Easy Fish Tacos

by Philip Lam

in Mexican Recipes, Seafood Recipes

Delicious fish tacos full of flavor that are quick and easy to make. Serves 4.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 jalapeno (cut in half)
• 2 1/2 cups red cabbage (shredded)
• 4 onions (diced)
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 pound tilapia fillet strips
• 8 flour tortillas
• fresh cilantro for garnish

Instructions:

1. In a bowl, combine together the lime juice and sour cream, then add in salt and pepper and season to taste. Divide mixture in half, setting aside one half for later.
2. Dice half of the pepper and set aside.
3. In the same bowl with the sour cream mixture, add in all of the cabbage, onion, and remaining pepper. Mix well.
4. In a pan over medium heat, place olive oil and half of the pepper. Season fish to taste and fry the strips in the pan until golden, about five minutes. Remove pepper.
5. Warm tortillas before serving.

Source: http://www.freerecipes.org/

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Pada umumnya Ikan ini mampu diam dan hampir tak bergerak di dalam air, pada kedalaman sekitar 600 meter (2.000 kaki) sampai 800 meter (2.600 kaki), dengan menggunakan sirip yang besar untuk menjaga kestabilannya, sambil sesekali matanya berputar mengawasi sekelilingnya. Pada keadaan cahaya yang minima ikan ini mampu mengesan mangsanya melalui siluet. Kim Bruce Robison, yang telah sekian lama mengamati spesies ini mengatakan bahawa ketika mangsanya seperti ikan-ikan kecil dan ubur-ubur mulai terlihat, maka matanya berputar seperti teropong, dan menghadap ke depan dengan merubah posisinya dari horisontal ke posisi vertikal untuk menangkap mangsanya.

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Petua

Jaga peralatan memancing seperti isteri

Oleh Nuri Angkasa

MENYAYANGI peralatan memancing jangan sampai melebihi daripada menyayangi isteri atau keluarga. Ini kerana kebahagiaan berumah tangga bergantung pada pasangan suami isteri dan anak. Namun menjaga peralatan memancing adalah satu amalan baik kerana peralatan yang berada dalam keadaan yang baik pasti dapat menjamin hasil tangkapan yang baik selain keselamatan pemancing itu sendiri ketika berada di tengah laut.

MENYAYANGI peralatan memancing jangan sampai melebihi daripada menyayangi isteri atau keluarga. Ini kerana kebahagiaan berumah tangga bergantung pada pasangan suami isteri dan anak. Namun menjaga peralatan memancing adalah satu amalan baik kerana peralatan yang berada dalam keadaan yang baik pasti dapat menjamin hasil tangkapan yang baik selain keselamatan pemancing itu sendiri ketika berada di tengah laut.

Peralatan yang perlu dijaga dengan rapi terutama peralatan seperti mata kail, pisau, tali perambut, kekili dan joran dapat memainkan peranan penting dalam masa melakukan aktiviti memancing.

Kebaikan ini dinyatakan sendiri oleh beberapa orang ahli pemancing antarabangsa ketika memberikan pendapat yang boleh diguna pakai atau jadikan petua.

Menjaga alat memancing sangat perlu dilakukan sebelum atau selepas melakukan aktiviti memancing kerana peralatan ini dapat menjamin keselesaan memancing walaupun berdepan spesies ikan besar, kata Pak Dol sambil mengakui peralatan yang kurang sempurna dan keadaan yang dilakukan dalam kelam kabut pastinya menjadikan suasana memancing lebih buruk.

Justeru, Petua Pak Nuri kali mengajak kaki pancing sama ada memancing di laut mahu pun di sungai, tasik atau paya supaya mempunyai sikap sayang kepada peralatan memancing dan meletakkan tahap penjagaan yang rapi pada setiap masa dengan tidak meninggalkan peralatan di sudut dapur atau ruang yang tidak berjaga hingga berbulan lamanya.

Sikap buruk begini bukan saja pemancing berdepan dengan tidak dapat merasa keselesaan memancing malah akan berputih mata kerana dengan mudah diputuskan tali perambut yang sudah lapuk. Bukan begitu caranya kita menyayangi peralatan memancing dengan membiarkan tanpa diusik dan mengambilnya semula bila diperlukan.

“Itu bukan sayang, tapi kejam,” tambah Pak Dol lagi yang mempamerkan peralatan memancingnya yang disusun rapi dalam sebuah bilik di rumahnya. Joran memancing laut diasingkan daripada joran memancing sungai dan tasik. Begitu juga kekili ditempatkan berasingan.

“Bilik ini tak siapa pun dibenarkan masuk,” tambah isterinya sambil menjeling sinis pada Pak Dol yang tersenyum sambil ketawa.

“Kita kena sayang dan menjaga baik joran pancing dan peralatannya seperti menjaga isteri barulah dapat mesranya,” kata Pak Dol yang penuh makna.

Pengakuan ini memberi erti yang mendalam sambil mengharapkan pemancing harus menyayangi peralatan memancing seperti sayangkan isteri supaya dapat bermesra dan berjaya meraih rezeki lumayan - InsyaAllah.

Sumber:  http://joran.bharian.com.my/Current_News/Joran/News/Petua/20090508112613/Article/index_html

How did shark end up on golf course?

A two-pound spotted shark was found at San Juan Hills Golf Club and taken to Dana Point to be released into the ocean. Golf-course workers and a state fish and game official assume it was dumped there, but they have differing scenarios on who, or what, did it.

By ERIKA I. RITCHIE / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – A 2-pound shark ended up near the 12th hole at San Juan Hills Golf Club in a case that a state fish and game official thinks is "pretty fishy."
Melissa McCormack, director of club operations at the golf course, said the 2-foot-long spotted shark was found by an employee Monday afternoon as it lay flopping on the grass close to a group of golfers trying to make their putts. A golf marshal grabbed the shark and took it to the clubhouse.

