I LOVE SPINNING!!hahaha

i dont have the slightest of doubt that bro acheong's advice is the best up there, but half way reading it, i skipped and type this: I LOVE SPINNING!! haha

day trip or night trip?
if its day trip, over there in sasaran a lot a lot of gelama, occasionally get the bigger ibu gelama, u will have duri, puffer, sa cui...hard to get biggies there. pari sometimes though
use prawns only, udang pasar, hook not too big i think size 1 will be enuff, or even smaller, for if u wanna fill ur box full of gelama
night trip i heard better results but never tried b4

is that a daiwa rod?

whats ur review on the rod bro?

uhh...daiwa team only come in 1 piece?

thx bro

when u going bro? check my report on 24 hour OFBN and sunken ship trip, coming back yesterday morning

here's my 24 hour OFBN and sunken ship trip:

We reached jetty friday morning around 10am, boatman ah hon couldnt make it as his boat needed some repairing, so we went with another uncle, the same uncle that brought us to OFBN last trip. ( I made sure he knows that we'll throw the rubbish ourselves and not into the sea )
Wind was strong, and he said we'll leave a little bit later, so we ended up leaving jetty at around 11am, and the next 3 hour journey was very very bad, wave was very very strong, uncle had to go a bit slower. we reached OFBN around 2:30pm, and among 5 of us, 2 were down mabuk and started vomitting. me, my gf and another guy still ok so we started playing apollo. after about 30 mins later, i also kenot tahan and had to take a rest, wave was too strong. oh did i mention all of us took novomin b4 we left? after 1 hour rest i continued, but can only do apollo, i try to rig my other heavier rod i'd get seasick again, so i stick to apollo only. my frens all dunno how to rig and since i cant do it, we stick to apollo. then tenggiri attack.. small fish jumping everywhere, our apollo got cut off like taufu, fish came up nicely cut into half. i read that there're a lot tenggiri nowadays, but i cant do much, try to reach my wire leader in my toolbox and i'll go mabuk again , just watching the fish boiling, cursing the wave. then actions on apollo stopped, that was around 4pm, its either bcuz of the tenggiri or i started to think that at OFBN, apollo action stops around that time, the last trip we went also around the same. since we cant even get bait fish, uncle decided to bring us to sunken ship, which was good news as i havent been there.
1 hour journey from OFBN, we reached there around 8:30pm, cast in our mantis prawn which cost RM1.50 each, uncle say can only target snapper with it, and leader has to be at least rod length and two hooks rigged to the mantis prawn, the tide calmed down and that was the time everyone was ok and started to really fish. we throw in cut fish also which resulted in one decent size "pak zhou", some nibbles, and suddenly uncle's heavy rod got a big pull. he mentioned u have to fight with force and dont let the fish go back inside the sunken ship, he pulled like there's no 2molo, clearly its a big one so i prepared the landing net, after some minutes of ruthless pulling, the fish surfaced, a 2.2kg snapper, which is the length of my coolman icebox, will show the pics later.. uncle got exhausted and rest
The next few hours we got ntg, and it started to get very very windy again, so i ask boatman to just send us home, that was around 2:30am, so we left and 3 hours later, he stopped the boat and ask us to sleep first, morning only we continue the journey, so all of us slept
Around 8am i woke up with some small fishes around the boat which jumped up during the journey, so i casted them in, got a strong pull, all i know i could even lift the fish by a bit, and its taking my line bit by bit, then it got away..damn..all my friends woke up fresh, wave was good, weather damn good, so they got excited and started fishing again. we're suppose to reach jetty at 10am as told by ah hon, but boatman woke up 10 mins later and say we need to go, i asked to fish for another 1-2 hours but he insists, not bcuz of the tide of course, and we reached jetty around 8:40am.

all in all, it was an ok trip, if not for the snapper. 3 of my friends first time doing sea fishing, and all of them got seasick we couldnt get more fish at OFBN. but we'll go again next time, gotta request ah hon to go much earlier in the morning, so that we have more time to play apollo. mantis prawn can last forever, so its safe to say every 2 mantis prawn will get u 1 nice snapper, if they're biting, so dont have to buy too many, we bought 30, we only used up half of them, that also we threw away 3-4 dead ones on the way, and the rest released well and alive.

