Just another night...

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....

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

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.....