Next Taka Adventure - Takabakang - trip on the first season this year will be held on 12-15 March 2009.
It's a 4 days and 3 nights sportfishing on board Theodoras boat.

Fishing method we use on this trip is jigging, popping, trolling and heavy bottom fishing. Heavy bottom fishing will be targeting deep monster fish from 200m depth and beyond.
Target species are: GT, Doggie, Escolar, Ruby Snapper, Bigeye Jack, Grouper, Shark and all pelagics.

The package price from Taka Adventure is SGD930,00/pax including:
- Airport - hotel - pier transfer.
- Complimentary b'fast & dinner.
- 2 nights hotel stay - before & after the trip.
- Bait, sinker, fishing gear (if you don't wanna bring yours).
- Full board - b'fast/lunch/dinner w/fresh fruit, snacks, drinks (non alcoholic).

Seat is still available, booking contact: wiwied@taka-adventure.com, +62 852 55 7777 22
Make sure you have a seat, it's a highly recommended fishing trip.

This is the route of the trip:



This is the monster caught from recent trip:

This knot is very popular here in our country, we usually use it for light to medium saltwater bottom fishing, or use for pond carp fishing to rig 3 hooks. This knot is very simple, similar to the well-known dropper loop, but instead of using the loop we make another knot on the loop and cut one end of the loop.

To rig 3 hooks, just add another branch on this knot.

These are the pictures of how to make the knot step by step:

This picture was taken during Takarewataya trip, 7 Malaysian anglers and 1 Indonesian. The result was not bad though we didn't land really2 big fish, Strike rate was considered okay.

The biggest fish was 17kg of Doggie caught on trolling on our way back to Makassar from Jailamu Island, the strike was right before the ship wreck, few hundred meters from the wreck, at Takarewataya reef during a heavy rain. It was a double strike but the fish on the other gear got away, seems like it was a bad hookup.


Below is a picture of a double strike by jigging at Jailamu Island.


Want to know where Takarewataya reef is located? Follow this link: http://fishingground.blogspot.com

1st day at Pulau Kambing without any spectacular result, the wind still blowing from the east. Couldn't reach the good spot located on the eastern part of the island.
Nothing caught from jigging while bottom fishing landed some big rainbow runners, bigeye jacks, small bluefin jacks and one good size jobfish.

Days 2, tried to explore the spot on the far west side of Pulau Selayar. We caught nothing here, the fishing ground was below our expectation. We didn't stay long here, at 6 am we headed back to Pulau Pasi, 2 hours of popping resulting 1 big redbass, 1 bluefin jack, 1 small GT.



Everage size of bluefin jack.


This is the biggest redbass caught on popper so far...

This is the movie version of the previous post Turtle Strike. Enjoy guys....