Angler's File

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Angling Technologies "Mobile App" Hot

Make & Model

Manufacturer:

Angling Technologies

Model:

Mobile App

MSRP ($):

14.99

Angling Technologies "Mobile App" allows fishermen to access an online interactive map right from their mobile device. Kayak anglers can research lake depths, structure, feeder streams and more. Update detailed information to your map right from the water.

Features:

Enhance your trip planning
Add detailed content to the map real-time
Full control over how you view and use the map
Over 7,000 fresh and salt water bodies covered!

Specs:

Works on all current desktop browsers
Android and iOS a

Stars

4.0 (1)

I have had this software for well over a month. I wanted to get a good review of the product within a couple weeks but as I kept going through the features I found more and more and more options and things that this program offers.

Let me start off with my favorite parts of this program. The measure tool is fantastic! To be able to run along a creek or river and measure out your distance from a start to finish point is just superb. It will allow me to plan out a river fishing trip and see where my drop in and take out points are on the detailed map.
Second is the weather report. With the options of wind, moon phase, Visibility, Current Temp, Wind Chill, Heat Index, Feels Like, Precipitation, Barometric Pressure, and several others, the decision to go out on the water is never questionable.

The multiple choices available of different maps such as Google and Bing is key to have choice of your favorite maps and not subject you to having to use something you're not familiar with. The options to add or hide different markers such as launch points, managed lands, depth contours and profiles, and structures will help with ocean fishing as well as freshwater lakes. These are premium features to the program. Latitude and longitude are always visible on the main map screen and are very welcome to those with GPS fishfinders to lock in coordinates on a spot that you're planning on hitting.

The free features include mostly what I see as saltwater options. These include, coastal depths, winds, structures and surroundings, pipelines, Ocean Currents and topographical maps. As I'm an inlander I didn't use these features in my testing because I don't know much about those things so I couldn't determine how detailed or accurate they were.

The search function gives options that I have not seen before in any other application. Being able to search by address is a constant, but putting a search for bodies of water by type, and cities or landmarks are great features that I admire being a part of this thing.

The price is right at $15 and you definitely get your moneys worth for that price and then some.

I found that the select button did nothing, or at least I wasn't aware of how to use it properly. Every time I clicked on it nothing happened.

I took a bit of extra time to look at this program because unfortunately I was never able to get it to work on my phone. I do not believe that this is because of the program itself. I believe that my phone in particular has some issues as it is refurbished and does not run any program properly. Not even text messaging or a simple task like redial works properly on my phone. I apologize for not being able to give a report from it as well.

For planning out a trip this program is phenomenal. It will help any angler with prefishing information and guiding you to a spot where you would love to be or have heard a lot about. I searched a few of the spots that have been featured on the FLW tour maps during the tour and on the TV program and it was very informative!

Being able to mark what fish you caught, where, there time of day, the season, and other detailed info will help you track out patterns of the fish you're hunting for.

I do not like the fact that you can only choose one species for a particular spot when you're logging information though. In order to report multiple species you must go back and start all over for the same spot and rerecord all of the info previously logged then choose a different species. It would be helpful if they would upgrade the system to allow multiple species for one location.

If you can buy this program and get it to work on your phone you will be golden in your future endeavors of fishing.

I highly recommend people to at least try out this program and see what it does or doesn't do for you. $15 dollars is a great price in my opinion to have a tracker for where and what you catch.

Stars

4.0

Reviewed by Plan B

Angling Technologies Mobile App

Waters Fished:

Large Rivers
Small Creeks
Large Lakes
Small Ponds
Salwater Flats
Saltwater Bays
Offshore

Used:

16-30 times

Pros & Cons

Pros:

Too many to list

Cons:

Some functions do not allow multiple entries for the same location.

