The joy of fishing

Arief Suhardiman, The Jakarta Post

Sixty fishers from the fishyforum mailing list, most have never met each other before, gathered on Peucang island in Banten. The spirit of fishing united the fishers, whom consisted of beginners to experts (hardcore).

They are made up of 30 fishers in a speedboat and four wooden vessels while the rest on land of the Peucang island.

Fishers conducted almost of the technical aspects of fishing, such as trolling, jigging, popping, casting, drifting and bottom fishing.

For two days, they have caught various fish, such as Baronang (Rabbitfish), Kerapu (grouper), Barracuda, Tenggiri (Spanish Mackerel), Tuna and Giant Trevally.

On the first day at the area of Karang Copong and Karang Ajar, they caught tens of fish, which were enough to feed all of the crew. The next day, fishers at Noah's Ark vessel caught a Giant Trevally of about 20 kilograms before released it again to the sea.

Although exhausted after the trip, several of them heading back to Jakarta and Bandung in West Java, all were already looking forward for their next adventure.