~Fishing Passion~

No Kims, Got Gaos

2011-06-30T00:57:00.004+08:00

Venue: Ryan's Spot
Time: 3.30pm - 6.30pm
Bait: Live & Dead Prawns
Rig: Floater & Split Shot
Weather: Fair
Date: 27 June 2011(Mon)

Bought 300 grams of live prawns and proceed to Ryan's spot.
Mission for the day - Kim Ba Loks.

Rigged a floater with a giant live prawn from Sheng Siong. Out it went into the middle of the spot. Float was flowing with the incoming tide towards my direction when it slowly sank and stay 3/4 submerged under the surface.

It stayed there for a good one minute before I decided to check it out. Reeled in my line and saw this evil-looking fella!

Stonefish!

It was pretty fat and heavy! Cut the leader and back it went into the sea.....

Sheng Siong live prawns are not very lasting. It was less than 2 hours into the session and I am only left with 1 or 2 prawns still kicking alive.

Took one dead prawn and started spinning when I felt the familiar nibbling on the other end.
This baby grouper was no match to my banana rod at all.

It was released back into the sea as it was too small to be packed away.

Continued spinning my leftover dead prawn when I hit again!
This time round the fight was slighty stronger but still it was landed in 10 secs?

A slightly bigger grouper

I am sorry but I decided to pack this one home for my dinner.

Mission failed as I did not managed to land any Kims but I found a way to get the Gaos!

Massacre

2011-06-06T23:07:00.002+08:00

Venue: Pasir Ris Skill Pond
Time: 8.30pm - 11.30pm
Bait: Dead Prawns
Rig: Pole Fishing
Weather: Fair
Date: 3rd June 2011(Fri)

As usual, a few sms exchange and we were on our way to our fishing spot.
We are back to the pole pond!

Pay up and the session starts!
There were 2 groups of 'polers' when we reached. One consists of a family and another is a group of young men.

No baskets was in the water yet = No one landed anything yet.

Casted my first prawn cube out and saw the line moving. Paused for a moment and WHACK!!!!
ZZZZZzzzzzzzZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, the line screamed!
Took less than a min and the first fishy was landed. After the first kim cheow was landed, all hell break loose!

Me and Qw took turns landing fish after fish in the next 25 mins. 30 mins into our session, we got 6 lively kim cheow trashing in the basket!

Then came the bad news, Qw sprained his ankle and he was out...
Was considering whether to go home since he seemed badly hurt but he told me to carry on..

Foul hooked 2 kim cheows in the 2nd hour and in the 3rd hour I hit a GAO! Finished the session with 1 last piece of kim cheow before we called it a day.

Certainly not our best as Qw only fished for less than an hour while I lost quite a few. However, it was certainly one our better session.

Perfect Ten

Lousy day...

2011-06-06T22:58:00.005+08:00

Venue: Pasir Ris Skill Pond
Time: 2pm - 5pm
Bait: Dead Prawns
Rig: Pole Fishing
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 29th May 2011(Sun)

Not in the great mood to fish. Felt thirsty and tired throughout the whole session.

Started off with 3 fishes in the first hour and all the way.

Was actually waiting for time up. Totally no mood.

2nd Visit To Pasir Ris SKill Pond

2011-05-02T00:13:00.003+08:00

Venue: Pasir Ris Skill Pond
Time: 8pm - 11pm
Bait: Dead Prawns & Kelong Sotong
Rig: Pole Fishing
Weather: Fair
Date: 29th April 2011(Fri)

It was my 2nd visit to this pond. Reached there at around 8pm with Qw and immediately proceed to fish.

As usual, got countless misses & burst but still managed to land 5 Kim Cheows. Tried using a big piece of kelong sotong and got a one way ticket.

It dash straight towards the pump in a slow but forceful way leaving me watching helpless....

Qw on the other hand landed 3 pieces.

Our Catches!

1st attempt at Pole Fishing

2011-04-13T00:05:00.003+08:00

Venue: Pasir Ris Skill Pond
Time: 7.30pm - 10.30pm
Bait: Dead Prawns
Rig: Pole Fishing
Weather: Fair
Date: 9th April 2011(Sat)

Have been reading alot of 'Power' CRs on FishingKaki. Therefore decided to go down on Sat night to have a try.

I got a packet of Kelong Sotong as advise by the uncle there and started fishing. I got no hits or takes at all for the 1st hour. Decided to change to Dead Prawns instead but still no bites.

Was thinking what wrong when I finally feel a pull in the 2nd hour! Set the hook and slowly play with the bugger.

I waited so long for it and I won't want to lose my first fish. Took me 5 mins and I still couldn't land it. Was my first time fishing there and I was afraid the leader might give way if I try to yank it out of the water.

It was finally landed when one uncle help me to pull the leader out of the water. My first fishy on Pole! 800gm Kim Cheow!!!

After my first fishy, all hell break loose!! It was almost lo jiak lo jiak...
I got many takes but all end up bursting or throwing of hook. Sigh.

It was until the last hour when I finally got hold of the technique and landed 2 more Kim Cheow.

Overall a very fun experience. Will be back!!!

My Many 'First'

2011-03-30T00:48:00.014+08:00

Venue: Changi Offshore
Time: 8.30m - 5.30pm
Bait: Live Prawns
Rig: Long Snood Bottom Feeder
Weather: Cloudy, Heavy Rain in the Noon
Boat: Raju's Boat
Date: 28 March 2011(Lunar 24th) Mon
Kakis:CK, Oliver, Ryan, Sam, Taleb & Me

This was a last min trip.
Received a sms from Ryan on Fri.
Ryan:"Wanna go offshore on next Mon?"
Me:"ON!"

Woke up at 6.15am, took my breakfast and off I go~~
It was a 30 mins drive and there I am!

Punggol Marina Country Club

We met up over at the pier at abt 8.15am. A brief intro before we went onboard ready for our date with the fishy!

Some photos while on the way to our first playground

Sam

Ryan & Me

Taleb & CK

-Weapons-

-Ammo-

The starting was very slow. There was hardly any bites in the first few spots.
Raju was very hardworking thou, changing spot again and again trying to get the right spot.

The silence was finally broke at 11am! Was holding onto my trusty banana rod bouncing the sinker along the seabed concentrating for any bites when I felt some nibbles on the other end.

Paused for a sec, nibbles get stronger and Strike!!! Fish ON!

Slowly pumped and reeled it in... This fishy made a few dashes several times making my reel screaming in pain. Took me 4-5 mins before it came up to the surface!

My First Chao Xi est ard 1kg

It my First wild Fish for 2011 and my First Chao Xi. Was very happy and relieved that I managed to land it. My hand was actually shivering after the fight.....

We moved on to another spot after this catch but still there wasn't any fishy ard...

Raju decided to bring us to a spot that need at least a size 10 sinker to touch bottom.

The current was very strong and I was combining a size 4 and a size 8 sinker in order to touch bottom.

Oliver made his first cast and immediately got a strong bite!
A 2kg + Ang Kuay!

CK also got a bite!

A 1kg + Ang Zho

As the sea is pretty rough, we have 2 merlions onboard too..

Could not remember exactly which fish was landed first and at which spot.
But we move on to a few other spots and landed a few other fishes.

Oliver managed to land a 1kg + Deformed Grouper that ermm...look pretty disgusting..

Boatman say the deformed part could have been bitten off or injured and it growing back.

Ryan with his catches, 800 grams Parrot and 1kg + Kaci

I landed my First Mouse Grouper too! It was said to be a very very rare catch. A delicacy especially in Hong Kong. Worth at least SGD 80 for a dead one & SGD 150 for a live one!!!

Raju even took out his personal camera to take a picture. Guess my face going to be in his album. Haha!

Everyone wanted a shot with this rare prized catch - Mouse Grouper!

Managed to land a Ang Zho at the last 2nd spot

Ah Seng landed at the last spot by CK

Total Catch of the Day. (Excluding many Johnsons which we released)

CK: 2 Ang Zho & 1 Ah Seng
Oliver: 1 Ang Kuay & 1 Grouper
Ryan: 1 Kaci & 1 Parrot
Taleb: 1 Blue Hind Grouper
Raju: 1 Ang Zho
Me: 1 Chao Xi, 1 Grouper, 1 Mouse Grouper & 1 Ang Zho

Fun Fishing Kakis!

My Catches!

Overall a great trip! And of cos my many First!

First Wild Fish for 2011
First Chao Xi
First Mouse Grouper

Disappointment

2011-03-08T14:09:00.002+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise
Time: 8pm - 12am
Bait: Taiwan Sausage & Bread
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 5rd March 2011(Sat)

2 rods. One baited with bread and one baited with TWS.
Bites was pathetic. Only landed one small rohu with TWS.

Catches at FP is getting worse and worse. Will not be back until the catch rates improve.

The Year Of The Rabbit

2011-02-10T01:23:00.002+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise
Time: 12.30am - 2.30am
Bait: Taiwan Sausage
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 3rd Feb 2011(Thurs)

10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5! 4! 3!!!!!!!!!!! 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY CNY!!!

Just when everyone was busy celebrating CNY, I armed myself with my banana rod and went to the battlefield -Fishing Paradise-

Got a couple of bites but only 1 hookup...

Miss Kitty

The Egg Breaker

2011-02-10T01:11:00.002+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise
Time: 6.30pm - 9pm
Bait: Taiwan Sausage
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Heavy Rain
Date: 29th Jan 2011(Sat)

Finally back to fishing after dunno for how many months!
Did went for fishing for 2-3 times thru out this few months but egg remains intact...

Got this pussy within 30 mins!

The Egg Breaker!

A Trap Not Meant for Mr Soon......

2010-10-18T23:56:00.010+08:00

Venue: Yishun Dam
Time: 7pm - 9.30pm
Bait: Kembong
Rig: Crab Trap
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 16th Oct 2010(Sat)

Must be surprised to see my post again after close to 3 months right?
You must be thinking that I am going thru a long dry spell and have nothing to post at all right?

Nah......I actually did not even wet my line.
Stopped fishing due to a few reasons......

Anyway back to this post. It was never meant to be a fishing post. But well.........

One fine day, me and cx wanted to try out crabbing at a spot which I used to swear by my life to be infested with crabs. But I was wrong......

We setup our trap at a 'spot' and went home. When we went back to collect our trap at 9.30pm. We got a pleasant surprise. No crabs at all but.....................

The trap with my baits and my catches...

Got 2 small fishes which I released straight away and one SoonHock!

Mr Soon lying on his back....

Mr Koh and Mr Soon...

After some hesitation, I decided to release it as it was too small for consumption.

Made a mistake while trying to release it back by throwing it back into the sea using the trap. It got stuck and landed on a rock with a 'piak'!

Got worried and started searching for it thru the rocks. Without a torchlight, it was definitely hard to find Mr Soon in the darkness.

It took me abt 5 mins before I finally spotted Mr Soon lying on the grass! Quickly scooped it up with my hands and it was still breathing! Thank God...

Quickly released it back into the water and it went off with a splash.. Hopefully it was not badly hurt.

First Grassie..

2010-08-15T18:08:00.004+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 5pm-10pm?
Bait: Bread
Rig: Apollo using 'Marker'
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 18th July 2010 (Sun)

It been almost a month for this CR. Busy combined with laziness will be the main reason why it was long overdue. Haha..

To be honest, I cant remember much about the details. Only remembered we caught our first grassie!

After setting the hook, I passed the rod to Cx. Took her less than 3 mins and it was landed!