This small shark was found near the 12th hole at San Juan Hills Golf Club in San Juan Capistrano. It was released into the ocean at Baby Beach in Dana Point and swam away.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SAN JUAN HILLS GOLF CLUB., REPORTING BY ERIKA RITCHIE

"We couldn't believe it was still alive," McCormack said. "There was a puncture wound under his dorsal fin and there was fresh blood. We assumed he was picked up by a bird and dropped there."
The golf-course staff rinsed the shark with faucet water and put it in a bucket, she said. A cart attendant quickly drove it to Dana Point Harbor, where it was put in the ocean near Baby Beach, and it immediately swam away, she said.
"This is definitely the weirdest thing I've ever seen here," she said. "There's been nothing as bizarre as this. We'll get the occasional mountain lion and coyote, but nothing like this."
McCormack estimated the golf club is about two miles from the beach as the crow flies. "We get a lot of eagles, herons and sea gulls here," she said.
But the story "sounds fishy to me," said Assistant Chief Dan Sforza of the California Department of Fish and Game. "It seems weird it could be out of the water that long. It doesn't sound like it could be a recipe for success."
Sforza said someone might have dumped the shark at the golf course.
"Leopard sharks are legal to possess but they have to be 3 feet long," he said. "There is a black-market trade out there for leopard sharks. They're real cool-looking. Maybe it got too big for someone's tank."
Sforza said the only bird likely to have carried the shark from the ocean is an osprey.
"That would be the only bird that's big enough," he said. "Pelicans don't use their beak. They just swoop in and swallow. Sea gulls wouldn't be big enough to carry a 2-pound shark."

Read More:  http://www.ocregister.com/news/shark-375483-golf-mccormack.html

Strange fish likely wolffish: officials

 

Submitted by Andrew Hebda

This strange looking fish, believed to be Atlantic wolffish, was found at Big Glace Bay beach in June.

      

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NEW WATERFORD — Jason Brown describes a dead fish he found on Big Glace Bay beach as ‘Cape Breton’s sea monster.’
“It is the ugliest scariest fish I have ever seen,” said the New Waterford man. “It looks like a piranha, there is that many teeth in it and probably half an inch long. It is a scary looking thing.”
Brown, his partner Kyla McPherson and their son Landon, 2, were on Big Glace Bay beach a few days ago when they made the find.
“We just had the baby out to play in the sand,” he said. “It looks like ‘Tremors’ that horror movie where worms come out of the sand. I have never seen anything like it.”
Brown said he can’t imagine this type of fish being common to the area and was hoping to have it identified.
“I wish the whole fish had been there so I could have seen a little better what it would look like. I would like to find out what it is and how it got here.”
Pam Davidson, spokesperson for the Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, said after sharing the photograph with officials in the department, it is believed it to be a wolffish, which is a protected species.
Andrew Hebda, curator of zoology with the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, agrees it is likely an Atlantic wolffish.
Hebda liked Brown’s description of it looking like a ‘sea monster.’
“They are sea monsters, absolutely, I will buy that,” he said.
In mid-June, Hebda received pictures of several dead fish on Big Glace Bay beach from Dr. Katherine Jones, associate professor in the biology department at Cape Breton University.
“We were hoping to get a hold of the head, then we could confirm what it is,” he said.
However by the time Jones returned to the beach, the fish had disappeared.
Looking at Brown’s picture, Hebda determined the fish was the same as the first pictures he received. He said it appears the fish became covered in sand and then later uncovered.
“I know it is the same one as you can see the same line with the same hook in his mouth.”
Hebda said it seems a bit on the big side to be a wolffish, but there is a possibility because of the teeth.
“There is an outside chance it could be a wolffish, that is the strongest possibility. But there are also some large angler fish with a similar kind of head, although the teeth tend to be more delicate.”
He said the big teeth of a wolffish are used for crunching crustaceans and sea urchins.
“Those are really big heads, probably about 8-10 inches top to bottom,” he said.
He is hoping that the fish head will be sent to him and then he can make a positive identification.
Hebda said because there is a hook in the mouth, someone fishing may have realized it is a protected species and dumped it.
According to the Fisheries and Oceans Canada website, the Atlantic wolffish and northern wolffish are among 103 aquatic species listed under the federal Species at Risk Act and given protection as of June 2004.
The site says the number of Atlantic wolffish in Canadian waters declined by 87 per cent from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s.
It was noted the wolffish can be found across the north Atlantic Ocean from southern Newfoundland to the Barents Sea and in the western North Atlantic, off west Greenland and Southern Labrador and in the Strait of Belle Isle, as well as the Scotian Shelf and in the Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy.


Source:  http://www.ngnews.ca/News/Local/2012-08-09/article-3048923/Strange-fish-likely-wolffish%3A-officials/1

Alaska Fishing. Monster Halibut, fishing with Saltwater Safari out of Se...

Beruk gergasi kaut ikan dalam bot

Oleh Saiful Bahrin Mohd Shariff

CERITA yang hendak dikongsi ini benar-benar berlaku ketika sekumpulan pemancing meneroka perairan Pulau Jerejak pada April 2003 lalu. Pada suatu malam selepas selesai mesyuarat di pejabat, penulis dan seorang rakan - Suhairi, singgah makan dan minum di sebuah gerai di Kubang Semang, Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Pinang. Sambil berbual datang pula rakan baik kami seorang peguam. Uzair namanya.
CERITA yang hendak dikongsi ini benar-benar berlaku ketika sekumpulan pemancing meneroka perairan Pulau Jerejak pada April 2003 lalu. Pada suatu malam selepas selesai mesyuarat di pejabat, penulis dan seorang rakan - Suhairi, singgah makan dan minum di sebuah gerai di Kubang Semang, Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Pinang. Sambil berbual datang pula rakan baik kami seorang peguam. Uzair namanya.

