Project 365: 197 of 365

Title: Snakeheads
Olympus 1030sw

Project 365: Thirty-One of 365

Title: Channa Striata
EFS 18-55mm IS; 1/20 second; f/5.6; ISo 100

first culvert at the new samarahan road

first haruan of the day, using r2s grub

hook right in the corner of the mouth

biggest haruan of the day. also caught using r2s grub

again, it was hooked right in the corner of the mouth

another view of the second haruan

third and last haruan of the day. using r2s grub as well

it was gut hooked as i set the hook too late. tried to pull the hook out but the leader broke. i hope it survives

ewg worm hook and the r2s grub. r2s grub was courtesy of mr arul... aka ziggerx

arul, thanx again for the r2s grub

never give up

went casting at samarahan today. started around 10 minutes past 2pm and end around 5 minutes to 6pm. that's almost 4 solid hours of continuous casting. as early as 15 minutes into casting, a snakehead had a go at the berkley grub i presented but there was no solid hook-up. then things were quiet for a couple of hours before i got a few strikes in a row, but again no solid hook-up. one of the strike, came unexpectedly when i cast a yozuri popper to the opposite bank of a weedy area. i must have taken my eyes of the area when suddenly there was a huge splash and the popper was gone, the line tightened and i could feel a pull of the fish. there was a short tussle but because my fishing tackle was ultra light, i could not contain the sudden burst of energy from the fish, where it made its way to the snag and i lost it. i had almost given up. by then it was already 5pm. i decided to move to another spot. still, that area did not produce any result until 5.30 pm, when i blind cast and caught a 6 inch haruan. then 15 minutes later, i caught another haruan (8 inch) when i cast to a shallow spot. all the fish were caught using a berkley grub attached to nitrohead hook. in the end however, i lost the sp and that was when i called it a day.

Good Friday Indeed. Praise The Lord.

new fishing spot. got a huge take here, but no solid hookup

same spot

at a different spot, got a strike on the first cast

close-up of the feisty fella

then i caught an even smaller haruan from the same spot

other scenes from the area. a goat

a pony

jalan-jalan cari haruan (8 march 2008)

after casting my ballot on malaysia's 12th general election, i went casting for haruan. the pictures will tell the rest of the story.

longkang fishing (1 march 2008)

caught a small haruan yesterday, before i met up with bro bela_oo for the real agenda of the day

spot 1

bela_oo casting at spot 2

spot 3

spot 4

spot 5

hear a splash and rushed to the location. a haruan of over 1kg had taken a piece of catfish flesh bait. it made many acrobatic jumps, trying to free itself

the kampung boy, the proud owner of that haruan

a healthy haruan and not a bad size afterall

Zero Results

at this location, my first cast with a bbd was taken abruptly, but there was no solid hookup

a very potential place

at one point, noel had a fish taking the spinner bait that i lent him, right by the side of the pond

noel, continuing to cast, diligently

pitcher plant or nepthenes of the species gracillis, semi submerged in a pond

pitcher plant or nepthenes gracillis

pitcher plant. nepthenes gracillis

nepthenes gracillis

the last 2 saturdays (16 & 23 february), i went fishing but the results were BIG FAT ZEROES for me. on 16 feb, noel and myself went to a new area to fish. the area is somewhere along the padawan - borneo highlands road. the spot looks fishy. there were definitely fish, for there were splashes and the lures that noel and myself present were taken by fish but, somehow, there were no solid hook-ups. we plan to be back there again in the near future.

today, 23 february, chen and me decided to tackle CM pond again. upon reaching the pond at 8am, we started casting. i opted to cast from one particular "high" spot that i could see a stretch of area that is to be fished. using my polaroid sunglasses, i could easily see haruans coming up for air, but observing the fish's reaction, it seems that they have been highly spooked as each time they come up for air, they would dissapear again quickly, leaving a wake of splash. casting at those directions didn't result in any take as the fish has long gone from the immediate area. i tried all lures, i.e. propeller lure, blade dancer, sp rigged weedless... but to no avail. chen walked around the pond once, casting at various locations... and he was duly rewarded with a haruan. around 9am, a bunch of caretakers of the park started clearing the CM pond of weeds. haruan rises were getting far and few in between, so chen and i decided to make a move to another nearby location. this "new" place that we went to were littered with small pools with crystal clear water and a couple of man made ponds. the man made ponds looked fishy but again, there were no splashes to indicate any big fish. at one of the smaller pond, i spotted a splash and proceed to cast there. my first cast with the propeller lure, i got a strike on the lure but again there were no solid hook-ups. the water was crystal clear and i could see the culprit that tried to take my lure. it was still there. it was a haruan. i cast and cast again. the haruan followed my lure but then made u-turns. then i changed to a blade dancer. again the haruan followed the bbd but it never took it into it's mouth. i could only deduced that because the water is "tap water" clear and thus, the haruan could easily see what its biting into, so it chose not to bite a fake fish. again, i vow to be back to that location to fish again.