the Baracuda body that we caught. By the time it reached our boat, and I was about to pull it up, there were only 1/2 of it left, but it was alive still.
So now you know how fierceful is a Baracuda, if you look at the link I put up there about Baracuda, you can see how big is the jaw and mouth of Baracuda, and they came in school. I cant imagine if I was in the sea, and what the Baracudas will want to do with me. :) Scary eh?
Alrite, just to wrap up, we started sailing back around 4.40pm, because from 3pm onwards, the sea started to be wavy, and wind approached, tiny rain drops washed our tireness, but did not wash away my dizziness. :) hehehe...it was because of the constant focus on cutting the prawn into pieces, putting the bait on hook (remember, 3 hooks per rod), so that really put me close to nauseas. :) So it was time to go home.
Overall, it was a FANTASTIC experience thanks to Hock Khim who arranged this whole thing. I never did this kind of fishing before, and it was my first time seeing 2 1/2 feet fishes on the hook, and yes, I did contributed to the catch. Alrite, let me end this topic with some photos I took with my useless HTC Tytynn II handphone camera. Very bad quality photos, so please do not expect much except the memory and essence. :) See ya again. Do drop by often.
He looks the same like Alfie, sounds the same like Alfie, but he definitely is not Alfie...:)
Hock Khim on the left, and Uncle Hooi on the right. See the rod for trolling...
Hock Khim the fish butcher!! He whacked the Baracudas with wood...
Sitting and posing with STYLE! I mean the stylish hat...:)
Look at the Baracuda we got...nice and yummy...
The first 2 hours of catch...
The 1/2 Baracuda I talked about...poor thing...
Finally, one of the victory catch! :)
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