sea fishing Kuala Lumpur

[chopperharris]

Looking at holiday near KL has anyone fished from the shore in this area, if so is it worth it, also have travel boat kits, can you hire local boats as you can in Thailand, any information would be welcome. For info will be travelling April time next year believe this is out of the monsoon season, thanks, chopper.

[marktheshark]

Ullo Chopper
Ummm ... when I grew up there, KL was about 25 miles inland, and the nearest coast, Port Kelang, was about as disgusting a body of water as you could imagine. Pretty much all the adjacent shore between Port Dickson and Kuala Selangor was either mud, mangrove or swamp, and not readily accessible, unless you count muddy Morib. That's not to say these environments have poor fishing - sometimes, quite the opposite - but as I recall there was nowhere for recreational fishing.
I do remember fishing off Pulau Angsa and catching barracuda, once you're out of the brown water and into the blue. Otherwise, Pulau Pangkor is a nice place to be, but it's a 2-3hr journey to Lumut. Overall, I got the impression that the Malacca Straits are pretty much fished out.
There are some Malaysian fishing websites that you can search out that are more precise, but a lot of the guys there seem to look to the Andamans, the Spratlys and the archipelago on the Thai/Burmese border for proper fishing.
Good luck.

[chopperharris]

Cheers marktheshark we are stopping approx half hour from KL near the coast, sounds like I will need to travel around, I am sure there will be locals who will help and if fishing no good will just have to enjoy the hospitality and local food and drink, thanks again, chopper

[marktheshark]

Hi Chopper
You won't go far wrong there if you can't find anywhere to fish ... there's quite a few good seafood restaurants on that stretch of coast popular with KL out-of-towners. The mangroves themselves are a fascinating ecosystem and as a kid I used to mess around at Kuala Selangor, where the shallows used to hold horseshoe crabs (not really a crab - more of a trilobite from pre-history) as well as sawfish, mudskippers, stingrays and other such uglies. There were also rumours of crocodiles, and it's around there that you get the amazing synchronised firefly displays at certain times of the year. But we never fished there; only time I fished mangroves in Far East was in Thailand and Borneo, and we never caught anything much although there were supposed to be mangrove snapper, selangin (a threadfin), sharks and rays. No reason why there shouldn't be barramundi too.