More Info

Bigeye trevally

Bigeye trevally

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Percoidei
Superfamily:	Percoidea
Family:	Carangidae
Genus:	Caranx
Species:	C. sexfasciatus
Binomial name
*Caranx sexfasciatus* Quoy & Gaimard, 1825

Approximate range of the bigeye trevally
Synonyms
Carangus marginatus Gill, 1863 Carangus rhabdotus Jenkins, 1903 Caranx belengerii Cuvier, 1833 Caranx butuanensis Seale, 1910 Caranx elacate Jordan & Evermann, 1903 Caranx flavocoeruleus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 Caranx forsteri Cuvier, 1833 Caranx fosteri Cuvier, 1833 Caranx marginatus (Gill, 1863) Caranx oshimai Wakiya, 1924 Caranx paraspistes Richardson, 1848 Caranx peronii Cuvier, 1833 Caranx tapeinosoma Bleeker, 1856 Caranx thompsoni Seale, 1910 Caranx xanthopygus Cuvier, 1833 Caranx sexfaciatus elacate (Jordan & Evermann, 1903) Caranx sexfaciatus marginatus (Gill, 1863)

The bigeye trevally, Caranx sexfasciatus (also known as the bigeye jack, great trevally, six-banded trevally and dusky jack), is a species of widespread large marine fish classified in the jack family Carangidae. The bigeye trevally is distributed throughout the tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, ranging from South Africa in the west to California and Ecuador in the east, including Australia to the south and Japan in the north. The bigeye trevally is best distinguished by its colouration, having a dark second dorsal fin with a white tip on the lobe, and also possessing a small dark spot on the operculum. Other more detailed anatomical features also set the species apart from other members of Caranx. The species is known to grow to a length of 120 cm and 18 kg.
It is predominantly an inshore fish, inhabiting reefs down to depths of around 100 m in both coastal zones and offshore islands, often venturing into estuaries and sandy bays as juveniles. The bigeye trevally is commonly found in large slow moving schools during the day, becoming active at night when it feeds, taking a variety of fish, crustaceans, cephalopods and other invertebrates. The fish is known to move from a more crustacean dominated diet as a juvenile to a nearly completely fish dominated diet as an adult. Sexual maturity is reached at 42 cm, with spawning occurring in large aggregations occurring at different periods throughout its range, generally between July and March. The bigeye trevally is of moderate importance to fisheries throughout its range, and being of high importance to some artisanal fisheries. It is taken by gill net, purse seine, hook and line and other artisanal fishing methods. It is rated as a fair to good table fish. The species is also considered a good gamefish, taken by lure, bait and spear throughout its ran

Taxonomy and naming

The bigeye trevally is classified within the genus Caranx, one of a number of groups known as the jacks or trevallies. Caranx itself is part of the larger jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae, a group of percoid fishes in the order Perciformes.^[1]
Prior to its description in 1825, the species was often confused with the similar-looking Atlantic species Caranx hippos, and its synonym Caranx carangus.^[2] The species was first properly scientifically described by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1825 from a specimen collected off Waigeo, Indonesia which was designated to be the holotype.^[3] They named the species Caranx sexfasciatus which the species is still currently accepted as, with the specific epithet meaning 'six banded' in relation to its juvenile colouration.^[4] Following this, the species was independently redescribed and named around fifteen times, and incorrectly broken into two subspecies. In his massive ichthyological volume entitled Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Georges Cuvier managed to assign no less than four junior synonyms to the species,^[5] while the most recent renaming was by Yojiro Wakiya in 1924, who applied the name Caranx oshimai. The two subspecies proposed were Caranx sexfaciatus elacate and Caranx sexfaciatus marginatus, both based on prior descriptions by Jordan and Evermann, and Gill respectively.^[2] All names except Caranx sexfasciatus are considered junior synonyms under ICZN rules and discarded.
The common name preferred by most authorities is 'bigeye trevally', 'bigeye kingfish', 'bigeye crevalle jack' or bigeye jack', with other names used including 'great trevally', 'six-banded trevally' and 'dusky jack'.^[2]