Missy fighting..

And me with our first Grassie!

This grassie was our only catch that day. However it was not the highlight of the day.

Highlight of the day was the rented house rod (banana rod) flew into the pond when I was on my way to the tackle shop!!!

It took the staffs about an hour before they finally retrieved the rod. Thank God, they managed to get back the rod as the whole setup cost over $200!!!

Back To Bread.............

2010-06-13T15:07:00.008+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 4.30pm - 7.30pm
Bait: Bread
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Sunny
Date: 12th June 2010 (Sat)

Judging from the last post, it is very obvious I am on a long dry spell.

Determined to break the dry spell and also the virgin of my new banana rod, I switched back to hunting for the Rohus and Patins!

Reached, setup and my first bread hit the water at 4.30pm. My hopes of landing a fish diminished as the clock ticks by.....

1 hour passed and I did not even registered a bite. Was getting less and less hopeful when my banana rod suddenly gave the usual strong and fierce bend at 5.40 pm! The bend sent me rushing toward the rod........

Almost slipped down but managed to quickly regain back my position. Grabbed the rod and Yes!

Fish On!!!

Took 2-3 mins and the fish finally gave up...

Landed!

Rohu!

Finally broke my dry spell and the virgin of my banana rod.

Another fishy came to visit us at 6.10pm.

This time round passed the rod over to Chunxia.

Landed within 1-2 mins

Another Rohu!

Packed up at 7.30pm to catch South Korea Vs Greece!

I Lost Something................

2010-05-16T20:18:00.005+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 2.30pm - 7pm
Bait: Tilapia
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Thunderstorm
Date: 16th May 2010 (Sun)

Got a take at ard 3.10pm. It was a Pacu est ard 7-8kg.
Managed to pump it to the side already when the leader burst.....

It was a pity to lose the fish.
Fish lost nevermind.

But I lost something else beside the fish.

Dun wish to blog further........

Finally A 2nd Place.....

2010-05-15T23:42:00.004+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
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!

The Big Fat Cutie!

2010-05-09T02:09:00.005+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 7.15pm - 11.45pm
Bait: Tilapia
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 7th May 2010 (Fri)

There was a competition going on again. Top first and second heaviest catch will be able to walkaway with $100 & $50 FP vouchers respectively.

Rented the tackles and proceed to fish! Was told there was no more Koi. No choice, have to make do with the tilapias.

It was pretty quiet for the first 2 hr plus. Suspecting that it could be the bait problem, I decided to get some bread to try out later.

Chunxia reached ard 9.30pm with my dinner. Was having my dinner halfway when I saw my rod tip moved abit. Did not really care abt it thinking it was the tilapia moving that caused it. Cont with my dinner when my rod suddenly gave a super sharp bend!!!

It bounced back after the first bend and then bend again!!! Quickly put down my dinner and grabbed my rod.

Gave a strike and.......Nothing..........!!!! Oh no!!! Gone?? Sigh... Gave my reel a couple of turns when I felt the FISH!!!

IT STILL THERE!!!! Phew~ Quickly reeled in the line when it gave a high jump abt 15 meters away. At that moment, I swear I thought I going to lose it.

When it hit back into the waters, my reel started screaming in pain. Line was peeled out like nobody biz and I thought I just set it to ard 90%!!

After a few burst of runs, I started to pump it toward me. In my mind, I was wondering what could it be....

KBL? Rohu? Cant be Rohu as I using tilapia as bait. My question was finally answered when I saw a super round and fat fella surfacing out of the water.

And Yes!!! It a big fat Pacu tipping the scale at 7.7 kg!!!

Staff weighing the fish

7.7 kg Pacu

Releasing it back........

Sad to say, my 7.7 kg Pacu did not managed to squeeze into the Top 2 heaviest catch of the night.

Did not managed to win any prize but in my heart I already got the best prize.

My First Redtail Catfish

2010-05-02T00:40:00.002+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 7pm - 12am
Bait: Koi
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 30 Apr 2010 (Fri)

Alright.... Long story cut short....

Arranged for a catchup with Eugene few days back. He came to pick me up at 6pm and off we proceed to Fishing Paradise!

Rented the tackle, bought the baits and my line hit the water at 7pm.

Registered couple of bites but I landed my first fishy only at ard 8.15pm. Eugene went off to help me get my Mac Spicy while I casted out my Koi ard 1 metre out.

Was relaxing on the chair looking up into the sky when my rod started bending! Quickly grabbed the rod and gave a firm strike! Fish On!!!

The fishy was strong despite it size! My drag was locked to 90% but it still managed to make several runs. I got no choice but to keep pumping trying to gain the lines back as the line on the house reel was limited.

Took me ard 5 mins before it finally surfaced!

And yes a Redtail Catfish!!!!

It weighed 4.2kg on the scale and I was the first to land a fish for the Mini Competition held that night!

Anyway I landed another Catfish at ard 9.30pm. But sad to say, it did not come with a redtail.

Walking Catfish

We stayed till 12am for the lucky draw before we called it a day.

And guessed what? I won 3 fishing hours!!!

Definitely a great day for me!

A Day Back at Pasir Ris Main Pond

2010-04-20T20:40:00.005+08:00

Venue: Pasir Ris Main Pond
Time: 3pm - 12.15am
Bait: Kembong & Live Prawns
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 16 Apr 2010 (Fri)

Finally back to the pond where I got my first decent size fish. Have always wanted to give it a visit in the day but could not find the time.

Did not place any high hopes in this pond at all. Just wanted to go and chill and relax.

Reached the pond at ard 2pm and proceed to setup. This time round I chose to stay at the carpark side.

At ard 3.45pm, was relaxing when I saw my rod gave a slight nod. Immediately grabbed my rod, reeled in the line and WHACK!!!!

Yes! Fish On. Fight was not that fantastic. Landed it in less than 1 min.

A 600-700 grams Ang Kuey.

Not too bad 1 fish already landed within the first hour...

It was a super long wait before the 2nd fishy was landed at ard 6.05pm.
In between, I landed one irritating Eel which was released immediately.

It was a 1.5kg Ang Zhuo with a lure in it mouth!!

This bugger gave me a good workout once I set the hook. It dashed left and right before it was landed.

Ang Kuey & Ang Zhuo

Sadly there was no more bites after the 2nd fish. Waited till 12am before we decided to pack up.

Total Catch of the day

My '3' Catches

The lure found inside the Ang Zhuo

The Day She Won....

2010-04-12T22:54:00.003+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 1.30pm-5.15pm
Bait: Bread & Sausage
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Sunny
Date: 12 Apr 2010 (Sun)

Went back to Fishing Paradise hoping to cure some itch. Bites rates were super low until the boss came over and pass me some power baits at ard 4pm.

Hook on to the sausage and casted it out. Power bait was indeed power! Got numerous bites but did not managed to have any hookup at all.

The fishes are pretty smart. They spitted out the hook every time before I even managed to give a strike.

One of the staff told me the fishes are getting smarter ever since the Shimano Fishing Competition.

Was pretty pekchek with all the misses until Cx took over the rod. She went near to the hut to fish...

Did not put any high hopes on her. Was playing my psp when I spotted her with a CURVED rod!

Quickly made my way there and saw her fighting a fishy!

The fish made several big splashes before it surfaced..

It was a Walking Catfish!

Well done!!! Once again, she proved me wrong

Some Prawns & A Fishy

2010-04-07T19:53:00.002+08:00

Venue: Bishan
Time: 3pm-6pm
Bait: Chicken Heart & Worm
Rig: Floater
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 04 Apr 2010 (Sun)

It been a super long time we went prawning.

Decided to give it a try since we got nothing to do.

Got a surprise catch on worm. A small fishy...

Managed to land 23 prawns in total!

ChunXIA and the XIAssssss

ChunXIA with one of the XIA!

A Comeback

2010-04-03T22:40:00.007+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 3pm-8pm
Bait: Bread
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Raining Throughout
Date: 03 Apr 2010 (Sat)

Hao Peng You Hui Lai Le!!!

Been holding tightly to the Golden Egg Medal for more than 2 months at Fishing Paradise. Today I finally broke my curse!

Reached the pond and quickly proceed to setup. First hour was very quiet without any bites at all.

It was only ard 4pm when my rod finally gave a sharp bend! Wow.... It had been so long ever since I saw my rod bending at BTP.

Gave a few jumps before it finally surrender.

First fish of the day, Rohu!

20 mins later, 2nd Rohu landed

15 mins after the 2nd Rohu was landed. I got another hookup!

Gave a strike and passed the baton over to Chunxia...

Fought the bugger for 1-2 mins before it finally surfaced..

3rd Rohu landed by Chunxia

Was wondering whether it going to be a Rohu day when my rod gave a sharp bend at 5pm!
Line was peeling out and my reel was screaming in pain.

Quickly grabbed my rod, set the hook and the fight began! It gave a few long runs right and left before it finally gave up.

Chao Praya!!!

Est 7-8 kg Chao Praya

Got one burst off and a few misses before I finally landed the last fishy of the day.

It was a Baby Patin.

Est 1-2 kg Baby Patin

Wanted to pack up at ard 6-7 pm when one of the staff(Heihei) passed me one tilapia and some hotdogs to try.

Nice gesture from him! But sad to say, there was no more hookups.

Total Catches of the day:
3 Rohus
1 Chao Praya
1 Baby Patin

Family Fishing Pond

2010-03-21T00:12:00.005+08:00

Venue: Family Fishing Pond
Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm
Bait: Bread
Rig: Floater
Weather: Slight drizzling
Date: 20 Mar 2010 (Sat)

After a great time watching Disney On Ice with the kids, I decided to bring them for some fishing!

On the way....

Some cute poses along the way

The cutie princess -Sarah-

Waiting for a cab at the bus stop

Fishing at this pond is very different. Normally, I will wait for the float to sink and let the fishy run and swallow the bait before I set the hook.

But here is different. Once the float sink, reel in the slack line immediately and set the hook fast.

Sarah getting ready for some ACTION!!!

We kept missing many hookups until I managed to get the correct tactic. Managed to hook up 3 fishes.

However 2 fishes were "auto released" before we managed to snap any pictures.

Sarah, Aaron and Me with one of our catches!

A Small Tilapia

After 1 hour of fun fishing, it time to go home.......................

First Trip To Ah Tiong's Pond

2010-03-20T22:30:00.007+08:00

Venue: Ah Tiong's Pond
Time: 9.45pm - 1.30am
Bait: Live Prawns & Small Fishes
Rig: Single hook rig with split shot
Weather: Slight drizzling
Date: 19 Mar 2010 (Fri) - 20 Mar 2010 (Sat)

Planned to try out PRPP but last min decided to head down to Ah Tiong's Pond.

We had a hard time locating this pond as it was pretty inaccessible. Took us abt 1/2 an hour before we finally found Ah Tiong's Pond.

Ah Tiong's Pond

This pond is pretty big. Water quality seems good and staffs are very helpful. Only bad thing is that the insects and mozzies there are pretty fierce.

Proceed to setup at a quiet corner. Got a take within 1/2 an hour! But it was lost within secs as I never set the hook properly. Sigh.

Proceed to our 2nd spot which was recommended by one of the staff there. It took me one hour before I finally broke my egg at ard 11pm plus.

Saw my line moving and the next moment my rod gave a sharp bend. Set the hook twice this time round to be sure I dun lose another fish. It gave a few powerful runs for the net but I managed to pump it out.

