Archive for May, 2010

May 24th 2010

KURAUKING RIVER MONSTER QUEST

This is my RIVER MONSTER QUEST. As an extreme avid angler, i would love to travel around the world in search of Monster Fish and will try my best to land it with my Rod and Line.  I believed this is the angler’s ultimate dream,  to have the experience of fishing the finest monster fish in this planet.   It is believed that Asia has the largest freshwater fish in the world. The large fish is known as “Pla Buk” or “huge fish.”  This fishes lives in the Mekong River and is found in Cambodia and Thailand waters like the Mekong Catfish and the Giant Freshwater Stingray.

In this Part One Video of my Monster Fish Quest, i managed to land some of the finest RIVER MONSTER FISH like the Hybrid Redtail Tiger Catfish, Alligator Garfish, Redtail Tiger Catfish, Chao Phraya Catfish, Asian Redtail Catfish, Arapaima Gigas, Giant African Catfish and Pacu at IT Monster Lake, Ratchaburi Province, Thailand.


PACU


CHAO PHRAYA CATFISH

HYBRID REDTAIL TIGER CATFISH

REDTAIL TIGER CATFISH

ALLIGATOR GARFISH

ASIAN REDTAIL CATFISH

GIANT AFRICAN CATFISH

RIVER MONSTER – ARAPAIMA GIGAS


ARAPAIMA GIGAS – The arapaimapirarucu, or paiche is a South American tropical freshwater fish. It is a living fossil and one of the largest freshwater fishes in the world. Arapaima can reach lengths of more than 2 m (6.6 ft), in some exceptional cases even more than 2.5 m (8.2 ft) and over 100 kg (220 lbs).

The Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, is a species of catfish in the shark catfish family (family Pangasiidae), native to the Mekong basin in Southeast Asia. Mekong giant catfish is the world’s largest scaleless freshwater fish lives a tenuous existence in the murky brown waters of Southeast Asia’s Mekong River. Capable of reaching an almost mythical 10 feet (3 meters) in length and 650 pounds (295 kilograms), Mekong giant catfish live mainly in the lower half of the Mekong River system, in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

RIVER MONSTER – MEKONG GIANT CATFISH



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May 21st 2010

Team Seahawk Bintulu Jiggers

Jigging in Bintulu, Sarawak requires lots of stamina and endurance. It’s not for the soft hearted anglers. Jigging in the South China Sea waters with waves ranging from 2M-3M is no fun especially for anglers that will get sea-sick easily. This is what we encounter on this voyage, high waves and strong wind with rain on a fiber speed boat. We was caught in a storm at 4am with strong wind. The speed boat was roofless and we got nowhere to shelter. All of us  on board the boat endures the coldness of the blowing winds in our soaked attires without raincoats whatsover. The rain poured on us for a good 3 hours but we survived. Once the rain stopped, we started jigging again…that’s the spirit of Bintulu Jiggers…!!!

The moment the storm resided and the rain stopped, we resume fishing…

Most anglers believe that they know all about jigs. But, that’s just not so. Jigging basics may seem simple enough and mastering the fundamental of jigging technique can mean the difference between catching fish and not. Thanks to Edel(Seadel Tuna) our Jigging Sifu from Bintulu for showing us the correct technique to jig at Bintulu waters. He taught us to visualize our jigs. He told us to imagine where our jigs is in the water and what it looks like to the fish we are targeting. He told us jigging at different level will get different fish and true enough, we managed to get different fish at different level.

Mackeral at Horizontal Top Water Jigging…

Trevally at Horizontal Mid Water Jigging…using the Seahawk ‘Big Strike’ Tournament Grade Metal Jigs

Groupers and Snappers at Horizontal Bottom Level Jigging…

The Seahawk ‘Big Strike’ Tournament Grade Metal Jigs are very effective, esp at Bintulu waters…

This Seahawk ‘Big Strike’ Jig can be bend into a ‘S’ shape like a red eye sardine jig…

Seadel Tuna, our Jigging Master from Bintulu with his golden snapper caught using Horizontal Bottom Jigging style…

Once again, i would like to take this opportunity to thank TCE Sports for sponsoring us some Fins Braided Lines, Chikara Shock Leader Line, Seahawk ‘Big Strike’ Tournament Grade Metal Jigs and some Team Seahawk T Shirt and Caps.

For more pictures, please goto Kurauking Photo Gallery

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