Date: 11th July 09
Location: Malaysia Rompin
Anglers: Ah Tan and wife, Dickson, Shierly and me.
On the 10th July, Friday, i received a call from my friend, Desley, telling me that the weather at Rompin was bad and many anglers had to cancel their trip due to the stormy weather. Indeed, before his call, i had saw some recent Rompin catch report saying that the weather was pretty bad and during afternoon, the wave was around 3m high. Looking at such poor weather, our Saturday trip might not be promising. Oh dear, it might be a disappointing trip for me and my wife cos i really want her to try out fishing squid and Sailfish on this trip.
After much discussion with Dickson, both of us decided to proceed the trip regardless of the bad weather. If fishing were to be cancelled, we will book a Chalet and hunt for some good seafood restaurant at Rompin. So, on friday evening, we entered Johore for our dinner and then drive up to Rompin which took us nearly 3 hours to reach our destination.
As our Rompin offshore trip inclusive of a stay at the boatman house, it does make sure we have enough rest on our next day fishing. Moreover, If i gonna drive for a few hours and immediately going out for my fishing, i'm sure that i'll be a Singapore Merlion...puking all the way :P
After much discussion with Dickson, both of us decided to proceed the trip regardless of the bad weather. If fishing were to be cancelled, we will book a Chalet and hunt for some good seafood restaurant at Rompin. So, on friday evening, we entered Johore for our dinner and then drive up to Rompin which took us nearly 3 hours to reach our destination.
As our Rompin offshore trip inclusive of a stay at the boatman house, it does make sure we have enough rest on our next day fishing. Moreover, If i gonna drive for a few hours and immediately going out for my fishing, i'm sure that i'll be a Singapore Merlion...puking all the way :P
The boatman house for a night at Rompin
Our single bed for the night
After our breakfast at the Rompin Restaurant, we proceded to the Rompin Jetty to meet up with our famous local boatman, Sky Chong. He owned a twin outboard Fishing boat and it took us just less than 30minutes to reached our first fishing spot which is the big reef squid den which all of us has requested.
Ah Tan and his wife
Dickson ready for the big fish
The Rompin Jetty
Me preparing for the fight
Sky Chong's battleship
Our first spot at the Reef squid den
Dickson with a big reef squid
A big squid for me as well...this are the common size
On our first few hours, we have lots of fun landing all those big squid and i mean a lot of this underneath our boat....its one after another and it seems never ending. Both Dickson and Ah Tan had so much fun on the squid as they spent the most time catching it. Seriously, it is really addictive using light tackle to land this big reef squid as the squid do give some resistance on the fight.
Beautiful squid landed by Shierly
Sweetlip landed by Tan
Leather Jacket landed by Shierly
A big sweetlip landed by Dickson
Man of the match who caught the smallest Grouper
During afternoon, we met a school of Cobia at our Diamond Trevally spot and Dickson has so much fun on fighting the Cobia with his Accurate 197. As there are not much Sailfish during July, Sky recommended us to go for Diamond Trevally as we had live prawn on board.
This Cobia really give Dickson some action
A small Cobia caught by me
Another Cobia landed by Dickson
The next highlight of our trip is when my wife, Shierly, who was fighting her way with the big Diamond trevally (Ebek). As she was on light tackle, it took her almost 30 minutes to land this big fish. Once the fish took the bait, it dashed into the deep at an alarming speed and we can hear the loud cry from the reel from start till the end and the bending of the rod with a "C" shape really scare the hell out of us. Whenever, the fish almost surfaced the water, it just dived into the water couple of time. Truely, the persistant of the fish really gave her a hard time fighting the fish. Fortunately with a gimble, the fight with the fish was much more easier for her and soon, the fish gave up the fight and it was a cleared victory for a newbie who caught her record big fish.....an almost 7kg Diamond Trevally.
The big fight for Shierly
The rod is dipping into the water...help..help!!!
A promising fight for Shierly
Its the Victory shot on the big Diamond
It's a big and heavy Diamond
Me posting with the Ebek
17kg of squid for us on this trip
Our total catch of the day
Overall, all of us had a very fun trip and lucky enough, there was no sign of raining throughout our fishing. All i can say is that this is one of the best Fishing trip i had in 2009. In total, we had caught nearly 20kg squid and many fish as well. Especially for Shierly, after the good fight with the Diamond, she was addicted to offshore fishing and was asking or should i put it as "urging" me when will be my next trip........Wahahahaa!!!
