More on Hotboys kelong (24/12 - 27/12)

The great number of bait fish I caught on this trip is something I have not experienced for quite a long time. How I missed hauling strings and strings of tambans out of the sea, especially if the tambans are big and fat ones! Five or six of them on tamban hooks can be really fun, as they put up a reasonably good fight for their size.

Tambans are good bait for many varieties of big fish




These silvery fish not only caught us the cobia, one of them also gave us this barracuda!

1.5kg barracuda




There was also this funny sight of a small kerisi that could not resist taking a metal jig!

Ima Gun 40g



Last but not least, even though I did not catch any bakdao this trip, there were 2 landed one night. They were both big ones between 2 to 3 kg, and one of them was actually foul hooked! This tells us that sometimes you just can't beat beginner's luck...  :P