sunday fishing: SUNGAI RIAU KUANTAN

Date: 17th June 2007
Time : 9.00a.m – 3.00pm
Location : Sungai Riau Kuantan
Sunday’s Fisherman: Epul
babyFace
Sarul
Ostat
Amriez

Objectives:
1. Giant prawn
2. Tapah
3. Belida

We gathered next to riau’s bridge. The 15 minutes hike seemed forever because of the wet and slippery path. The water level was high and the chances to land giant prawn plummeted to zero. But we fished anyway.

slippery when wet

a perfect place to hunt for tapah

Tangled line can be sorted out by ostat

the place is ours, 1st come 1st serve

Main objectives were changed to land any Tapah. We concentrated more on bottom as well as floating. As for bottom, typical earth worms were used. And for Tapah fishing, we used live bait (Keli).

6 hours of fishing was fun but we were frustrated because could not land any giant prawn or tapah. Baung and lampam are common here. They are too common that we almost gone crazy. Every minute, somebody will shout “ it’s a freaking baung again!!!” .
Most baung here are babies. But if you are lucky that day, you could land the “father” baung. We released the babies back to wild… but Sarul kept the lampam for his aquarium.

Around noon, the water level started to subside. And so were the fish. We spent time cooking our lunch… Curry Flava Maggi. Suddenly, my Berkley cherrywood bend ferociously, the reel scream because I set the drag at a very minimum level. I jumped and reeled in the line. A few short moments, I managed to land the fish with my Abulon 6 pound monofilament leader. It was a TILAN… a snake like fish with beautiful “batik” on his body.

It was 2pm. We did nothing more than chatting around. Suddenly, Babyface’s rod twitched. And it was Selat. A small scale of Belida. No belida today but we managed to land several Selats . Selat is not really a big fighter comparing to sebarau. But, the fish can do acrobatic action whenever they panic.