Description

The bigeye trevally is one of the larger members of Caranx, growing to a maximum recorded size of 120 cm in length and 18.0 kg in weight.^[2] It is similar to most other jacks in having a compressed, oblong body, with the dorsal profile slightly more convex than the ventral profile, particularly anteriorly. The snout is slightly pointed, and is greater in length than the eye diameter.^[6] The dorsal fin is in two distinct sections; the first consisting of 8 spine and the second of 1 spine and 19 to 22 soft rays. The anal fin consists of 2 anteriorly detached spines followed by 1 spine and 14 to 17 soft rays. The pelvic fins consists of 1 spine and 17 to 18 soft rays,^[7] while the caudal fin is strongly forked and the pectoral fin falcate.^[8] The species lateral line is moderately arched anteriorly, with 49 to 50 scales in this section, while the straight section contains 0 to 3 scales and 27 to 36 strong scutes. The breast is completely covered in scales. The species has well-developed adipose eyelids, while its dentition consists of an outer row of widely spaced canine teeth and an inner band of villiform teeth in the upper jaw, with a row of widely spaced conical teeth on the lower jaw. The bigeye trevally has 21 to 25 gill rakers and 25 vertebrae.^[6]
The bigeye trevally shows a change in colour as it ages, changing both overall colour and body patterns. Juveniles are a silvery yellow to silvery brown in colour, and possess five to six dark vertical bands on their sides,^[7] from which the specific epithet sexfasciatus arose. As they mature, the bands fade and become indistinct and the overall colour shifts to a silvery blue above and whitish below.^[7] In adults, the bars are completely absent^[7]^[9] and the dorsal colour is a silvery olive to blue green, fading to silvery white below. In juveniles, the fins are pale grey to yellow with darker edges, becoming darker overall in adulthood, with the anal and caudal fins yellow to black and the second dorsal fin olive to black. The tip of the second dorsal fin has a distinctive white tip. The bigeye trevally also has a small dark opercular spot on the upper margin.^[6]^[10]

Distribution and habitat

The bigeye trevally is widely distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of both the Indian and Pacific Oceans.^[10] In the Indian Ocean, it ranges from South Africa and Madagascar in the west, along the east African coastline up to both the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.^[8] Its range extends east along India, South East Asia, Indonesia and many offshore Indian Ocean islands.^[2] The range extends north to Japan and south to Australia^[11] in this central Indo-pacific region. In the Pacific Ocean, the bigeye trevally inhabits most of the tropical island groups including Hawaii,^[12] with its range extending east to the western American coastline. In this eastern region of its distribution it has been recorded from the American state of California in the north,^[13] including the Gulf of California, and south to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.^[10]
The bigeye trevally predominantly live in inshore coastal waters, although does occur in pelagic settings far offshore, and around remote islands and seamounts. The species is known to reach depths of around 100 m.^[2] It is mostly found over coral and rocky reef complexes as adults, however often moves into more inshore areas in sandy bays and lagoons in small numbers.^[14] Those that live offshore often live on deeper seamounts or reefs around offshore islands. The species moves with the tide in some regions, entering shallow lagoonal areas as the tide rises, and moving back to the deeper reefs as it retreats.^[14] Juveniles inhabit more inshore, shallower waters around the coast, often venturing into lagoons, tidal flats, mangrove zones^[15] and even estuaries.^[16] Juvenile bigeye trevally have been reported in rivers from several locations, and are known to penetrate well into the upper reaches of rivers.^[17]^[18] As the fish grows, it moves back to deeper waters over reefs. The species has been reported in pelagic open ocean settings, milling around stationary buoys, indicating the species may follow floating debris far out to sea.^[19]

Biology

A large school of bigeye trevally in Malaysia

The bigeye trevally is a schooling species, known to form aggregations consisting of more than 1500 fish.^[20] The species is often seen in these large schools either stationary or slowly moving around the reef complexes they inhabit during the day. At night, these schools dissolve, and the species become active, taking most of its prey during the nocturnal period.^[8] This contrasts to most jacks, which are generally diurnal hunters, although the species has been documented hunting in shallower waters during the day, especially as juveniles. The abundance of the species on the west coast of America has been linked to the occurrence of El Nino or La Nina climate events, with the abundance significantly dropping during El Nino events.^[21]

