Was fishing the past couple of days with three fun retirees, Paul from Seattle, USA with Norm and Les both from Perth Australia. Paul hooked up a nice yellow-spotted trevally which is locally known as demudok, also known as gold-spotted trevally. Editor’s note: For a long time, we identified this fish as a huge orange-spotted […]
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This is the second Bob I’m arapaima fishing with in Thailand. Both Bob hails from Australia. Some things are funny like that. This trip, by the way, happened in May 2015. Amazonbkk is still the place for arapaima in Thailand (probably the region) as they have a healthy population of fish stocked and some of
Another day, another bonefish turns up in Kuala Rompin. The prospect of being able to catch bonefish in Malaysia is so alluring, it is especially enticing to us fly-fishers. But it comes as no surprise, bonefish is a tropical fish and they are around in many warm waters around the world. It is just whether we
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Coming, and Cast!… and repeat. Some words shouted out very often when fly fishing for sailfish in Kuala Rompin. Hey, we get really excited when a lit-up sailfish shows up behind the teaser. Furthermore, fly fishing for billfish is arguably one of the most exciting thing you can do on a boat, with a rod.
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When you fly fish at IT (pronounced, it) Monster Lake, you will catch fish by just casting your fly out and stripping. But when the bite slows down, it’s not a bad idea to chum with bait fish to turn the bite on. You will likely be fishing this lake for just one day, why
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Every now and then we have 1-day bookings either by individuals or small groups. The knowledge that there is no contingency days to fall back on in case of unfavourable weather or a slow day out on the water adds on some pressure to the pleasure of fishing. This is one of those trips in
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