Malaysia’s sailfish fishing have been famous and popular for
quite a while, as a Malaysian I have never fished there and I totally feel
ashamed. I finally had a chance to back to Malaysia and managed to squeeze in a
day of fishing for sailfish in Pekan. Pekan is a small town on the east coast
of west Malaysia.
The trip was plan and organized by Wee Liam and Ng from club
Ironman Malaysia and Chua from China, Kenny from Singapore joined us on the
trip aboard a very well know and famous captain in Pekan “Captain Ricky”
We started the day
late because of the weather and its only two boats out for fishing, as soon as
we arrived at the fishing ground those sailfish started to show us their
“JUMPING MOVES” and these shows made us more excited! Especially me LOL……
Me and Kenny was on the bow popping them up using lures, it
does not take long, on my second cast I got tight but only hold up for a couple
of seconds and I casted again, again I got hooked up but it was really tough to
land them using treble hook. In the meantime Ng was tight using bait and landed
our very first sailfish for the day, after some quick pictures we released the
fish unharmed. Next was Kenny from the bow. He hooked up using Yo-zuri surface
cruiser, it was amazing and Kenny fought it like a champion “WELL DONE” Kenny.
By midday we lost count on how many were landed. I will consider this a very good
trip and really learn and experience a lot from this trip, especially type and
style of hooks used on lures, even though I did not landed any sailfish on lures.
Big thank you to Wee Liam and Ng for the hospitality and Captain
Ricky really is the man when it comes to fishing in Pekan. On a side note, I was really impressed and
happy by the catch and release (sportfishing) mentality of the fishing
community in Malaysia, every fish was released and those who seems like they
will not make it are revived before the released.
I really had a great time and great memories with the crew
and already looking forward for the next time but only “LURES” will be allowed
on board this time hehe…J
Tight lines
Raymond
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