Time: 9.30pm - 3am
Bait: Tilapia
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Strong Wind & Rain After 12am
Date: 14th May 2010 (Fri) - 15th May 2010 (Sat)
Started fishing at 9.30pm while waiting for Dewei, Jieying & Serene to join me.
The night started pretty slow. No bites for me at all. Neighbour managed to land one pretty small fish and that abt all.
In my mind, I was telling myself..."It gotta be another fishless day" But well fishing is not totally abt landing fishes only. Just relax and chill, I reminded myself...
I moved over to one of the shelter on my right at ard 11.30pm after the bunch of teenagers have left. 15 mins later the 3 of them finally reached.
Was reeling in my line to check on my bait when I found out that it was entangled with another angler's line...Was trying to clear the beehoon when suddenly the braided line that tangled with my leader got pulled and left 2 cuts on my fingers!
What the......!!! Lesson learnt... Always reel in all the line before you try to clear any beehoon!!!
Was chatting with Dewei when finally my rod gave a strong bend at ard 12.30am!!! When I grabbed my rod, I knew the bugger on the other end of the line is going to be give me a tough time.
I din even have the chance to strike and set the hook. My rod just kept bending and my reel kept screaming in pain! Tried several times to reel in but totally cant!
Few anglers on my left saw what was happening and immediately kept their lines out of the water. Thanks! Great sportsmanship displayed!
The bugger dashed towards my left and went further out to the middle of the pond. I tried to pump it whenever it stopped and gathered as much line back as possible. After 5 mins of fighting, it finally 'gave up' as I started to pump it back towards me.
Thought that the fight was over but I was wrong. My reel went singing again as this bugger went for another run away from me!!
My right arm was aching and in my mind I was worried that I might lose this bugger anytime too......
Finally......after another 5 mins of tug of war, I managed to pump it to the side of the wall. Gave a couple more pumps before it finally surfaced!!!
A Redtail Catfish!
Time to weigh this monster..
And it weigh 14.5kg which landed me in the 2nd place for the night competition
The head is big!
Finally, a picture of me and the beauty who helped me to win $50 FP voucher!
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