Hong Kong Fishing Adventures Part II

[Victor]

In my first HK report I mentioned that I was going to go on a squid fishing trip, I haven't found time to post until now.

 

A bunch of family friends got together and rented a party boat on one evening for some squid fishing. This type of fishing is done at night. However, they know that I love to fish so they asked the owner of the party boat to head out a couple of hours earlier to give me a chance to catch some saltwater fish.

 

Small shrimp was the bait of choice and here's a beautiful one that I caught.

 

I managed to catch about 20-30 fish in about 2 hours but they are mostly on the small side. I have to say this is very different from fishing back home though. Even small fish seem to put up a decent fight and the specie of fish caught is always a surprise. I must have caught at least 7-8 types of different fish.

 

Here are two of the better sized ones...

 

 

Now...onto the squid fishing.

 

I actually don't know if this should be called "fishing", because it's more like snagging them. How it's done is that, the boat has several big lights that shine into the water and apparently that attracts them over. We used this rig shown below...

 

It's basically multiple hooks in one with a white electrical wire on the shank of the 'hooks'. All we do, is lower the 'rig' into the sea and keep jigging it. Squid gets attracted by the white wire, swims over, and tries to 'hug' the wire, then gets snagged. Our boat of 27 people boated 60 squid that night, and I managed 3 of them. I have to say this is not really the most exciting type of fishing and they don't fight ... but it is certainly a great experience. Of course, they were very tasty .

 

Hope you enjoyed the read

[Gerritt]

Awesome! :worthy:

[MJL]

Snagging? I'm going to have to call the CO on you Vic...POACHER!!!

 

It's a calamari safari

 

Really digging the colours on the bigger fish with the pink and brown stripe...It looks like a species of goatfish

[oxcowboy]

Very interesting, glad your having a great time, nothing better than fresh calamari.

 

jason

[kickingfrog]

All that fresh squid is making me hungry. insert an eating emoticon here:______

 

Amazing colours on those other fish.

[Terry]

cool

 

looks like fun

 

wish I could travel and try out different countries for fishing

[misfish]

cool

 

looks like fun

 

wish I could travel and try out different countries for fishing

 

Buy a transporter.

 

 

Thanks for sharing Victor.Interesting method for the squid.Like KF, too got a hunger now.

[TC1OZ]

Awesome post! Very cool looking fish!

[corvette1]

awesome report victor looks like you had a great time

[mepps]

very cool!

[LegitFish]

That's pretty nuts. I figured I was going to be seeing these massive squids haha

[Gerritt]

Hard to beat Hank Snow.. <br>

 

 

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[Guest Johnny Bass]

Really cool fishing report!!Thanks for sharing!

[Victor]

I just noticed in the first picture that we have matching jewelry...where did you go to school?

 

U Waterloo, Civil.

 

Thanks everyone.

[Jet]

That's some exotic fishing Victor. I don't think fishing back in Ontario will ever be the same for you ever again.

[Rich Clemens]

Thanks for posting Vic. Some great color combinations on those salt water fish. How about some of those GIANT SQUID ya see on TV the next time ??

[Tarzan's Jane]

Very interesting colours on those fish....I'll pass on the squid, if it's anything like octopus, too chewy and hardly any taste.

Nice of your family members to get you out on your own for a few hours - gonna be hard for you to come back.

[JamieM]

U Waterloo, Civil.

 

Thanks everyone.

 

That's funny, that is also the first thing I noticed....I'm enviro '09, waterloo

[dsn]

Wow sorry I missed your first post. Fishing in Hong Kong eh? Very interesting. And colourful fish too I might say.

 

Thanks for showing us what its like.

The squid looks good.

 

dsn

[Beans]

Hard to beat Hank Snow.. <br>

 

Thanks for the video Gerritt...that must have got our resident Newfie's toes a tappin'... Eh Brian ?

Edited June 16, 2010 by Beans