sungai pinang farm (re-visited)

6 january 2007

2pm, chen was right on the dot at the gate of my house. packed my stuff into his old faithful... we headed for john's house. he was not ready... as usual. soon enough, we headed off to our first location, suggested by me, some oil palm plantation near uitm, samarahan area. unfortunately, the condition of the streams there weren't conducive thus we opted for another location.

it was either we go all the way to the water gates at samarahan, kiong's pond or sungai pinang farm. the latter was chosen and by 4pm... we have arrived there. going right to the action... john caught a skinny but healthy haruan weighing close to 1kg with his berkley blade dancer (fire tiger). later, chen foul-hooked a tilapia which put up a good fight. john switched to float fishing and got many small tilapia and puyu (climbing perch). i was still zero.

we all moved to the back ponds to explore. we got to 1 huge pond, way back at the farm. it was huge... as big as a football field... but it had drained, leaving pockets of water that was 1-2ft deep. lots of action on the water surface, and with polarised sunglasses, can see that the fishes around were... red tilapia (1kg+ in size), puyu, haruan and even catfish. john was the first to catch a fish, a puyu. then chen got a haruan, but as he reeled the fish in... it tried an escape trick that would make houdini proud. i was getting restless. still zero for me. then out of the blue, my blade dancer was whacked. hook-up. a fiesty haruan (500g) was reeled in. after a quick photo session, it was dully released. soon after that, chen pulled up another 500g haruan with his halco sorceror.

then on, we moved back to the front ponds. plenty of puyu and tilapia were caught but we didn't bother to take any more photos. chen did try float fishing for the huge patins, but there were no takers. around 6pm, we called it a day after a satisfying half-day of fishing.