A very popular way of enjoying the huge lakes of Belum-Temenggor and Kenyir are living aboard houseboats for a couple of days. You get to experience the wilderness of a rainforest lake yet have some modern amenities and conveniences albeit basic. (This post was originally written in December 2011, and updated in February 2022) What […]
Guide to Surviving a Houseboat at Temenggor – Royal Belum, Malaysia. Read More »
Hot and dry conditions in Royal Belum Temenggor when Captain Josh and his good mate, Chris fished here. The fishing was hot, too! Check out the video. Photos and story will follow soon. For more information about toman (giant snakehead) fishing and Royal Belum state park, click here.
Video – Four Days Toman (Giant Snakehead) Fishing With Capt Josh and Muchacho Chris Read More »
You know what they say about the rainforest… If it doesn’t rain everyday, it rains all day! And that’s what we encounter on this trip, very wet weather. The good thing about plenty of rain is when the water level rises high enough, the sebarau (jungle perch) will migrate in big numbers into the rivers
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Aussie Jason, after his first attempt at arguably one of the hardest fish to catch on the fly, the giant snakehead (toman), shares with us his experience in his own words… Sebarau As fisherman we know we must make presentations to where the fish are at. In the case of jungle perch (Sebarau) they live
In His Own Words – Fly Fishing Sebarau and Giant Snakehead in Royal Belum Temenggor Read More »
FLY FISHING IN ROYAL BELUM STATE PARK TEMENGGOR MALAYSIA: Things don’t always go as planned. The popper fly has a short wire trace attached and was intended for the toman (giant snakehead) but a sebarau slammed on it instead. On this very same trip, the split-tail fly I had tied on for sebarau with no
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A reader asked what ‘lure’ we use for fishing sebarau (Hampala macrolepidota in scientific lingo or Hampala Barb by IGFA) in Malaysia. The answer is we use many artificial lures, especially spoons. But one very successful and trilling way we catch them is by fly fishing and the go-to fly is the split-tail.
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