Took me ard 1 min before it was landed.

Est 800 grams Ang Kuey

Pond was pretty quiet until 1am when it was time for fish release.

Qw managed to land a Mangrove Jack during this period breaking his egg too. It was est ard 900 grams.

As both of us need to wake up early the next day, we left before our time was up.

Total Catch

A Gift From The Sea Dragon

2010-03-13T13:14:00.006+08:00

Venue: East Coast (Pussy Spot)
Time: 9.30pm - 1.30am
Bait: Peeled Dead Prawns
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Fair
Date: 12 Mar 2010 (Fri) - 13 Mar 2010 (Sat)

It been a long time I went fishing. It even a longer time I went back to the wild.

Was quite busy due to Cny and also due to the recent bad catches, I started to lose the urge of wetting my line.

Did not harbor any hopes this time round. Met up with Qw and reached this spot where we caught a few catfishes previously at ard 9.15pm

Slowly setup my tackle and started the waiting game. The night was pretty quiet with 1 or 2 occasional bites.

Did not expect to catch anything already when Qw saw my rod gave a small nod at ard 11.40pm.
Looked at my lightstick and it gave another small nod. In my heart, I was telling myself it gotta be another small fish nibbling at the other end. Did not really care and told Qw, will wait for the rod to bend then I go and strike.

Indeed, the next moment the rod started to bend! Sprint towards my rod, reeled in the slack and WHACK!!!!

'Fish' ON! Could feel something on the end of the line. Pumped a couple of times and there was no fight.... Just felt heavy......

Grouper!?!? Eel!?!? I was thinking what it could be when I finally landed it.

First thought was a crab before I heard Qw shouted "LOBSTER!!!"

My First Lobster!

Lobster In Icebox

Lobster In Sink

A Boat Trip Using Dead Prawns

2010-02-17T22:59:00.010+08:00

Venue: Southern Islands
Time: 9am - 5.30pm
Bait: 1kg "Live" Prawns (Sheng Siong)
Rig: Long Snood Bottom Feeder
Weather: Cloudy
Boat: Ah Eng's Boat
Date: 17 Feb 2010 (Lunar 4th) Wed
Kakis: Ryan, Rick, Yifa and Me

To be frank even before boarding the boat, I already felt like going home.

Everything is perfect but.............

1)Ah Eng's Boat - One of the popular boat with proven catch results
2)Weather -Slight drizzling in the noon but cloudy most of time
3)Kakis - Friendly and nice
4)Date - Lunar 4th, one of the better days for offshore fishing

When everything is so perfect who would expect the pump to turn faulty. With a pail of 1 kg of live prawns without a pump, 95% of the live prawns decided to hand in their IC even before we boarded the boat.

Needless to say, catches was real bad except for one 2-3 kg grouper.

On the way to our first spot

Went to top up diesel before we proceed......

Ah Eng's boat was one of the best boat I ever went with. Spacious and clean. It came with a kitchen and a toilet.

Clean toilet

The back of the boat was really spacious. With just four of us, it was really comfortable.

Ah Eng was very hardworking. We kept changing spots but there was not much bites. Most likely due to the bait we were using. Dead Prawns.........

Only decent catches worth mentioning was 2 groupers and 1 snapper.

Ryan managed to get quite a no of small fishes using small hook.

Some of the small fishes.

Snapper and Squirrel by Ryan

The 2-3kg grouper inside the live well. Look at its FAT stomach!!!

Total Catches Of The Day (A couple of small fishes was released thus not in the picture)

Yifa - 1 est 2-3 kg grouper

Ryan - Most of the small fishes and 1 est 800 grams snapper

Ah Eng - 1 table size grouper

Me - 1 'fake' grouper and 1 unknown fish

Nice Kakis

Rick and Yifa with the groupers

Me with the grouper (Apologies for the ugly pose. Haha!)

Finally, my catches...

Short Session At Fishing Paradise

2010-01-24T22:53:00.005+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 5.15pm-8.45pm
Bait: Bread
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Fair
Date: 24th Jan 2010 (Sun)

KTV - Dun feel like singing.
Movie - Dun have any "Must Watch" shows.
Shopping - Hmmmm....No Comment. :X
Prawning - Boring. Rather go fishing.

Since we cant decide what to do. We decided to pay Fishing Paradise another visit!

Reached the pond ard 5pm and proceed to setup quickly. It was pretty quiet for the first hour.
Got a couple of bites but sadly no hookup.

It was ard 6.05pm when I finally got to have some workout. I was on the phone when my rod gave a ugly bent!

Rushed to my rod and set the hook. The fish dashed towards the left and nearly crossed the line of another angler beside me! Upon seeing that, the angler immediately reeled in his line and told me to enjoy the fight.

Nice gesture from a nice uncle.

Took 3-4 mins before the fish decided to raise its little white flag.

Est 2kg plus Rohu

Thou the Rohu was pretty small, it definitely fight better than a Walking Catfish twice or even triple it size.

The next hookup came pretty late at ard 8.05pm. Same scenario, rod bending and line peeling like nobody biz! Grabbed the rod and set the hook a couple of time before I passed it to Cx.

Could be due to the past few weeks of "training", she required little help this time round and fight the fish in a slow and steady manner.

Took her 5-6 mins and the fishy was landed!

It was a Baby Patin est ard 4-5 kg.

Even thou it was small in size, it gave a pretty fierce fight! After it was landed, it was still flipping violently on the grass.

No more bites after this Baby Patin. Therefore we packed up and left at ard 9pm...

A Date With The Walking Catfishes

2010-01-23T23:35:00.006+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 5pm-8pm
Bait: Bread & Hotdogs
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Hot!
Date: 23th Jan 2010 (Sat)

Paying a visit to this pond had become a weekly routine for me. It was definitely a good decision to get the fishing package as it was more flexible.

Save time and money! (Seem like I am helping them to promote their fishing package.. Haha!)

Back to the battle between the beasts and humans~

Got a hookup after 45 mins of waiting....

It gave a short powerful run once I set the hook which sent my reel screaming in pain. However, it was the only run and the rest of the fight was like fighting with a big stone.

Took me 5 mins before it finally surfaced...

A Whopping 5kg Walking Catfish!

Superwoman wants a pic with the catfish that 'walks' too!

Fight was not that fantastic but landing a fish still feel great!

Hooked another hotdog and casted to the same spot. Within 10 mins, another hookup!

This time round - Battle between the beast and the superwoman!

Judging from the fight, I knew immediately that it must be another Walking Catfish...

And.. Tadah!! I was right..Walking Catfish...

To be honest, I was pretty sian when I saw that it was another Walking Catfish... But hey!..it better than getting nothing at all right..

Our hut..

Pretty quiet after the 2nd fish.

Took another 20 mins before I finally got connected with another fishy!

After 3-4 mins of Tug-Of-War...

Another Walking Catfish...

3 Walking Catfishes landed between 5.45pm - 6.45pm using hotdogs. Registered a couple of bites after that but sadly no hookup.

Overall still a fun session landing 3 fishes in 3 hours.

A Mistake

2010-01-17T21:58:00.004+08:00

I made a mistake today and lost a big one...sigh..

99% should be a Walking Catfish.

Lost it due to complacent and impatience. Unforgivable mistake!

Sweet Surprise

2010-01-17T00:08:00.005+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 4pm - 9pm
Bait: Bread
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy & Windy
Date: 16th Jan 2010 (Sat)

Another satisfied day at Fishing Paradise!
My usual spot was taken up therefore we proceed to try another spot near to the MRT track.

Within 15 mins, I got a take which sent my rod bending and my reel screaming away. However before I could set the hook, the fish managed to get away.

Everything went pretty quiet for me after that. Anglers ard me managed to land a couple of fishes but still the bite rates wasn't that fantastic.

Newspaper is more interesting than fishing for her...

2 hours flew by and still I was a zerofighter. I got another take during this 2 hours but again lost it before I even had the chance to reach my rod.

By 6.30pm, we decided to have our dinner. Since the fishes do not want to eat, we eat!

After our dinner, we were still registering a zero.

Already sort of gave up when my rod gave a ugly bend at ard 7.20pm! Line was peeling out like nobody biz. Grabbed my rod and gave a firm strike! Fish ON!!!

The first run was short but strong. There was nothing I could do but hold onto my rod as my reel was screaming away. Then suddenly my line went slack....

Oh no... dun tell me I lost it.....!?!? Quickly reel back my line when it decided to went for a 2nd run. Only 2 words to describe the 2nd run. Fast and Furious!!!

My reel just kept screaming at the top of it voice while all I could do was to hold tightly onto my rod. I tried pumping my rod for a couple of times but it was way too strong....

It went dashing towards the left to the.............................SWANS!!! And then it was stuck. Tried to pump but it was stuck to something.

Proceed quickly towards the swans while trying to retrieve my line. The bugger had dashed under 2 mini boats and hide under some swans...

Took sometime to get my line free from the obstacles before I reached the swans. Slowly and steadily, I started pumping it out...

Yeah! Fishy still there....Took me another 2-3 mins before I managed to pump it out from the swans.

And guess what? A sweet surprise for me as the fishy surfaced....

It was a 10kg Chao Praya!

It was foul hooked onto it tail. No wonder, the runs was soooooo Fierce! It took me ard 15 mins to land this fish.

Some pictures of my trophy for the day!

Good Start But........

2010-01-10T15:20:00.014+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 9pm - 4.15am
Bait: Live Tilapias(Small) & Bread
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cool
Date: 09 Jan 2010(Sat) - 10 Jan 2010(Sun)

The scenes of my rod bending, line peeling kept appearing in my mind thru out the whole week. Unable to curb the temptation anymore, decided to go down for a night session with Joel.

Bottle Tree Park

Night Scene

Reached the pond at ard 8.15pm. Went to my usual spot to tie my rigs while observing the bite rates.

The pond was very quiet with no bites at all. Casted my bait out at 9pm and started waiting....

Within 10 mins, I was already fighting with a fishy on the other end of my line!

Took 5 mins and a Baby Mekong was landed

The boss happened to be ard and came over. He told me there was no bites at all for 2 hours and once I started fishing, I got a fish...

He even asked me for the spot where I got my fishy. Haha.......seem like I got myself a good spot.

Rebait and casted out. Sat down and within 1 min, line was peeling out and my rod was bending!

Grabbed my rod and Shoooooooooooooooot!! Fish On! Took me 3-4 mins and I landed a Patin!

(The worker told me is a Mekong.. Hmmm...???)

As I was fighting the fish, I could hear the worker saying I was pro. After the fish was landed, he even checked what bait I was using....

It was definitely a GOOD start to a fishing session but.........................no more fishes were landed for me..

I changed from breads to tilapias to target some predator fishes but no luck. Changed back to bread and changed back to tilapias but....no hookups for me at all. Sigh.. I not that pro after all. Haha..

Joel also did not managed to land any fishes at all. Sigh. It was ard 2.55am when a Walking Catfish decided to pay him a visit.

Big Fat Walking Catfish

Due to this fish, he lose the Golden Egg awards...

3am reached, we continued to fish as no one told us to stop.

10 mins later, Joel landed another Walking Catfish.

We fished till 4am before we decided to go home. I supposed we could stay till 7am but it was so quiet. No point staying on.

Great Start for 2010!

2010-01-01T23:58:00.008+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 2.30pm - 9.30pm
Bait: Live Tilapias(Small) & Bread
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy, Slight drizzling in the late noon
Date: 01 Jan 2010(Fri)

Decided to give this pond another try after last week session. Proved to be a correct decision as it gave me a wonderful start for Year 2010!

