~Fishing Passion~: First Boat Trip To Southern Island

Venue: Southern Islands
Time: 9am - 5pm
Bait: 2kg Live Prawns
Rig: Long Snood Bottom Feeder
Weather: Cloudy & Windy
Boat: Ah Chong's Boat (West Coast)
Date: 10 Oct 2009 (Lunar 22nd) Sat
Kakis: Qw, Luke, WQ, Qw's Colleague and Me

Instead of the usual waters at Changi, this time round we went for the deeper waters at Southern Islands.

Woke up late, met the rest ard 7.30am downstairs and immediately cab down to West Coast Mac.
Ah Chong reached at ard 8.15am and off we went to board his boat in "Commando Style".

We were supposed to wade into the water to ard our knees in order to board a small boat which brought us further out abt 20 metres to the fishing boat!

Ah Chong preparing the pinky 'raft' which he used it to row towards the small boat abt 10 metres out.

He would then come back on the small boat which we would need to wade into the water in order to climb onto it.

The small boat beside our fishing boat

Toilet

Kitchen and toilet

Fishing at Southern Islands and Changi is totally different. Waters here is much more deeper and current is stronger.

In my heart, I was seriously hoping to land some biggies but too bad the boatman was not with us.

~Fighters of the day~

QW

Wong

Luke

We did not managed to get any bites at all. Boatman was quite 'hardworking' at the beginning. So hardworking until I wondered whether he knew what the hell he was doing.

He was shifting spot after spot after every ten mins. Drop the line down and not even 5 mins he told us to reel in.

The Waiting Game

It was ard 12pm when we finally hit a spot with bites coming in quite constantly. Luke managed to land a small parrot ard 400gm. Moral increased but guess what? Boatman told us to keep our lines as he wanted to change spot.....

Really speechless, we got a freaking fish and he wanted to change spot...!!!!

This time round, he took us on a 1hr 30 mins ride to the international water.

On the way

Everyone trying to get a quick nap on the long journey.

Reached our destination at ard 2pm and we quickly dropped our lines down. As expected, nothing was caught except for one Deepsea KBL by Qw's colleague, Wong.

Only 2 pathetic fishes at ard 2.35pm

To add salt to our wound, the sea was super choppy. A few of us were feeling abit seasick and some even vomitted.

Waiting and waiting.............

Time flies and soon it was going 4pm.
We were talking cock when I suddenly FELT a tug! Without hesitation, gave a strike...and....Fish ON!!!!

Took ard 5 mins to pump it up and TA TAH~~~! It was a Spanish Flag Snapper est ard 1kg!

Unhooking

My Prize!

After landing my fish...guess what the boatman said. Keep your line...change spot.
I was really speechless when I heard him said that.

Decided to trust myself and told him we wanted to stay put. It was a correct move as Qw landed another small Spanish Flag Snapper after 10-15 mins.

Qw fighting

Spanish Flag Snapper est ard 700 grams

After we kept the fish in the icebox, guess what the boatman says again.....
"Keep your lines and change spot"
I nearly wanted to get a size 10 hook and hooked him on his balls and threw him overboard to feed the sharks!
Now we were at a spot with fishes and you bloody kept asking us to change spot...!!!

Check with the rest whether they were with me and told the boatman... "NO, we want to stay put!"
Nice move as Qw landed another snapper est ard 1kg.!

Again boatman told us to keep lines as he wanted to shift spot after Qw landed the snapper.
Sick and frustrated with him, we decided to gave in and kept our lines.

Went to another 2 more spots without any results before we called it a day at 5pm.
He told me beforehand it was until 5.30pm but he told us to pack up at ard 4.45pm. Reason was he got another grp of pple waiting for him. Bullshit!

Total Catch of the day