I’ve heard a lot about this new place and interest piqued about the many monster fish they have. Where is D’ Semarak Kolam Monster D’ Semarak is the local name for this fishing pond located in the idyllic and hilly town of Batang Kali about 50km north of the Kuala Lumpur city center (about a […]
Saujana D’Rimba: Monster Pacu Fishing Pond
Located just outside of the Semenyih town in the southern part of the Selangor state (scroll to bottom for location map), is the Saujana D’Rimba fishing ponds with arguably some of the biggest pacu to be caught in Malaysia. [Editor note: This post was first published in May 2019] Semenyih is somewhat notorious for a […]
Getting Our Rear Kicked At The Pacu Pond
Stocked pond, pay pond, whatever you want to call them are not always easy to fish, even if you’re familiar with the place. That’s what happen to David and me when we went for a morning session of pacu fishing at one of our regular spots. It has been months since our last trip here […]
Pacu Fishing In EAK With Etlon and Myra on Boxing Day
South African Etlon and Myra came over from the Philippines for a week between Christmas and New Year 2017 for a fishing holiday and a catch up with the Malaysian fly fishing community. The main fishing is targeting toman (giant snakehead) and sebarau (hampala barb) in Royal Belum Temenggor Lake. Before that, we went fishing […]
Fly fishing at the Jugra Saltwater Pond with Alan and Richard from Perth
Alan and Richard are on a short holiday cum business trip here and we arranged a short session at the Jugra saltwater pond fly fishing for redfish, barramundi and groupers. Alan also had a short casting leason with me the day before. He needed to tune his casting and get some tips on handling his […]
Wrong Line No Fish
Visualise this setting. Fairly shallow water of about four to five feet. There’s structure and flowing water at one part. Plenty of fish holding near the structure waiting to ambush prey that is carried by the current and also using the structure as shelter. You’d imagine there will not be much difference if we use […]