First time attracted so much attention as I hit fishes after fishes while the rest of the anglers were getting only one or two hookups.

Will let the pictures tell the story...

3.30pm, my first hookup!

3.34pm, 1st Patin landed

3.56pm, 2nd Patin landed

4.03pm, another hookup!

3rd Patin landed

Releasing it back.

4.14pm, hookup again!!!

Preparing to net it up

Unhooking..

4.16pm, 1st Rohu landed

Bite rates slowed down abit until ard 5pm when another Patin came knocking on our door.
Gave a strike and passed the rod over to Cx to play.

5.08pm, 4th Patin landed by Cx

5.23pm, another hookup!!!

It turned out to be a Walking Catfish..

5.26pm, 1st Walking Catfish landed

Releasing it back...

5.52pm, hookup!!!!

Fighting it to the edge

5.53pm, 5th Patin landed

5.57pm, 6th Patin landed by Cx

Unhooking..

After this Patin, bites rate went down the cliff....
Since the fishes did not want to eat, we proceed to have our dinner...

After our dinner, I decided to try using tilapias for some predator fishes. Waited from 7.30pm all the way to 9pm but there was no bites at all.

Changed the tilapias back to bread and managed to land one last fish for the day.

Tug-Of-War

9.26pm, 7th Patin landed

Overall Catches:
7 Patins
1 Rohu
1 Walking Catfish
Countless Misses

A Date With The Rohus!

2009-12-27T23:12:00.014+08:00

Venue: Fishing Paradise (BTP)
Time: 9am - 5.30pm
Bait: Live Tilapias(Small) & Bread
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy, Slight drizzling in the noon
Date: 27th Dec 09(Sun)

Have always wanted to try out this pond since they opened but could not find the time. Finally, we were there on this wonderful Sunday.

Reached at ard 8.30am. Sign up as member, paid my fees and started FISHING!

Baits used for the day.

Live Tilapias(Small)

Breads

Bottle Tree Park - Fishing Paradise

I started off with the tilapias but there was no bites at all. Other anglers beside me were catching nothing too.

Chunxia getting bored

Soon it was 11am but still we did not managed to land any fish. The whole pond was pretty quiet with only one or two occasional hook ups.
Noticed one of the staffs fishing beside us landing a couple of fishes with bread. Decided to monkey see monkey do too.

At ard 11.10am, Cx went to rebait & casted out the bread. Within secs, the main line straightened and rod bend!!

Grabbed the rod, gave a strike and YES! Fish On! Passed the rod back to Cx to play.

After 2-3 mins of tug of war...

Est 700-800 grams Rohu

Thou it was not a biggie but still we were quite contended with our small catch. Morale rose and I proceed to rebait.

Casted out the bread and within 5 mins rod started to bend! Wow~
Set the hook and the fight was ON!

Took me 3-4 mins before this bugger decided to raise the white flag..

Est 1 kg plus Rohu

2 fishes within 20 mins! It definitely gave us a strong morale booster.

Waiting and waiting and......

At ard 11.30am, the staff beside us managed to hook onto another rohu. Passed the rod to CX and told us to fight the fish. Kudos to him!

Tug of war!

Cx managed to fight it to the side before the fish decided it was enough. Gave a last dash to safety and waved byebye to us.

Our lunch

We were hoping to land a few more fishes after lunch however it did not turned up the way we wanted.

There was no bites at all for us. Changed the bait to tilapia and changed to bread and changed back to tilapia but the fishes were just not opening their mouths at all.

Our neighbours were also signing up to be a member of the ZeroFighter club.

Soon 7 hours were up and while packing up the boss told us to continue. He told us to try another spot and even offered free bread for us. Wow, good customer service!

Went over to another spot and continue the waiting game.

Saw many splashes on the surface and registered a few bites but no hook up.

It was only until 4.45pm when I saw my rod nodding. Without any hesitation, grabbed my rod and gave a hard tug. Fish On!

My line was peeling out at a very fast rate when suddenly I felt nothing! OMG... dun tell me I lost the fish. I continue reeling in and felt the fish at the other end. It was swimming towards me!

Took me 5 mins before I managed to land it.

Est ard 2-3 kg Rohu!

Register another strong bite at ard 5.10pm but it managed to get away. It was definitely a biggie as my line was peeling out at a super fast rate. By the time I managed to pull out my rod and set the hook, it was already gone.

What a waste...

Managed to land one last Rohu to end the day at ard 5.30pm

Boss releasing the fish

Total catch of the day: 4 Rohu

Witnessed a redtail catfish landed while we were leaving.

Pathetic Catches Again......

2009-12-18T18:07:00.003+08:00

Venue: Taman Jurong Main Pond
Time: 8.30am - 3pm
Bait: 200 grams Live Prawns
Rig: Floater With Split Shot
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 18th Dec (Fri)

Proceed to my old haunt hoping to fight some fearsome Kims since I am on a Mike Charlie mission.

Got lots of bites but no chance given at all. I was already using a mini float but still the fishes were not swallowing the prawns.

After a couple of bites, I managed to catch one of the culprit at ard 9am

A bright orange tilapia! (Released back into the pond)

Wtf......why got this kind of fishes in this pond. Never came across at all. Now I know why I cant hook up at all.

Those whacking my poor prawns were not Kims but tilapias!

Anyway, I managed to land my one and only Kim at ard 9.30am.

Est ard 800 grams. Notice one of the eyes was missing.... (Gave it to one malay uncle)

Got a couple more bites in the noon but no chance given at all. Guess it should be those pest fishes.

Getting a bit sian, I finished up my live prawns and went home..

One Hour One Bite One Fish

2009-12-12T20:46:00.003+08:00

Venue: Taman Jurong Pro Pond
Time: 5pm - 6.15pm
Bait: Live Prawns
Rig: Floater With Split Shot
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 12th Dec (Sat)

It was a last minute decision for this trip. Took a cab down to Tmj for a quick fix at the pro pond.
There was no one fishing. I started first before 2 more rods joined in 10 mins later.

Bites rate were really SLOW! No bites at all for the 3 rods including mine. Was walking round and round looking for fishes when I finally broke the silence half an hour later.

Got a pathetic baby Kim est ard 500 grams. Sad to say, the fight was really boring. Took less then 5 secs to land it.

Baby Kim

Thou it was small but still better than going home with an egg. Continue for another 45 mins before I decided it was enough.

Thru out the 45 mins, it was a total silence. Not even one bite for the 3 rods.

Packed up with a balance of 2 hours left.

As for the Kim, I had wanted to put it into the green basket meant for prawning and give it to other anglers since I do not want the fish.

However, I accidentally "released" it back into the pond. LOL!

"Lok Jiak, Lok Jiak" Night

2009-12-05T11:55:00.009+08:00

Venue: Pussy Spot
Time: 10pm - 3.30am
Bait: Kelong Sotong
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 4th - 5th Dec 2009 (Fri -Sat)

Qw came to pick me up at ard 8.45am and off we chiong to East Coast. Met with traffic jam along AYE and reached our spot only at 10pm.

Quickly setup our rods and within 10 mins our baits were already in the sea. It has been quite sometime we were back to the wild.

Have been whacking the ponds recently and it time to stop. Lol. Anyway, I was telling Qw "I feel good" once we reached our spot. Cant explain why but I just felt that it was going to be a good night.....

No doubt, it was indeed a "GOOD" night. It was a "Lok Jiak, Lok Jiak" session. Bites were coming in constantly. Casted and within one minute my rod would start to nod. Rebaited, casted and same thing happened again.

Suspected it to be some small fishes nibbling at our bait. Changed my rigs to smaller hook and caught some culprits. Landed 2 baby eels from 10.30pm to 11.30pm. Was abit sian and dun even bother to take any pictures.

Decided it was enough and changed my rig back to bigger hooks. Was enjoying the sea breeze when my rod suddenly gave a ugly bend at ard 12am!

I was stunned and immediately jumped down from the stone bench and went for my rod which was already pulled to the ground!!!

In the process of jumping down, I rubbed the inner side of my right knee and Ouch!

The price for jumping down the stone bench. Lol.

Once I got hold of my rod, I gave a strike and felt something heavy. Was expecting it to be a great fight from the bend of my rod. However, I was wrong. There was no fight at all. Reeled in the bugger and it was a baby pussy!

Released this bugger and went back to rebait. After I casted out my bait, Qw told me he got something on the other end of his line. Slowly reeled in, no fight at all. We were thinking of a eel when it turned out to be a crab!

Flower Crab

The crab was grabbing onto the bait with it right pincer tightly. What a lucky catch! It was of edible size but we decided to release it.

I got another huge bite again at ard 1am. My rod was pulled to the ground and sprang back. However there was no hookup. It managed to get away. Suspected it to be another pussy.

As the tide started to go down at ard 1-2am, bites started to slow down. Not much action at the later part.

Was quite tired and called it a day at ard 3.30am.

First Trip To Kyoto Pond

2009-11-22T01:15:00.004+08:00

Venue: Kyoto Pond
Time: 11pm - 3.25am
Bait: 100 grams Live Prawns & 10 Milkfishes
Rig: Single hook rig with split shot & Floater
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 20th - 21th Nov 2009 (Fri -Sat)

Received a sms on Wed. "Interested to go Kyoto Pond?" by Qw. Immediately on him!

Been reading alot of positive reviews and rumours were spreading that this pond is going to be closed down by AVA by end of Nov.

We reached there at ard 10.30pm and was suprised that it was quite packed. Since we were there, we decided to proceed with fishing!

Views of the Kyoto's Pond

We were expecting quite alot of actions due to the price and the positive reviews. However, we were very wrong.

No fishes were landed from 11pm - 12.30am. Throughout this 1.5 hour, I got a couple of bites but there was no hookup. What was more frustrating was that I kept getting sangkot. Fedup, I decided to change to floater.

At ard 12.40am, I moved to one corner of the pond as adviced by one regular. As usual, my float was floating aimlessly without any action at all.

Was dreaming and waiting for my fishy when suddenly I saw my float sank! Quickly took my rod and prepared to strike. Line tightened! Gave a strike and Bissssshhhh! Saw a big splash followed by a big puddle of water.....

What came next was definitely soothing to the ears of every angler... ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........... my 15lbs monoline being peeled out to the right.

Started pumping the fish as it dashed towards the left...to the NET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quickly pumped it back to the right as my line kept being pulled out at a fast rate. After 5 mins of tug of war, the fishy finally surrendered and yes break my egg!

Estimate min 3-4kg Kbl. Took a quick shot and it was released back.

For those of you wondering why it was released back. Fishes weighing 3kg and above are to be CNR according to the rules of this pond.

Was quite glad that I finally managed to land something as 3 hours were going to be up soon. Quickly rebait and hopefully catch one more before 2am.

Soon it was 2am and our floats were still floating ard happily. Seeing that we were catching nothing, the staff was kind enough to let us continue. Kudos to him!

Thou we were allowed to continue but we were still catching nothing! Was waiting for mircale to happen when we noticed a float with lightstick floating near our floats at ard 3am.

It was a burst off from someone line and you know what? A fish was definitely connected to the float as we could see the float sinking every now and then.

The float was floating toward my float and BANG! It crossed my line and Fish On!!!! Sibei Taiko Sia........

