With adequate planning, and a group of 7 enthuiasts,dawn of may 4th 2008 saw a bunch of people making their way to the Sibu island's on a fishing trip. Out of the the 4 kelongs , Ah fatt kelong was selected as our place of stay due to its large space and the fact that its the nearest to the open sea. Spirits were high and the strangers in the group soon became good friends who would look out for each other during the trip.
With our efficient driver , Mr wong, we had enough time to for break fast over at a humble ba kut teh stall over at kota tinggi and still reach the jetty 20 mins before the boat departs.We brought along heavy arsenal for the trip and it was quite a chore carrying it around. 
After paying the jetty taxes, we hop on to the ah fatt kelong's ferry to the kelong itself. The water turned from jade green to a clear turquois color which heighten the mood of the group as many of us haven't seen such blue waters before in any of our fishing trips.
We reached the kelong at around 10 a.m and we immediately we setup our tackles for fishing . While a few of us started jigging for bait fishes, the rest were busy setting up our live well . We had a problem with the location of the ac supply due to fact that the wires to our pumps were too short. However, upon plenty of adjustment , we managed to get the pumps connected and we had a fully functional live well.
The kelong had this sign which reminds visitors to throw any unwanted fishes back into the sea. I think this is a good attempt to preserve the waters around the kelong . Hopefully, we can have something like that in singapore as well.
We didn't really caught any big fishes during the first day how ever, we did managed to get a nice bunch of bait fishes and seklahs in our live well. The seklah provided quite some entertainment on light tackle, pull too hard your lead line will break , don't pull hard enough, the fish will go for refuge into the kelong stilts, use too heavy a poundage for the lead line, the seklahs won't take your jig... 
Soon night fall and we started eging . Squids were plentiful at the kelong and we could see packs of 6-10 squids swimming together hunting down small fishes and nai niu har(some kinda shrimp) . The bigger ones would be wary of our jigs however, the small ones would chase down the jigs like theres no tommorrow.
The fishes didn't really took our baits even though fresh squids were used. Some malaysian uncles there were telling us that we came at the wrong time of the year for big fishes. They suggested that the monsoon period would produce better catches at the kelong and furthur more, with the jelly fish infestation , it made it even harder to fish.
I didn't had any luck fishing for todaks the first day as there wasn't any current at the kelong, so , when i woke up the next day and saw that the jelly fishes are drifting at a more gradual speed, i set up my noodle rod and began fishing for todaks. I realise that the stronger currents are furthur away from the kelong and I need to cast furthur out that. The running float was a hindered the casting distance so i removed it from the rig and managed a better distance. Surprisingly, the todaks are not as keen to take tambans as kunings. Infact,the bait fishes around the kelong consisted of alot more kunings then tambans , probably thats why.
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