Family Fishing Day 2006 Coming Up

Next month our PMPP family fishing competition is coming up at the Bedong Angling Park. More details to follow soon!

Fishing Competition Fury!

I was reading this in the Star Newspaper :

KANGAR: Angry anglers dumped a car into the sea after they did not get the prizes promised in a lucky draw of a fishing competition.

Some 3,000 anglers had earlier been vying for a Proton Gen2, motorcycles, vacation trips and cash prizes totalling RM30,000 at Kuala Sungai Baru, Kuala Perlis.

SHOW OF ANGER: Curious passers-by looking at the car which was pushed into the sea by angry anglers in Kuala Perlis on Saturday.

When the prize presentation ceremony came at 5.30pm, there were no cars or motorcycles.

The anglers then demanded a refund of the RM40 they had each paid to take part.

When this was not met, some of them pushed the car belonging to one of the officials into the sea.They also held two officials “captive” but released them when the police arrived.

According to the competition advertisement, the Proton Gen2 was to be the first prize in the lucky draw, followed by three Modenas Kriss motorcycles and six fishing sets.

The first three winners in the competition were promised cash prizes and the fourth to the 20th winners were to get vacation trips to Sabah and Tioman.

Kangar OCPD Supt Yusof Mohd Diah said the incident occurred due to the unkept promises of the organisers.A participant, Shafie Sawal, 54, from Padang Besar, said the event started on a bad note when the organisers delayed the competition time from 9am to noon.

“Some of the participants who did not want to take part asked for a refund but the organisers refused.

“The rest who continued to take part in the competition waited until 5.30pm for the prize presentation.

“When there were no prizes, the anglers became angry and the situation got out of control,” he said.

Source : The Star Online

Share your Fishing Pictures With Us!

Paul Heah and his friend with a 12.5 kg Patin, Caught with Bread/Dedak Ayam on 20lb Braided line in Ipoh, Perak. November 5, 2004.

We want your fishing pictures, old and new! You can email us or send it via mail to :

Email : pmpp2005@gmail.com

Mailing Address

PMPP
1A-6D Leader Gardens,
Jalan Chee Seng 13,
11200 Tanjung Bungah,
Pulau Pinang
Malaysia.

Please include some information about the catch :

• Name of fish
• Bait used
• Tackle
• Location
• Any other interesting info...
  

PMPP Newsletter Coming up Soon!

We are working hard to come up with our PMPP Newsletter by next month. We hope to make it more regular and would like to involve you, the member in it.

Whats coming up...

• You can send us your fishing pictures by email or snail mail. We will try to include as many as possible in our Newsletter. The best will receive a prize. Our email is : pmpp2005@gmail.com
• Pull out tide chart for June to October 2005
• Family Fishing Day 2006 in July
• New Membership Card will be included in it
  

Also we will be having regular features in our Newsletter, namely :

• Current PMPP News
  
• Fishing Activities Reports ( Competitions, Sembang Sembang, Upcoming Activities)
• Fishing Pictures - you can submit your pics here
  
• Angling Clinic
  
• Basic Knots
  
• Local Fish Database - Fish found locally, how and where to fish for it
• Perserving our Environment
  
• Fishing Recipes
• Fishing First Aid
  
• Useful Fishing Articles

Regards,

The Editorial Committee

Mrs Ann Heah
Mrs Ch'ng Ah Bee
Dr Chan CK

Sembang Sembang at the Esplanade

Last Friday we had our Sembang Sembang session at the center of the Penang Esplanade. The Sembang Sembang session is to promote fishing in Penang as a recreational activity and also to introduce the public to PMPP. Basically we were there from 8pm to 11pm (just before the World Cup Kickoff!) fishing and talking to the interested people walking by. We set up a small table and had nasi lemak and mineral water available to anyone interested.
Here are some pictures from the event.


Yes here is the Sembang Sembang Table we set up.


Some commented that it was like a Fortune Teller's Table!


Yes we are very approacheble!


It's also a chance for the whole family to fish!


Tying your tackle at night is tough, those sand worms are wrigly!


Yes we all enjoyed Nasi Lemak that night


Very tasty...but hot!


A whole box of Nasi Lemak


A bit dark, but yes we caught Giant Gelama (Camera Trick La!)


Now is that a Gelama? Looks more like a Siakap!





I don't know this woman...


Some Indonesian Friends stopped by to sembang


Lots of fun, even cougt a crab and more gelamas (croakers)


Nice backdrop for


The Flower Crab took our bait too!





Yes our president approved of the Nasi Lemak


We all had a great time...11pm and the kids wanted to stay on...but the rest of us wanted to go back to catch the World Cup!