The fight was strong and it took me 2-3 mins to pump the fish to the bank. It was a big Kim estimated ard 2-3kg. Pumped it toward the staff who was helping me to land the Kim. He grabbed hold of the leader and Bissshhhhhhhh.... Saw a loud splash as the Kim made it way for safety. What a waste!

We decided to pack up at ard 3.15am. Took my rod and went to my right. Gave a last cast near the rocks at the centre and went to 'release' the leftover prawns and milkfish.

Walked back to my rod and noticed that the line was moving abit. Did not suspected anything as the line was slacked. Took my rod and reeled in when I felt something heavy. Gave a strike and YES!!! Fish On!!!

Another nice fight. Definitely cannot compared with the 2 earlier fights but still it was fun! Played with it slowly and finally saw the fishy after 1 min. Ang Zhor!!!

A last min catch and not the usual kims definitely made my day!

Est ard 1.5kg Ang Zhor

The staff gave us another Ang Zhor when we were packing up. Nice gesture from him!

Something to bring home.... 2 Ang Zhors

Total Catch: 1 Kim est ard 3-4 kg

1 Ang Zhor est ard 1.5kg

Night Trip to Ed Pro Pond

2009-11-15T01:24:00.003+08:00

Venue: Ed's Pro Pond
Time: 10.30pm - 4.30am
Bait: 100 grams Live Prawns & 5 Milkfishes
Rig: Single hook rig with split shot
Weather: Drizzling from 11pm - 3am
Date: 14th - 15th Nov 2009 (Fri -Sat)

It was my third trip to Ed Pro Pond but it was my first time there in the night. Was expecting it to be super crowded on fri night. But to my surprise, there was only 4-5 rods.

Night View

It was a quiet night for me. Only managed to get 1-2 bites and landed one and only fishy. On the otherhand, Qw was quite lucky.

He managed to get quite a few bites and landed 2 fishes. He got a biggie at ard 3am but the leader snapped when he tried to pull the fish out by holding on the leader. What a waste.

Est the fish to be ard 2kg.

Overall Catch: 3 Kbls ard 1kg range
Qw: 2 Kbl
Me: 1 Kbl

2nd Trip to Ed's Pro Pond

2009-11-08T00:19:00.005+08:00

Venue: Ed's Pro Pond
Time: 2.10pm - 7.10pm
Bait: 100 grams Live Prawns
Rig: Single hook rig with split shot
Weather: Cloudy
Date: 7th Nov 2009 (Sat)

2nd trip to Ed's Pro Pond. Got a big fat zero the first time and decided to try it out again...
Reached the pond at ard 2pm, paid for the rod and off my prawn diving into the salty water.

As usual, the hot spot was flooded with beehoons wannabe

It was pretty quiet. Only saw 1-2 fishes landed in the first hour there.

Was chatting with Cx halfway when one regular came over and talk to me. He advised me to cast at a certain spot and sounded SUPER confident.

Followed his advice and recast my bait. Within 2-3mins, my rod gave a few strong jerks! Boy, I was soooo impressed by this guy.

Grabbed my rod and strike hard! Fish On!!! Line was peeling out as I slowly pumped the fish to the surface. The fight was definitely superb.

The fish did managed to dash into some structures at one point of time. Loosen the line tension and saw a reddie figure swam out. Quickly pumped it up to the surface and YES!

Broke my egg. Estimated 800 grams Mangrove Jack in the basket!

Cx casting to the 'hotspot'

Rebait and off goes another prawn diving into the water. Waited for another 30-45 mins when I spotted my rod tip giving a light tug. Stood up, took my rod and slowly tightened the main line..

"Got Fish?", said the regular. I replied " I think got"...with a smile.
Tightened the line and yes a fish on the other end! Gave a tug and WOW! Another awesome fight.

The fish dived down immediately after I striked. Hold my rod up and kept pumping it to prevent it dashing into its hiding place. However this bugger was strong. I could only watch helplessly as it happily made its way into it hiding place.

Quickly walked over to the left side of the pond and tried pumping it out. Phew~ managed to coax it out and it started peeling my line to the right, left, right and left.

Without any doubt, fishes at this pond fights better than Tmj, Prpp and Prmp. After a min of tug of war, it finally surrender and off it went into the basket.

Est. 800grams MJ & 1.5kg AZ

At this point of time, the regular kept talking abt fishing for Kim Cheow. He wanted to get a Kim Cheow as bait for the resident grouper.

Actually, I was abit reluctant. Totally not interested in Kim Cheow at all. But since I landed the 2 fishes from his hotspot, I went off with him to look for Kim Cheow.

Started fishing for Kim Cheow at ard 4.15pm but he could not get any at all. He got 3-4 bites but none was landed. Was getting impatient and took back my rod at ard 5.05pm.

Was hoping for a few more catches but it was super quiet in the evening. Only managed to register a bite but did not managed to hookup.

Packed up at 7.10pm. Thou catches was pathetic but I was very satisfied. Been quite awhile, I had such awesome fights.

Total Catch

Mission Failed

2009-10-28T21:09:00.010+08:00

Venue: Taman Jurong Fishing Pond
Time: 7.45am - 6.30pm
Bait: 200 grams Live Prawns
Rig: Floater
Weather: Thunderstorm in the late morning, Sunny thereafter
Date: 25th Oct 2009 (Sun)

Went to Tmj on fri night with Joel and Serene. Both of them managed to register 1 bite each while my float was untouched at all!

Decided to go back for revenge on Sun. However my mission failed miserably.

Managed to get my last stamp. With this card, you can exchange for either a session of 3hr fishing at the pro pond, 12 hours fishing at the main pond or 3 hrs prawning.

Reach the pond at 7.45am and started fishing. Only managed to register my first bite at ard 11.35am but I missed it....

Tmj Main Pond

One of the Ah Lau got a monitor lizard on his line. It was landed and threw over the fence.

Managed to get another 2 hits and landed 2 Kims from 12pm - 2pm.

Waiting and waiting...

At ard 5pm - 6.15pm, I managed to register 2 more bites at the 'hot' spot. Sadly I did not managed to land them due to 2 uncles.

They were giving 'advices' on when to reel in and strike. I am not a noob but due to pressure or whatever reason, I followed their advices and missed the 2 Kims.

Lesson learnt. Trust no one but yourself.

Gave up and pack up at 6.30pm.

My miserable catch

Pathetic Day

2009-10-17T14:00:00.003+08:00

Venue: Taman Jurong Fishing Pond
Time: 8am - 7pm
Bait: 350 grams Live Prawns
Rig: Floater
Weather: Thunderstorm in the morning, Sunny thereafter
Date: 16th Oct 2009(Fri)

Specially took 1 day leave with Joel for some pond fishing. Reached the pond ard 0745am and started fishing at 8am.

Was on the cab when I noticed few rumbles of thunder and grey skies were looming over Singapore. 5 mins before I reached, it was already raining cats and dogs.

Proceed to get my live prawns and started fishing. Was lucky to land 2 Kbls from 8.30am to 9.30am even thou it was raining heavily. Sad to say that the end of the actions for me thru out the day.

Got a couple of bites in the noon but did not managed to set hook.

Some views of the pond

My Weapon

There was basically no bites in the noon. Joel managed to break his egg ard 4pm-5pm and that the end of all the actions.

Total Catch

Me: 2 Kbl

Joel: 1 Kbl

First Boat Trip To Southern Island

2009-10-12T21:13:00.016+08:00

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

Me

WQ

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

Qw: 1 big and 1 small Spanish Flag Snapper
Luke: 1 small Parrot
Wong: 1 Deepsea Kbl
Me: 1 big Spanish Flag Snapper

On the way back~~

Just another night...

2009-09-26T12:30:00.004+08:00

Date: 25th Sept 09 (Fri)
Weather: Cool
Rig: Apollo
Bait: Kelong Sotong
Venue: East Coast (Beside Devil Jetty)
Time: 8.30pm - 1.30am

Joel bought a new 10ft rod few weeks back. Therefore decided to try out the rod tonight.

It was just another boring night. Luck was not with me as I lost quite a few sinkers and rigs.

Nevertheless, managed to hook up a Swa Chiam and a Starfish.

Swa Chiam (Released)

Starfish (Released)

Ah Sengs Night....

2009-09-19T10:45:00.003+08:00

Date: 18th Sept 2009 (Fri)
Time: 8.30pm - 12am
Weather: Cool
Bait: Kelong Sotong & Tambans
Rigs: Long Snood Bottom Feeder & Apollo
Venue: East Coast

It was the last day of the Chinese 7th month (Ghost Festival). Normally we would try not to fish in the night during this month. However, die-hard anglers like us dun really care abt all this stuffs when the crave of fighting a fish set in..

Qw picked me up ard 7.50pm and off we proceed to our spot. As usual, we setups our tackles and started waiting.

While we were waiting, some weird things happened....
There was this one weird guy who looked like AngMo. He walked all the way to our breakwater and threw one plastic bag into the sea.
We were abit disturbed by his action but we dismissed it and continue fishing.

Bites were coming in on and off but nothing was landed until ard 10pm..
We were sitting on the stone bench chatting when Qw's rod gave a hard bend. What came next was unexpected.

His rod was being pulled so hard that it bend all the way to the ground. Quickly, he ran, grabbed his rod and gave a strike. Fish On!!

Whatever was on the other end was giving him a good workout. His reel was screaming while line was being peeled out.
After 5 mins, Mr Seng emerged. It was a nice size weighing ard 1kg plus and it was tapao. Sorry no pix taken.

After settling that fellow, we continue chatting and discussing abt how amazed we were abt the brutal strength of Ah Sengs when my rod gave a ugly bend!

Same as Qw, my rod bend 90 degrees to 0 degrees parallel with the ground! WOW!!! Cant believe my eyes.

Grabbed the rod and gave a hard strike. Fish ON! 5 mins later, Mr Seng appeared.

Estimate ard 1kg plus too. (Released)

Both of us were very satisfied and happy with our catches. It maybe only a irritating catfish to many but to us we truly enjoyed the fight with them.

At ard 11pm, another Ah Seng took my bait. It was a smaller one. Est less than a kg. It was never landed as my rig was snagged to the rocks just directly below the breakwater.

Since it was only a Seng. I decided not to risk and get the fish. Cut the line and let it go...

Tried to took a pix from the top of the breakwater but I guessed it was too dark.

Halfway thru our fishing, I actually spotted a group of pple on our right hand side lighting up many candles forming a super big rectangular. They were burning lots of stuffs and throwing 'papers' up into the air and into the sea...

I did not took any pictures as I did not want to capture any 'things'. Honestly, we were feeling very weird and disturbed by all this..

Therefore we decided to packed up at ard 11.45pm.

As we were reeling in, Qw got a unexpected catch.

A baby stingray. (Released)

Overall, we had a fun night. 3 hours with 4 catches.

Me: 2 Ah Sengs
Qw: 1 Ah Seng & 1 Stingray

Fishing in HongKong

2009-09-06T01:16:00.043+08:00

Venue: 鴨仔坑釣魚場(波叔) (HongKong)
Date: 31 Aug 2009(Mon), Day 1 & 4 Sep 2009(Fri), Day 2
Time: 9.45am - 5.30pm (Day 1) & 9.15am - 3.30pm (Day 2)
Bait: Assorted Small Fishes
Rig: Short Leader with 2 Hooks
Weather: Freaking Hot

Ever since I started fishing actively 2-3 yrs back, I will try to search for fishing places whenever I travel.
This time round I managed to wet my lines in one of the most busiest city in the world, HongKong.

