If you want to catch pacu on dry flies such as hoppers in Malaysia, this is the place to fish at. And the bonus is you can sight fish for them. Empangan Air Kuning (EAK) is a wilderness gem hidden within the urban jungle. In this video I walk you through what and how we […]
Big Toman Leaves Half Eaten Pacu Still Alive and Fly Fishing in EAK Update
Travel is still difficult as I write this due to the pandemic. As such we have been doing quite a bit of fly fishing for pacu in Empangan Air Kuning (EAK) due to its proximity to many of us. Our latest visit there in February and early March 2021 saw plenty of toman (giant snakehead) […]
Pacu on Fly Series
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is the first post for 2020!! I hope all of you will have a fantastic year ahead. I am certainly looking forward to it. We fly fished for the hard pulling pacu aggressively the past two months leading up to the new year of 2020. There was a couple of fishing […]
Fun Day at EAK (Fly fishing for Pacu)
From Salt to Fresh It has been awhile since I went fishing in Empangan Air Kuning (EAK). With the end of the Rompin sailfish season I now have a bit of time and decided to join Fendi on a day fishing. Also fishing together is Eaide, a member of the Fly Fishing Association of Selangor […]
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 Feature in Local Fishing TV Show – Kembara Joran
Catching a fishing show in Malaysian TV is as good as catching fish in a heavily pressured pond. Even overseas produced ones are hardly shown, let alone locally produced ones. However, there is always YouTube and the internet. Last week, the people from a local TV fishing show, Kembara Joran, did some shooting at Empangan […]