Perbualan kami malam itu semakin rancak apabila kehadiran seorang lagi penduduk tempatan yang memperkenalkan diri sebagai Pak Long Din juga dari Bukit Mertajam. Topik malam ini bertambah menarik apabila tajuk cerita bertukar mengenai memancing. Pak Long Din orang yang paling menyerlah cerita pengalaman pasal ikan dan memancing.

Maka terjadilah perjanjian bersama Pak Long Din untuk keluar memancing di perairan Pulau Pinang seperti yang diceritakan. Masa yang ditunggu tiba. Maka bermula operasi kami dengan menaiki bot Pak Long Din di Batu Maung, Pulau Pinang. Kumpulan kami - Suhairi, Uzair dan penulis.

Jam tangan menunjukkan hampir jam 11 malam. Di lokasi pertama tiada sambutan memberangsangkan. Hanya anak kerapu dan gelama saja. Oleh kerana kurang yakin, Pak Long Din mengubah haluan ke lokasi Pulau Jerejak. Di perairan pulau berkenaan sambutannya juga hambar. Pak Long Din mulai tercabar dan agak malu dan apa yang digebangkan pada hari itu tidak menjadi.

Kami bertukar tempat lagi. Kali ini tidak jauh dari lokasi kedua tadi. Di lokasi ini agak menarik. Terdapat dua batu besar yang hampir tenggelam di pinggir Pulau Jerjak. Di sini barulah ada keyakinan sedikit. Ikan lapar agaknya. Kami tidak jemu melayan sentapan yang agak besar seperti kerapu, jenahak dan sebagainya. Pak Long Din tersenyum puas. Rasa malunya kian hilang. Apatah lagi beliau menaikkan pari hampir 15 kilogram dan hanya menggunakan tali koyan saja. Manakala Suhairi tidak henti-henti memutar kekili pancingnya sambil berteriak kegirangan.

Dalam keghairahan, Uzair tiba-tiba terpandang sesuatu lantas mencuit bahu penulis lalu bertanya: “Kau nampak sesuatu tadi?”

Sambil dia menunjukkan ke arah batu besar yang berdekatan dengan bot kami. Lantas penulis menjawab: “Aku tahu, tapi jangan bising. Diam sajalah”.

Beliau bertanya lagi: “Macam mana ada orang duduk atas batu tu. Macam mana dia panjat batu tu?”

Penulis cuba menenangkan fikirannya dengan memberitahu mungkin ada nelayan tempatan menunggu pukat yang dipasang dan datang dengan bot sendiri.

Kelibat orang di atas batu itu amat nyata seolah-olah sedang menghisap rokok. Pak Long Din merasainya dengan apa yang penulis beritahu dan mengakui dengan soalan Uzair, cuma mereka buat selamba saja.
Tiba-tiba kelibat orang itu hilang daripada pandangan. Penulis mulai cuak dan risau. Sementara itu, Suhairi tidak henti-henti menaikkan ikan sambil bergurau. “Hoi.... kau orang tengok ni.... Jenahak besar...,” katanya.

Penulis dan Uzair hanya senyum tawar.

Tiba-tiba Uzair bersuara: “Syok la... nanti naik hantu air baru padan muka...”

Penulis dan Pak Long Din tersentak dengan gurauan Uzair.

Tidak lama kemudian perkara pelik berlaku apabila hasil tangkapan Suhairi hilang satu persatu dari atas bot. Lantas beliau bersuara: “Siapa pulak sapu ikan aku ni...!”

Kemudian Pak Long Din bersuara: “Kamu duduk diam-diam... dia datang dah...”

Kami kehairanan. Kemudian bot kami rasa terumbang ambing seperti ada orang memanjatnya. Tiba-tiba wajah seekor berok berbulu tebal dengan sepasang mata yang merah berada atas bot . Penulis, Uzair dan Suhairi kecut perut dan seperti hendak pengsan. Suhairi terkencing dalam seluar. Apa boleh buat, kerana dia terlalu takut. Lembaga berkenaan merayap dengan menghulurkan tangannya yang panjang mengambil ikan kami.

Pak Long Din naik angin lalu bertempik dengan sekuat-kuatnya. Apa lagi meraunglah lembaga itu dan terjun ke laut berenang menuju ke Pulau Jerejak. Ketika lembaga berkenaan berada di pulau berkenaan suara jeritannya bergema hingga jelas kedengaran oleh kami dalam bot.

Hampir sejam menyepi, Pak Long Din menyambung semula aktivitinya selepas membelit semula ekor pari yang melibas badan lembaga tadi. Selepas itu, Pak Long Din menaikkan beberapa jenahak manakala kami yang sudah hilang semangat duduk berehat saja. Selepas itu kami pulang ke Jeti Batu Maung. Dalam perjalanan pulang Pak Long Din menceritakan semuanya supaya kami faham.

Kelibat orang di atas batu itu bukanlah manusia cuma penunggu pulau. Lembaga seiras dengan beruk pula adalah jelmaan syaitan dan iblis untuk mengganggu.

Record Setting Fish Gets New Home, Name

Record Setting Fish Gets New Home, Name

 

 

The world's largest blue catfish finally has a new home, and a new name. The new 121.5 pound star attraction at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens seemed right at home in her new 26,000 gallon aquarium at the fishery. Dozens of people of all ages turned out for the big unveiling. Receiving just as much attention as the fish today, was the man who caught it. Cody Mullennix accepted award after award for his record-setting prize.

"Wow, you know," said Mullennix. "I didn't know catching a record blue cat is going to draw all this attention. I was just doing it out there for the fun, the sport of it."

"When anyone does a new world record, it's the same as McGwire batting the baseball, you know," said Sugar Ferris of the National Fishing Hall of Fame. "Within the fishing world it's really important."

