Time: 8.30am - 6pm
Bait: 1kg Live Prawns and Kelong Sotong
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy, Drizzling and Cold Winds
Boat: Ah Chong's Boat
Date: 27 Aug 2009 (Lunar 8th) Thurs
Kakis: Serene, Joel & Me
As usual, met up at Tanah Merah Mrt. Shared a cab down to Changi Village for a quick breakfast, bought live prawns and ice and off we go.....
Ah Chong told us he need to top up diesel for his boat first.
Topping up in process.....
Weather dun seem to be in our favour as dark clouds were spotted everywhere. Nevertheless, we kept our fingers crossed
Mr Chong, Our Captain of the day
Reached our first spot at ard 8.45am
Not wasting anytime, quickly rig up the live prawns and off goes my first cast. I put my rod into the rod holder and started exploring with my new phone 6700 Classic.
Wanted to try out the camera when I heard Serene saying dunno whose rod was bending. Thinking that she was just being noob and most probably it was due to the current, I did not really care.
It was only when Joel and Ah Chong told me then I turned ard and looked at my rod. Indeed I saw my rod gave a few tugs!
Immediately put my phone down, grabbed my rod and gave a strike! By then, my line was already pulled all the way to the front of the boat. Even Ah Chong's handline was tangled together with my mainline.
Managed to pump it back to my side and as it started to surface, I saw a familiar silver mirror...
At first I thought it was Chermin but when it finally surfaced, it was a Queenie!!!
My first Queenie (Est ard 1 kg)
Me and Queenie
Morale was high as it was only the beginning and I had landed a decent size fish already. However we were very wrong.
Bait and Rig used
Passed by this spot where we landed countless of 'nemos' on our previous boat trip
Serene waiting for her first fish......
We were not registering any bites after my first catch. We were moving from spot to spot but result was still the same.
Some of the other spots we tried
Waiting for the rod to bend.........
Getting abit tired and since the fishes were not biting, we proceed to have our lunch.
It was until 1.55pm when I finally felt a very strong tug on my rod. Without any hesitation, I gave a strike and the game was ON!
Whatever that was on the other end of the line is definitely a good fighter. It kept dashing left to right taking abit of my 20 pounds braided line out.
It took me 2-3 mins when I finally landed this fighter.
Mirror mirror on the wall, Mr Chermin!
Me and Chermin
Everything quiet down again after this catch. On and off, we managed to get small nibbles but sadly no fishes were landed.
At ard 4pm plus, I managed to land this puffer fish with peeled dead prawns.
It was released unharmed back to the sea.
At ard 5pm, Ah Chong finally landed something.......Miss Squidy
Time passed pretty fast and soon it 6pm.
Time to go back..........
Serene and Fishes..
Some pics of the catches
Overall very pathetic catches of the day (Excluding the pufferfish)
We took our dinner at Changi Village before we headed for home
Serene took the squid home and cooked it. (Well she said she cooked it but hmmmm......)
Before
After
Looked delicious but looks can be deceiving.....LOL...
And finally my catches waiting to be gut......
No comments:
Post a Comment