3rd Trip On Chongster Boat

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

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)

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....