Bali Fishing Packages | Fishing in Bali

Bali Fishing - The Balinese generally use jukung for fishing. These boats will venture out into the coastal waters in the evening and return with their catch before sunrise to sell at local seafood markets. However, the impact of tourism has meant that many of the island’s traditional fishermen can now supplement their limited incomes by taking paying passengers to surf and snorkel at offshore reefs and neighbour islands.

Most jukung are fairly small and this enables them to be hauled out of the water and parked on the sandy beachfront with relative ease. With an average length of approximately 5-meters and width of just 1½ -metres, a jukung can safely carry only two or three passengers. Larger models built using the same traditional design methods, utilize outboard motors and can carry divers and heavy scuba equipment to coral reef dive sites. Some entrepreneurial owners have even modified their jukung into glass bottom boats for visitors to view Bali’s amazing underwater marine life.

Pitching such jigs in the darkness is not new, but their success seems unabated. Interestingly, many other areas of the state I have fished, they’re not used as much. Even so, the Florida record–a 44-pound, 3-ounce snook–was taken on a red-tail hawk jig out of Fort Myers.

Arguments abound as to the exact baitfish the jigs are meant to resemble, but most feel that the lure reflects a variety of species, depending on jig color, shape, retrieve, and the time of year they’re fished. The best guess is that snook are probably striking out at the silhouette of a large baitfish instead of one species in particular.

Four basic components form the tangle of hooks and hair to compose this snook-fooling lure: the head, body, runner and hook. Of the four, head shape and weight are the most important factors, since they more readily influence the action.