My Sebarau Hunting Gear....

People had been telling me on various type of Rapala Shad Rap that they use to hunt sebarau, ranging from Perch (P), Fire Tiger (FT), Crawdad (CW), Shad (SD), Silver (S), Clown (CLN) and etc. For me, the favourite color would be Crawdad (CW), most of my catch are using this color, although other color such as FT or P did get me some fish.

I've been asking my friends on what size of Rapala Shad Rap lure are most suitable for sebarau casting, the most common one is SR8/SSR8. Personally, I feel that the size 8 Shad Rap are most suitable for casting (correct me if I'm wrong.). This is because Size 7 is too light to cast and size 9 are too heavy to retrieve.

Rapala Shad Rap CW/BCF/GF

Rapala SR & SSR Perch.

This color had been added to my lure collection as this is the favourite color to fish at Sg. Mardek, Kuala Berang

Rapala X-Rap Shad

Rapala Tail Dancer TD7 & Minnow Rap MR7

Yozuri Altima & Vision Island

Rapala DT4 FT & Perch

Rapala SSR8 FT

Storm/Halco/Ecogear

My Fishing Rod and Reel:-

Shimano Axis 101

NCH Hi-Power rod

The Shimano Axis & NCH rod had been helping me in most of my sebarau hunting trip. The rod is less than RM100 but it had proven it's quality beyond doubt as a 2.1kg sebarau had been landed using this rod.

My latest addition Shimano Conquest 100 + Rapalero Rod

Hello....... My First Encounter With Sebarau

This is the first time I try to write in the blog... feel a bit nervous and hopefully nothing would go wrong..


I've been fishing for sebarau since my early days and I’m still crazy about it. I still remember when and how I get my first Sebarau. That was years ago when me and my families went for a 3 days 2 nights stay at a boat house in Kenyir Dam. During that time I’ve no knowledge about the tackle and bait need to catch this fish. The only things I bring along are a few "cheap" spoon and spinner.


On that faithful morning, I was casting my spoon near a semi submerge log near my boat house, just when the spoon touched the water, suddenly there are something grabbing the spoon and try to get away with it. I was stunk by that moment but later realised that a fish had taken the bait. The fish had no chance to fight back as the tackle I use during that time are heavy as a 12kg tomman can be landed easily....hahaha. After the fish had been landed than I realised it was a small sebarau (My fish sebarau). During that time, I just can't believe how a small fish can give you such a fight to the end...


I'm still not serious in fishing for sebarau only after a few years when I went back to Kenyir Dam for a second visit. During this visit, I stayed at the Musang Kenyir Resort. This time I've better equipped myself with more spoons, spinner and a few Rapala crank bait. During the first day fishing at Sg Tembat with my brother and our guide, we watched our guide (Choong) caught a 2kg++ sebarau just only after a few cast. Soon after the first sebarau, Choong get another hook up again and this time is a tomman. Me and my brother are amaze but surprise why there is no taker for our baits? We soon stop casting our lure as the tackle set we bring along are too heavy to continue casting (Ugly Stik with unknown spinning reel with 25lb mono line).


Soon after this trip, I start to invest on the tackle and lure. I still remembered back then Rapala Shad Rap still cost only RM13-15. I bought my fist bait casting reel Abu 4600 with about RM300 and Daiwa Bait casting Rod (less than RM100).Together with this I have also purchase about 8pcs of SR8 CW from a shop at Beach Road, Singapore (during that time I was working in Singapore).


That was the time my encounter with the sebarau, although I’ve got quite a number of sizeable sebarau after this, the first sebarau still remind me till today.

Just to share some of my fishing photo:-
 

    2.7kg sebarau @ Kuala Berang

 

1.5kg Sebarau at Kenyir