Fishing Log

Last week (my last week of sem break), i decided to cook some of the fish i’ve been keeping in the freezer. I decided to cook two Peacock Bass and two Pacus.

Man! Scaling and cleaning the fish without the proper tools can be gila tiring! After almost 2 hours cleaning the fish and getting pieces of fillet from them, i put it through the usual deep fry process.

Turned out to be quite nice! The peacock bass actually no fishy smell at all. The Pacu got a bit la, but just at a certain part. It was quite nice la, cooking and eating self-caught fish at home. Just that it was tiring la.

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Besides cooking some fish at home, mummy also took the 1.5kg keli to the Bagan Restaurant and they cooked Kong Po style, then we brought back and makan at home. Fuyoh! Sedap man! Very well cooked la. We decided from then, better leave it to the experts.

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On sunday (25th may), daddy wanted to buy Ps Mike n Sis Diane lunch at Bagan Restaurant, so we took the 3 remaining peacock bass and asked them to do sweet n sour stlye… They fry so much better than the ones we did at home.

It’s not only the fact that they’re experts… But when it comes to these kinda things, they’ve got the big woks, and huge fires too, and all the right tools, so i think it’ll always be difficult to do it as well as they do.

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Last Saturday (24th May), went with DanR to Tanjung Syawal. We used dedak only… And brought back one fish only…

Actually i caught one more smaller one… But really disgusting coz sick dy and the skin being eaten by… Er… Anyway, some pak cik took it back… Yuck!

DanR got 2 hook-ons actually… But he lost both. Wasted!

It was a bit sad for us because quite a lot of ppl pulling up Pacus easily… But i’m glad at least i set new Pacu record… And this was one really healthy looking Pacu. Perfect. Just over 1kg. Around 1.1kg la.

It’s in the freezer now… Not sure how wanna cook this…

Last night (Wednesday night), went with Teh to check out Russa Emas freshwater pay pond, which is like 5 mins from my place. It’s got 2 really small ponds, n is kinda next to the Klang River. Haha.

Anyway, spent 3 hours there n both of us got nothing. Ustaz (regular at the fish shop, and also the one who recommended Tanjung Syawal n this place), who was there at that time too, caught like 1 Patin n 3 Rohu in his first hour! He got i think at least 2 more Rohu before he left! Frustrating la, can see so many big fish in there, the pond is small, and only 3 of us fishing, but still din get anything. I only got 2 small tilapias that i eventually fed to the cats.

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So… Since i was disappointed last night, this morning (15th may, thursday) went to Tanjung Syawal with DanS. Spent 2 hours there n i got 2 pacus. Sad that din get bigger fish, but at least i got la. Dan only got 1 small Leekoh, which i brought home n fed to my Alligator Snapper.

The first Pacu was close to 1ft. Not a bad size. Small, but not too small. Caught it using "mata bomb". The second Pacu i got on float with dedak also. This one smaller.

Hmmm… Ok la… 2 hours of fishing… 2 Pacus. A bit sad compared to the first time i visited Tanjung Syawal, but i’ll take it. Better than nothing. A few other guys fishing also, all with "bomb" n all got Pacu also, all around same size.

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Tmrw leaving for Kairos Reach Conference at Bukit Tinggi (near Genting). Will be away for 2 days, that’s why had to fish yesterday n today. Next week is my last week of holidays. Already got some other stuff planned, Hope i can squeeze some fishing into the week, and get BIG FISH!

Been lazying for the past few days… But i better update before forget stuff…

Long awaited ‘fishing trip’ to CWS in Perak finally here…

First day, Khang Yinn got 2 Peacock Bass, and i got 1. All 3 about 9-10 inches.

Second day morn, went casting at the driving range. I got 2 Peacock Bass, n lost one more close to the bank. The ones i managed to pull out, one was a good size, the other was too small, so we threw back. Khang Yinn got so many fish that morn, he got 4 Peacock Bass and 1 Haruan. All of his was about the size of the big one i caught, around 10-11 inches. The haruan at least 9-10 inches also. He actually almost got a big Hauran at the Anna n the King set, but it got off when just a few feet away from the bank.

The last day, Khang Yinn got 2 more PBs.

All that we caught was on casting alone. We tried bottom fishing and float on the second day, at night… No bites, except for some tugs at KJ’s rod.

Overall a bit disappointed that we didn’t get any big fish. But at least all the fish we got were eating size. KY was quite disappointed that din get big fish, KJ was alright, coz he still had fun even though he din manage to get anything, i felt it was a good learning experience. After all, this was only our first trip there, and we mainly only did casting, so couldn’t expect to get 14kg Temoleh n all… Haha

Also, visiting Ipoh was fun too. And we had lots of good food. Overall the trip was a good one for me.