Gone Fishing

Mr Poh, Boss of Sabre Strokers has gone to Pekan for fishing since Monday afternoon and will be back in town on Wednesday. Stay tuned for juicy fishy tales of his fishing adventure!!

Also to note, his fishing kaki Oscar of Fremantle(who happens to be the jigging sifu) has also gone on a fishing adventure with another good friend of his from KL who goes by the name of Mr Ho to Lucornia for a week long fishing.

Stay tuned and I will update you on both their fishing trips with lots of juicy fishy tales!!!!

Old Models of Guides for Surf Casting Rods...

Still have those old surf casting rods that you have put aside for the newer models & forgotten about them? Then one fine day you decide to take them out of the closet and feel like using them again only to find that the guides don't look that great anymore or some guides are damaged? Now you are starting to wonder whether will you be able to get the same type of original guides for your rods? Have no fear, if your rods are using any of these old models types of guides (see photos below), bring your rods down to us or you may can even drop by our shop to get the guides. Now your old surf casting rods will have a new lease of life!!!

Note: These are not SIC guides

Note: These are not SIC guides

Note: These are not SIC guides

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This is not SIC guides

These are Fuji SIC guides

Some old model swivels

Tsunami Alert!!!

Huge quakes off Indonesia stir panic, but no big tsunami

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - A powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake and a series of strong aftershocks struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, sending people scurrying from buildings as far away as southern India, but there seemed little risk of a disastrous tsunami as in 2004.Indonesia said it was checking for damage and casualties but remarkably, no such reports had been received for several hours after the quakes, including in Aceh, the closest province and the area decimated by the disaster eight years ago.

However, some areas close to the epicenter are remote so it could take some time to find out if there was any damage.Many people were frightened of further tremors."It's dark out here but I am scared to go home," said Mila, a 41-year-old woman taking refuge in the grand mosque in the town of Banda Aceh, the provincial capital."I just want to stay alert because I fear there will be more quakes coming. We are human, it is only natural that we have fear, but I really wish we will all be safe."

Waves of up to one meter (3.3 feet) high were seen near islands off Aceh, but Indonesia cancelled a warning for fresh tsunamis. It said the worst-hit area was the thinly populated island of Simeulue, off Aceh's southern coast.The first quake struck at 4.38 am EDT (4.38 p.m. Singapore time) and an 8.2 magnitude aftershock just over two hours later, at 6.43 am EDT (6.43 pm Singapore time). Two more strong aftershocks hit later.The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center also withdrew tsunami warnings for the entire Indian Ocean after keeping them in force for several hours.

"Level readings now indicate that the threat has diminished or is over for most areas," the agency's bulletin said.Thailand and India also withdrew tsunami warnings.Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India were all badly hit in 2004. At least 230,000 people in 13 Indian Ocean countries were killed in the Boxing Day disaster that year, including 170,000 in and around Aceh alone.Last year, an earthquake and tsunami off Japan's northeastern coast killed at least 23,000 people and triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years after waves battered a nuclear power station.

On Wednesday, people near the coast in six Thai provinces were ordered to move to higher ground. Authorities shut down the international airport in the Thai beach resort province of Phuket.The quakes were about 300 miles southwest of Banda Aceh, on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island, the US Geological survey said. The first was at a depth of 20.5 miles.Indonesia's disaster management agency said power failed in Aceh province and people were gathering on high ground as sirens warned of the danger."The electricity is down, there are traffic jams to access higher ground. Sirens and Koran recitals from mosques are everywhere," said Sutopo, spokesman for the agency."The warning system worked," Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.Warning sirens also rang out across the Thai island of Phuket, a tourist hotspot that was one of the worst hit areas in the 2004 tsunami."Guests from expensive hotels overlooking Phuket's beaches were evacuated to the hills behind and local people were driving away in cars and on motorcycles. Everyone seemed quite calm, the warning had been issued well in advance," freelance journalist Apichai Thonoy told Reuters by telephone.