Diet and feeding

The bigeye trevally is a fast-swimming predatory species that has had several studies determine its diet in various places throughout its distribution. As mentioned above, the species is mostly inactive during the day, and feeds at dusk and through the night.^[8] The large stationary aggregations break off as the fish move off to hunt in small groups or individually.^[4] The species predominantly takes small fish as prey,^[4]^[22] however supplements its diet with a varied array of invertebrates. These include crustaceans such as shrimps, decapods, copepods and stomatopods, cephalopods, gastropods, jellyfish, sponges and even species of open ocean sea-skater insects.^[17]^[23] Bigeye trevally were found to be the primary fish predators of these sea-skates, and took far more of these than any other species of carangid. Evidence from South African estuaries indicates there is a shift in the species diet as it grows. Young fish below 200 mm in length take mostly the juveniles of other fish species but still have a significant intake of penaeid shrimps, while fish larger than this take small fish nearly exclusively.^[17] The larger fish on reefs tend to move between these reefs regularly, which is thought to be due to prey availability.^[20] Bigeye trevally are also an important prey for larger species, ranging from sharks and larger species of carangid^[2] to sea lions and various birds.

Reproduction and growth

Movie of a large school of bigeye trevally on the move

The bigeye trevally reaches sexual maturity at a length of around 42 cm, with both males and females reaching maturity at a similar length and age.^[24] Spawning is known to occur between July and September in the east Pacific^[20] and in November to March in South Africa,^[4] indicating variation across the species range. There is also evidence that spawning may occur during new moon periods.^[25] Fish aggregate in large schools prior to spawning, with pairs breaking off the main aggregation to commence spawning.^[26] The pair increase their swimming speed to leave the school, with the fish underneath instantly changing colour to a dark black, with this individual also known to chase off any other individuals that approach the pair.^[20] The trevally then press their ventral surfaces together to spawn, often swimming almost horizontally, before returning to the school and changing back to their normal silvery colour.^[26]
The larvae of bigeye trevally have been extensively described, with defining features being a conspicuously pigmented supraoccipital crest, relatively deep body and an anal fin ray count of 15 to 17, the lowest of any east Pacific carangid.^[27] There has been little research into the later stages of growth and their rates. Juveniles are known to inhabit either inshore habitats such as estuaries, with an influx of these small fish after spawning in South Africa,^[17] while in other cases juveniles have been found living pelagically around floating objects.^[25]
There has been one documented hybrid involving the bigeye trevally, a cross between C. sexfasciatus and C. melampygus (bluefin trevally), taken from the waters of Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.^[28] The specimen was initially thought to be a bigeye trevally, however a lack of the black opercular spot, light coloured scutes and a smaller than normal eye led to the specimen being examined in more detail. DNA analysis confirmed a hybrid between C. sexfasciatus and C. melampygus, which has been difficult to explain due to the two species vastly different lifestyles and spawning characteristics.^[28]

