A Day At AgroTech, Ulu Langat

To cool down after 2 weeks of very hot weather, we decided to go for a cool dip at Agro Tech Resort where the natural pool water is cold and refreshing.  Agro Tech is a nice Malay chalet resort at Ulu Langat.  The stream that flows through this resort is dammed up so that there is a pool of water which then flows down the dam as a small water fall and out to its natural path down Ulu Langat.

There are 2 fish ponds for pond fishing with lots of healthy tilapias, catfish and seluang.

The resort has been done up quite nicely with new units.  However, part of the old resort is now fenced up because the land belongs to another owner.  Jordan, Johan and Kok Eu slowly set themselves to go into the cold water at 9 am.  There were screams heard as they went in.  I changed and joined them soon after.  Yes, it was near frigid cold but soon we got used to it and it was fishing for small seluang time.  Somehow, Joey just refused to get into the water and decided to play at the sides of the pool.  Jordan swam lots with Johan.  Kok Eu found the water a bit too cold for his liking.

Derrick, Kok Eu and I started to catch the small but fast fish swimming all around us.  We stayed in the water most of the time until about 3.30 pm when the sky got dark and threatened to rain.

After a quick shower, we all packed up and left at 4 pm.

Several events happened while we were there.  Firstly, Jordan got a Malay man upset as he threw a piece of wood into the pool.  Then we apparently lost the fish container with all the small seluang in the pool.  We searched all over the pool but visibility was not too good.  Then Johan dropped a fin into the water.  I found the flipper using my feel to touch the floor of the pool.  At last, Johan stepped on something close to the waterfall and Derrick reached in to fish out the fish container we thought was lost forever.

We got home safe and put the fish into our aquarium.  All is well that ends well, or so I thought.  This morning, when Derrick was sending the boys to school, he noticed that most of the fish in the tank had died.   Mus had vacuumed the car last night and left the switch for the filter in the aquarium off and all the seluang died.  I had to clean up the tank quickly.  Fortunately, all the other fish from before survived the ordeal.

Fishing at Fish Valley, Semenyih

At long last, I decided to go on a real proper fishing trip with Derrick and Joey.  Preparation took a while last night when Derrick made ready the bait (corn meal mix called hong) and the gear.  We had 5 rods ready to roll.

We left for Semenyih at 6.45 am, had breakfast before going in to the ponds.  We took the catch and release pond and were ready to fish at 8 am.  Unfortunately the first 2 hours were getting into rhythm with baiting and placement, with a drizzle of rain.  Finally at 10 am, we "hoi thong" or opened shop with a tilapia.  Then it was a lampan (sizable one), another big tilapia, a small lampan, a baung (catfish), yet another tilapia and finally a grass carp (a really fat one).  The grass carp came at 1.45 pm.

Oh yes, at 12.30, in the flurry of getting 2 rods ready with Joey, my rod got pulled into the pond.  Derrick was so upset as the reel was a Shimano.  He tried to catch the rod with another rod for a while.  Finally one of the pond owners managed to retrieve the rod.  Phew, Derrick was so relieved.  Well, that is just another of my episodes of losing a rod.  Did the same thing at Bob's Homestay in Teluk Sengat, Johor.  The only thing at Teluk Sengat, I had to go into the muddy river at low tide to retrieve the rod.

We did not have lunch but snacked through the day.  It was uneventful from 2 pm to 4 pm.  Then we had some bites but all of the fish managed to get away.

We intend to go back tomorrow to catch the famous Thai plabuk.  Hehe...