060423 - New Zealand River

2006-04-23T22:21:00.000-07:00

Early hours at the Old Thomson Road.

The entrance to Upper Peirce is still dark

The sun rose to greet our arrival

Uncle Wong and Ady teasing some peacock basses

No action yet.

Then action

The McDowell bend for the peacock bass

Not too big but the fight was tremendous

With my foam popper

Close up

Hardy Bougle paired with The McDowell

Another peacock bass which I operated on. Look closely.

Can you see the damaged gill

One of its gill is damaged and is not red in colour. Probably decaying.

I used a pair sissors to cut off the gill because it was impairing the peacock bass natural swimming action

A little cove

Uncle Wong fighting a peacock bass

Ady with his peacock bass

Off to Ah Hoe's for our usual coffee to wake us up from our dreams.

060423 - Satellite Station

2006-04-23T06:15:00.000-07:00

Secluded Indian Temple, built around a sacred tree

The Sacred Tree

Temple trustees

Ah Yeow caught another peacock bass on his #0 weight

Ah Yeow in action

Ah Yeow is the champion as usual

Ah Wee also caught his fair share of peacock basses

Fishing side by side for a big pod of peacock basses

This Thai was very helpful.
He help cleared snagged lures and flies by swimming into the water.
When he requested for the fishes for dinner for his group of co-workers, we couldn't refuse.

A good size 1.5 pound peacock bass. Dinner for the Thai Worker. TomYam Peacock Bass
His friends also caught many with their nets.

Enough TomYam Peacock bass for a month.

060423-New Zealand River & Satellite Station

060423 - New Zealand River

060423 - Satellite Station