Relationship to humans

A small school of bigeye trevally over a bommie on the Great Barrier Reef

The bigeye trevally is of varying importance to both commercial and recreational fisheries throughout its range, with the large school sizes allowing for large catches in some regions. In many regions the species is lumped with other jacks in fishery statistics, and therefore worldwide catch is nearly impossible to estimate. Known recent annual catches include those of Saudi Arabia (615–638 t),^[2] Mexico (900 t),^[20] and Hawaii (297 lb).^[12] The species is especially important in fisheries based around coral reefs, with one such fishery in Papua New Guinea showing bigeye trevally are the most frequently taken carangid, and one of the top five most important species overall.^[29] It is also of high importance in small artisanal and subsistence fisheries, for which statistics are not kept. Bigeye trevally are taken by a number of methods including hook and line, gill nets, purse seines and various other netting methods.^[6] Due to their nocturnal hunting nature, a popular way to catch large numbers involves illuminating the water surface at night, and using hook and line to catch the fish attracted by the light.^[6] The species is sold fresh, dried and salted at market.^[30]
The bigeye trevally is also popular with anglers, with the species rated as an excellent gamefish in larger sizes. The species is commonly taken by boat fishermen over reef complexes, however schools often hang around jetties and wharves, allowing for frantic fishing when the fish are on the bite, especially after dusk.^[31] The species is also occasionally taken from beaches, but rarely in large quantities. Common techniques for catching the fish include bait fishing, which can involve both live or dead bit including fish, squid or various crustaceans, or lure fishing. Bigeye trevally are known to accept many lure types including bibbed lures, surface poppers and metal slugs jigged in rapid retrieve from the ocean floor.^[31] Soft plastic lures are known to take the species, as are saltwater fly patterns.^[32] In larger sizes, gear must be robust and well maintained to land the fish.
The bigeye trevally's edibility is said to range from fair^[11] to very good,^[31] with frying, steaming, grilling and even use in soup popular in some South East Asian countries.^[30] Filipinos are said to consider the fish of high quality, especially fish taken from the volcanic Lake Taal, which are said to have a delicate flavour due to the lake's sulphur content.^[30] Apart from fishing, the species is popular with scuba divers which often photograph the huge schools that mill around reefs during the day. Bigeye trevally have also been held in large saltwater aquaria, however require large tank volumes to survive.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shark phobia: The memory of Jaws continues to scare swimmers away from the ocean

Joe O'Connor |
More from Joe O'Connor | @oconnorwrites

Andrew Fox/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Great White shark gained popularity in the 1975 film Jaws. It is now considered an endangered species.

It was 1975. Summer. Chrissie Watkins was her name. She was young, pretty, a real carefree spirit, you might say, running through the night across the sand dunes toward the ocean, peeling off her clothes as she went.

NPA hundred years of shark attacks: CLICK TO SEE FULL GRAPHIC

And in she dove, pulling away from shore. The water was calm. Inviting. A bell tolled. Chrissie swam, paused, treading water, long hair cascading down around her, naked silhouette shimmering. The dawn sun peeked above the far horizon. It was perfect.
Then it was over. Ruined. Forever. There was music, screams, and there was poor, beautiful Chrissie Watkins, getting yanked this way and that by an unseen creature from the deep, a dead-eyed killer whose identity we would soon learn thanks to a young Richard Dreyfuss.
“It’s a carcharadon carcharias,” said the actor, as the character Matt Hooper. “It’s a Great White.”
A shark. We came to know him as Jaws.
Jaws, the movie, entered my life sometime around the age of 10.
This was a seminal event, apparently, since Jaws and the memory of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster about a giant-man-eating-maniac-of-a-shark stalking the waters off Amity Island, has never entirely released me.
He is always there, lurking, somewhere deep in my childhood recollections, ready to pop an imaginary dorsal fin above the crest of a wave on those occasions when I hit a seaside beach and a voice inside my head invariably whispers a warning about a great big fictional shark.

I’m not alone. I was at a dinner recently. There were six of us, all around 40. One couple was soon bound for Costa Rica.
The topic of ocean swimming came up and, within moments, Jaws emerged from the depths as half the table confessed to, on some level, to some degree, being somewhat freaked out about swimming in the ocean — for fear of being chomped — a fear one and all attributed to Jaws.
Now here we are, and Spring Break is almost upon us. Canadian families will flock to sunny climes to frolic in the surf, which got me to wondering about how many others are out there, treading water with bite marks on their psyches, and with, perhaps, that theme song — Da-dum, Da-dum, Da-Dum — thrumming through their heads every time they go to take a dip?

FilesWhat is it about Jaws that we can’t shake?

