It's a fishing life: 1st Ayer Kuning Trip

Just a little background of my fishing endeavour to start off. Before I fell
in love with fishing in Malaysia again, I used be to a 'die-hard' snakehead
enthusiast. Gone are the days where my friends and I used to venture deep into
the swamps and plantations in the north western region of the peninsular. Those
were the wonder years of fishing and I guess many of you know well too. Who
knows how many innocent frogs I've killed. Those were the days before I switched
to lures and never looked back. Unfortunately, back then, I wasn't that keen in
photography. All I did was fishing and nothing else. More so, the non-digital
photography era didn't help things. Photography especially analog photography
wasn't that easy and simple.

A few years ago, I tried to re-live all those good old years by doing the
next best thing that's taken the western seaboard of the peninsular by storm (at
least how I see it). Next to snakeheads, peacock bass (butterfly pavon)
offer M'sian lure anglers a whole new dimension in fishing. I wouldn't hessitate
to class them as the ever so popular largemouth equavalent. Regardless what
others say about this species, I've learned to embrace its existence by having
fun fishing and releasing every single one I caught so far. From my point of
view, pound for pound, peacocks are one of the most powerful fighters. Not only
that, they don't require the 'world' to exist and would happily co-exist with
some other local species in Malaysia. To a certain extent, it's readily
accessible by the masses offering pure trills and fun in fishing. As much as I
love the indigenous local species, peacocks are here to stay.

Here's some of my catches from my first trip to the ever so popular Ayer
Kuning, Perak.

The modest leaking craft we borrowed (Ayer Kuning in July 2006)