BNO Megalops

Made another trip to BNO with Teng Wei, FCK and Kevin. We left town for BNO at 4.30 in the morning hoping for a satisfying early start early finish..

The weather was cloudy and it started to drizzle when we reached BNO...
The fish was kinda active but don't really take the bait..

I started off with my figerglass UL spinning setup. Caught a few..

 

 

 

We moved on to another spot after they did not land anything eventhough there were a few strikes.

 

I changed my UL spinning setup to fly at the new spot. We can see groups of tarpons on feeding frenzy at this new spot and a few cast, we begin to land the tarpons.

 

Another friend, Aji joined us at the new spot. He was casting his 7wt fly rod and landed a few on gurgler.

 

First timers to BNO, Teng Wei was having fun...

 

 

 

 



Another hook up...

FCK with his catch..

Soft plastic..

Kevin caught one but unfortunately no photo.

I was using damsel on fly and the hit rate was high. Never misses when I casted into the frenzy bunch..

It got really windy by noon and the sky turned gloomy.  We decided to called a day and left for lunch before it rained.

It was another fun thrilling fishing trip on UL spinning and light wt fly rod setups...

BNO Tarpon Trip

It has been being quite awhile since I last fish for tarpon , let alone fly fishing.

Thanks to my buddy, Kanicen who is willing to plan this trip.

He planned for tarpon fishing at his "2nd home" and his favourite play ground...  BNO and it is 2 1/2 hours drive from town.



Our journey started 5 in the morning and reached our destination by 7.

Alot of raises but they were shy and spooky. I missed a few hook ups and landed a few on gurgler.

After awhile, they don't take top water and I have to change to damsel to lure them.

They slowed down by noon and we had a break for lunch.

Fun the continued in the afternoon..



My Orvis 2wt fly set.

We had a full day of fun fishing...

and till another trip from my buddy, my fly set will to tucked in the corner again..



Tarpon at Bagan Datoh with The Lap Cheong

This trip was specially arranged for Lap Cheong since he was nagging that I did not bring him along for the tarpon trip last week.

I must thank him for provide transport and the long hours of drive to Bagan Datoh. He picked me up from my house at about 4.45am... and stopped by at Hutan Melintang for breakfast before going to the target spot.  We missed the junction and had to turn back to search for it.. and reached the spot about 7.50am.

The condition of the 'parit' (drain ) was not favourable. The water was stagnant and not flowing due to full tide. The tarpons was not frenzy either. Saw only a few rises in 5 minutes.

I did not have high hopes of landing many tarpon..but I was just hoping a few will do. I prayed that Lap Cheong will at least catch a few, if not I will be deep shit... He will be surely cursing and swearing like hell just came loose...

He caught a few, landed a 12" tarpon and missed a couple of strikes as he was using his "grandfather's" spinning set up. The rod was so damn soft that would be difficult to set the hook and the reel was so damn slow even the tarpon can outrun it..... HAhahahahaha.....

I was using fly on my bamboo rod. Gurgler seems to be effective in the morning but it almost came to noon, Damsel was a hit. Landed about 13 tarpons of good sizes at least 10" in length and dropped few when I tried to lift them up...

Here are some of the photos taken during this trip.

And... this one is dedicated to Adrian Ng who missed this trip......