Fishing in HK is relatively new to me. Therefore, it was quite a challenge to plan this fishing trip.
After gathering some info here and there, I decided to pay a visit to one of the saltwater pond at 元朗流浮山下白泥村

You may refer to http://www.yl.hk/duck/ for more info on this pond.

Day 1

Woke up at ard 7.30am and proceed to buy our breakfast.

We board our train at Jordan MTR and have to travel for ard 40 mins to Tin Shui Wai station.

Tin Shui Wai Station

We took a cab to our destination from Tin Shui Wai Station.

Cost ard HK 60~ SGD 12, another 15 mins ride.

And there we are.....鴨仔坑釣魚場

Rules and Regulations

Different views of the pond

The owner was busy washing and clearing tonnes of bait fishes near the pond. When she saw us, she recommend us a hotspot.

Without any hesitation, I proceed to setup my tackles.

Bought one big bag of bait fishes from her at only HK 5~ SGD 1! Super Cheap!!!

Once done with my setup, I casted in the first baitfish at ard 9.30 am and BAMMM!!!

Fish ON!

Wow that was fast......! Cx grabbed the rod and line started peeling out in a fast and steady manner. She was struggling as more than 10 metres of line had already been stripped out. I quickly took over but the line snapped...

Rebait, Cast and Bammmm!!!! Fish ON again!! And we lost the fish again due to snapping of the line....

We had ard 2-3 line snapping cases before I finally landed my first fish at 10am!

Hook On!!!

Fish finally surfaced after 5 mins of fight

Taiwan Ngor

Unhooking

And finally photo session

2.5kg TN (1st)

10.05am, Hook On!!!

Took me quite a while before it was landed. It was bigger than my first fishy. It a pity that I actually forgot to weight it.Est at least 4kg!!!

Est 4-5 kg TN! (2nd)

It was a frenzy! Fishes were landed every 10-15 mins....

10.25am, Kim Chew (3rd)

10.28am, Her turn!!!

Taiwan Ngor (4th)

10.36am, Taiwan Ngor (5th)

10.41am, Taiwan Ngor (6th)

10.47am, Taiwan Ngor (7th)

10.52am, Taiwan Ngor (8th)

11.15am, Kim Chew (9th)

After 1 hour of feeding frenzy....bites started to slow down. Nevertheless, bites were still coming in consistently.

11.37am, Kbl (10th)

11.50am, Taiwan Ngor (11th)

12.01pm, Kbl (12th)

12.13pm, Kim Chew (13th)

12.38pm, Taiwan Ngor (14th)

12.49pm, Kim Chew (15th)

1.22pm, Kim Chew (16th)

1.38pm, Kim Chew (17th)

1.45pm, Grunter (18th)

2.00pm, Kim Chew (19th)

2.04pm, Kim Chew (20th)

We got a dry spell from 2pm -4pm. Therefore we proceed to have our lunch.

Instant noodles with luncheon meat, HK 15 ~SGD 3

After 2 hours of waiting, finally a Kim Chew come knocking on the door....

4.06pm, Kim Chew (21th)

4.31pm, Kbl (22th)

4.35pm, Taiwan Ngor (23th)

4.39pm, Kbl (24th)

5.00pm, Mangrove Jack (25th)

And finally the last fish of the day!

5.20pm, Kim Chew (26th)

Took some photos before we left....

The pond is just beside some mountains...

One of the many dogs

The lady boss...

Instead of taking a cab back to the MTR, we went to catch a minibus.

There is another pond just opposite call 'Hao Jie' fishing pond. Some pics of the pond while waiting for the minibus.

Day 2

We went back fishing on friday. This time round we reached earlier at ard 9.15am. We were hoping to catch the feeding frenzy and leave earlier.

However our high expectations were landed in huge disappointment.

There was no frenzy. Bites were coming in so much slower. We paid for 2 rods instead of 1 rod to increase our chances.

Our breakfast

Setting up the tackles

9.35am, Hook On!!!

It was a strong fight. Line was peeling fast and I had to keep pumping to gain back my lines. It took me 5-7 mins before the bugger finally surrender.

Whopping 4kg Taiwan Ngor!!! (1st)

10.54am, Mangrove Jack (2nd)

11.02am, Taiwan Ngor (3rd)

11.29am, Kbl (4th)

(5th)

Somewhere ard this time, Cx landed another Kim Chew. However, it dropped back into the water before we took any pics.

11.35am, Kim Chew (6th)

At ard 11.41am, spotted a MJ swimming near the bank... Managed to net it up for a photo.

11.44am, Taiwan Ngor (7th)

12.10pm, Kbl (8th)

12.21pm, Kbl (9th)

12.41pm, Grunter (10th)

1.11pm, Kim Chew (11th)

1.21pm , Kbl (12th)

2.57pm, Kbl (13th)

In conclusion

Day 1: 26 fishes with 1 rod

Day 2: 13 fishes with 2 rods

Will definitely be back if I shall visit HK again.....

Fasting month for the fishes too?

2009-08-27T21:31:00.030+08:00

Venue: Changi Offshore
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......

Finally a catch....

2009-08-25T23:58:00.004+08:00

Date: 22nd Aug 2009 (Sat)
Time: 10am - 5.30pm
Weather: Sunny
Bait: Kelong Sotong
Rigs: Long Snood Bottom Feeder & Apollo
Venue: East Coast

Met Qw up at ard 10am and off we went to East Coast for fishing. We were fishing beside the water sport spot.

Catches as usual were not very good. Qw landed 2 baby eels while I finally managed to break my dry spell.

Nothing big, just a small baby shark. It was released back to the deep blue sea.

Baby Shark

We were fishing halfway when we were invaded by countless of wind surfers.

No way we could continue to fish there as we were unable to cast at all. Therefore we moved further up to another breakwater.

No fishes were caught there and we decided to call it a day at ard 5.30pm.

The Dry Spell Continues...........

2009-08-02T01:00:00.008+08:00

Date: 25th July 2009 (Sat)
Venue: Pulau Ubin
Weather: Fair
Baits: 600 grams live prawns & Sarong
Rig: Floater & Apollo

Planned this trip few weeks back. As usual, we were filled with super high hopes on landing some fishes.

Met up with Joel and Irfan ard 9.30pm at Changi Village. Took our breakfast, bought our baits and off we go~

Reached the jetty ard 10.30pm. Rented our bicycles and headed for our first spot.

First spot

This spot looked pretty quiet. Was abt to go off when we spotted many surface actions.
Decided to give it a try and off we started casting our hopes into the water.

View of the other side

It was pretty quiet until Joel landed the ONLY fish of the day.

Pls put your hands together and welcome Miss Puffer

Ya, your eyes did not played any tricks on you. We got only 1 pathetic fish for this trip....

Worst still, we were fishing halfway when we were greeted by this.....

Our spot was invaded by canoes! Cant they see we were fishing there?
They were having so much fun causing a big commotion. Loud noise, big splashes, disturbing the water......
All the fishes would have been spooked. Sigh...
Anyway they were trying to go thru underneath the bridge to the other side.

Look at this 2 jokers. They were stuck! LOL!

The rest of them getting ready to go thru the bridge....

After all the commotion they caused for nearly 1 hour. There no way we could cont fishing there. All the surface actions were gone..

Therefore we decided to made our way to our 2nd spot

Our mode of transport

Met up with Yasin and his gf there.

There were also another group of orange young boys fishing beside us.

This spot looked pretty decent and potential. However looks can be deceiving. We hardly got any bites at all.

Pretty frustrated. I armed myself with a storm rubber lure and went to this spot to do some luring.

After 1/2 hr of non stop casting, I decided to give up...

Went back to join them for the waiting game.

Bells were ringing on and off but there were no hookups until Joel landed this...

A Crab

Our barang barang

We decided to pack up at ard 5.30pm.

Beach beside the jetty

And the dry spell continues..................

3rd Trip On Chongster Boat

2009-06-29T23:33:00.017+08:00

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

Decided to call it a day at ard 5.45pm...

Fishes in icebox

Irfan and fishes

Me and my prize!

Total Catches

Ah Chong: 1 Chermin (1.2 kg), 1 AZ (1.5 kg) & 1 Grouper

Nana: 1 Grunter & 1 Peh Heurr

Irfan: 1 Ack & 1 Catfish

Joel: 1 AZ, 1 Ack, 1 Coral Trout, 1 Grouper, 1 Indian Snapper & a few Indian Groupers

Me: 1 Grouper (1.2 kg), 1 Bluelined Hind, 1 AZ, 1 Ack & a few Indian Groupers

Fishes that I bought home.

And finally one group pic (w/o Nana). Total 22 pieces!

Back to TMJ

2009-06-14T19:19:00.005+08:00

Date: 12th June - 13th June
Time: 10pm - 7am
Rig: Float
Bait: Live Prawns
Weather: Lighting and Raining ard 3am
Venue: TMJ Main Pond

Finally back after so long....

Unlucky day for us. My float sink 5-6 times but I managed to land only 1 TN. It was a biggie which I estimated ard 2kg.

On the otherhand Joel landed 3 KBL. All at least 1kg in size.

Now came the shocking part.
While packing up, I noticed that the keep line have came off. That also meant all our fishy are "released" back into the pond...

Sigh..managed to only pick back 1 KBL which was floating nearby.

Spotted 1 fishy floating in the middle of the pond. Thinking that it might be our fish, I fixed on my lure and foul hook it back.

Judging from the appearance, it was definitely not ours. It seem to die quite some time already.

There no way we could find back our fishes. Gave up searching and went home.

4th Year Anniversary (Batam View Beach Resort)

2009-06-08T23:12:00.039+08:00

5th June 2009 marks our 4th year together.

Therefore we decided to make a trip down to Batam to celebrate our 4th year anniversary as well as to take a good break.

We booked a 1 bedroom villa over at the Batam View Beach Resort. Price is abit steep but it was definitely worth it!

~5th June 2009~

Met Cx early in the morning at ard 6.45am and cabbed down to Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal.

Proceeding to the counter

Getting our boarding pass

Us at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal

After checking in the fishing rods and settled the adminstrative stuffs. We proceed over to the boarding gate

On the way to our ferry......

Golden Raider!

Inner part of the ferry

It was pretty fast from SG to Batam... We took only ard 30 mins and there we are.......

Upon arrival, we were welcome by friendly staffs from Batam View.
Minibus to fetch us to the resort....

Took another 20 mins and we finally reached Batam View Beach Resort!!!
Once we checked into our villa, we immediately proceed to the balcony.

Wow...it was really a breath-taking scene.......

Some photos taken from the balcony

With the sea just infront of me, how could I resist the itchness??? Without any hestitation, I proceed to setup my tackles.

Preparing the fish head for the crab net

Setting up the crab net...

And off it went into the clear blue sea.......

I was using Kelong Sotong as bait. Bites were quite constant but sadly there was no catches at all. As the terrain is covered with rocks, I lost quite a number of sinkers and rigs over there..

Feeling abit frustrated and hungry plus my missus wanted to go shopping. We proceed over to the shopping centre 30 mins drive away from the resort for lunch and some shopping.

Reached Matahari at ard 2.30pm

Lunch at Marybrown!

Our Favourite.............A&W!!!

There was not much things to shop over at the shopping centre. We bought 2 Polo Ralph shirts, instant noodles, beers, hotdogs, mineral water and we went back at 5.30pm.

Headed for our Welcome Drink first before we returned to our room. The Welcome Drink was just syrup mixed with water.