What is it about Jaws that we can’t shake? How could a 37-year-old mechanical shark be stalking us, still?
Joanne Cantor is a professor emeritus of communications sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been studying the Jaws effect, and the impact of frightening movies on memory in general, for over 30 years. She was in Florida, near a beach, when we spoke.
“Thinking about Jaws when you are in the ocean, in a way, is a rational response, since there are sharks in the ocean,” she says.
“But what I think is so dramatic is that first swimmer in the movie. We don’t know anything about the shark at this point. She is swimming happily along and suddenly here Jaws comes, up from below, out of the blue, and that makes the memory that much more intense and your feeling of vulnerability even more intense.
“And the really interesting thing is what’s going on in our brains. Intense fear memories are stored in the amygdala, in our old, reptilian brain.
“Fear, as an emotion, was intended to keep us alive. Fear tells us we are in danger and you better protect yourself or you’re going to be eaten by the predator. So fear has to act quickly — if you see that sabre-tooth tiger coming at you — you better run — and when our brains see Jaws for the first time our fear response kicks in and it kicks in before our conscious brain can start telling us that, ‘It is only a movie, it is only a movie, it is only a movie.’”
A powerful fear response, for instance — being scared out of your preteen wits by Mr. Spielberg’s stage prop — also has, in an evolutionary sense, an extremely long shelf life.
It is primal stuff. It burrows in deep and persists, because it reminds us, say, that when we see that sabre-tooth tiger for a second time the best course of action is to run, or else.

It is a matter of survival, and a strong fear response kicks in more quickly than our conscious brains, meaning when we stick a toe in the ocean or, for some, a lake, and in extreme cases — a bathtub — the amygdala starts hollering get out of the water faster than we can tell it to pipe down.
“Some people do wind up getting out of the water and they have stopped swimming altogether, all because of a movie, which is totally wacky,” says professor Cantor.
“But if you understand how the brain works, it’s not wacky at all.”
The academic collected hundreds of student papers over a four-year span in which she asked undergraduates to describe an intense “media-produced fright reaction.”
Next to Poltergeist, which did for clowns what Jaws did for sharks, Mr. Spielberg’s ocean thriller ranked second among scary movies. And yet it was tops in leaving kids who saw it before age 13 — at a time when our young brains are ill-prepared to duke it out with our ancient primal selves in dismissing a fiction, as a fiction — with “waking problems.” Such as: fear of swimming.

AFP/Getty ImagesThe real version of Jaws

Her survey was completed more than 25 years after Jaws was released and the respondents were, at a minimum, seven years removed from having seen the film. Even so, 43% reported experiencing “enduring problems” with swimming, and all because of you know who.
“I feel intuitively that I am destined to die as a result of a shark attack,” one student reported.
“Whenever I swim in the ocean, or even a murky lake … I feel increasingly panicky and claustrophobic and … I must leave the water.”
Fear not, scaredy-cats: The good, rational news is that you stand a better chance of being struck by lightning, twice, than being eaten by a shark.
(And the bad news for the Great White Shark is that it is an endangered species, but that’s another story).
Sharkattacksurvivors.com tracks shark encounters with humans, lethal and otherwise.
There were 105 reported incidents in 2012 and 11 fatalities worldwide, but good luck trying to explain that to your amygdala.
“I still have a Jaws moment when I go into the ocean,” Joanne Cantor says, laughing.
“But it’s not as intense as some people. Maybe that’s because I live in Wisconsin.”

National Post

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Monday, 12 August 2013

Coelacanth, Spesies Ikan Purba yang Belum Pupus

Coelacanth disebut sebagai fosil hidup. Ikan ini mempunyai panjang 2 meter dan berat 90 kilogram, yang dianggap pupus sejak 70 juta tahun lalu. Akan tetapi, anggapan pupus pada spesies ikan ini dinafikan setelah seorang pemancing menangkap coelacanth pada 1938.

Disiarkan Wired, Rabu (24/4/2013), haiwan air yang masih hidup ini persis dengan fosil nenek moyang coelacanth, yang dahulu pernah hidup 300 juta tahun lalu.Kini, analisis pertama dari gen coelacanth mengungkap mengapa ikan ini tidak mempunyai perbezaan bentuk fizikal , meski terpaut waktu dari generasi coelacanth di ratusan juta tahun lalu.

