Fresh Water Prawn Fishing Trip
This morning we went for a fresh water prawn fishing at the Belait river by boat...there were five of us. On arrival at the boat pick-up point near the Rasau bridge, we were greeted by an unexpected & uninvited creature...it was a 1 meter long crocodile! On seeing our presence it quickly make way and vanished under water...
...:: A gruesome sighting...! ::...
...:: Osman waiting for us under the Rasau bridge with his 18 foot long fibreglass boat ::...
....:: All eagerly looking for the best place to get started ::...
...:: Faizal 1st catch of the day.. ::...
...:: Followed by Mizan ::...
...:: And soon..everyone was posing with their catch.. ::...
...:: Pian with his fresh water prawn ::...
...:: The biggest catch of the day! King prawn caught by Mizan ::...
...:: More catch from Osman ::...
...:: Syazni manouvered the boat looking for another strategic location...::...
...:: Osman and his biggest prawn ::...
...:: Another catch from Pian ::...
...:: Syazni showing his catch ::...
...:: And another one...::...
...:: By mid-day one after another the prawn became our victims ::...
...:: At the end of the day we managed to catch a total of around 50 fresh water prawns or king prawns ::...By 5 pm we decided to call it a day...packed our things and headed home feeling satisfied and hoping to make another trip again in the near future with more catches and hopefully to catch that elusive big blue king prawns..!
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Fresh Water Prawn Fishing Trip
5 comments:
Hello Kaki, you catch these on hooks? In our cold New England ocean water we have no prawn, we do have lobster that can get up to 18 lbs. but these are caught in traps. Never seen anything like what you guys are doing! I would think they are a good meal!
In fresh water we have crayfish, which are like small lobsters, or a hardshell prawn, they are popular in the southern US, but no one in my part of the country eats them. I will do a post on them in the spring, maybe even cook some up and give a report on it.
hi mkz,
yes they were all caught using hooks and earth worms as bait...here these prawns are much sought after and sold at much higher prices than the normal fresh water prawns!
Normally some of the big sizes are caught also using traps and they can get up to 9-10 inches long and those are the sizes that we were trying hard the whole day yesterday to catch but unfortunately none were caught except for those small sizes only...maybe hopefully in our next trip!
Do you eat them, or sell them? Both? Best of luck on your next trip. Do you always take the pictures? I noticed that I never see you in any of the photos, no mention in the captions either! You've seen my mug, where's yours? In the US it is illegal to sell gamefish caught by an individual, you have to have a separate retail license for that, health inspection and stuff.
My fishing buddy Bob was amazed at catching them on hooks too!
The croc looks a little worrisome,the biggest threats we face here are snapping turtles (they can take fingers off) or the occasional Cottonmouth snake (venomous) but these will usually only give you a problem if you surprise them or treat them disrespectfully.
I have signed for the boat! will post pics on Wednesday, it is better than we expected, and because we bought it in winter, it cost us a lot less than it would just 6 weeks from now!
we don't sell them but we ate them...these prawn is such a delicious delicacy in this part of the world and there's no problem with the law if we sell or eat them..I'm somewhere in those pictures!
I think your boat is much bigger and better than the boats that you've seen in this site..right?
Can't wait to see the pictures..
My boat is very different from those I see in your pics, it is not as long, only 16ft, but much wider, 6ft. and it is made of aluminum, fiberglass hulls here are much more expensive and costly to repair, and we have a lot of glacial rock in out lakes, which can destroy a fiberglass boat. Rule of thumb though, if one can afford a fiberglass boat, one can usually afford to fix it!
Options are another thing, a basic boat is sturdy, but not comfortable or expensive, add toys and the price goes up. The only advantage we have with price is winter. 6 months a year we seldom have our boats in the water because of ice, so the sellers will reduce the prices in winter to make money to pay their bills. This is the best time to buy, I payed about 30% less because of winter cold than I would pay if the weather was warm. Condition pays a large part too, but I will get into that more on the post Wednesday.
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