bro ajay_cyber... trying out fly fishing
bro zigger using a baitcasting tackle setup
chiam setting up his telescopic rod
the only haruan landed that day. 5 anglers, 1 fish
the fish was the biggest i've caught, to date, at CM's pond
size comparison. my shoe is almost 1ft long
close-up shot of the haruan and the killer bakau sp
the 3" bakau sp was securely lodge onto the lips of the haruan
the haruan stretched out on my arm. i measured my arm, from tip of finger to the elbow. it was 15". i estimated the haruan to be slightly over 1kg in weight
next target... the carps in the pond!!!the trip was planned a day before, at the MFN forum. the trip was also the day where i finally got to meet fellow MFN forummer... bro ajay_cyber, bro ziggerx and bro alex. have been sharing fishing ideas with them at MFN for a while now and today i finally got to fish with them. we shared informations and ideas on fishing... and got to the business of fishing for the haruans.
the haruans are getting very educated... due to the c&r practice. they would surface just outside our casting range, and they don't hover around the area for long. they would come up for air and swim back to the weeds. bro ajay tried fly fishing and sp. bro zigger tried using popper and other surface lures. chiam used bakau SP and me, i used berkley blade dancer which didn't work. then i switched to bakau SP... which landed me a 1kg+, 15" haruan, the biggest that i have landed from this location. i also used another berkley sp, but to no avail. bro alex joined us a bit later.
how i landed my haruan was spotfishing. i saw a rise about 30ft away and cast the bakau SP to the location. i was on target and when the lure touched the water, the haruan hit it with such a force that my rod bent doubled. it then dove into the weeds. judging from the fight that it put up, i have a feeling it was a big fish. a short tussle ensued. but i managed to drag the tired haruan out of the weed area. took some pix and released it.
while fishing today, something caught my eyes. i was using polaroid glasses and i could see into the water very clearly. what i saw was, to say the least, damn interesting!!! it was a sebarau... a big sebarau... of about 1ft in length. it was just cruising around. i tried casting my lure at it but it was not interested and swam away. now i know there is sebarau in the pond and i will certainly find ways to lure it in the future. in the future, i also plan to try and catch one of those carps in the pond!!!
the haruans are getting very educated... due to the c&r practice. they would surface just outside our casting range, and they don't hover around the area for long. they would come up for air and swim back to the weeds. bro ajay tried fly fishing and sp. bro zigger tried using popper and other surface lures. chiam used bakau SP and me, i used berkley blade dancer which didn't work. then i switched to bakau SP... which landed me a 1kg+, 15" haruan, the biggest that i have landed from this location. i also used another berkley sp, but to no avail. bro alex joined us a bit later.
how i landed my haruan was spotfishing. i saw a rise about 30ft away and cast the bakau SP to the location. i was on target and when the lure touched the water, the haruan hit it with such a force that my rod bent doubled. it then dove into the weeds. judging from the fight that it put up, i have a feeling it was a big fish. a short tussle ensued. but i managed to drag the tired haruan out of the weed area. took some pix and released it.
while fishing today, something caught my eyes. i was using polaroid glasses and i could see into the water very clearly. what i saw was, to say the least, damn interesting!!! it was a sebarau... a big sebarau... of about 1ft in length. it was just cruising around. i tried casting my lure at it but it was not interested and swam away. now i know there is sebarau in the pond and i will certainly find ways to lure it in the future. in the future, i also plan to try and catch one of those carps in the pond!!!
3 comments:
That's a nice looking pond. Wow, that fish has a head like a snake!
hi lukas. where r u from? yeah! the fish's head does look like a snake, hence another common name for is "snakehead". snakeheads are from the channa family. try a search on google and u'd be surprise how many species of channa there are in the world.
I'm from Australia. Check out my fishing blog - http://j-addict.blogspot.com/
I added your blog to my links!
The snakehead can breathe air too, cool.
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