Ikan Bosau Boot Mancing kena Spey

Inilah posting untuk bulan July 2011 ni...

Pagi2 lagi aku dah kluar nak mancing sampai ke Kalumpang... Tak jumpa sungai. Singgah Batang Kali, tak jumpa sungai. Lalu Ulu Yam, dah malas nak turun mancing... Ingat nak tangkap ikan Sikang... tak dapat...

Akhirnya singgah Serdang kat kolam biasa tu... Nampak la ada ikan pom pam pom pam dalam 30 kaki dari aku... Aku pun balingla riang-riang bikin sendiri. Jatuh atas kepala dia kot sebab dia lari 30 kaki lagi ke depan... Nampak dia pom pam pom pam kat depan pulak, tapi tak tau ikan apa... Suspek pacu la... Aku pun kejarla dan baling lagi...

chicada foam fly

pandangan dari bawah macamana ikan pandang...

geng2 foam fly

Lagi sekali dia lari 30 kaki lagi ke depan... aku pun kejar lagi... Kali ni baling je dan tengah strip tiba2 nampak air beriak slow je... Strip berat, ingatkan sangkut kat besi terbenam dalam air tu... Rod dah bengkok... Aku pun lepas tali dan ikan lekat kat reel.

Sekali tengah gulung tali dussss dia lompat. Itam gila, ingatkan ibu patin... Tengah reel duss dia lompat lagi sekali. Lari dia masuk reba, aku tarik, dia keluar, aku gabrar dan pueh hati... Drag kasi longgar sikit, terus jalan drag. Dusss dia lompatg lagi. Haaa dah nampak dah, ikan haruan...

snakehead on the spey

Alhamdulillah dapat landing dengan bantuan wak jawa yang dah siap pakai cantek nak gi solat Maghrib... Baik wak jawa tu...

wak on the spey

Masuk plastik la lepas tu. Nak bawak balik, tapi sebelum tu nak "shooting" la sikit. Time shooting tengok dia mengandung... Aiyooo, rezeki dia la nak bertelur jadi aku pun dengan berat hati bantai buat tangkapan gambar beretika dan lepaskan balik dia...

besar boot tu...

Alhamdulillah, pueh hati...

peluh jantan kat baju tu... ponat... heheheeeee...

dia nak bertelur dah ni...

Geng gorillafishan mendoakan dia bertelur dan banyak yang menjadi, amin...

The Shrimp Fly

Seri Putra Shrimp Fly

Ingredients for the shrimp fly:

1. Hook
2. Turkey biots for claws
3. Dubbing for the body
4. Pheasant tail fibres for the body and tail
5. Lead eyes
5. White thread for tying
6. Head cement to finish off the fly

Field tested at Bandar Seri Putra's monsoon drain.

Snake head haven

Great for catching

Striped snake heads

The snake head's head

Awaiting for Irideus to ctach them wild PACUs at the nearby Impian Putra wild pond!!!

-Ih was here-

Fly Fishing for Snakeheads Bangi Style

Fishing for snakeheads (haruan) has always captivated me for no reason. I've got these buggers using worms, spinner-baits, frog lures, slash-baits, pencils and poppers. I've caught them in ponds, lakes, rivers, plantation irrigation water ways and even drains. Lately I've been catching them using home-tied flies fashioned as poppers and crickets...

The cricket

There's a guy out there somewhere in Malaysia who has been described as "an asset" to an international fly fishing forum who goes by the nickname Dron.fly. This guy is a genius. I see that he specializes in foam fly tying and he posted a tutorial on how to tie a foam cricket fly. He got 3 versions of his cricket flies and each new version looks a lot better than the latter... Well, since snakeheads eat crickets and I love catching snakeheads, I gave Mr. Dron.fly's recipe a try... Of course with minor modifications. Here's what I did...

Materials: black 2mm foam, brown 1mm foam, leftover foam, goose feathers glazed with head cement, a hook, Rembau goose biots and 2 fibres from a pheasent tail...

