Rompin' in Rompin @ Fishing Trip

This is my last day in Rompin and this will be my last post about Rompin.

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Since Kuala Rompin is a popular destination for sailfish’s sport fishing, I want to see sailfish! I want to catch them, touch them, kiss them, take photos with them, and then release them back to the sea by myself!


The weather was not really good.... The sea was not safe for sailing...with huge waves.. But I really wish to sail on the sea. We beg Xiang to bring us out. Finally he agreed but with one condition: It must be safe to sail! If not, we come back and go home sleep!


So I prayed!! The weather please be nice, full with sunshine! The sea please be calm, safe for me to conquer you!


Guess what?! It was a very fine day! Clear, sunny and breezy! And the sea was with small waves, not really rough... far better than yesterday! Yoohoo =P

I’m DAMN LUCKY ~~~ Thank you so much Mr.Sun!


But I started to feel afraid, afraid of having seasick!


Thanks to the sunny day, the guys are more afraid of UV and sunburn, than us, the girls... I was so casual to go with a short tee with short pants, and refused to wear a cap and apply sunblock. But after all the kind advices and “threaten” that it is faster to get sunburn at sea, I finally changed a full-sleeved shirt, got a cap and sunglasses (but I didn’t wear them), applied SPF50 sunblock at every exposed parts of my body, gather at Rompin River Chalet, and let’s go to the sea!!

Xiang gave us the official shirts of Royal Pahang Billfish International Challenge. Whee~ present present! According to him, this is a world-class event which held on August yearly. People will compete by see whose gets the most numbers of billfish.

Yeah, I’m the skipper! So I gonna drive the boat, and everyone on board must listen to me, I am your captain!! =P

The guys are preparing fishing gears

We went very very very far...I also don’t know where I am. I was surrounded by the sea, look right look left look front look behind...all BLUE

They were fishing and trying to get me a sailfish!

Isabelle’s surrendered after a while we stopped on the sea. She was having seasick, vomited the dhal, lie down to feel better and rest.


It’s been hours we were on the sea. The wave was getting rougher, started to become choppier.  I really respect those who live on the sea....

I was started to have the “feel” of seasick already. Kenji kept talking to me to distract me of the dizziness, while I was trying to feel better by sitting cross-legged and bended my body, like a frog!!

HERE!

At last, I leaned by the boat and surrendered, bluekkkkk...... “donated” some liquids to the fishes!!


After a while, I was so energetic already wo!! Hehe...then I go fishing! Haha...it was fun to use the fishing rod! Now I knew how to hold the spinning pole, how to spin the reel and control the bail, how to release and tighten the line, how to release the fishes back to the sea.

Not forgot to mention!! I GOT 4 FISH, but Xiang asked me to release them as they were so small. He wants BIG fish!


Xiang said sailfishes here are protected, so we must release them back to the ocean after catch. He told many things about sailfish and ways to fish. And only I realize, they don’t use worms as baits! Ahahahaha~ they use little fake fish, and also paper thin fishing spoons like these!

Also they use balloons to hold the lines and deliver baits to further places to get larger fish. If the balloon disappeared, means the fish is hooked!

Learned new things =P

Like this, picture from net

I didn’t take much photos as if I move too much, I was afraid of seasick again!

He changed many locations and tried to get sailfish but failed. It was too wavy during monsoon. The lovely creatures and large fishes don’t want to come out. Yeeeee... I wanna touch their “long-sword” and their large fin. I want to hug sailfish as return for seasick! Ishhh... : (


Never mind lar, at least we get a small shark and many other fishes!

Since we couldn’t get sailfish, so...see through web photos lar!

It’s the end for the mission of catch-and-release sailfish after for almost 6 hours being surrounded by sea.

The guys were tired and slept on the way back

Remember that I’m the skipper?

Wooo..driving a boat is very exciting and fun! It’s much easier than driving a car.

I have radar navigator to guide my way, I have compass to tell me direction, no divider, no traffic jam, no traffic light, no JPJ.....just a little bit bouncing when the giant wave rolled over. Still fun!! =P


We landed safely before the sun set! Thank God and also thanks to Xiang~ After a laksa and ABC treat at Pantai Hiburan, we had our dinner then. These are the fishes we got, and lastly went into our stomach! Very delicious~

is it because we caught the fishes by our own? Hehe...as the proverb says, every potter praises his own pot.


I’m satisfied with the sea fishing trip...it could be the best if I can really hug a sailfish! Nevermind, I will come again next year if my Tioman trip is on!


And I think, I'm really a lucky one! as for other anglers, they need to pay SGD590 which is about RM1300+ per head for 2D1N fishing package! Xiang only asked us to refuel his boat tank, and helped him to wash boat...but ended up playing with water! and enjoyed collecting clams, fishing, and having fun like owning a private boat!! See...I'm lucky isn't it?!

Special thanks to Hooi for letting me stay for days in his house and brought me to places I never expected to go.

Special thanks to Hooi's friends, Xiang, Kenji and Piao for accompanying us for days, giving us great memories and chances to do things we never knew we can do. 

I feel grateful....really love and appreciate it! *smile* =P