Expedition Trip To Pulau Tenggol - 12 - 15 Aug

[AmbeRjacKHunter]

Anglers:
1. Bro RK
2. Sha Boleh
3. Ismail Boxer
4. Hj Suratman
5. Karim Todak
6. Suresh Nemo
7. Veera Amak

Day-1 Friday-12 Aug:

Depart from CCK ard 8.30 pm and had a smooth journey to larkin via 2nd link.Reach terminal 9.45 pm, solat and had coffee. I went to ticket counter n was told look for bus 2388. 10.15 went to platform n look for bus 2388...not around..only 7088 was there..something fishy...ask a guy who look like driver..is this bus going to KTN.. get in,this one.. was his reply..I said the plate no was different..he just said..if I said this one means this one..aahh..apa ni..anyway load all baggage in and at 10.45pm we're on our way to KTN.
As usual, jokes aplenty especially from Boxer...ulat bulu dah naik daun..

Day-2 Sat 13 Aug:
Reached KTN ard 4.15 am and called up Nemo. Less than 15 mins both he and Veera arived and drive us to his Co bungalow, washed up, solat & off we go to Dunggun. Weather was nice and we stopped at Paka for roti canai as most shop not opened yet in Kemaman.
Continued travelling to Dunggun, arrived ard 8.15 am, met boatman. Followed boatman to market to get fresh baits of 10 kg sotongs and 8 kg selayangs for our expected 3d - 2n fiesta. That done, we drove to jetty and load all barangs to the boat and in no time began our long awaited journey to Tenggol. Veera showed us the baby crabs that he & Suresh caught last night at the expense of his handphone!

Boat ride was ok but was a little hazy & couldn't see the island. Reached the location ard noon & wasted no time to down all lines. I tried with sinker 12...told the others cannot..use something heavier. We used whole squid for our baits and all the time its gone without any grab...can feel some nibbling..tekong said its the work of barat barat..(ayam fish).

Stayed on this spot for an hour and winds/waves started to pick up so tekong decided to move closer to island. Around the island, we moved a few times but still no good bites to show let alone any fish. Moved further inwards behind island to join another boat there taking shelter too. Meanwhile, lunch was prepared and we relaxed & had our long overdue lunch at ard 3 pm. Moved to a few more spots ard island but still no results to show. Anyway, the plan was to move out again to the actual wreck spot later close to midnight after checking the tide table.

Close to evening finally Suresh got the 1st fish.. a baby Cuda! this was followed by few more Selinchings. Baits used were squids, fish fillet & baby crabs..but still no ketaraps or groupies...maybe in the mornings?
Winds were still strong & getting colder,...had late dinner ard 9pm and waited for the signal to move out. I rested in the bunk and heard tekong started engine and moved...after an hour or so I went behind and noticed the familiar sight of the island...what? I was told that boat did moved out to the wreck spot but half way the conditions were bad so they decided to turn back and take shelter and fish at the Vietnam wreck close to the island.
Line down & Suresh hooked up to something huge but i dun see the usual resistance from downunder...less than 5 mins, up came a piece of the wreckage..ha ha..then it was Sha's turn to bring up another piece of the boat.. lots of snag here but there were some good bites but no hooked ups.Only Ismail brought up a 2.5 kg Yu bodoh and this no action naturally made most of our eyes heavy and decided to called the night early. As usual, Sha stayed with chef & had some light action with baby jacks using live ikan bilis as baits & he soon tired out and joined the rest in practising their vocal chords!!

Day-3 Sun 14 Aug:
Daybreak and we head to shore for our wash-up. As expected, Aziz the coordinator was not even there, only his son was around to meet us. Quick clean-up and while having some light breakfast, we had a team discussion on some difficult decisions to make if the weather & sea condition dun mellowed. We headed back to the boat where some nice nasi goreng awaited our return. I spoke to tekong on his plans for the day and was told that he's bringing us to a promising new spot, furthest away so far.
An hour after, anchor down and I was 1st to down line, hmmmm..theres bite I told the rest but must get sinker down as current was still fast. 1st one to bring up was Veera with a combi of red grouper, kunyits & johnson of ard 500 - 800 gms. For the next hour or so, there were plenty of actions here and what a relief I told myself. A few more kerapu baras, some tambaks, > 10 kerapu minyaks were brought up along with kunyits and good size johnson.
As currents raged even faster, the bites suddenly slowed down and faded away to zero. I told chef to prepare lunch earlier this time and told tekong of my plans, which was to pulled up his 3 bubus after lunch and head back to shore thereafter cos I dun see any point in our guys suffering another fruitless night on the boat enduring the pounding waves & cold winds.
As for the bubus,..only a baby ray & some breams to show apart from some useless puffers. Looking at the bubus, not surprising not many fishes wanna come in there. So we headed back to shore leaving Tenggol with lots of unforgetful events to forget. After the customary fish distributing session, we had a good chat with tekong and gave him some useful feedbacks on how to improve his charter. I for one will never blame the tekong for not trying cos I can see he did try very hard... its only that there were some miscommunications on the part of the middle man that screwed up some of the plans.
We stopped at Paka for dinner and headed to KTN and checked into a budget hotel at 10 pm close to the terminal. Later that night, Suresh, Karim & myself had a good session on the snooker table before we called it a night at ard 1 am.

