Candat Sotong - Part 2

our pride...ketupat sotong, you'll never forget about its taste...forever

Perfect Location For Candat Sotong?

Some people have to locate a good area for candat, some just do not bother about location. But Abu is very particular about this. He needs a perfect location for anchoring and at the same time it is perfect for candat too.

His thinking is quite reasonable because he does not want to start the engine and move the boat and re-anchor again at somewhere else. This is wasting time. What he did is just torching the light into the water and concentrate with what he saw down there. Then, based on experience he will decide whether to stay or find some other places.

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the mata candat or the hooks

That means we have got a perfect location for candat. Now, throw your mata candat into the water. Let the string loose until you feel that the mata candat has reached the sea bed.

Then pull it up slowly about 3 to 5m and start making your own rhythm of movement up and down. Soon you will feel something has disturbed your rhythmic dance. Something strong, fighting to free itself from your mata candat. Now, pull up your string rampantly. Just pull it up even though you see something like a transparent alien is surfacing. 

If you stop pulling it at the moment it reaches the surface, then you will be squirted with black fluid direct to your face or you body...Trust me, you don't have time to avoid the attack. Never mind then, because it does not hurt you. You may pull up the transparent creature and unhook it from the mata candat. Take a photograph of it. Then, take another photograph of it when it becomes no longer transparent.....meaning that, it is dead already.
  

 

Repeat the procedures for many times as you wish until you are satisfied with the numbers and the sizes of squids you have caught.

fried squids with ginger

Looks like Abu has small kitchen inside his boat. So, we will have our fresh cooked cuttlefish/squid right hereon the boat for our meal. I tell you...the taste of fresh squids were really good.

What a night to be remembered then!