The Beauty of Wakatobi National Park

Popping at Koromaha Reef

Beautiful smiles

Cowo Cowo Island

Tropical Rain Forest at Wangi Wangi Island

Tomia Island

So many things have changed

Phew...! Not updating my blog for quite long.. long.. time.

Many things have changed since my last post, Theodoras boat is no longer open it's service on Makassar water. Therefore, Takabakang, Takarewataya and surrounding service have been closed permanently, the fish depleted due to too many illegal fishing activities like blasting and cyanide poisonning. Too bad...!

On April 2009, we moved Theodoras boat to a new fishing ground where we are considered to be the 1st and the only fishing operator on that area, named Wakatobi National Park. This place is located South to Southeast Sulawesi (Celebes) about 100nmiles away from Kendari, the capital city of Southeast Sulawesi province. Luckily the whole area is well protected by the local government and some NGOs like WWF and TNC. It's really2 a beautiful place, specially with it's diversity of marine lives which is the number one in the world. Wakatobi is the centre of the famous World Coral Triangle consists of many Southeast Asian countries like Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

This is the map of Wakatobi National Park:

Next Takabakang trip

Next Taka Adventure - Takabakang - trip on the first season this year will be held on 12-15 March 2009.
It's a 4 days and 3 nights sportfishing on board Theodoras boat.

Fishing method we use on this trip is jigging, popping, trolling and heavy bottom fishing. Heavy bottom fishing will be targeting deep monster fish from 200m depth and beyond.
Target species are: GT, Doggie, Escolar, Ruby Snapper, Bigeye Jack, Grouper, Shark and all pelagics.

The package price from Taka Adventure is SGD930,00/pax including:
- Airport - hotel - pier transfer.
- Complimentary b'fast & dinner.
- 2 nights hotel stay - before & after the trip.
- Bait, sinker, fishing gear (if you don't wanna bring yours).
- Full board - b'fast/lunch/dinner w/fresh fruit, snacks, drinks (non alcoholic).

Seat is still available, booking contact: wiwied@taka-adventure.com, +62 852 55 7777 22
Make sure you have a seat, it's a highly recommended fishing trip.

This is the route of the trip:



This is the monster caught from recent trip:

Three ways knot - I don't know the exact name of it

This knot is very popular here in our country, we usually use it for light to medium saltwater bottom fishing, or use for pond carp fishing to rig 3 hooks. This knot is very simple, similar to the well-known dropper loop, but instead of using the loop we make another knot on the loop and cut one end of the loop.

To rig 3 hooks, just add another branch on this knot.

These are the pictures of how to make the knot step by step:

Takarewataya Trip October 2008

This picture was taken during Takarewataya trip, 7 Malaysian anglers and 1 Indonesian. The result was not bad though we didn't land really2 big fish, Strike rate was considered okay.

The biggest fish was 17kg of Doggie caught on trolling on our way back to Makassar from Jailamu Island, the strike was right before the ship wreck, few hundred meters from the wreck, at Takarewataya reef during a heavy rain. It was a double strike but the fish on the other gear got away, seems like it was a bad hookup.


Below is a picture of a double strike by jigging at Jailamu Island.


Want to know where Takarewataya reef is located? Follow this link: http://fishingground.blogspot.com

2 days Fishing at Tanjung Bira - South Celebes

1st day at Pulau Kambing without any spectacular result, the wind still blowing from the east. Couldn't reach the good spot located on the eastern part of the island.
Nothing caught from jigging while bottom fishing landed some big rainbow runners, bigeye jacks, small bluefin jacks and one good size jobfish.

Days 2, tried to explore the spot on the far west side of Pulau Selayar. We caught nothing here, the fishing ground was below our expectation. We didn't stay long here, at 6 am we headed back to Pulau Pasi, 2 hours of popping resulting 1 big redbass, 1 bluefin jack, 1 small GT.



Everage size of bluefin jack.


This is the biggest redbass caught on popper so far...

Turtle Strike Movie

This is the movie version of the previous post Turtle Strike. Enjoy guys....

Kimite Patch - Scopolamine Transdermal Therapheutic System

During my last few trips, I gave this patch to some of my customers who have sea sick problem. This little patch is amazing, much better than Dramamine or Antimo (Indonesian brand of Dimenhydrinate), no drowsiness effect, 1 patch can stand up to 3 days.
Fishing trip is more fun and enjoyable for anyone who has sea sick problem.
This patch is made in Korea, 1 pack contains of 2 pcs, the price is Rp. 60.000 each pack.
Call me if you need this little "State of the art" patch.

Accidentally Turtle Strike...!!

STRIKE..!! .... BIG MONSTER??








Oh.. no..!! TURTLE hooked on!!








Poor Turtle... come to daddy...








Take an easy guys...!!








Easy..... easy......!!








Yeaah..!! Welcome aboard Mr. Turtle...








Who did this to you Mr. Turtle??








Hang on.... lemme help you Sir!








Done..!! Bye bye Mr. Turtle.... live on and don't go back here.

Releasing GT at Kapoposang - March 21 2008

Takarewataya Team - March 13-16 2008

Dog of Takarewataya - March 13-16 2008

Padang - Feb 3-5, 2008

Taka Adventure Website

New Taka Adventure website, now in English version.
Check this out: http://www.taka-adventure.com.
Sportfishing charter for Indonesia, South Celebes, West Sumatera, etc.

Don't let this happen on your fishing trip

The perfect hookup









The preparation









The operation








Finishing








Big smile again..!!