Friday the 13th – West Bali

Catch of the day = 3 Lobsters + 1 Rabbit Fish + 1 Trevally + 1 Grouper – 3 Mobile phone – 2 Wallets – 4 ATM cards – 2 Credit cards – 2 driving licenses – 1 ID - 2 Board shorts and - a lot of nerves!

Well that’s what we call statistics.. It all started with a drive down to the Bukit not too much traffic some good nasi bunkus on the way and an absent peter because of “higher influences”. 

Finally made our way down to the spot and once we swam beyond the reef we found out there was almost no visibility. And when I say no visibility I mean less than 3m sight with super murky green/yellow ish colored water. 

After swimming up and down the reef for what felt like an eternity Arvid managed to locate a cave full of Lobsters where he managed to shoot three decent sized ones.

As there was almost no visibility all we could do was just hide somewhere between the rocks and hope that some fish would cross our paths which towards the end luckily happened and made us at least catch a good dinner.

Walking back up the cliff and being all excited about getting back and cooking up what we just shot we had to make a super annoying discovery.. Some mother….er managed to open the car and steal everything we left behind! Being in Bali and believing that this island is one of the most spiritual places on earth we can just hope karma will get to whoever did this! And if karma decides to not get back to him then at least prostate cancer or something similar to that!

After a super frustrating drive back from the Bukit through the thriving traffic of Bali we finally made it back home to prepare some lovely lobster pasta accompanied by a good bottle of Scotch.

And the moral of the story: As long as you have a good bottle of scotch and loads of lobster even the most frustrating day can turn into satisfaction.  

Most Expensive lobsters and fishies

Last weekend Luc and i went to my all time fave place to shoot in the south (bukit area), it's not a fantastic fishing ground yet some perseverance and patience always pays off in the end. We checked the forecast, and the tide difference was only 0.6 m swell height is 3 ft so we were pretty certain water is gonna be clear beautiful sunny blue sky, soon as we enter the water visibility turns out quite bad at around 4 meter at the most.

After around five hrs in the water with limited visibility i started to go inside every rocks checking any possibilities for big grouper, mangrove jack, scribble snapper, and finally good ol' lobsters.. Results were :  3 lobsters and a rabbit fish, luc followed with grouper and on the way in a trvally.

It wasn't bad at all to be honest its also good to know that the lobsters are still there, and i did spotted few big grouper over 8 kilos inside those rocks, but they're way to cheeky to hunt without a spotlight.

climbing up the rocks back into the car ready to grab our phone to take shots of our catch, we got the big surprise some F*&$!! had broken into the car and nick 3 cell phones 4atm cards, 2 credit cards, id and licenses, even towel and my boardshort!!!! it is the first time it happens after 5 yrs spearfishing at this empty beach, it was really annoying!!! but at least the lobsters and fish were great meals...

Lesson learnt: as uncle peter said w his post of fishing superstitious do not fish on friday its bad omen, it was Friday the 13th Anyway hahahah...!!

Eenk-Eenk Trophy fish 12/4/2012

We started early in the morning, the water visibility was poor, medium current, no wind, swell was 2 ft. We were looking for scribble snapper and grouper.

Majority of them was too small, only saw 2 snapper around 1 kg range. Arvid also saw the same size fish and couple grouper. Luc was having problem with his goggle and weight belt.

Eng-eng he manage to catch decent size scribble snapper, rabbit fish and his last fish was a trophy. He shot 15-20 kg Giant Trevally. He was around 4-5 meter deep and he saw 2 GT heading his direction the first one was smaller but the second one was the biggest. It was clean shot! We try to eat it sashimi but there was to many worm in it(25 cm long thin worm).

Eng Eng, Gayvid, and Luc