"We want all the world records in Texas," said Phil Durocher, the Director of Inland Fisheries at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. "That's one of the things we strive for. It creates excitement. It increases the value of fishing in the state. It gets people excited about coming here."

But, what had most of the crowd excited about coming here today was the new name Cody was to give the 60-inch long fish. In the end, he called her "Splash".

"Splash, he did make a big splash up there in the water," said Mullennix. "We talked about this, this is the hardest thing I had to do was name this fish. It took me along time. It wasn't until just last night that finally something came and stuck. I think splash was a good name for it."

Cody says "Splash" will be on display for awhile at the Fresh Water Fisheries Center in Athens for anyone to see. But, he vows to return "Splash" to Lake Texoma, where he says is her real home.

Kevin Berns reporting kberns@kltv.com

 

Source:   http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1634405

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Mancing dipelantar minyak 9-12 Apr 2011

With Taiwan in the distance, a lifelong chase for marlin

Off Japan's westernmost island, Yonaguni, an old man has spent a lifetimegoing after one of the ocean's largest predatorial fishes

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , Yonaguni Island, Japan

Hiroshi Fukumine, 74, a fisherman, searches for marlins off the shore of Yonaguni Island, Japan. Fukumine is known for his boldness in going out to stormy seas when others dare not to.

PHOTO: NY TIMES

The bonito with its large black back and silvery sides flopped aboard the fishing boat, scattering blood on the white deck. After reeling in a couple more, Hiroshi Fukumine, 74, pressed the throttle, and his boat began gaining speed, land receding into the distance.
Over the next hour, as warm waves crashed aboard and left big grains of salt on the skin, the boat roared into the East China Sea, with Fukumine's gaze fixed at a destination known only to himself. For on this morning, as on every other morning, the bonito were just bait for marlin.
Maybe today, as he had one day last year, he would catch a 500kg marlin, the biggest in a lifetime spent prowling the sea. His son, Hiroaki, 51, recently decided to succeed him, and the father spoke of retiring soon. His 74-year-old knees wobbled and his back ached. Age had changed his view of the sea.
"Before, I was never afraid," he said later that day. "But as I've gotten older, I find myself fearing the waves. The sea can take your life."
Here on Japan's westernmost island, where Taiwan is visible on a clear day, four fishermen in their 70s continue to search the seas for the marlin that ends up on dinner tables across the nation. Born just as the commercial fishing of marlin began here in the 1930s, the old men, like the one in Hemingway's story, used to fish alone in skiffs.
Now the boats are bigger and have engines, but the fishing remains the same. The fishermen drag a bonito, attached to a hook and line, across the waters until a marlin bites, and then fight to reel in a fish that can weigh several times more than they do and that can swim at more than 70kph.
It is a contest the fishermen have often lost, sometimes fatally, before mechanized reels became popular here, about two decades ago.
Back then, once a marlin struck, the line would whip around as the fisherman scrambled to grasp it. Sometimes it would become entangled around his fingers or legs, and the marlin would yank him into the sea. In the most famous case, an 81-year-old named Shigeru Itokazu was killed in 1990 after a line became coiled around his thumb and a marlin pulled him into the sea, shortly after he had appeared as the subject of a documentary, The Old Man and the East China Sea.
A lean man, standing 165cm, Fukumine once had his middle-finger entangled in a line and ripped away by a marlin. A doctor here reattached the finger, but upside-down. He had it properly reattached in Ishigaki, a bigger island in Okinawa, and had missing flesh replaced from his backside.
After World War II, this island served as a focal point for a black-market trade between Japan and Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. Fukumine worked on boats that smuggled goods, like women's clothing, until the US occupying forces cracked down on the black-market trade in 1950. Then over the next two decades, he joined eight-man fishing boats that hauled in several marlin a day, before setting out aboard his own skiff.
Of the old men here, Fukumine is known for his boldness, in going out to stormy seas when others dare not to.
One day two decades ago, when waves were so high that no one else went out to sea, Fukumine did. Trying to reel in a fish, he fell overboard, as his boat moved on toward the island of Iriomote. He drifted for two hours and washed up against some rocks, where a search party found him despite mistaking him at first for a turtle.

These days, Fukumine tends to avoid such risks. So on a recent day when Taiwan became visible -- a sign that can mean, at this time of the year, that a typhoon is approaching -- he did not go out to sea. Instead, he spent the day drinking with fellow fishermen, untalkative at sea but voluble on land over drinks.
On this particular morning, with the waves settling down, he was back on the water, this time with his son. He had pushed so deep into the sea that Yonaguni's elongated silhouette, punctuated by its promontory, had vanished into the horizon.
Hours passed. Fukumine's face remained taut. Father and son rarely talked.
Then in the late afternoon, without saying a word, the son began reeling in the line, but without the urgency that would have suggested a big catch. The bonito had disappeared, as had the hook and part of the line. Only a shark could have swallowed it all, Fukumine said later.
Later that evening, after taking a bath, Fukumine sat alone in his living room. His son's wife had set bonito soup and other dishes on the table before him. He wore a relaxed countenance and a robe open at the chest, revealing an old man's shriveled skin. A support belt for his bad back lay next to him.
"When I don't catch marlin, even alcohol doesn't taste good," he said.
Fukumine spoke of bequeathing the boat to his son by year's end, and of retiring and getting a small one for himself. He was tired of talking, he told his visitors, but answered one more question about whether, after all these years, he loved the sea.
"The sea is beautiful," Fukumine said, then added, "The sea is my friend. It allows me to take fish."

Source:  http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/07/14/2003178986

Punggah dua dozen tenggiri tuas

Oleh Abu Bakar Ali

(DARI kiri) Tekong Wan Ahmad, Cikgu Mi, penulis dan Sidek menunjukkan tenggiri yang dipancing di tuas dalam perairan Yan, baru-baru ini.

