A Date With The Rohus!

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......

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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~~