The Lure Aficionado: Sebarau

Luring is more than a hobby

Luring is a passion, a past time of many an angler. For me personally, it has evolved and progressed to a stage of pure devotion. Through this blog, i would like to share with all like-minded lurers a photo journal of my catches and also, write-ups (found in the various species sub-gallery - in progress) that i have conjured from my personal experience for targetting the various fish species. Do check the hyperlinks (on the right hand column of this page) for updated pictures.

As moon phase and tidal effects have a great bearing on the end result of a luring trip, i have also added links (scroll down to the bottom right) with information on them.

Enjoy the luring journey, my friends.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sebarau

The Sebarau or Hamapala Barb is, pound-for-pound, one of the hardest fighting freshwater fish in our local impoundments. Equipped with a muscular torpedo body structure, this species is capable of stripping your line at a break-neck speed. Besides that, the jaw structure of the Sebarau is capable of crushing and pulling your hooks easily, even a small specimen would be able to execute that, hence it is highly recommended that treble hooks should be upgraded to at least a 3X strength.

The Sebarau can be found at many different levels in the water column but i find that working your lure as close to the bottom would give the best chance of enticing a strike. This could be due to the fact that the Sebarau belongs to the carp family and carps are well known for burrowing into substrate in search of food.

Focus on a as slow as possible retrive rate while possibly maintaining your lure at the depth of the strike zone (assuming it is a floating one) as the Sebarau will not be too keen to hunt down a fast moving prey. Suspending lures have the advantage of maintaining its depth at the strikezone even if you have to work the lure extra slowly. So do give them a try too.

Happy catching them.