I went off road end off the month - took the STOCK LJ77 and loaded it up with fishing kit and went of in search of the famous Malaysian SnakeHEAD or TOman with a customer and a couple of friends.
4 day trip
Day 1-2 on Besia which is the next lake/dam down from the polular Tasik Temenggor
this is pics from Day 3-4 on a lake known as Air Ganda which is actually the name of the village in Perak in West Malaysia and the is 3rd lake on the river or the next lake down from Bersia. I will post pics of this one later on my blog as it is not as pretty as Air Ganda.
FOr those of you who have never caught a TOman they are a dirrty crafty fighting fish - breaking 20-30lb braid like grass - biting through 40lb titanium wire trace - busting reels and rods - straightening and crushing treble hooks in the brief 2-3 minute fight they will give you. anything over 3kg is going to fight howver the bigger ones 6kg+ can be real monsters - I have seen 10kg ones they are huge and the official record is 17kg and some have been pulled in over 25kg.
They are also an air breather and get over 25% of their air like we do.
So here it is - Air Ganda is a man made lake just to make it more interestingit has stumps still in it :(
More pics from day 3-4 of the trip - I will post the Bersia ones later.
the taxi stock LJ77 3L engine and it chalked 350,000k's at the end of the trip
This is Air Ganda scenic and full of Toman.
Fisherman pulling his net in and checking his catch
Early morning fisherman in his sampan
early morning flat water and the wonderful sight of a full dam
Baby TOman hooked up from a school of fries. bABy tomans school up and live in the mums mouth until they are bigger then they emerge and she is ever close - usually 1-2 meters away swimming in circles ready to whack any ambushing seberau chasing her babies. Dad also hangs around usually 5-10meters away also swimming in circles. Spot the fries and put a lure into them and the mum will hopefull go for it and its violent they always ambush from below. a 5KG toman will pull you off the boat of you are not ready for the violent strike. Sometimes dad will ambush first but Mum is usually the biggest of the two.
The sequence of a baby Toman school rising
no 2.
no 3
No 4. and some of them are on their way back down.
Ben with a angry 12month old toman
Ben after he has talked to the baby toman and calmed it down
Sunset and the boatman
Day 4 misty morning and we are hunting seberau first before finding toman.
Even more picturesque cove
Ah my toman finally all 3.5kg of angry mum
The customer was happy he caught 3 the first day and 7 the next then they ran out of live bait.
Me keeping the mum at arms bay - I also use the same tools on my x-wife
A school of fries playing
Shot this eagle from the boat at 30kph and manual focus took me about 30 shots but I got 3-4 good ones
The awesome eagle (800mm lens and manual focus)
Cicak (Gecko).
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