One thing i would really to mention is.....im a freshwater fish angler from day one, i have never tasted salt nor did i experience any seawater fishing....maybe someday i would like to...maybe.

the first fish i ever caught is a tiny climbing perch on worms with a bamboo pole...and it ended up as dinner....well, that was back in 1976 and i was doing what any 10 year old would do...happy to show mummy what he caught.
My dad was a police officer back then, a strict no nonsense, British era up bringing type of dad...and i swear to God, looking at my dad"s face would be like looking at a tiger straight in the eyes...
but he was seldom at home. away doing his duty...and that leaves me plenty of freedom to roam the old tin mining pools to practice my new found love....fishing, well until dad found out what i was actually doing each day after school....yeah, yeah ,that was a beating to remember.

well ,to make a long story short..,fishing is a life long affair as far as i could remember.
the first fish i ever Release was a brown trout...Release because i was told to do so by the bule who taught me fly fishing. the first time, it was sort like mixed reaction...why on earth do you fish when you end up releasing them? who cares about the depleting fish population...this is England and im a Malaysia, it aint my country anyway.

The first thing i did when i got home to Malaysia was to go fishing at my favorite childhood spot...man, you could catch plenty of big daddy Hampalas on a simple spoon lure there....3 trips later without any strike at all...i was wondering where have all the fishes gone to? are they still there? gone are the usual big water splashes...the Tomans are gone too.
what i did catch was a Midas ...what?...a Midas...how did they get there? and what is a Central American fish doing in a natural Malaysian reservoir???
i realize then depleting fish population and destruction of natural reservoir and lakes is happening in my own back yard ...its not just in the western countries but here in my very own.
surely its easy to blame Progress...but we anglers are also the part of that destruction. it will not be easy to stop Progress, but we anglers will have to play our apart, even though the part we play is a very small one...to the fishes and mother nature it is indeed a very big and important one.
Do not for once think the fishes owned it to us for protecting them...we are guilty as hell for their destruction in the first place...we are now only paying back for what we have done...

A lot of hard work has been done to change the mind set and the thinking of Malaysian anglers, the younger ones are more readily to accept the responsibility of cleaning up the mess we made....its a shame really.

i for one will only release native Malaysian fishes but kill the foreign ones...these foreign fishes do not belong there, they are competing for food with the locals...not only CnR is important...but we must NEVER NEVER EVER release foreign fishes into our local waters...i will personally shoot the person i caught doing so...im dead serious.
if you think you are doing a good deed by releasing your unwanted pet fishes into local waters...THINK TWICE and THINK AGAIN..

what i see in Malaysia today is the result of dedicated hard work....a result that makes one forget all the hard, slow and painfull work to educated anglers....the near impossible is happening....THE FISHES ARE COMING BACK...

As im now living in Indonesia, i will no longer live with that attitude of not caring for fishes in a foreign country..as all fishes are the same and they know no borders.
save what we can , and if each angler save what little they can ...theres gonna be alot of saving overall in the long run.



I DO NOT want to see the day, when i have to take my kids or grandkids to the MUSEUM to catch a glimpse of stuffed Navtive Hampalas...that comes with label below....EXTINCT