YAN: Angin bertiup perlahan diiringi ombak kecil. Ini keadaan yang paling digemari pemancing dan nelayan untuk menguji beberapa tuas (unjam) di sekitar perairan daerah ini yang popular dengan tenggiri.
YAN: Angin bertiup perlahan diiringi ombak kecil. Ini keadaan yang paling digemari pemancing dan nelayan untuk menguji beberapa tuas (unjam) di sekitar perairan daerah ini yang popular dengan tenggiri.

Penulis bersama tiga rakan dari Petaling Jaya iaitu Haji Yusof, Kamal dan Sidek berkesempatan mengunjungi tuas di sini ditemani Tekong Wan Ahmad yang juga anak jati Yan bersama Cikgu Mi.

Sebenarnya hasrat hendak ke tuas sudah lama dipendam. Namun ketiadaan hubungan (tekong atau pemancing yang dikenali), membuatkan ia hanya sekadar perancangan. Sehinggalah, apabila seorang kenalan baik yang secara kebetulan pernah ke sana, memberikan nama dan nombor telefon Tekong Wan Ahmad kepada penulis untuk dihubungi.

Dalam perjalanan kami memasang angan-angan hendak menarik seberapa banyak tenggiri. Ini kerana sebelum itu ada pemancing pernah mendapat lebih 10 ekor tenggiri jika kena air dan umpan.

Justeru, langkah pertama sejurus bot bergerak ke lokasi ialah mencari umpan hidup yang menjadi kegemaran tenggiri.

Setibanya di tuas pertama, kelihatan sekumpulan burung camar berlegar-legar di atas buluh menandakan terdapat anak ikan atau umpan di situ. Apa lagi, penulis dan rakan-rakan tidak sabar-sabar menghulur pancing apollo bagi mencari selar kuning, kembung dan cencaru.

Hampir penuh tong Coleman 54 Qt dan pada masa yang sama, penulis sempat menghulurkan belon bagi teknik pancing apungan. Ternyata usaha itu tidak sia-sia, tidak sampai lima minit, belon pecah yang menandakan ada ikan sudah mengena.

Akhirnya tumpas seekor tenggiri. Selepas ditimbang beratnya kira-kira 4 kilogram (kg). Ini sudah cukup memuaskan hati kami. Dalam asyik membicarakan tangkapan penulis, giliran joran Kamal pula diragut tenggiri.

Selepas hampir lapan jam memancing, penulis bersama rakan kembali ke jeti. Apabila dikira, kami memperoleh 24 ekor tenggiri dengan berat antara 4 hingga 8 kg seekor. Kami menganggap trip mencatatkan tangkapan paling lumayan.

Kami kemudian dipelawa ke rumah Tekong Wan Ahmad untuk mandi dan menikmati juadah petang sebelum meneruskan perjalanan pulang ke ibu negara.



Sumber Artikel:  Joran
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Raja Udang Tomman

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Raja Udang Tomman

TCE Takles menampilkan kekili menegak Raja Udang Tomman yang terbaru kepada pemancing yang gemarkan aktiviti memancing laut dan air tawar. Dilengkapi gegelung aluminium yang diperkuatkan dengan satu alas bebola bakal memberikan keselesaan kepada pemancing untuk menaikkan ikan skala sederhana dan besar.

 

Raja Udang Tomman

TCE Takles menampilkan kekili menegak Raja Udang Tomman yang terbaru kepada pemancing yang gemarkan aktiviti memancing laut dan air tawar. Dilengkapi gegelung aluminium yang diperkuatkan dengan satu alas bebola bakal memberikan keselesaan kepada pemancing untuk menaikkan ikan skala sederhana dan besar.

Turut dipertingkatkan, sistem keseimbangan rotor, pengayuh tahan karat berkeupayaan tinggi ketika berada di air masin. Disesuaikan juga dengan penggera ketika ikan meragut umpan.

Produk ini pasti memuaskan anda apabila memilikinya. Tersedia dalam warna perak/hitam dan boleh memuatkan tali sehingga 70 meter dengan diameter 0.25 milimeter. Untuk pertanyaan hubungi TCE Tackles di talian 04-4844524.



Bot Marine Explorer E320

Explorer Marin Centre Sdn Bhd menampilkan edisi terbaru produknya kepada peminat bot yang gemarkan aktiviti memancing atau menjadikannya sebagai bot komersial di laut dan sungai.

Bot sepanjang 32 kaki ini mampu memuatkan sehingga 20 orang dan dilihat antara produk yang berkualiti dari Marine Explorer dan disifatkan bakal memberikan kepuasan kepada pemiliknya.

Pilihan deck sama ada jenis terbuka atau tertutup serta rekaan bentuk terkini dan dilengkapi enjin sehingga 225 kuasa kuda, tidak memberi sebarang masalah untuk meredah ombak di mana-mana perairan. Maklumat lanjut hubungi 03-89457258 atau layari laman web www.explorermarine.com.my.


52 Quart Xtreme Cooler Coleman

Universal Fitness & Leisure Sdn Bhd, memperkenalkan kotak sejuk 52 Quart Xtreme Cooler untuk muatan isian barangan supaya tahan lebih lama ketika melakukan aktiviti perkhemahan, memburu dan memancing dalam hutan dan kawasan pergunungan

Ciri-ciri produk ini, berupaya menyimpan sebanyak 82 tin minuman sehingga lima hari dengan keadaan suhu 90 darjah celsius, dilengkapi dua pemegang untuk memudahkan dibawa ke mana-mana dan selain itu terbina daripada bahan tahan lasak.

Saiz luaran 27.75" x 14.95" x 17.25’ dan dalaman 20.5" x 8.75" x 12.25". Untuk pertanyaan lanjut hubungi UFL Outdoors di talian 03-22825721.

