About Me

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Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
At present I am retired and spending my time mostly on fishing and photography. I bought my first SLR way back in 1982. It was a Minolta XG1. My last film camera was the Maxxum 9000. When the fantastic Sony Alpha 100 was launched, I changed over to the digital system. My Alpha 580 was acquired followed closely by my Alpha 77.

My main interest in photography is lifestyles, sports, sceneries, nature, birds and macro shots. Lately, I have spend more time on bird and nature shooting. As a regular contributer to some fishing magazines, I shoot quite a lot of photographs of anglers too....hence my photography blog is named 'SHOOT THE HOOKER'.



Having grown up near the confluence of two, the Kangsar and the Perak Rivers, it is not surprising that one of my main interest is fishing. My younger days were spent swimming and fishing.... with a bamboo pole, line and small hooks.Now while fishing, my friends and I do take a lot of photographs of anglers in action. The anglers must be careful so as not to accidentally hook on to a photographer. So I think as a reminder, I would like to name my fishing blog as 'HOOK THE SHOOTER'.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Northern Belum Adventure.

Koma with his sebarau.
C M Lam proudly
displaying his toman.
My toman taken with a Halco.











Our team led by Sesho Murakoshi.
A beautiful toman caught by Koma.
Ichinokawa with his kuang.








Another of my toman.
We normally fish in coves like this.
Leaving the Banding bridge
behind at dawn.








The team prepairing for battle the next day.
I was invited by C M Lam of Singapore to accompany him and his Sesho Murakoshi and friends for a fishing trip to the Northern Belum part of the Temengor Dam of Perak, Malaysia. The fishing there can be considered good as many tomans (giant snakeheads), kuangs and sebaraus (jungle perch) were landed. As with most man made dams, there were many sunken tree stumps below the surface of the water which made fishing rather challenging.
Jiro, Koma and I got into one boat, while Lam, Murakoshi and Ichinokawa were in the other. For a 3d2n trip, we spent our nights on the mother boat which could be considered as comfortable. A well rested body is rather important for anglers fishing in the hot tropical sun. An adequate supply of drinking water is very important to prevent dehydration.













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