Batu Berhala Island, Pekan Pahang Malaysia – The cRew 2009 GP 1st round

The original source : Fishing Journal - Batu Berhala

The day has arrived after a month of arrangement. We hosted the 1st round GP for 2009 and the location was agrees upon to be at Batu Berhala Island, somewhere around Nenasi, Pekan Pahang Malaysia

This is the biggest trip ever which participated by 21 anglers and divided in 3 boats.

Boat A: Man | Boy | Mossen | Hizam | Kerul | Hizam’s brother

Boat B: Lan | Ya | Abas | Ariff | Uncle Dan | Ned | Haidil

Boat C: Ammar | Beleh | Bajeng | Rokis | Zaid | Azrol | Fazriq | Bakri | Ali | Zaidi

We head off from Kuantan on Mac 6th 2009, Friday at 2000hrs to Nenasi. The drive take 2 hours to arrive at Nenasi Motel. As usual, our anchorman Pok Mat Megi arranged the accommodation and complimentary welcoming snacks and juice.

The final checking…

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Mossen is showing the way how to make steel dropper. Turn here.. turn there.. twist a bit.. he said

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Kerul – Last minute withdrawal due to urgent matters.

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Saturday Mac 7^th 2009, 0400hrs - We woke up as early as 4am in the morning. Soon after a cup of a hot coffee, we transfer all the equipments into the boat. In chorus, the anchorman’s warming up the engine. The sound of the roaring engine was so pleasant!! As much as necessary to blaze off the spirits! We had a quick hot shower and prayer, in next to no time everyone was on the boat ready to take off!!! The breakfast was served on the boat during the journey! We never taste the nasi lemak and coffee as delicious as this one. Thanks Pok Mat….

Look at the tackles…. geared up and ready to fight!!!

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The cRew from boat A – (left to right) Hizam’s brother, Man, Hizam, Kerul, Mossen and Boy (thumb up! good luck dude!!! to Boat B and C)

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The cRew from boat B – (left to right) Ya, Lan, Abas and Arif (not in the picture – Ned, Haidil, Uncle Dan)

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The cRew from boat C

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The events from boat A

Look at the sunrise… it’s magnificent!!

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Hizam is waiting for the strike..............

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Jackpot!!! Hizam with 800gm Mackerel.

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Mossen caught into action – Penn multiplier with Rapala lure triple hooks by trawling method

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Jackpot!!! 5.8kg Barracuda

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Man caught in action – Benax multiplier with Rapala lure triple hooks by trawling method

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Too bad.. Man defeated by Talang

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Take a break while moving to another spot.

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Boy caught in action – Tomman multiplier with live bait and single hooks by drifting method.

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Jackpot!!! 8kg Cobia defeated…

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The events from boat B.

fascinating view… amazed by this picture

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Ya caught in action – Okuma multiplier with Rapala lure triple hooks by trawling method.

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Jackpot!!! 1kg Mackerel defeated

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Lan caught in action – Shimano with Rapala lure triple hooks by trawling method

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Lan discussing on the strategy after defeated by Mackerel.. poor Lan

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The events from boat C

This is all about why we’re crazy to deepwater fishing….

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Take a nap to maintain the energy while heading to the spots…

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Marvelous Amar with the first catch - Mackerel.

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Soon after that Rokis strike another Mackerel

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Another Mackerel by drifting……

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Patient Management in progress...

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Heading back home

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We would like to express our gratitude and thank you to all members on contributing to the accomplishment of the trip. Even though, we didn’t run into Grouper, Red Snapper, Sweetlip Emperor and Parrot fish as what we had planned earlier. Somehow, the bottom fishing was not too successful at this time. We hope next time in the future the boat service should provide GPS and Sonar on each boat. Most significantly, they must have range of the first-rate spots to go. We have wasted a lot of time to budge around here and there to find a nice spot. This is going to happen if we don’t have Sonar for guidance. All comments and ideas are most welcome to improve our fishing trip in the future. Kudos!