its a bit long, hope u guys enjoy

here's the pics, not much though

anglers resorts can get siakap, snapper, duri, gelama, but bite rate is poor, so is greenway. rompin u can plan a 1 day trip also, go early morning and back late evening, or stay there 1 nite.

yah it was calm at the jetty, just windy, but once we get out to the sea... looking at it, i think the worst got 4-5 meters..very bad, and drizzling through out, never get to see the sun the whole day. i'm waiting for mok's report, i wonder if apollo action at ofbn really stops around 3-4pm, if yes then next time have to go much earlier. btw 1st and 2nd pics was on the way back, wave was ok already

This post has been edited by faujc99: May 19 2013, 09:47 PM

wah nice report, nice fishing and nice fishes, nice boatman as well got so many spot with fish finder
snapper comes in group, they're famous for getting spooked if u lose 1 of them.
was wondering, u guys using ngau kok, where did u put the sinker? on the ngau kok itself or tie another line down and sinker at the bottom?
kembong fish for barracuda, rig whole fish or cut or fillet? hook size 4 and 5 the whole trip?
how many octopus u guys brought?
u have any pics of the boatman? was wondering whether its the same boatman who took us and had to patah balik half way due to engine cover flew off lol
sorry a lot questions, trying to learn here

gotta bring heavier lines next time, in fact i think u shud change to braided, mono line lacks lifting power, especially around rocky or structural area where u cant afford to let the fish swims back and hide. i'm starting to think that bottom fishing at sea, u gotta pull the fish with brute force and cant afford to play around like we used to in paypond my last trip, boatman looked at my setup of pe1-3 rod paired with 4k reel and 40lb braided main line, he asked me whether my setup can pull up a 5kg fish, i said shud be ok gua, he said my line looked so thin lol, but when i see the way he pull up a 2kg++ snapper without mercy with much heavier rod, i know i'll have a hard time if that fish ends up on my rod. i guess that's bottom fishing, add in the weigh and curent, its so different from jigging, or fishing in paypond.

just my observation, hope any taiko can clarify

thx bro. but for barra, using wire leader with 2 hooks? gonna be a hassle to tie rite?
i guess after this a lot ppl here will ask u for boatman contact lol

hahaha viox hand gatal kenot tahan d

when? going for sailfish only?

hi siles, there has been a lot times ur questions answered in this forum but i understand its not easy to read tru all, so i'll just try to repeat what all other sifus said earlier:
for starter if u have 0 knowledge on fishing then its better to get a spinning setup and doing bottom, of which the cost depends on ur budget, from RM100 to astronomical figures lol (try to ignore poisons of expensive gears from all the sifus here, at least for now ) but a decent ones I will say prepare around 400-500 all in including putting whatever is needed in ur toolbox. then again, RM100 also u can get a full setup and start fishing, so let us know ur budget, then maybe we can recommend. as for good fishing spot its very rare nowadays especially klang valley but its good to start in paypond first, which will cost u from RM20 to astronomical figures for 3 hours. some of sifus here always fish in subang lake i'm sure they're more than happy for u to join them. cheerz

and welcome to fishing world

budget around RM300, grab a rod of around RM50-60, cant recommend any but it should be fine just look for 5 foot 5, easier to handle, and for reel, look for brand tomman model komodo 2000 or 3000, pink color a bit, shud be around RM60, thats the best around that range that i know, maybe some other sifus can recommend. for line, get tomman braided line, should cost u about RM11 for 100m. a toolbox, hook , batu ladung, scissors, plier, pin..very basic, shud be around RM300, unless u wanna do casting with lures/softbait, a diff type of fishing already

and there it starts again..hahaha

personally tried tomman braided, it feels a bit more fragile of course compared to power pro, but u can count on it. only disadvantage i find is that abrasion resistant is not good, u might need to cut off a little of the line every time u fish, but never fail me/break while reeling in over the 2 years using it. casting range cant comment cuz both lines are on diff setup, and i use heavier poundage when choosing tomman (40lb). i'll put it this way: if power pro line can last u 1 year, tomman can last u prob 6 mths. its only my own observation, and i've only tried both lines b4 in braided line category