Observation Alpha 1 - Pekan

Though I had been to numerous fishing trips on a boat, I had not actually observed in details how a captain steered his boat, parked at fishing spots and planned his route. So this time round on my Pekan trip, I was more on observation mode rather than thinking what fish I would get at the next spot.

First day was bad as the rain started from early morning till late afternoon. We had to tied ourselves at one of the unjam at a slightly lighter rain area to wait for the dark clouds to pass before proceeding to our destination. Worse thing was, the rain came with lightning. All of us did not dare to hold onto our rods to fish while waiting. In the end, I pulled the line out of my reel and started hand lining for squids with my lure. Since we were at an unjam, and all my reels are spooled with braided line, I suppose that was the most logical thing to do at that point of time because even when there was a squid at the end of the line, the pull would not be able to cut my finger.

Took photo of this as it was my first squid caught on hand line.

We realised that the rain was not going to stop after some time, so we decided to proceed to our destination though it was still drizzling. When we reached, the sun finally came out. The terrain here was amazing. It was a plateau shaped like a horse shoe with the plateau at around 11 meters depth. The center of the horse shoe drops to 25m. I caught my first GT on popper at Pekan here.

But I was a bit puzzled as all the areas that we drifted, was everywhere on the plateau except the sunken center portion of the horse shoe. I thought that would be the most productive place where the fish can hide from the current? Too bad I was not the captain.

To be continued...