Port Dickson 2024 season series trip #2. In a moment of obsession (or is that madness …), I signed up for this Saturday trip which was the day immediately following my Pekan trip. This meant that I arrived back from Pekan late Friday evening, had to unpack my car, sort-out my dirty fishing clothes, sort out my fishing tackle for the PD trip and try to fit in a little sleep. I arrived at PD understandably tired after only 4 hours sleep, but was met with reasonable weather conditions, albeit a little breezy and choppy first thing as we headed out offshore. The breeze soon dropped though for near perfect fishing conditions.
The fishing group on this trip included the PD newbies, Wong and Kieran, together with Arif and Azam. Unfortunately for the new anglers, the fishing was uncharacteristically slow. We tried various marks for talang queenfish, but only found sporadic activity. Arif scored two on jigs, but everyone else was struggling lure fishing. The deckie, AJ, tried soaking a prawn dead-bait, and was delighted to hook and land a plump golden trevally, a fish on his wish-list. Given the slow bite, I decided to try my luck with bait too, and was soon rewarded with good take and hook-up to a strong fish that fought deep, a second, slightly smaller golden trevally of 3.5 kg:
Golden Trevally
Wong was still trying fast jigging, and got a strike, only for his line to go slack. When he reeled in, the pigtail curl of leader was proof of a knot failure on his leader to lure connection … tut tut, a lesson to learn! He then switched to prawn bait and missed a decent bite, a probable golden trevally chance.
Kieran was the next in action, a reasonable talang falling victim to his prawn bait:
Kieran – Talang Queenfish
Now, the talang had taken over the area. I followed up with a second hook-up on prawn, but this fish immediately headed up and fought at the surface, in complete contrast to the earlier golden trevally fight, another talang queenfish. Kieran and the deckie added one more each before me moved off in search of other quarry.
Despite marking large schools of sagai, we only picked off for our five – they didn’t seem to be in the mood for feeding. We ended up in the shallower water close to the coast, targeting torpedo scad (cencaru), with everyone catching in our haul of c.20 fish.
Talang, Trevally and Torpedo scad bag (16.03.24)
It was a slow day, but still enjoyable. And Wong has yet to catch a talang to add to his list of species!
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