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An awesome specimen! |
So this Ah Fong fishing trip was slightly interesting because of two things...
We were fishing shallow reefs and I love to fish at such fishing spots simply because there are a lot of small reef fish to catch on sabiki rig. However, this time they were gone (the last time I caught so many assorted reef fish with bare sabiki rig)!
I tried sabiki with prawn meat to tempt them but I got busted off by two bruisers. The kind of fish that take off once I set hooked. And of course, I got rattled by Ah Fong. But when I tried thicker lines with flasher hooks, they wouldn't take again. Apparently, the thin sabiki lines made them commit... I later on caught a mangrove jack with sabiki but that was just poor, boring fight.
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Yep, it took sabiki without bait |
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Flasher rig didn't work |
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Meanwhile... |
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My size made the fish look small again. This was around 2kg. |
We had to call it off halfway though as the weather got really nasty. Yummy fish though.
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Fairly decent fishing |
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Balek kampong |
I later on heard from Ah Fong that a couple of big groupers and even a good Giant Trevally aka GT was caught at the same spot the next few days... oh well.
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