Slow Jigging Lumut, Malaysia
My pursuit for gaining more experience in slow jigging in South East Asia brought me to Lumut, Perak this time around. I have heard so much about big groupers known locally as “Tong Gas” being landed in this stretch of water off Pulau Jarak and hence our mission for this trip was to land one of these “Tong Gas”. Invited by the great folks of Evo City Enterprise, we boarded “DARK WATER”, a powerful speedboat skippered by Thomas. Thomas has been fishing in this area for a long time and is known to produce good results. He is no stranger to slow jigging too as this latest trend of fishing has brought many anglers on board his boat. Thomas himself himself is a passionate angler. And so onward with our catch report!
The DARK WATER speeding off
STORM KOIKA our choice slow jig for the day
New VMC hook 7117 size 4/0 and 5/0
Huat’s warm up session with a Cobia
Jun Xiong’s turn to warm up
“Gold Medal” of the day by Kok Ping, a beautiful Golden Snapper
A small Golden Snapper by Huat as consolation prize
Took me a long while to get my warm up fish
Little grouper while trying for the big one
Battle with a suspected “Tong Gas”
The last 10 meters of the battle in which the Gomoku Kaiten was pushed to its limit… Alas! The fish got away!
