Fishing Craze

During the weekend, we were both in the fishing mood craze. On Sun morning, we and two other friends made our way up to Tj Bungah (opposite Mount Pleasure) for fishing. We started around 10.30 am and ended around 1.30pm.

I must say our fishing turned out good as we caught ourselves quite a lot of fishes, most of it Gelama's.

We used really huge, fat, long and bloody worms as bait. The worms were called umpun-umpun or Nipah Worms. I am proud to say that I was brave enough to cut the worms, touch these worms and hook them onto the hook all by myself!!!! **Clap Clap**
But thinking back these worms were damn disgusting. And each time you cut them there's so much slimy blood coming out.

This is our spot where we fished the whole time. Place is rocky a bit, so sometimes we got our hooks stuck in the rocks. But it was a really nice fishing spot. We caught really a lot of Gelama's here...but all mostly small ones.

A friend's first catch for the day. He caught himself a Gelama fish. We all loved his hat he was wearing. Looked so much like Jason Mraz.

Jason Mraz wannabe sitting down fishing.

Another friends first catch which was yet another Gelama fish

Fishing in progress

Our first catch together. Both were Gelama fish.

Another Gelama fish caught

I caught myself the biggest fish which we named it the Policeman Fissh as it had a black dot on its side. However a friend said that this fish is from the family of the red snapper. A very rare catch indeed and I was so lucky. I think this is the biggest fish I have ever caught in my whole fishing experience.

Then after the adrenalin rush I had with catching that policeman fish, I caught myself yet another big fish. This fish had thorns and whiskers so I think it belonged to the cat fish family.

Big fish!

A friend trying to get the hook out from its mouth.

Besides getting a lot of Gelama's we did get a small stingray which we let it go back to the sea. It was too small to actually cook it in curry.

Also during the hours of fishing, we did catch a few Puffer Fish. We all laughed our ass off when the fish started to get all puffed up. After all the laughing we carefully took out the hook and released it back to the sea.

We also caught a few starfish. Picture above taken from Zeemi's Blog. Do click this to read more about our fishing craze and also Ndru's blog

Just those few hours of fishing, we caught ourselves 20 Gelama fishes. We were all so proud of it. It was a good day for us. We were all still itchy to fish again that the following day, which is today, we came back to fish again. This time we caught ourselves 35 Gelama fishes!!!

For dinner, I cooked up some of the fishes. Deep fried them and ate them with some vinegar (Phillippino style). It was wonderfull!!!