Day-4 Mon 15 Aug:
Had breakfast ard 8.00am (Suresh supposed to join but he was totally crashed and cannot wake up till 12 noon only). We did some shopping ard Kuantan and both Suresh and Veera finally came to meet us ard 1.15 pm. Must say that these 2 guys were really great, helped us a lot and most of all we enjoyed each others company. Just hoped that Veera can join us on one of our Tanjung Pinang trips.
2.10 pm, the Konsortium coach moved out and we began our 6 hr ride back to Larkin.

No pics taken on the boat suprisingly, maybe too rocky so nobody bothered. Anyway, as usual I had some from my Digicam with some lighter moments of this Tenggol trip...hope you all dun get too sleepy reading my report...

Rgds
Bro RK

[fishpullipull]

Bro Rk..too bad the catches were not as good as your Catch Report.Hopefully,next time if the team goes to other location to fish besides Tanjung Pinang, we will be able to go on a better month/condition.(my opinion only)Anyways,I for one am happy that everyone is okay and returned home safely.

Nice pics, btw but I dont see kayi Suresh! hee hee kidding bubba.Good job on the hospitality bubba.Proud of you.

once again,welcome back all and have a nice day.

Bro RK....good job on keeping the team together and well done on the Catch Report.Peace everyone.

[dorado_02]

Nice Catch Report Bro RK. It has been a good experience for me fishing at Tenggol, what a beautiful island, wish to be there again some day.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and Bro Suresh for the perfect coordination and arrangement despite the poor catch I do enjoy the trip with good company.

Cheers.

[Nemo]

Bro Karim,
Have to agree , what a beatiful Island it is...being first time for me to the Island find it fantasic....with rocks meters away froom where we parked with water depth around 120 ft.....

Italian,
told the photo taker to increase the flash a bit...to capture my face, maybe batery was low..good luck on your P Tinggi trip...

If some of the team members wondered how I manage to balance myself at the back of the boat standiing and fishing...ha ha..it is an "ilmu" i learned from a pakcik long time ago...if you can master the "balancing ilmu" you also will never vommit not matter how bad the weather and how long you are out there...for sepak members...the fee to learn will be 1 teh tarik and roti prata....
regards,
nemo...

[dorado_02]

Bro Nemo,
You should pass some tip to Bro Veera, he really went all out next to you but surrender after about 30mins, as he said "not mabok but pening sikit aja"
I am willing to pay for the fee but it is a Spore roti prata and not Kemaman one OK ? So , what is the secret ?
By the way, from what you have said, I know you will sure return there for a return match with Pulau Tenggol. Do let us know earlier maybe some of our kaki may want to go there again.

PS: Why dont you ask Bro Veera join in the forum so that we can still keep in touch.

Cheers.

[fishpullipull]

I also want to learn kayi....i tambah toseh also lah Yah..bro Kar's suggestion was also good..get Veera to join the forum and maybe also the team,i'm sure all of us will be most happy to get him onboard.

[AmbeRjacKHunter]

Gentlemen, please ...not too fast..for Veera to be accepted into the team got some syarat to fulfil lah...among them are...

.... must sign contract to pull up ONLY the brown johnson..not the kerapu bara...kerapu for other kakis to tarik...
.....must telan itu Tanjung Pinang tempe bachem...soaked in stingking river water 7 days 7 nights...
.... must catch for us real ketam bangkang so can rebus atas boat to bedal & not those only little cuties....
.... must make s few more stainless steel rod holder for the team's future Malaysian trips...
..... must not drink gasy drink or else will sembur atas boat...drink todi next time...so terus lepak tak bangun...

..... must...aaaahhh..lazy to type...cos about another 100 more "must" for him before can become member...


Rgds
Bro RK

[ghaniyusoff]

RK,

Good Catch Report. Never mind about the fish.... it's all about company.


Nemo, I want to learn your ilmu balancing lar. How ? can teach or not?


Cheers
Ghani

[Nemo]

Bro ghani and Bor Karim,

Ok no problem, I will teach you all the ilmu, but before that there is some one syarat must be fullfilled before starting the training..ha...did you see me sticking like a lizard no matter how the boat rocked...

one of the syarat is that ...before starting the training you have to eat 101 ea live lizard with kopi O kurang manis...tongkat ali don't count....if you can do this then we can start the turun ilmu, if not no matter how we try tak jadi..explaining why..Veera cannot catch the ilmu... ha ha ha ha...just kidding bros...don't go and start eating the lizards from the wall k....

nothing to it ...easy to be done..will show you gents when we go out together...just some easy excercise to your legs will help..use to do yoga before.....

anyway, Veera don't think he can join the forum, his computer skill is not so good, he is a hands on type worker, electromechanical technician who loves to get his hands dirty...but I will ask him..he don't have email address either but time for him to start I guess...will tell him...

will keep all posted for the return trip that I am planning to make...hope to join cikgu this time..and find out the boatman/timing/current etc, as the place looks promising...yes if anyone interested most welcome...