Sumber:  
http://joran.bharian.com.my/Current_News/Joran/News/ProdukBaru/20100116105257/Article/index_html

Old School Fish Story: Giant Grouper Mauls Spearfisherman, Revenge Taken

Old School Fish Story: Giant Grouper Mauls Spearfisherman, Revenge Taken

 

by Alex Robinson

David Sikes of the Corpus Christi Caller has uncovered a classic fish story from the 1970's that's worth checking out.
The story revolves around a massive Goliath grouper that attempted to eat then 25-year-old spearfisherman Steve Withers.
From the Caller...
" 'He was so big he looked like the bottom," said Withers' diving partner John Beard. "He raised up and I got the hell out of there. I ran around the pipe and got Steve. As we came around we headed toward the bottom beside the fish.'
That's when the Goliath turned, opened its gaping maw and engulf part of Withers, head first.
'He just inhaled him,' Beard told the reporter.
Silt and sand stirred from the bottom by the strike clouded Beard's view of what happened next. Unable to see and therefore unable to help, Beard ascended to the boat, where the wives of the two divers awaited. Beard was prepared to proclaim Withers a lost diver when he spotted his partner bleeding and sitting on the stern nursing his wounds."
After this story was reported to local news outlets, another young spearfisherman named Brian Gulley set out to catch the man-eating Goliath grouper. A few days later Gulley and his dad found monster fish.
Here's the report from the Caller ...
"The big-eyed grouper backed up and maneuvered slowly to one side of a motionless Gulley.
Gully pivoted, aimed and fired in a single motion, plunging the barbed projectile deeply between the fish's eye and gill plate. In a blur, the powerful jewfish turned and bolted.
'He jerked me out of my fins,' Gulley said. 'And he circled around the pipe I don't know how many times with me hanging on. It was 20 minutes of pure rodeo.'
The fish measured 7-foot-4. It was six feet in circumference."
Gulley's fish had an estimated weight of about 650 pounds. He was sure it was the same fish that attacked Withers. But after seeing the fish, Withers said the grouper that attacked him was even bigger.
If you're curious, the world record Goliath grouper weighs in at 680 pounds and was caught off Fernandina Beach, Florida. Swim carefully folks.



Article Source:   http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/gone-fishin%E2%80%99/2012/06/old-school-fish-story-giant-grouper-mauls-spearfisherman-revenge-taken

Haruan Pelahap!!

Haruan Pelahap!!

Ini lah haruan pelahap walaupun bersaiz 2 jadi dewasa katak jenis sure catch pun ditelannya.
Zulhilmi Hat
hilmi@bharian.com.my
Haruan pelahap

KECIL pun kecillah, janji seronok,” kata cikgu Yusmie kepada penulis yang baru-baru ini yang giat memburu ikan persis kepala ular atau haruan (Channa striatus) di sekitar Kuala Selangor untuk dijadikan ubat kepada isterinya yang baru lepas bersalin.

Lubuk haruan di bekas lombong pasir sekitar Batang berjuntai..lihat air dengan pokok rumput apabila katak getah ditarik di celahnya..kelibat haruan pasti mengejar

Lokasi rahsia kami terletak di tasik bekas kuari pasir yang menamatkan operasi sejak sepuluh tahun lalu dan hari ini ia dihuni pelbagai spesies ikan tawar seperti haruan toman dan sebarau dan bujuk.
Perjalanan kami bermula di Bandar Country Homes, Rawang selepas dijanjikan penulis bersama cikgu Yusmie yang akan bergerak menggunakan dua buah motosikal. Kegunaan motosikal sangat fleksibel berbanding kereta kerana kami perlu bergerak pantas untuk meneroka lombong pasir yang berselirat sekitar daerah Kuala Selangor itu.

Peluru digunakan PENULIS iaitu sure catch frog

Setibanya di lokasi petang itu, kami berdua bergegas mempersiapkan alat memancing masing-masing untuk bertempur dengan pemangsa yang paling di gemari kaki mengilat kerana kerakusan spesies ini menyambar umpan.
Cikgu Yusmie mempersiapkan diri dengan joran Abu Garcia Hornet Stringer yang dipasangkan kekili menegak jenis Shimano Calcutta manakala penulis dengan joran Abu Garcia Conolon dan kekili Shimano Scorpion DC yang sememangnya menjadi ‘senjata’ ampuh untuk memikat sang haruan ini.

Senjata bukan calang-calang iaitu Shimano Calcuta dengan Abu Hornet Stringer

Menurut cikgu Yusmie, pemilihan umpan di lokasi ini terdiri katak getah berekor atau plastik lembut replika ikan yang biasa digunakan sebelum ini. Dua jenis umpan tiruan ini dianggap gewang ‘pembunuh’ haruan selain katak minyak dan cicak.
Selepas mendengar penerangannya, penulis terus yang menyelak kotak gewang untuk melihat adakah ada lagi gewang simpanan seperti dinyatakan cikgu Yusmie dan mujurlah beberapa gewang jenis itu terdapat dalam simpanan.

Tangkapan cikgu Yusmi@Zauber dengan haruan menggunakan soft plastic
Lokasi pertama kami iaitu lombong pasir sebesar kolam renang yang dalamnya sekitar tiga meter. Di keliling lombong itu pula terdapat berpuluh-puluh lagi lombong di mana saiznya serta kedalaman berbeza-beza dan semuanya mempunyai rumput air yang tumbuh meliar sepanjang tebing lombong itu.


Katak getah warna putih dan Oren juga laku di lubuk ini

Pada pemerhatian penulis, kawasan lombong ini cukup luas dan aktiviti memancing seharian dekat sini belum tentu dapat menghabiskan semua lombong yang ada!