Jetty

After taking some photos over at the jetty, we went back to our villa for a short rest before we headed out again for our dinner at the Kelong Restaurant.

Dusk

Sunset

Dinner at Kelong Restuarant

Batam View Fried Rice

Mee Goreng

After dinner, we proceed to the jetty for some fishing.

Jetty at night

Spotted some dead fishes left on the floor by irresponsible anglers

Cx fishing~

And guess what? She got the first fish of the day~

One local was doing eging and he managed to land quite a few sotongs.

One of the sotong landed by the local

Wanted to try eging too but forgot to bring my jigs with me..

No choice we continue to fish....

Managed to hook onto a baby crab

And it was released back into the sea...........

Our total catch at the jetty for the first night(excluding the baby crab)

I managed to land 1 more fishy at our villa before I went to my ZZZZzzzzzZzz land.

~6th June 2009~

Woke up the next morning at ard 8am and proceed to check on my crab net

Crystal Clear Water....................

Went for our breakfast at the lobby before we proceed to the jetty for fishing.

Called for the buggy and it arrived within 5 mins

~Breakfast~

Jetty in the day

Saw one local fishing over there. He caught one decent size parrot using live prawns

You can clearly see the large amount of baitfishes under the clear water!

One of the baitfish landed which I used as bait...

Casted my 9ft rod at the far end of the jetty hoping to land some biggies.

Locals paddling their sampan near the jetty

Sadly I did not managed to land any biggies on my 9ft rod. Instead I landed this bugger...Yucks!

Locals fishing over at the jetty

After landing a cute cuda and 3 to 4 more fishes, we headed back to our villa.

Our neighbours

Took some photos inside the villa

Living room and kitchen

Door from our bedroom to the balcony

Toilet

We spotted this cautious crab near our crab net. Sensing danger, it headed for safely...

Lucky Crab..haha...

Tried fishing from the balcony and found out that small sinkers wont be snagged easily. Managed to catch few more fishes

My first parrot

It was pretty hot. Therefore I proceed inside the living room enjoying the aircon while waiting for the fishes to bite...

Shiok sia!

Beer is super cheap at only SGD 1 plus.....

My missus preparing lunch while I fish....

Simple but yet DELICIOUS~~~!!!

Total Catch in the morning and noon

Saw people Jet Skiing infront of our balcony

After lunch, we too went for some WATER SPORTS!

We started off with 1 hour of canoeing

And then.....................

The Banana Boat!!!

Getting ready to set off...

Off we Goooooooooooo~~~~~~~~~~

The Sun, The Sand and The Sea

It was super HOT! So....................................

I went for a dip

After the Water Sports, we back fishing again at our villa...

Another fishy caught!

We went for our dinner at abt 6pm. We took the promotion set dinner and it was simply wonderful!

Seafood Tomyam Soup

Vegetables

Sweet and Sour Fish

Fried Sotongs

Prawns

Black Pepper Crab

Fruits

And guess what? All this for ONLY SGD 50 plus for 2 pax.

Us at the jetty again

This time round, I brought my jig along. We tried eging. Both me and Cx got one bite each but we did not managed to land any sotongs due to inexperience.

The jetty is a good place for eging judging from all this stains..

I lost the jig to some snags and I went back fishing..........

Landed only 3 fishes before we headed back to our villa

Finally a decent size catch from the balcony

Went to ZZZZZzzzz land at ard 2am after landing 2-3 more fishes.

~7th June 2009~

Woke up early again.

Rebait and casted out my bait. Managed to caught this baby Grouper.

Casting have to be done sideways from the balcony...

After the baby grouper, we went for our breakfast........

And then back to our villa to cont Fishing!

Managed to land one more decent size fishy

There was no action thru out the 2 days for my crab net. Have given up hope on catching any crabs when I saw this fellow on the CRAB NET!!

Immediately pull up my crab net and TA DAH~~~!!!!

Total Catch for the whole trip.

31 fishes, 1 used as bait

2 crabs, 1 released

Cx and Total Catch

Some photos at the balcony

Us and Buggy

At the lobby waiting for the bus to go home.........

Batam View Beach Resort!

Some shortlisted fishy by my mum....

Giant Mekong Catfish In Actions! (Videos)

2009-06-02T22:55:00.014+08:00

Finally managed to grab hold of some videos taken 2-3 months back at Bungsamran Lake.

Decided to share some of the videos here. Those interested may follow this link http://whenthefishbites.blogspot.com/2009/03/awesome-day.html for the Catch Report.

Remember to turn up your volume and...
Get ready to hear the reel screaming away as the infamous underwater train Fight!

We fought this fellow together.
Cx managed to fight it near to the side when it started playing dirty by dashing for the slits again
I took over as it was too much for her and we finally landed it together.

Part 1 (Cx fights it to the side)

Part 2 (I took over and have a good workout)

Solo Mission: My First WILD Kim

2009-05-30T01:58:00.008+08:00

Venue: East Coast, Area 'C'
Date: 29th May 09 - 30th May 09
Time: 9pm - 12.30am
Rig: Apollo
Bait: Kelong Sotong
Weather: Fair

It had been only less than a week ago I wetted my lines. But guess what? I could not control my itchness at all.

In the past, I would never go fishing alone at night. But this time round, hack care liao! Packed up my stuffs and off I chiong ALONE....

Reached Area 'C' at ard 8.30pm and proceed to my usual spot.

Area 'C'

Reached my usual spot, setup my tackle and casted in my first squidy at 9pm

Bites are coming in quite constantly. But sadly all are smallies....

Tackle of the night..

As usual, it was infested by 'Xiaoqiangs.'

This bugger was whacking a cig.......

Couldn't stand those roaches and decided to move to the beach next to the breakwater..

My rod tip was vibrating every few mins but no hook up. I guessed those should be small fishes.

It was ard 10pm when finally my rod bend! Grabbed my rod and gave a strike...

Fish ON!

Could felt some pulls from the other end of the line. However as it came nearer to the beach...there was no more fight.

It turned out to be a Eel...sigh....and it caused me a rig. Could not get the hook out of it mouth at all...Zzz

Eel and Plier

Few more pics of the Eel

As I was unhooking the Eel, one chinese uncle came over and chatted with me..

Proceed to release the eel and went to have a small chat with the uncle....

I'm waiting..I'm waiting...I'm WAITING................

There was this couple doing some hanky panky on the breakwater. Lol...

(Too bad it was too dark)

Was chatting with Cx on the phone when I decided to rebait. Felt something heavy while reeling in. No fight.. No pull... No tugs...and up came 2 plastic bags.....

#@$@%$#@#%^$#%#%$$

Do a rebait again and was chatting with Cx on the phone when my rod gave a SHARP bend!!!!

Ran over to my rod and quickly gave a STRIKE!

Felt some tugs and I knew Fish ON!!! It felt v heavy and then it got stuck..............

Tried all ways but couldn't pump it in at all.

First thing that came to my mind was........................ STINGRAY!!!

Was super excited..but no matter how I pumped... it just won't budge...

The uncle and one malay guy came over to take a look. The malay guy turned out to be the same person I met last fri..

Anyway, he came over to try to help me. But no matter how he and I pumped, the 'stingray' still did not move.

Decided to put the rod back to the sandpike and wait for the 'stingray' to 'release' itself from the seabed.

Tried all kinds of ways from 11.30pm all the way to 12.30am but still no movement. Decided to proceed up to the breakwater to try to see whether I could pump the 'stingray' up....

Was trying to reel in the 'stingray' when suddenly my line went slack. That it...!! I told myself.

Game Over...

Reeled in my line and saw this baby.

My consolation prize. A baby wild Kim.

Check my other hook and found out that the leader had burst.....

So was it really a 'Stingray' or this baby kim had hide inside some rocks that caused the burst leader.. It up to your imagination..

I decided to tapao this baby kim as it was my FIRST WILD KIM. So pls dun flame me :D

Baby Wild Kim!

Unexpected Visitor

2009-05-23T13:39:00.012+08:00

Date: 22nd May 09(Fri) - 23rd May 09(Sat)
Time: 10.30pm - 5.30am
Bait: Kelong Sotong
Rig: Apollo
Venue: East Coast, Spot'C'
Weather: Warm and Fair

It been almost 2 weeks I have wet my lines...

Couldn't find any kakis and therefore decided to proceed on my own to Marina South Pier for some quickie.

Was preparing my stuffs when LauLau told me she got nth to do and wanted to try egging (Ended up no egging). Therefore cab down to meet her at ard 9.30pm. Bought water and some snacks and off we chiong to East Coast.

Strolled to the nearest breakwater, and was abt to settled down when I spotted that it was infested with XiaoQiangs....

Alamak CMI...and off we proceed to the next spot. The Grouperland!!!

The spot where I kept landing Groupers on my previous trips but not this time...Haha

Spotted 2 rods on the breakwater. One short rod on the far left and one long rod in the middle.
Made my way to the far right and proceed to setup my tackle...

While setting up my tackle, we heard a "OOI" from afar. Ignoring it, I casted out my first squidy.
It didn't took too long when my rod do a spectacular 90 degrees bend. Wow...first cast only leh!
Somemore not even 5 mins after I casted.

Grabbed my rod, gave a STRIKE! Felt some jerks from the other end of the line and then gone......

Sigh~! Missed it. Suspect to be a decent size fellow.

Anyway while I was reeling back my line, I saw the rod in the middle dipped. My line had crossed its line. Thinking that it not possible as my cast was straight, I looked further and found out the middle rod was casted to the extreme right. In other words, the line was casted across the whole breakwater on the right!

Within secs, a malay angler came and started cursing and shouting at me. Wtf sia..cast like shit and then still come and curse and swear.

Stood up and went over and started to reason out with him. Told him I did not know he casted to the right and therefore our lines crossed. It was only then he calmed down and apologised to me. Ok la, forgiven.

Chatted abit with him and he turn out to be quite friendly. Anyway I moved my rod to the left side of his rod. Not interested in any conflicts. Just wanted to relax and enjoy my fishing.

My rod on the extreme left

Cont chatting with the malay angler and found out he purposely casted to the extreme right as he mentioned he caught stingrays this way on his previous trips.

Want to cast to the right is perfectly fine. But why put your freaking rod in the middle of the breakwater?

Anyway there was not much action thru out the night.

Night View

The tide went down at ard 2.30am. Since there was not much action, we proceed to explore the front of the breakwater. Hoping to spot any snagged sinkers too.

Bubu by the malay angler's friend. There was a crab inside the bubu.

Spotted quite alot of hermit crabs, crabs and worms along the front part of the breakwater..

Hermit Crabs

3 baby orange crabs in the small gap

Managed to pick up one small sinker but can't find it when packing up..Oops...

We walked back to the shore at ard 3am when the tide was moving up. Looked at my rod....
Not even a tug. Sigh...gotta to be a fishless night..

Reel back my line to check on my bait when I spotted this freaking white "maggot" feeding on my sotong. Yucks!

Another night view

Was super demoralised when my rod suddenly gave a sharp and fierce bend at 4.30am!!!!!!!!!!!
Looked at LauLau, stunned, couldn't believe my eyes when the rod gave another violent bend!

No time to lose! Picked up my rod, reeled in the slack line and gave a STRIKE! Fishy Fishy ON!

This bugger gave a few burst of short run after I striked. Kept the tension on and started to pump it in.

Before it was landed, it gave me the best fight of the day. It managed to take abit of my line out(My drag is 90% Max) and kept dashing back to the sea...

