Monday, January 11, 2010

Fishing Technically

The possibility of going to deep sea fishing in May 2010 is high this year and I'm getting more and more excited on the prospects for catching a big fish! I've only eaten a big fish but not caught any before. My own record is a pathetic 400g stingray.

I've started to browse through some literature to increase my knowledge of the fishes that I am going to catch. Hopefully it will help me land a prize catch.

My studies so far has led me to believe in order to catch a fish, firstly you have to know what kind of fish you plan to land and next you need to understand its habitat, feeding preference/method and its active time. I have found this site that put it in a simple diagram. Beautiful!

Next, exploring the limits of my low cost gear, I should be able to (with moderate ability) perform jigging with my biggest spinning reel even though it will be optimum to have a high speed high powered reel for that. Ah, finally able to save cost and then splurge on a deep sea reel for bottom fishing...hee...hee (with silly grin on face).

John has organized a fishing trip next week near Yan, Kedah. I found this blog from the famous Longkang Gang that describes their outing there for tenggiri, the target species in Yan. Here's another site that proves there is tenggiri in Yan!

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