Phar Cue Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 (edited) Just back from 2 weeks overseas. Spent a week in Phuket and we chartered Dorado a fantastic 70ft game boat for a 4 day live-aboard tour. The fishing was very quiet for the amount of time fishing. We spent all our time fishing from the Similan Islands about 70kms NW of Phuket. The waters here have been extensively fished so the fishing was slow. We did manage some Wahoo, a million stripys and macs, Baracuda and some dollies. We dropped a Black around 80kgs. Great boat but slow fishing. Bottom fishing was good. Did one scuba dive from the boat and saw King mackeral and a couple of Doggies around 20-30kgs. Then headed to Kuala Rompin on the east coast of Malaysia with Bluesails charters and Mike Tan who was a great guy & guide. Again the fishing was a bit slow considering the fish we saw. We regularly saw free jumping Saily's though harder to catch. We ended up with 4 Saily's all around 20kg mark either slow troll or drifting. At one stage we had 6 or 7 Saily’s finning all around the boat, threw live Yakka’s at them but no hits. It seemed they were chasing whitebait sized bait and no interest in the Yakka’s. Got a few Spanish macs and lost many more. Again some bottom fishing for mixed species. Saily’s were caught on Yakka’s , baby slime and some pink reef fish. Good fun all in all and would love to get back to Malaysia when the fishing is a bit hotter later in the year. Tommo Edited March 26, 2008 by Phar Cue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewhunter Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Well done mate. Sounds like you had a great time even though the fishing was a bit slow. How good do Sailfish look straight out of the water?! They can be bloody hard to hook at times but gee they go when you do get a hook into them. Top stuff! Cheers, Grant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanger Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Acouple of nice fish!!! well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 nice pics tomy, when are we going up the coast? Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poacher Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Hi, I have also been out with Mike Tan to Kuala Rompin. We had a great time, and the sails we got (6 over 2 days) were all around 35kg. Would love to get back there and recc Mike as a guide - you go from Singapore and drive up. The Poacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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