However, it was still no match to my tackle and was landed within 3-4 mins.

900 grams Guhood

When it was landed, I thought it was a Kim. Turned out to be a Guhood! Another fishy into my record.

Tied it to my sandpike

We packed up at ard 5.30am since there was no more action...

Guhood in the sink

And finally.......

Me and my prize of the night

Scaling and Gutting (Offshore Trip 5th May Catches)

2009-05-10T01:51:00.007+08:00

Alright..since I took some pics while gutting the catches caught on 5th May 2009 (Offshore Trip)
I shall share some of the pics in this post.

Total Catches

Some final pics before I proceed to gut them

Baby Shark

Grouper

Ang Kuey

ACK

And here comes the highlight of this gutting session..

Look at this fatty gao. Its stomach was big and fat.

Told my sis to come over to take a look. We were discussing what could be inside. She suggested that it could be pregnant.

I proceed to cut open its stomach and.........
Guess what I found inside it stomach?

A Snake or Eel was found inside....

Fatty Gao and its undigested food

The snake or eel

Grouper Again!

2009-05-09T22:26:00.007+08:00

Date: 9th May 2009 (Sat)
Time: 3pm - 7pm
Bait: Kelong Sotong
Weather: Windy
Rig: Apollo
Venue: East Coast (Carpark C)

Look like I have really hit onto a Grouper Spot.

11th Apr 2009, 1st time there. Landed one grouper
18th Apr 2009, 2nd time there. Landed one grouper

Today 9th May 2009, 3rd time there and guess what.......
I landed one grouper again!!!!!!!

Met up with Chunxia at Tiong Bahru Plaza at ard 2.30pm. Bought mineral water and off we were to our Grouperland.

In half an hour time, we reached and were shocked by the crowd.
There were at least 8-9 rods and more than 10 pple on the breakwater.

We managed to found a spot on the left side of the breakwater. Settled down and started the Waiting Game.

Spotted a guy trying to surf using a big 'Kite' or whatever they call it.

My tackle

Things wasn't looking quite good as there was not much bite. Casting was also greatly affected by the super strong wind.

Was thinking that it gotta be another fishless day when this baby came knocking on my door.

I guess luck was on my side. It was near to six pm. Reeled my rig in to do some rebait. Casted it out and was reeling in the slack line when Bang!!!

Fish ON! Gave a strike and managed to land this baby within seconds...

Baby Grouper

Cx with the grouper....

After the photo session, a crowd had already gathered around us.
Unhooked the grouper and released it back into the sea....

Apparently, this action of mine invited some unwanted 'attention'

Chinaman: Hey why you caught the fish and released it back???

Me: Cause it was too small to be eaten...

After this baby grouper, there was no more action.

The Sky, The Sea and The Rod..

Look at the number of rods on this breakwater alone

Dusk

Me and my rod

Me and Cx

By 6.30pm, most of the anglers have left...

Since there was not much action, we packed up and left at 7.15pm

The Late Fightback

2009-05-05T21:43:00.007+08:00

Venue: Changi Offshore
Time: 9am - 6pm
Bait: 1.8kg Live Prawns
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy, Heavy Rain ard 11am-12pm
Boat: Ah Chong's Boat
Date: 5th May 2009 (Lunar 11th) Tue
Kakis: Nana, Yasin, Irfan, Joel and Me

Ever since the last boat trip abt a mth ago, I have been waiting for this day for a long time.

Still rem I only caught one mini grouper in my last boat trip. We have pathetic catches and Ah Chong recommended me to take today as he says the current today is good and we will be able to get plenty of fishes.

Immediately ON him and there we are on his boat today.

Irfan and Yasing reached Changi Village at ard 8.30am. Tabao lunch, bought live prawns and off we proceed to Changi Jetty.

Getting ready to set off~~

Some 'Interesting' photos of the boat toilet. (Children are advise to skip this part. Haha)

Walls of the toilet

Toiletbowl

Reach our first spot at ard 9am. Within five mins, Ah Chong managed to land a small Ack.

Seem like a Good Start!

My tackle for the day

However the Ack is the ONLY action in the morning. I got NO bites at all. Everyone morale is super low especially when our expectation is so high.

To make things worse, it started raining ard 11am.

Threatening Black Clouds

And then it started raining

At this point of time, I have already lost all hopes..

Ah Chong decided to move to another spot away from the rain. A spot behind Pulau Tekong.

Look at the heavy rain...

We stopped at a spot behind Pulau Tekong and started drifting..

We hit several coral reefs and lose quite a number of rigs there.

What can be worse? Zero catch, Losing rigs, Heavy rain....lol

In my mind, I told myself. Just give me one fish. One fish I will be very satisfied.

However there is still no action.

It was until 2pm plus when Yasing landed a Ang Kuey. Wow... finally sia...

Finally someone landed a fishy.

Joel managed to hit onto a fish too but it managed to escape. What a waste!

We changed to another spot and this time round I finally landed a fish. I was quite lucky. The fish took my bait within 1 min after I lowered my bait.

Gave a strike and fish on! Less than a min later, my first fish (Ang Kuey) is landed!

Morale increased, rebait and started waiting for my 2nd one.

Was chatting with Joel when I felt a super strong PULL. Without any hesitation, I gave a strike. This time round the fight is stronger. In my heart, I told myself.. must be a biggie.

Indeed it was a 1kg plus fatty gao. Took sometime to net it cos whenever Joel wanted to net it, it will make a dash for safety. At one point of time, it even drop out of the net in midair into the water again...

Nearly have heart attack. Lol. Kudos to Joel for helping me net several of my fishes.

From 3pm-6pm, I managed to land another 5 more fishy. I hit one tablesize Ack after the fatty gao.

Next came a tablesize Gao, a smaller Ack, a baby Shark and lastly a baby Ack.

What a sweet fightback...!

Irfan also managed to land 2 Acks and a Ang Kuey. As for Ah Chong, he landed one more baby Ack towards the end.

Nana managed to hook onto a big squid. Too bad, it was 'released' before she could land it.

Some of the spots we went.

A great fishing trip does not necessary mean Good Catches.

Kakis are also impt.

Irfan, Me, Joel & Yasing

Irfan & Yasing

Irfan, Joel, Nana & Me

Fishes in Icebox

We ended our day at ard 6.05pm

On the way back to Changi Jetty

Baby Shark and Ang Kuey

Yasing with his Ang Kuey and my Baby Shark

Total Catches of the day

Ah Chong: 2 Ack

Yasin: 1 Ang Kuey

Irfan: 1 Ang Kuey and 2 Ack

Me: 1 Ang Kuey, 3 Ack, 2 Groupers and 1 Sharkie

Last grp fishy pic of my catches taken at home

Labour Day

2009-05-01T23:45:00.005+08:00

Date: 1st May 2009
Time: 5pm - 9pm
Rig: Apollo and Floater
Bait: Kelong Sotong
Weather: Fair
Venue: Yishun Dam

It been quite sometime I went to Yishun Dam for fishing. This is the place where I started fishing.

A place of memories during my poly and army fishing days.

Anyway cab down to pick Cx and off we proceed to Yishun Dam. Got a shock when we arrived.

It was SUPER packed. Chose a spot which is away from the crowd and proceed to setup the tackles.

One apollo rig for big fish and one floater for smallies.

We managed to hook up ard 5 smallies before we decided it enough. No point getting small fishes and releasing them back.

1st and 2nd

3rd

4th

5th

I change the small hooks for the floater to bigger hooks.

When night falls, I started to register MANY bites on my 9ft rod. When I say MANY, it mean MANY.

Casted the rod and before I even put the rod down, my rod started vibrating. Guess there is many small fishes ard.

Sadly no more hook ups.

Pack up at ard 9pm plus.

Prawning Trip

2009-04-19T21:44:00.003+08:00

Date: 19th April 2009
Bait: Chicken Heart
Rig: Floater
Weather: Hot
Time: 3.20pm - 7.20pm

Share a rod with Cx for 3 hours. Total Catches: 31

Grouper Again~!

2009-04-18T20:52:00.006+08:00

Date: 17/04/09 - 18/04/09
Venue: East Coast (Carpark C)
Bait: Kelong Sotong
Rig: Apollo Rig
Time: 12am - 5.30am
Weather: Fair

Went back to East Coast again to cure some itchness. Irfan and Joel came to pick me up at ard 11am (thanks man).

We reached our spot at ard 11.30am and proceed to setup our tackles. The tide is upcoming and will be 2.3m high at ard 3am.

Thinking that the tide is in our favour, our hopes rosed. However we are wrong. Bites are very very rare.

At ard 4am, I decided to proceed to the other end of the breakwater to cast. It was exactly the same spot where I got my grouper last week.

Grouper Spot

And it was a right choice. Within 10 mins, I saw my rod bend! Rushed over...and gave a strike.
Could feel some pull on the other end.. Yea.. Fish ON!

After 1-2 mins..
I landed this 300-500 grams grouper

Kept it alive by the seaside near to the breakwater

Pack up at ard 5.45am

Grouper in basin.

My 2nd Wild Grouper!!!

2009-04-11T13:28:00.010+08:00

Venue: East Coast (Carpark C)
Date: 10th - 11th April
Time: 12am-5.15am
Rigs: Long snood bottom feeder & Apollo Rig
Weather: Cloudy
Baits: Kelong Sotong

Recently just bought 2kg of Kelong Sotongs and decided to try it out tonight.

While waiting for Joel to come..

Met up with Joel at ard 11.15pm. To avoid midnight charges, we quickly flag down a cab and off we chiong!

Reached East Coast carpark 'C' at ard 12am and started to recee for spots.
We proceed to the nearest breakwater and immediately setup our tackles.
The tide is at it highest and this is the best time before it start to go down.

I started off with Long Snood Bottom Rig with a whole piece of Kelong Sotong. On and off could see the rod tip moving but most likely to be some crabs or small fishes.

It was ard 2am when I saw my rod performing a strong bend. Grab the rod and give a strike!
Could feel many small tugs at the other end and I knew Fish on...

However when I am pumping it in, it never struggled anymore......

It turn up to be a EEL. The eel kept winding itself ard my rig making a freaking mess.

We took quite sometime to finally settled the mess.

However, the hook have already pierce thru it throat. Could not unhook it at all.

Chance of survival is very low, therefore Joel decided to make good use of it. He cut its tail to use as bait.

Look at it eyes... going to pop out soon...

As my rig is totally ruined, I setup a apollo rig this time round.

While waiting for another fish..I took some pics.

View from the breakwater

By 5am, tide is already v low. There is still no action other than the eel.

Super bright moon and my rod

Since there is not much action and tide is against our favour, Joel and me decided to pack up at six am.

It was ard 5.10am when I spotted my rod tip bending a little. Thinking that it was again some small fishes or crabs, I din really bother abt it.

It was when Joel told me confirm Fish On! Then I realised I have hit a Fish!

He saw the rod peforming a ugly bend. Immediately ran over to my rod and give a strike!

Yes! Fish ON!!! Took abt 3 mins before I managed to pump it up to the water surface but it got stuck on some rocks with seaweeds.

No choice, told Joel to hold on to my rod. Grab my lipgrip and went down the breakwater. Slipped down while making my way down. Got many cuts on both my palms but hack care lah. Fish more impt! Haha!

After some struggling, finally a decent size Grouper!

Me and my Grouper...

Decided to pack up after landing the grouper. Left at ard 5.30am.

Grouper in my basin

Sweet and Sour