OUT ON THE STREETS
Indonesian television showed people gathering in mosques in Banda Aceh. Many others were on the streets, holding crying children.In the city of Medan, a hospital evacuated patients, who were wheeled out on beds and in wheelchairs.Wednesday's quakes were felt as far away as the Thai capital, Bangkok, and in southern India, hundreds of office workers in the city of Bangalore left their buildings while the port of Chennai closed down because of tsunami fears.The quakes were in roughly in the same area as the 2004 quake, which was at a depth of 18 miles along a fault line running under the Indian Ocean, off western Indonesia and up into the Bay of Bengal.Experts said Wednesday quakes were a "strike-slip" fault, meaning a more horizontal shift of the ground under the sea as opposed to a sudden vertical shift, and less risk of a large displacement of water triggering a tsunami."The nature of the sideways rupture and sideways movement is not predisposed to cause a bad tsunami, so almost certainly, the crisis has been avoided," said David Rothery, an expert at the Open University in the UKThe quakes were also felt in Sri Lanka, where office workers in the capital, Colombo, fled their offices.Mahinda Amaraweera, Sri Lanka's minister for disaster management, called for calm while advising people near the coast to seek safety."I urge the people not to panic. We have time if there is a tsunami going to come. So please evacuate if you are in the coastal area and move to safer places," Amaraweera told a private television channel.In Bangladesh, where two tremors were felt, authorities said there appeared to be no threat of a tsunami. Australia also said there was no threat of a tsunami there.

Source: AsiaOne.com

However, these videos paint a different picture.....
Source: Thanks to Sam Lai for the video footage.


Factbox: Largest earthquakes since 1900
LONDON - Here is a factbox showing the 10 strongest earthquakes recorded since 1900, by order of magnitude, as Indonesia issued a tsunami warning for a time after a 8.6 magnitude earthquake struck off its westernmost province of Aceh on Wednesday.

May 22, 1960 - Chile: An earthquake of magnitude 9.5 struck Santiago and Concepcion, triggering tidal waves and volcanic eruptions. Some 5,000 people were killed and 2 million made homeless.

March 28, 1964 - Alaska: An earthquake and ensuing tsunami killed 125 people and caused about $310 million in property loss. The magnitude 9.2 quake buffeted a large area of Alaska and parts of western Yukon Territory and British Columbia in Canada.

December 26, 2004 - Indonesia: A magnitude 9.1 quake struck off the coast of Aceh province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, setting off a tsunami that killed more than 226,000 people in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, India and nine other countries.

November 4, 1952 - Russia: An earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 generated a tsunami that reached the Hawaiian islands. No lives were lost.

March 11, 2011 - Japan: An 9.0 magnitude quake struck Japan, the strongest on record in the country, and a big tsunami followed, triggering the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years since Chernobyl in Ukraine. More than 15,000 people died from the combination of the earthquake and tsunami.The US Geological Survey placed the quake at a depth of 15.1 miles and 81 miles east of Sendai, on the main island of Honshu.

February 27, 2010 - Chile: An 8.8 magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami in Chile killed more than 500 people and caused some $30 billion in damage, wrecking hundreds of thousands of homes and mangling highways and bridges.

January 31, 1906 - Ecuador: An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck off the coast of Ecuador and Colombia, generating a tsunami that killed up to 1,000. It was felt along the coast of Central America and as far north as San Francisco and west to Japan.

February 4, 1965 - Alaska: An earthquake of magnitude 8.7 generated a tsunami reported to be about 35 feet high on Shemya Island.

April 11, 2012 - Indonesia: A quake with a magnitude of 8.6 struck Indonesia's Aceh province 308 miles southwest of the province's capital Banda Aceh. The quake was felt as far away as Singapore, Thailand and India.

March 28, 2005 - Indonesia: A magnitude 8.6 quake off Sumatra was estimated to have killed 1,300 people, many on Nias island off Sumatra's west coast.

Source: Reuters/U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Web site - earthquake.usgs.gov/