Analisis gen juga menunjukkan adanya evolusi bagaimana ikan ini pada akhirnya boleh bergerak dari air ke daratan. "Saya sangat bersemangat tentang makalah ini, kerana ikan ini adalah haiwan yang kami benar-benar ingin tahu lebih banyak," ujar Per Ahlberg, paleontologi dari Uppsala University di Swedia.Untuk menyusun gen coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), saintis memerlukan rangkaian segar serta darah. Ini bukanlah tugas mudah, mengingat ikan ini tinggal di gua-gua bawah laut dan tergolong haiwan yang jarang berlaku.

Khabarnya, haiwan ini hanya terlihat 309 ekor sejak 75 tahun terakhir. Sebahagian hidup di lepas pantai timur sub-Saharan Africa dan Indonesia.Kalaupun coelacanth berjaya ditangkap, namun haiwan ini segera mati kerana perubahan tekanan dan suhu. Selain itu, di bawah matahari tropika yang panas, DNA ikan ini akan cepat rosak.

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Monday, 5 August 2013

Bawa tasbih setiap kali memancing

Oleh Nuri Angkasa

RASANYA sangat baik jika pemancing yang beragama Islam sentiasa membawa tasbih semasa turun memancing terutama ketika di laut, tasik atau tebing sungai. Apatah lagi kepada mereka yang terpaksa bermalam untuk beberapa hari serta berkhemah.
RASANYA sangat baik jika pemancing yang beragama Islam sentiasa membawa tasbih semasa turun memancing terutama ketika di laut, tasik atau tebing sungai. Apatah lagi kepada mereka yang terpaksa bermalam untuk beberapa hari serta berkhemah.

Kekuatan semangat melalui zikir dapat disempurnakan semasa ruang tidak diganggu ikan yang memburu umpan. Namun beberapa terjemahan lain yang banyak tercatat dalam hadis nabi besar Muhammad (SAW), zikir adalah azimat ketenangan jiwa dan menghalau hantu syaitan serta mendapat pahala dari Allah.

Justeru adalah baik jika semua pemancing beragama Islam dapat melakukan kebaikan ini setiap kali turun memancing. Membawa bersama seutas tasbih semasa turun memancing tidak bermakna mengangkat diri sebagai seorang ustaz atau jaguh agama, tapi tasbih memberi erti yang lebih besar bagi orang yang mahu mengerti tentang kelebihannya.

Pernah berlaku kepada seorang pemancing laut yang dirinya rasa kurang sihat, bagaikan ada sesuatu yang mengganggu, dengan melakukan zikir perubahan dapat dirasakan malah dirinya merasa sihat.

Kelebihan zikir yang mendapat keberkatan Allah tidak hanya di masjid, surau atau pada setiap waktu selepas solat di rumah, tapi ia boleh dilakukan di mana saja di bumi Allah yang luas ini, cuma jujur dan ikhlas di hati yang menjadi faktor utama.

Bertitik tolak dari sini, Petua Pak Nuri mengajak semua pemancing dapat mengamalkan zikir semasa memancing jika keadaan mengizinkan.

Selain itu kurangkan waktu tidur semasa memancing dan lebihkan aktiviti memancing kerana itu tujuan utama kita turun untuk memancing, semasa umpan belum disentuh ikan, zikir sangat bermakna untuk mengelak daripada keadaan kurang selesa.

Mengambil kira semua aspek keselamatan menjadi satu tanggungjawab bagi setiap pemancing tidak kira di mana lokasinya dan sentiasa mengamalkan semangat berpasukan.

Tasbih dan zikir jangan di pisahkan, bawalah ke mana anda pergi kerana kedua-duanya adalah amalan paling baik jika dapat dilagukan serentak dengan kesabaran, mohon perlindungan Allah dari sebarang kejahatan.

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