~Fishing Passion~: 3rd Trip On Chongster Boat

Venue: Changi Offshore
Time: 8.30am - 6pm
Bait: 1.5kg Live Prawns
Rig: Apollo & Long Snood Bottom
Weather: Partly cloudy
Boat: Ah Chong's Boat
Date: 26 June 2009 (Lunar 4th) Fri
Kakis: Nana, Irfan, Joel and Me

As usual, we met up at ard 7.50am at changi village. Took our breakfast, tapao lunch, bought live prawns and off we chiong...

It was a pretty great day. Weather was perfect. Current was perfect. Company was perfect. However catch was only great in the morning.

Reach our first spot (Changi Naval Base) at ard 8.30am. Quickly lowered down our lines and started the waiting game.

Our Boat

We were not alone. Ah Chai, Ah Fong and one more boat were parking side by side with us.

Ah Chai's Boat

Bites were coming in pretty fast. So fast that we were changing one live prawn every min. There were plenty of small fishes ard. Lowered the live prawn down and immediately you could feel the bite!

Joel and me got so fedup that we switched to dead prawns instead to reserve our live prawns volume.

Joel broke the silence first with a small Ack. After the first fishy, we started landing fishes. We got more than 10 fishes at our first spot. But sad to say, most of them are smallies (Indian Grouper)

Ah Chong managed to land 2 biggies on handline. One AK followed by one Chermin. Well done!!!

Ang Zho (1.5kg)

Chermin (1.2kg)

I managed to land one decent size grouper too. Nearly lost this bugger while Irfan was helping me to net it up. It gave one last burst to safety when it saw the net. After some struggling, we finally managed to land it with Ah Chong's help and I found out that the hook was hooked very near to the edge of the mouth. One more run, it gotta tear. Phew~

Grouper (1.2kg)

Other than this 3 decent size fishes, other catches worth highlighting were Nana 's Peh Heurr and Joel's Coral Trout. Both est ard 600 - 700 gm.

We moved on to our 2nd spot at ard 12pm.

Some views

It was super quiet over at the 2nd spot. Therefore we moved on to our third spot at ard 2pm.

Bites were coming in very slow and we had no hookups at all.....

Everyone were feeling super low morale when Nana managed to hook up this fellow.

Grunter (1kg)

Went on to our 3rd spot at ard 3pm...

Again....no FISH!

Our rods waiting to be bend.....!

Super quiet.... No bites at all.....

Went to our last spot at ard 4pm plus.... LAST CHANCE!

Guess luck was not with me in the noon. Got a BIG FAT EGG! Luckily, I still managed to land a few fishes in the morning.

Ah Chong and Joel managed to land one table size grouper each at ard 5-6pm. Not bad!!

Irfan managed to land one kitty too.

As for Nana, she managed to hook onto a squid and like the previous time she 'released it back' into the water again. LOL!

On the otherhand, Joel hooked onto a squid too. Thinking that it was rubbish, he actually tried to shake it off!!! Luckily I saw it and immediately netted it up!

Mr Squidy