Rain, snake and fish from Pulau Tinggi

The catch for the week is just OK for Salleh, as usual mostly groupers and snappers. Saturday was a rainy day and I didn't go to sea. Instead I drove to the old jetty. There are some folks fishing. They only caught some belanger croakers. Feels good to be on the jetty. The photograph below was taken from my car.

Sea is quite rough for this week. I had to admit I vomited in the sea while waiting for the boat to start up. It was the last pull when Salleh can't start his engine.

Got this picture of a 2 meters yellow king cobra by the road side on Sunday morning.

The fish pictures collected this week is very good as I got a fisherman friend just came back from Pulau Tinggi with his bubu catch. For the first time I had a big range of parrot fish pictures. Going to take some time before I can figure out what species are these and put it into my fish identification list..

Some prawn story in Tanjung Leman

Most of the prawn caught in Tanjung Leman are King Prawn (Penaeus Latisulcatus) or "tua heh" in both Chinese and Malay. Here king prawn is sold in very high price to the middleman. The fisherman uses the bottom drift net or better known here as the apollo net to catch this type of prawn. The apollo net is made from a combination of nylon and string.. Besides prawn, croakers will also be caught in the net.  Water type for prawn fishing is murky type as shown below.

Murky water normally had king prawn

The prawn catch for last Saturday is considered somewhat satisfactory as we really only expected enough for dinner. Besides king prawn there are some sharp-rostrum prawn (swa-low) and giant tiger prawn.

The prawn photographed below is by far the biggest giant tiger prawn ever seen in Tanjung Leman. Caught by another fisherman nearby, it should at least weight more than 500g.

The guy with the largest Giant Tiger Prawn

We got home very late at about 8:30pm and nearly not able to find the drift net in the dark. Dinner at L.O. Conner, our usual relaxing spot after fishing was the best tonight. We're having the famous Nasi Goreng Tanjung Leman Special. Of course we changed the prawn with the one we just freshly took back.

Restaurant at the Tengaroh Timur Junction

Nasi Goreng Tanjung Leman Special

Accumulate more Fish Photo

After taking a break last week, I felt so desperate to do the trip this week. I'm beginning to suspect that fishing should be a form of addiction. And I think sea sickness is the main cause of that addition. I might be wrong but since drugs, alcohol and gambling involve some parts of the body being hurt or under stress and stimulated, there could be a possibility that I am right about this.

The Timur Tengaroh 2 village is becoming more quiet as the Hari Raya festival is approaching. This village is considered a newer settlement and naturally the villagers will go back to their original village during the Hari Raya festive. Salleh's family is already preparing to go back to their village when I arrived.

This is the fourth week of the Ramadan month and the Muslim is still fasting. I still have to refrain from eating and smoking in public. Something I respect about Salleh is he is still able to perform his tough fishing job while fasting.

The catch I would say is still not as good as compared to June but I do accumulate more fish photograph. I will put these up in my Fish Identification List some time this week.