How to catch a pacu in less than 5 minutes

Kinloon and I decided to put together a video from our recent trip to EAK Empangan Air Kuning at Taman Botani Negara, Shah Alam. 

He is already at level 99 at catching the Pacus there so here is how he demonstrate it. I used Youtube video editor to edit this video as movie maker is not playing the audio from the recorded 3gp video. 

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Hope you enjoy the video.  

Kolam pancing seksyen 24 mekong catfish

Few weeks back my fishing buddy and I checked out the paypond in seksyen 24, Shah Alam again.

He caught I good size fish this time around.

Below is the video of his staggering moment of landing this 13 kg mekong kitty.

Video was filmed using Samsung Galaxy S II.

Fishing at Empangan Air Kuning, Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam

I've been bored out with fishing with bait. As The recent trip to Pulau Ketam met with a boring over night trip with nothing  but a cat fish.

Whenever this familiar situation happens, I would usually start to spend some time at Empangan Air Kuning looking for some pacus. Usually I would get some bran, pallets and bread to fish there but my recent trip to EAK have earned me some new friends who showed me that casting could be really fun there.

I decided to prep for my next trip to EAK with nothing but my Abu Garcia casting rod and my blackmax and my trusty Rapalas to hunt for some fun.

This was my catch with one of my Rapalas. This 2 kg Pacu (as per my lip gripper) put up quite a good fight.  

Casting is really tiring but at the same time, fun as there are no sitting around doing nothing time. And most of all what I like about casting is that I do not have to deal with the smell of fish bran mix stuck on my hand for the next few days.

Look what this Pacu did to my lure. Its sharp teeth broke my hook and bent the ring. I had to pay a visit to my tackle shop to fix this. 

My collection of Rapallas (excluding the green frog) so far. The one that caught the Pacu was the second on from the right.  

All pics taken using my Samsung Galaxy S II.

Tauhu Fishing Pond Oct 2012

Last Thursday afternoon, captain called me up describing to me in detail the itch that he was suffering and we would go all length to get it cured. After debating for long, crossing out lists of places that we would not be interested in i.e. ditches, snake infested waters and blood suckering pay ponds that charges an arm and leg for fishing for few hours.... we finally made a decision to visit a place that I have not been for a long time... Tofu Pond.

I am not a big fan of this place. As the first and also the last time I visited this place was like 2 years back, it was known to be a place where people came and went home empty handed. Captain get to convince me otherwise by giving me the latest update about Tofu pond. He is confident that we, or at least one of us would not go home empty handed.

This nice little fishing pond is now situated beside a highway linking Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Selangor, the Latar highway. Strangely enough, the place existed way earlier than the highway and oddly, you cannot use the highway to get here. The place was also covered by a local chinese daily some years back.

Well, we arrived there around 8 pm and another friend of ours Clarence joined us. Bait we use was the local favourite buns and smelly tofu.

An hour or so, Clarence saw his rod started to bend and it seemed that a Mekong cat fish took the bait. Here's the video of the scene at the last 3 minutes when we landed the fish. Don't be surprised as I was unhooking the fish at the tail as somehow this poor fella snagged his own tail on Clarence's hooks and it took him nearly 20 minutes to get the fish landed.

Shortly after, captain got a visitor at the other end of his line which fancied his stinky tofu. All hail the Pacu King. This must be his 1,000th Pacu.

Well... as for me. I guess there is a reason why I don't like the pond. And I am pretty sure the pond feels the same way. Fishing at the same spot, with the same rig and same bait, somehow my luck just doesn't cut it here. I will be back.

For sure.

And here's the location of the place.
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Video recorded with Samsung Galaxy S2 and still image taken using an iphone 4 I think.

Fishing at One Fathom Bank 16th Dec 2011

It was a cool Friday morning when my gang, all 10 of us decided to take some time off our daily life and hop OUT into our cars with our fishing gears and IN to a speed boat which brought us to a light house in the Straits of Malacca. Yes you heard it right, fishing at a light house. 

Personally I am not a fan of boats which wobble up and down which eventually can lead me to seeing my earlier breakfast again. Hence, hats off to the my good friend who brought up this idea of fishing on a light house, whilst one can enjoy the opportunity of fishing in the open sea, minus the motion sickness. 

We arrived around 9 am in the morning at Port Klang, parked our car and started load our stuffs into the speed boat. There were 2 groups of anglers which were headed there that day and so you can roughly know how many anglers you can expect to see that day. 

We arrived at the structure at around 10.30 am and then we started to set up our gears for fishing after we unload all our bags. As most experienced angers would know, sea fishing largely depends on the under current. The ocean was clear the other day and it was a good day for fishing. 

The gang were targeting Queen Fish and Barracudas. For me, fishing the smaller guys were fun too. Which I would advise angers to bring enough apollo rigs there, and another piece of advice is remember to bring enough sinker as well as you would usually lose your rig together with the sinker once you stuck your rig somewhere down the water structure. 

The video above is from our master Koh who hook a Queen Fish at about noon time. 

The tides changes a couple of times during our stay. After the change of tide, we will bring in different species of small fish using the apollo jigs. I was using my bait caster to jig as it was easier for me to use one hand fishing which waiting for bigger fish to bite on my heavier gear... which eventually didn't happen for me... well that's fishing... sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't. 

Some more pics to share. All pics are taken with my Samsung Galaxy S 2. 

Except this one.