last post for 2007

today is new year's eve. what a great fishing year it has been. caught many fish that i have never caught before in my life, namely, parrot fish, angkeh, coral stingray (the blue dot type), sebarau and grass carp!!! one of the parrot fish that i caught was even captured on video, courtesy of a fishing buddy... john.

on top of that, i won 2nd prize at a fishing competition. the fish that won me that prize was a 1.55kg haruan, and the prize was an electric oven.

but the icing to top all that was the friendly wager that i had with sharma aka crazyfisherman. at the beginning of the year, we came out with the idea. set some rules and the we started fishing. the prize at first was RM100, but somehow or rather, that prize ballooned up to a DAIWA FREAMJ. i am no gambler... but with a DAIWA FREAMJ at stake, i was beginning to have cold sweats. i had to come up with a strategy and that was to fish at any chance i get... no matter how small the fish... just to get the points. my strategy was to get volume. from sematan... my fish biggest fist was between 1-2kg. and from kiong's pond, my heaviest catch for the year was a 6kg+ grass carp. i didn't know what sharma had planned but sometime during the middle of 2007, he started to pick-up jigging... and he seemed to have abandon the idea of fishing at ponds. he had a few trips to very productive places for jigging and i was so sure he was gonna hooked on some BIG fish and rack in the points. unfortunately for him (thankfully for me), somehow, the potential of his trips to hutan melintang, pulau sembilan etc... didn't materialize. as the seas became rough due to the inevitable monsoon, i concentrate on land based fishing and continued to raked in the points. sharma however, kept looking for the window trip to bag the big one... but it never came.

a few days ago... sharma declared defeat in his blog... crazyfisherman.blogspot.com

finally the fat lady sings. i win the DAIWA FREAMJ.

thanx for the competition you gave me Bro. too bad, i taking a sabbatical next year. haha.

for anyone who wanna challenge sharma aka crazyfisherman to a friendly competition next year, you can either approach him directly or... email me at shakerouni@gmail.com, and i will try to arrange a competition between you and him. (subject to his agreement, of course). haha.