Bekas lombong pasir yang menjadi habitat haruan dan toman

Zingggggg...kedengaran bunyi balingan dilakukan cikgu Yusmie ke tepi lombong mempunyai rumput air dengan katak getah berwarna putihnya. Kayuhan separa laju dibuat untuk mengapungkan katak getah seakan-akan berlari di permukaan air.
Tiba-tiba satu kelibat berwarna hitam dari bawah air muncul dan menghentam katak getah hingga menghasilkan bunyi percikan air ‘debushhh’. Cikgu Yusmie yang bergegas membuat rembatan joran menghala sisi badan bagaimanapun gagal menaikkan ikan itu.
“Ahhh terlepas rezeki untuk orang rumah...besar ikan tu,” keluh cikgu Yusmie yang kecewa akibat sambaran dari mangsa pertama tadi.
Tidak jauh dari cikgu Yusmie, penulis yang beberapa kali membuat balingan di lokasi sama sejak awal tadi dengan katak getah berwarna hijau gagal membuka selera haruan untuk menyambarnya. Katak hijau kemudian di tukar berwarna oren agar haruan terus di hambat mangsa hingga tebing ke tebing lombong.
“Kecil pun kecil la chor, janji ikan mahu makan,” kata cikgu Yusmie yang cuba menenangkan hati penulis.

Akhirnya habuan untuk penulis

Katak jenis hijau turut dibaham tatkala senja menjengah di ufuk timur
Sehingga jam 7 petang, tiada seekor ikan haruan berjaya dinaikkan kami berdua melainkan semuanya terlucut ketika ikan berenang masuk ke dalam rumput air di tebing lombong.

Toman pada lokasi berbeza

Cikgu Yusmie kemudian menukar taktik dengan menggantikan katak getah kepada getah putih yang dipadankan dengan kekipas dan kemudian dibaling tengah lombong menerima sentapan dari mangsa.
Melengkung joran cikgu Yusmie akibat dibawa ikan ke rumput air yang memaksa kayuhan laju dibuat oleh beliau untuk mengekang mangsa masuk lebih dalam ke dalam rumput.
Hampir tiga minit juga cikgu Yusmie mengawal ikan supaya tidak membenamkan diri dalam rumput dan akhirnya haruan berskala 500 gram berjaya didaratkan dengan jayanya.
“Selamat...orang rumah tak marah la balik ni sebab lesen dah dapat,” kata penulis kepada cikgu Yusmie yang dibalas dengan senyum kelat.

Hasil menarik dengan Shimano Scorpion DC:Rod Abu Conolon 20-20lb dan katak getah Mazzy Frog dari Viva

Semakin lewat senja, haruan kelihatan timbul semakin kerap di tepi dan tengah lombong dengan menghasilkan bunyi ‘bushh’ apabila mangsa menyambar kumpulan ikan seluang.
Penulis yang masih setia menggunakan gewang katak berwarna oren membaling ke arah hemburan tadi dan seekor haruan berskala 400g berjaya dibawa ke ke tepi.
Sebelum jam 7.45 petang, kira-kira empat ekor haruan berjaya dijinakkan oleh kami dengan gewang getah dan getah lembut mempunyai bebaling pada hari itu dan tidak termasuk berbelas-belas kali terlucut ketika melakukan sentapan.

Gewang jenis spinner baits turut laku di lombong ini

Namun, hal demikian itu tidak menjadi masalah bagi kami selaku kaki mengilat tegar seperti kami dan apa yang penting misi memancing kami pada hari itu boleh dikatakan berjaya dan cukup untuk mencari lauk untuk isteri cikgu Yusmie yang baru bersalin.

Info:

*Haruan adalah spesies pemangsa yang lazimnya menyerang umpan di permukaan air.
*Umpan katak minyak dan cicak dikatakan paling mujarab untuk menjinakkan persis berkepala ular ini.
*Gewang jenis katak getah menjadi pilihan untuk memburunya.
*Waktu memancing haruan sekitar jam 7-9 pagi atau 6- 7.30 petang.
*Kawasan habitat mudah dikesan dalam lombong mempunyai rumput atau reba kayu, sungai, paya dan sawah padi




Sumber Cerita:  http://joranharian.blogspot.sg/

Extreme Fishing With Robson Green Season 4 Episode 2

Pak Hitam jadi pilihan pemancing

Tekong

KUALA BESUT: Sebut saja Pelantar Minyak, terbayang kaki pancing akan kehebatan tekong Abdul Ghani Ahmad @ Pak Hitam, yang pakar mengesan lubuk ikan merah, jenahak, kerapu, jemuduk, ebek dan sebagainya.
KUALA BESUT: Sebut saja Pelantar Minyak, terbayang kaki pancing akan kehebatan tekong Abdul Ghani Ahmad @ Pak Hitam (gambar), yang pakar mengesan lubuk ikan merah, jenahak, kerapu, jemuduk, ebek dan sebagainya.

Nama lelaki berusia separuh abad ini bukan saja sering bermain di bibir kaki pancing, malah pakej menariknya menjanjikan hasil tangkapan amat lumayan, menjadi penarik hingga menyebabkan beliau sering ditempah.

Ini terbukti sehingga Jun depan, bot beliau sudah ditempah kaki pancing sama ada dari Lembah Klang, Johor Bahru, Kelantan, Terengganu dan Pahang. Malah, pemancing Singapura juga turut mendapatkan khidmatnya untuk memancing di sekitar pelantar Minyak.

Pak Hitam berkata, beliau aktif menjalankan pakej memancing sejak 1999 selepas diminta seorang rakan kerana dia ketika itu tak boleh membawa kaki pancing kerana kurang sihat.

“Sebenar saya hanya tekong nelayan yang sekadar menangkap ikan di perairan yang jauhnya lapan batu nautika dari pantai Kuala Besut. Bagaimanapun, selepas menjadi tekong bidang terjun, saya terus bergerak aktif menawarkan pakej memancing.

