December 28th 2009
Kuantan Human Face Fish
Caught this baby at Kuantan. This is one fish that many ppl has mistaken it as some superstitions entity….well, to me it’s just an ordinary Shovel Nose Ray or Guitar Fish as some would called it….:)
The fish runs away like an elephant saw a mouse like that, circling the whole boat. The shovel nose ray knows this game or else it won’t strike the lightest rodset on our boat. The fish strike the smallest line poundage(20lbs) and it was during midnight where the wind was strong and the sea was so choppy. The fish strike one of my friends rod, it went streeeeeeet~!!! None stop~!!!
My friend fought the fish for a good half an hour until he shouted “My hand cramp”, then he pass the rod to me. The sea was so choppy until we kenot stand up, so i have to fight the fish kneeling down. The fish was smart, it swam around the boat forcing me to follow suit. With the sea condition so rough, we pass the rod around following the fish run as we can’t really play ‘tug a war’ with it coz the rodset is only fitted with 20lbs line. So we move around the boat knelling down like crawling. With both hand on the rod, and the boat swirling left to right we slowly fight the fish till it was exhausted, then we slowly bring up the fish. Once the fish saw us, it went for another 100m dash like Ben Johnson on steroid…
After a good 1.15hrs of fight, the fish finally gave up. It was too exhausted edi, so are we. The fish weigh about 28kgs on the weighing machine. Finally, tis fish end up on my mouth…..hehee……..:P
The guitarfish are a family, Rhinobatidae, of rays. The guitarfish are known for an elongated body with a flattened head and trunk and small ray like wings. They are mainly found in tropical and temperate waters, traveling in large schools. Most adult guitarfish reach five or six feet in length, though the Indo-Pacific Rhynchobatus djiddensis can weigh 225 kilograms (500 pounds) and grow to 3 meters (ten feet) in length. These fish are bottom feeders, preferring small crustaceans. Their teeth are small and numerous, usually arranged in 65 or 70 rows. Guitarfish are ovoviviparous, with the young hatching out of the eggs before leaving the mother’s body.[1] The Guitarfish is the “link” between sharks and rays.
Notable species include the Shovelnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, and the Bowmouth guitarfish, Rhina ancylostoma.
Source :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitarfish
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