Fishing in Bintan is an astonishing get away to spectacular angling in Strait of Malacca and South China Sea. Fishery is one of the important industry in Bintan Island. Bintan Island has strong effect on north monsoon causing big waves and strong current. It will happen from November to February. The best time to fish in Bintan is between April to October where the sea calmer.
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Bintan Island is a great tourist attractions in Riau Islands just a short boat ride from Singapore or by plane to Raja Haji Fisabilillah from Jakarta, Pekanbaru, Batam and other from other domestic airport. it has almost 3,000 islands with classic island offer a lots of things to do ranging from snorkeling, wakeboarding, scuba diving, wind surfing, island hopping, hiking to fishing.
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Bintan offer spectacular deep sea fishing adventure both modern and traditional way to fish. Modern fishing will allow you to catch fish by jigging, popper fishing and trolling technique, while traditional fishing allow you to catch the fish using handline fishing, bamboo trap and net fishing. Tanjung Uban and Tanjung Piang are the fishing ports where you can find both modern and traditional fishing.
Deep Sea Fishing Bintan
Deep sea fishing offer nice size fish to catch. Mapur Island is the very close island to Singapore is one the best deep sea fishing spots in Bintan Island. Surprisingly there are many Singaporean anglers come to fish in this island. Mapur Island has beautiful underwater with many species of fish. GTs are the most sought after fish in this island. In addition you will also catch wahoo, grouper, snapper, tuna, barracuda and many others. Beside of Mapur Island, Awor Island is also the great spot where many fisherman come to fish here.
FAD’s Fishing Bintan
Fishing in FAD will catch more fish. FAD in Mapur Island will allow you to catch many species of fish ranging from red snapper, wahoo to GT fishing in the depth of 100 meters. This FAD is a shallow ones compare to other. Other Fad’s you can fish is FAD’s Terkulai Island.
Island Fishing Bintan
Boat fishing near the island in Bintan offer wide range of fish and opportunity. Numbing island offer a great bottom fishing and light jigging in a depth of 60 to 100 meters. There are a lots of grouper and snapper. Besides you will also catch red snapper and giant trevally. Pangkil Island is another best island fishing spots in Bintan Island. But you should be aware of big tanker passing. Fishing in this island mostly reef fish species and some pelagic fish. Red snapper and queen fish are among the common fish to catch. Other island spots are Sore Island, Telang Island and Matang Besar Island.
Land Based Spot
Bintan has many land based fishing spots. Sakera Beach is one of popular land based fishing spot. The beach offers an exotic white sand with shady treess and turquoise sea waters. During the low tide, you will see the coral rocks in the beach and many people come for fishing and looking for shell and sea snails.
Kelong Fishing Bintan
Fishing in Kelong is the spectacular things to do in Bintan and nowadays getting more and more popular. You can stay in the kelong and doing many activities ranging from canoeing to fishing. Bintan has many kelong with exotic views. Melamun kelong, Bintan Nemo, Aloy Kelong, Bintan Cool, Bintan Kelong, Bintan Black Coral, Blowfish Kelong, Bintan Dive, Pondok Nelayan and Kelong Bintan are among the best kelong in Bintan Island.
Fishpond
Poyotomo is one of the great fishing pond in Bintan located in Buyu Village with the Mount Bintan backdrop and natural scenery. Poyotomo is the large pay fishpond with gazebos built near the pond. You can hire both the rod to fish and gazebos for relax after fishing.
Floating Platform Fishing
The unique fishing in Bintan Island is fishing with floating platform look like kelong, but this platform is pulled by boat to the middle of the sea. Kelong Apung Pengundang is one of the floating fishing platform.
Squid Fishing in Bintan
Bulak Tinggi Tanjung Uban jetty is one of the place where you can go for squid fishing. There are many local angler come to fish in this pier especially at night.
There are still lots of fishing spots in Bintan Island in abundant waters around the paradise islands.
