Lure Preparation for Tenggiri Hunt in Yan

This will be our first time going Tenggiri (Mackerel) hunting in Yan. It will be a first for everyone so everyone have done some homework in preparation for this fishing adventure. Of course you cannot ever be prepared until you get into the heat of things, nevertheless it never hurts to do a little preparation.

Part of our preparation includes bait. Besides using 'Selar' from the market, we will be using lures to cast for 'Tenggiri'.

This will be my first time bait-casting using artificial lures and I am excited to try them out in the open sea.


1. I've made a lure myself, no guarantee of it working but hopefully with a little DIY and experimentation I could make it work.

2. 'Ironman' spoon lure by Bakau. Only RM3.00.

3. Weight of this spoon lure is 12g. The heavier the weight the harder it is to pull the lure through water.

4. A Hinomiya hard lure with 2 treble hooks. Pretty good quality. Flashy colors combined with a rattler inside hopefully would entice the fish to bite.

5. A close-up of the hard lure. The design of the 'lip' in front of the fish determines the depth it will 'swim' when pulled at a certain rate. I asked the proprietor at the tackle shop and he put the depth at 5ft max when pulled.