“Pengalaman luas dengan perairan Kuala Besut, ditambah pula dengan memiliki lebih daripada 200 lubuk ikan bersaiz XL, menjadikan saya orang pilihan pemancing. Tidak pernah ada orang merungut atau melahirkan rasa kecewa apabila pergi memancing dengan saya, rata-rata memuji dengan hasil tangkapan di lubuk yang dibawa,” katanya.

Antara lokasi kegemarannya ialah Karang Luas, Karang Wahab, Unjam Pak Hitam, Karang Haji Rahman, Lubuk 10 minit dan banyak lagi. Malah kewujudan spesies ikan tenggiri, kerapu, merah, ebek, tambak dan banyak lagi ikan bermutu di kawasan karang di sini mampu memberi kepuasan kepada pemancing dan nelayan amnya.

Bot kayu sepanjang 50 kaki berpangkalan di jeti nelayan Kuala Besut, biasanya mengambil masa lebih 12 jam untuk ke destinasi dan selesa dengan membawa 10 pemancing pada satu trip.

Menariknya Pak Hitam ialah, sepanjang perjalanan ke destinasi utama, beliau akan singgah di beberapa unjam atau karang laut bagi mencari umpan. Jika bernasib baik ikan besar boleh didapati.

Jika ada pemancing ingin merasai tarikan ganas merah pucat bersaiz besar, hubungi Pak Itam: 019-9403715.



Sumber Artikel:   Joran
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Rare fish sighting thrills world's experts

Rare fish sighting thrills world's experts

Lindy Laird | Monday, December 13, 2010 8:00

See-Through: The juvenile spiderfish photographed at the Poor Knights.

Crispin Middleton

 

  

Marine scientists around the world are excited about the first sighting of a rare deepwater fish at the Poor Knights.

The 10cm translucent whisp captured by photographer Crispin Middleton has been identified as a juvenile spiderfish.

Ngunguru-based Marine specialist Wade Doak, who forwarded the photos to fish expert Andrew Stewart for identification, said these were the first photos taken of a spiderfish, alive and swimming at the Poor Knights.

"It has excellent camouflage," Mr Doak said. "It looks like jellyfish or salp and has total translucency which would mean it is seldom preyed upon."

Mr Stewart said there were five recorded species in the Bathypterois genus in deep waters around New Zealand.

The iconic deep-sea animals were not common above 1500m depth.

Juveniles are known to live near the surface, descending to the dark, unlit depths when they mature. The genus is sometimes known in other parts of the world as tripod fish or feelerfish.

 
Spiderfish species grow up to 45cm and most have wing-like, ultra-sensitive fins to prop themselves on the seabed. They use their fins to herd crustaceans into their mouths and needle-sharp teeth. They are thought to be almost sightless because of the blind, dark depths they inhabit.

Mr Doak has posted information and Mr Middleton's photos on his website www.wadedoak.com

 

 

Article Source:  http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/news/rare-fish-sighting-thrills-worlds-experts/1037516/

 

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March 22, 2012

Tackle Test: Polarized Sunglasses Are a Must Have For Fishermen -2

by Todd Kuhn

Admittedly, I’m not much of a “fashion” kind of guy when it comes to fishing gear. Functionality is more my game. My favorite item being a pair of six-pocket, standard army issue pants.
As the name implies, they’re endowed with six pockets for all the “stuff” I need on a regular basis: my cell phone, wallet, reading glasses, bags of worms, beef jerky, contour maps, the occasional Boca grip, grocery list, spray-on worm goop and pliers. On occasion, there might be a half eaten sandwich in there too — when the biting is just too good to choke down the entire deli treat. Packs of Lance Nip-E-Cheese crackers nestle nicely in the cavernous camouflaged pockets too.
What’s odd is that of all the fishing gear I have, I rely on my polarized glasses more than most, yet I never give them a second thought. I’m of the opinion that a quality pair of peeps should be standard issue for every serious fisherman.
For example, I was out with a fishing buddy on a local lake, running the trolling motor and looking for signs of anything that might bite. While peering into the water I saw a bed with a gargandous female on it. Yikes! I eased the boat back around and told my buddy to come up front and check out the find.
As I pointed her out to him, he leaned closer and said, “Where?” Keep in mind this fish was big enough to swallow a small dairy cow. I pointed again, my arms flailing in even more exaggerated gestures, gruffing “right there!” He was still lost. After a few disparaging comments about his advancing age, family lineage and having lost his eyesight, I glanced at his sunglasses: he found that gem in the dollar bin. No wonder my buddy was blind as a bat to the world around him.

For those in the know, a quality pair of polarized glasses is a must when angling. Quality polarized glasses remove glare from the water’s surface and filter the sun’s harmful ultra-violet rays while providing a distortion-free field of view. Cheap sunglasses do none of these.

So if you’re thinking about getting a pair of glasses, there are two types of lenses available: glass and polycarbonate. Both offer unique advantages.

Glass lenses don’t scratch but they’re heavier than polycarbonate. Polycarbonate lenses on the other hand, scratch easier, but are lighter and offer protection against flying objects.

I recently tried a pair from Numa Sport Optics. Numa products are developed by military Special Forces personnel searching for rugged eyewear that would stand up to the rigors of combat. A tall order for sure.

I found my Numa’s very light thanks to their proprietary frame material. The polycarbonate lenses are very scratch resistant, while offering protection against unwanted flying objects. You know the stuff; slip-sinkers, jigs, topwater baits and anything you find yourself dodging as it whistles by your head. Not to mention those giant (and particularly juicy) bugs when you’re blistering across the lake.

My Numa’s had broad temple arms that keep stray sunlight from entering through the periphery of the frames. Nice. After a few days on the water, I can recommend the Numa’s wholeheartedly. Oh, and for all the other fashionistas out there just like me, rest assured, they look really cool too. ($139.99)