KurauKing’s Fishing Journal

Fishing is today the biggest participative sport in the world ….yes, football may be the biggest SPECTATOR sport, but when you think about it, there are only 22 players and 3 referees involved, whereas fishing is a sport for all ages regardless of skin colour, status, religious affliliation …etc. Like we say, the fish cannot and do not care who is at the other end of the line. Thus, there must be something in this hobby that drives people (both men and ladies) cookoo.!

For sure, some say its a blood sport and its cruel to torture the fish, others think its a waste of time, don’t have the patience for it….and while there are common denominators, I guess its an individual thing … some fish to satisfy the hunter instinct, some challenge themselves to achieve catching the most species, the biggest, the most difficult ..etc.

For me, like most life long fishos, I had my first taste very young (at around 5 years old) and was hooked for life. We all go through the same cycle perhaps …. first wanting to catch everything and anything, with the simplest rod, line, hook and worm, and just wanting to feel the nibble and pull of any fish unlucky enough to get itself hooked. Then it was going after the biggest fish, perhaps going on to specialize in certain species, catching them in various ways, using dead baits, live baits, artificial baits, different forms of angling, including flyfishing and fly tying. Throughout all this, you’ll note that we are actually challenging ourselves and raising the bar everytime…and getting a big thrill every time we succeed. Meantime, there is also the challenge of getting to know the quarry, its life habits..then there are other factors to take into account like the tides, the moonphase, the barometer readings and many, many more factors that will decide whether the fish you are after will bite. Meanwhile, your arsenal of fishing bits and pieces keep increasing, and this is where people like KK make a living. Its a life long learning process, and nearly impossible to qualify as a “sifu”.

But more than all the above, to me, is the enjoyment of being one with nature, whether its the open sea, the saltwayer flats, the jungle rivers, the trout streams of temperate climes or the many lombongs and mighty reservoirs like Belum and Kenyir…you are there with your own thoughts, enjoying the Lord’s creation…alone yet not lonely..and if you have a likeminded group of friends along, then its being able to enjoy the comradeship after a days fishing, accompanied, for many, by some potent liquid refreshments.

Thus, after many years at it, I guess what they say is true … that fishing is now not just about catching fish … if its only fish you want, then go to the fish market.

In the end, its perhaps like all hobbies, from golf to stamp collecting to birdwatching …. where when one is bitten by the bug, the surrender is sublime and the pleasure derived, endless.

By TonyWee

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Congratzz to abanglongi uncle and adyputra for obtaining Port Klang Kurau(threadfin salmon) lesen.
I was told that this abanglongi uncle has fish almost 30 years but till todate, still never get a kurau before so i tried my best to get him one. Kurau or threadfin salmon, is a tricky fish to get. They like to hang around structured area with many snags.

Participant of this trip…..[:D]

1)ikankembungsambal
2)abanglongbangi
3)baung2
4)adyputra
5)pakcik abanglongi
6)kk

Tekong :- Iks
Boat :- Boat 27kaki c/w enjin 90HP
Venue :- Lautan Port Klang
Tarikh :- 10/5/08
Masa :- 9.00am - 7.00pm

This fella is Joran Sakti aka John Sakti, came to send us off. He is a avid Kurau Hunter too, mostly consentrate around Pulau Ketam area…..[:D]

While sending us off, he manage to wet his line and caught a Catfish.

This is our first spot, Iks caught 6 siakap on his previous trip. So we tried this spot first.

This trip no siakaps but manage to catch a few snappers at this spot.

Abanglongi enjoying himself with blues gang and gelama.

My Daiwa Viento, my favourite bc reel.

We change a few spot before Iks ask me “KK, do you have any Kurau spot~???”

Sure, i brought them to some of my secret Kurau spot to test try.

Firstly, we survey the surrounding, making sure everything is in order.

After we are satisfied with our surrounding, we dived…

Adyputra caught his first kurau at this spot.

We fish till sunset…….[:D]

We finish fishing at about 7.00pm, then we go makan soup gearbox……[:D]

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The repainting work at OFB is still in progress when we revisited this lighthouse on 12/04/08 with some of my friends from MyKlang forum. This trip like many of our MyKlang stories began with a feast. And it happened not on just any other ordinary day. It happened on a day Malaysian History was changed (though we did not realized it then). March 8 - a day all Malaysian of this and future generations will always remember. When a political tsunami swept the go~ment boat and badly damaged it giving renewed hope to the people. Some of us had voted, others will be doing soon but like the sentiment of the rest of the country, it was a table of malcontents. So when a man came and distributed buttons with the smiling face of a ruling party candidate, he got an earful and beat a hasty retreat. When asked where we were on that fateful day, none of us will ever forget - we were having Bak Kut Teh!

For we were there to have a meeting to discuss our trip to One Fathom Bank coming April 12. By the time I arrived with Lemon Angel, Kurauking, Kimmy, Kobzng, Pooh88, Aircraft and two newcomers - pstan82 and Genio were already there and eating. The whole country was boiling over the brim and we make sure our soups were too for we really believe in the adage - “never fight on an empty stomach.”
No one seemed to bother that the serious discussions on the trip took slightly more than 5 minutes and the eating the rest. The purpose after all is to have fun. And to MyKlang members, not many things can beat piping hot good food. Come to think of it, it could be we were super-efficient, ya, that sounds better than food addicts. We were super-effective food addicts. Stomach full, we relaxed and settled down lazily to discuss anything under the sun including politics. Later that night, we were all be again be online in the forum discussing the political upheaval in the most exciting election we have ever known. Our trip started on a day the country has a new hope, a new dream and hopefully a new future. Looked like our trip could not have started on a more auspicious day! We have created history! Ordinary men and women like us having breakfast on a lazy Saturday.

We decided to choose yesterday to go shopping for essential for the trip. Alex had his trip ready but he kept leaving it in his car. Kurau & me had our cameras ready. But the most sporting of all is Gneeley who until now had not decided whether she will join her not-so-exciting friends in Penang or our very-exciting group to OFB. No brainer, Gne. In spite of that she accompanied us while a NUMBER of PPL who should be there all FFK. They can watch while we wallop those food. Anyway, consistent with our quality; before we start anything, we had a MAKAN!!

We had the famous curry laksa at the back of the Cathay Cinema in Klang. It had been a number of years since I was there. I parked the car so Ikan could sit himself first and he rewarded me by not ordering my laksa. He said he don’t know what to order when only laksa is available. Rocket scientist. Anyway, as I was taking shots while approaching the store, an old man with one knee up his stool loudly shouted “What the F##k am I taking picture for??” I ignored that group of rude old men and shouted without looking “Not taking your pic, dude!” Alex told me that the half hour he was here waiting for us, there has been none stop expletives from them. They are probably old time gangsters who think they are still in their youth. First caution - shopping can be dangerous from toothless old men.

Here’s the video clip of this OFB trip, enjoy

More picture at OFB Photo Gallery

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