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'.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

HUNTING THE LARGEMOUTH BASS OF MALAYSIA

A view of the jungle pond.
It was a long hard climb.
Stumbling and falling
all the time.
Got cut all over too.



C S Fong (Editor Rod &Line, English),
Poh Chuan Maye (Editor Rod and Line, Chinese),
Jacky Loke and me.

My large mouth taken on shrimp fly.










Another one of my bass.



Fong proudly showing off
 his large mouth bass.
Finally reaching the top.










News of the existance of largemouth bass in Malaysia was stale news. Those bass were known to be not thriving well.

Recently some anglers discovered a colony of these bass in the jungles of Pahang. Quite a number of 2kg specimen were caught using lures. Plenty of juveniles were landed too. This proves, the bass are thriving healthily here in this God forsaken place. How they got here is anybody's guess.

C S Fong (editor of Rod and Line, English), Poh Chuan Maye (editor of Rod and Line, Chinese), Jacky Loke and I decided to explore this place in more detail.

The climbing through the jungle was rather tough, but we managed to catch quite a number of juveniles. Somehow the monsters have eluded us. Will I return? You bet.









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5 comments:

  1. Wave TanJune 21, 2012 at 1:26 PM

    Hi I'm wave can I know the location of largemouth bass ?

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    1. Ng Chan ChiewApril 28, 2014 at 8:29 AM

      Hi Wave. It is somewhere in the Pahang jungles. I am not too sure how to go as my friends took me there.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 14, 2019 at 3:57 AM

    do the largemouth bass still have in Pahang?

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  3. ApizpunkerstarOctober 15, 2021 at 12:12 AM

    Cameron highland, behind facotry.

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