1. Wrapped leftover foam on a hook
2. Tie in the glazed goose feathers to form the hind feelers
3. Tie in the brown foam bottom and the black foam top
4. Create the segmented body
5. Bottom view of segmented body
6. Split the head open with a pair of scissors
7. Tie in 2 legs prepared from the Rembau goose biots and 2 antennas from the pheasent tail fibres
8. Tie in more brown foam as wings
9. Fold back black foam and tie to form head... Finished cricket fly...

Do this a bunch of times and you come up with a family of cricket flies. Do this a bunch of times and you also have an arsenal of snakehead lures. Look at this bunch a bunch of times and you get the shivers to fly-cast for snakeheads...

Brown foam bellied cricket bottom view

A family of cricket flies

Red bellied and black bellied cricket flies

To quickly and surely know whether these babies are snakehead attractors, one has to cast them in waters teaming with snakeheads. If no strikes occur, I'm better of casting them in a swimming pool at a hotel... Here in Bangi, this drain is the place.

Fly-testing drain...

Just step to the banks and you see them swimming and striking at dragon flies flying near the surface. Step a bit closer and the water ripples as they run for cover in deeper and darker parts of the drain.

Red bellied cricket to be tested

I started casting approximately 6.30pm today just to see if the crickets were any good. After 10 minutes this happened...

Kapaw!!!! Fly rod went bent, fly reel went screeching...

People passing paused to see the fight. It lasted a few minutes as the fish took the cricket for a joy-ride. The cricket took me for a joy-ride as well...

A good size female haruan
Proof of the good cricket

Upon inspecting the fish, I found out that it was a she and that she was pregnant. Yep, some fish out there is her husband. So the only thing to do is release the wife back... Man was she happy to be released.

See the belly, full of haruan eggs...

After giving her back her freedom, I stayed on and caught a juvenile snakehead. This fish was half her size but fought just as hard as her. But I didn't get a good hook up and the teen snakehead got away after being hooked for about a minute or two...

The red bellied cricket

After fishing, I went to a grocery store in front of the drain. I was there earlier to see the butcher to have a snapper and baramundi cut for my wife. I put the fish cuts down on the ground beside my trusty car and enjoyed a drink I picked up at the store while gazing at the drain. As dusk approached, I drove back home forgetting the snapper and baramundi cuts on the ground. At home, as I stepped out of the car, I realized what happened and like a mad snakehead, I rushed back to the drain to get my fish cuts. Once again at home, I inspected the cricket and saw that one leg was a bit broken... Heheh... Washed it up, put it on a fridge magnet and am planning to put it in the hall of cricket fame... Funny thing is that I went fishing for snakeheads and came back with a bag of barramundi and snapper...

FroggieStyle

Dear Fishanados,


How hardcore can one be? Just follow the pics and make your own judgement.

We travel in packs and do it from the back, how else can you get to the Boouty!!!

All the while we do it FROGGIE STYLE!!!

Enjoy!

Best time for Haruan poaching is morning or late evenings....weather should be clear cause rain clouds up the water. When the fish can't see the lure, might as well go home and sleep.

Site identified...it could be any body of water, my friends.

"There's Haruan in dem watersss!!!" according to the old hand

Don't be afraid of a little bush.... :P

A quick survey to get a feel for the lay of the land

"I must be crazy to follow this guy" I sez to myself

But I hear and see, the haruan a-poppin' and a-bubblin'....so I follow

The right ammo is essential...fake versions of the Haruan diet of Baby Seluang, Geckos, Lil spinners and Froggies!!!!

And also the appropriate rigging....

And proper footwear

Or else you end up like this (Damn, they my nice sneakers too!!!)

Beginner : Casting for Monkeys

Green Froggy Joe, my new best friend

Maghrib soon, time to pack it up and Go

We'll be back to see you twins.....next Sunday!

Because who knows?? Sometimes....you can land one of these!!!!

Salam til next time!!! Watch this space!