Bro RK,
Think most important thing is Veera to fullfill THE SYARAT ..lets see how it goes..will bring him to the forum first and then you can decide..leave me out of this as I am his brother/cousin..and not fair for me to decide....

Italian,
Tosai and 1 capati on top will tell you how I manage to get the most fishes everytime I go out....how?


SEPAK TEAM is good fun...am enjoying the teams friendship....thanks bros...

regards,
Nemo

[fishpullipull]

Yup..kayi Nemo, I totally agree on the above.anyways kayi..you got to teach me quick,maybe I can use it for this coming trip to Pualau Tinggi.
Regarding the excercise....hmmm not too sure about that as the last time I remembered you did some excercises before a football match...you broke your arm(or something like that) hee hee.I think your secret surely has something to do with ghee.

but seriously..i think the main reason is just that you're a simple Indian guy who has a big heart and also anak kepada Marimuthu.Genuine.malaysia bolih

[dorado_02]

Hi Guys,
The ilmu we can discuss later, I just want to thank Bro Sani for lending us his tikus, which work very hard during the trip. This tikus also have made the boatman and crew wondering , how can this thing do the job ? There have not seen something like this in their life. Needless to say for our Technician Veera, he really study the design of the tikus. I think in his next trip, he will come up with his own improviced tikus.
Thanks Bro Sani, too bad catch not good to give you for pengeras. Will you be at Bro RK house this Sat ? Let me know, maybe I can pass the tikus to you.

Cheers.

[AmbeRjacKHunter]

Nemo:[quote]I will teach you all the ilmu[/quote]

Ni confirm lah..ilmu Cicak Kubing .... patul le melekat habis..

SEPAK TEAM is good fun...am enjoying the teams friendship....thanks bros...

No problem..you're most welcome....Roger that comment

Karim:[quote]I just want to thank Bro Sani for lending us his tikus, which work very hard during the trip. This tikus also have made the boatman and crew wondering , how can this thing do the job ? There have not seen something like this in their life. Needless to say for our Technician Veera, he really study the design of the tikus. I think in his next trip, he will come up with his own improviced tikus.
[/quote]

Yup..me too Sani on behalf of the team to Tenggol, .. surprised at how even the simplest of gadget haven't penetrate into that area....

Heard Veera is designing a Mondok...can pull up anchor also kalau stuck in seabed.. :P :P

Rgds
Bro RK

[fishbait]

Sepakers Fren
No problem on the tikus. As long as anybody need to use it, by all means!!!! Am glad that the tikus helps.

Brudder Karim
I can't be at RK's house this Sat as I'll be going to P. Tinggi tomorrow. Dun wurry about the tikus. For the time being, can keep at your side first. I got a smaller one that I can bring to P. Tinggi. Hope the weather is on our side.

Nemo,
Can you tell Veera that Siow Chiang sells the tikus. Its easier to buy rather than make yourself!!!

Umpanikan

[dorado_02]

Hi Sani,
Soooo...... you are joining Shah ? Wah ! quietly plan for a trip ha ?
Enjoy the trip, and really hope that the wind have subside this weekend. So, who else going ?

Cheers.

[AmbeRjacKHunter]

Dorado:

So, who else going ?

Me ...... but to Pulau Bantal of course

[fishbait]

So, who else going ?

Cheers.[/quote]

Hopefully.
Shah, Me, Karim, Lolok and dun-noe-the-guy-name.

And BroRK----to p. bantal

[AmbeRjacKHunter]

And BroRK----to p. bantal

No lah..next week going to Pulau Cendana

Umpang Ikang..amo nak maceng Tinggi ? aroh kuek ah minggu ni..

[fishbait]

aroh kuek pong tak po, pake batu setong kilo pong kira ok lah!!!

ikang tak maken balek duduk kat kampong aje lah....

[Nemo]

bro fish bait,
thanks for the tip on the tikus, will tell veera where to find it - Siow Chiang (where is this actually)?....

Bro RK,
Knowing veera, am sure he have a mondok already in his mind..he he,

P Tinggi team..have fun...and good luck.

Ilmu Cicak Kubing...sounds good

regards,
nemo....

[fishbait]

bro fish bait,
thanks for the tip on the tikus, will tell veera where to find it - Siow Chiang (where is this actually)?....


Nemo
Should be.....any tackle shop at your side should have. Not only at siow chiang(tackle shop). Sorry for the confusion.

And for the tinggi trip, thanks bro. go there to pancing and relax.......

[sha]

Salam Brothers,
Been very busy after the Tenggol trip.
No time to check report. Anyway, good
report by Bro Rk. I enjoyed the trip though
with below par catch. Most important, the fun
and company we had. Thanks to Bro Nemo & Veera
for the hospitality.
Bro Rk, I may be able to join you tomorrow night,
if my colleague is able to relief my duty in the evening.

Sha Boleh Aje

[Nemo]

bradas,
some pictures from tenggol which I took....

[Nemo]

my favourite shot....
if there is no fish what else is in the water...scary!!!