Ah, the great outdoors. Short of being a dryad, these four words beautifully describe Merchong. And then you add some beef, some lamb, some tapah, some soon hock, some coral trout, some cuttlefish...  Here we are! Year 2024 in Merchong, Nenasi and with new friends. Our new friends were very positive and their target in two days of Merchong fishing was the humble coral trout. I say humble because it is just quite common here and we don't even need to go to Tioman or the faraway Jubilee reef to fish for them. Heck, we don't even go as far as Pulau Berhala. Anyway, catching the tasty ang gao here is quite predictable, just need to be lucky and present your bait well.  So did our friends hit their target? Yes! All the newbies to Merchong hit beautiful red groupers and they even busted off some bigger ones that couldn't be stopped. Champion of the trip was Ah Bao who hit three ang gaos on sabiki.  Sharing the catch report and food reports... Nothing special to share, because eve