Awesome Day!

Venue: Bungsamran Lake (Bangkok)
Date: 12th March 2009
Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm
Bait: Bread formula & Lum formula
Weather: Sunny and Hot
Rig: Floater

It been a long wait for this day to come. The thoughts of the reel screaming away, line being pulled out, rod bending into a 'C' shape make me Excited.

Took our breakfast at Samran Place and off we Chiong~!


Ah Chai came to pick us up at ard 8.10am in his pinkie cab


Reach BSR at 9am


Prices


Some background of BSR


Some views of BSR


Paying at the counter


And off we proceed to our Bungalow~


Another nice view!


Our bungalow~ No 19!


Whole stretch of bungalows


Golf (Guide) and Ah Chai (Taxi driver)


Ah Chai and Me


Golf setting up the tackle while his helper preparing the bait.
Still rem his helper was a small boy when I saw him last yr. Now he grow quite tall already.



Meanwhile, came a visitor. Max or Mac the dog~


The First Cast!


Within 5 mins, Fish ON!


9:28am, 1st Mekong landed


Unhooking


1st Mekong of the day!


Releasing it back


Cx fighting the 2nd Mekong of the day!


She managed to fight it near to us before I took over when the Mekong started it powerful dives.

9.55am 2nd Mekong landed


The 'Thai' way of waiting. When there a fish, the bottle will falls.


10.38am 3rd Mekong landed




10.45am 4th Mekong landed

Look at its mouth. Must be a veteran fighter.






After our 4th Mekong, Golf decided to use the bread formula instead of the powdery lum.
He told us as weather is hot, bread formula is more effective. He is absolutely RIGHT!
The scene was lo jiak lo jiak!!


The deadly bait!


11.09am The 5th Mekong!


1115am The 1st Patin


And in less than 5 mins, ANOTHER HOOK UP!


11.23am 6th Mekong landed


And soon... Another Hookup!


11.44 am 7th Mekong landed


11.54am The 8th Mekong!


By this time, my muscule is aching terribly. Decided to take a break and have our lunch.
Before I could even start to eat..Another Hookup!!!


12.00pm 2nd Patin of the day!


Another Hookup! This time round, Cx fought this patin all by herself!!!


12.10pm 3rd Patin


Cx and patin!


One of the Mekong playing dirty. It dives and went for the snags.
Me and Golf trying to get it out.


Golf trying to get it out but still it managed to getaway in the end.


12.42pm The 4th Patin!


Another Hookup!!!


1.04pm 5th Patin landed


Cx's Turn!


1.18pm 6th Patin landed by Cx herself!


Unhooking...


Cx and Patin!


1.42pm, we got a surprise catch


Me with the 'unknown fish'. Seem like a tilapia


2.05pm 9th Mekong landed


2.14pm 10th Mekong landed!!!!


Back to the water~~


2.22pm 7th Patin landed


2.48pm, another surprise catch. Tilapia!


2.53pm 8th Patin landed


3.01pm 11th Mekong landed


3.05pm, Another hookup! But Cx lost it to the snags.....


Lastly, 3.28pm 12th Mekong landed


We decided to leave early at 3.30pm because we cannot carry on anymore.
Back aching, muscles aching everywhere.

Total Catches:
12 Mekongs
8 Patins
1 Tilapia
1 Unknown

Total Misses:
1 hook came flying out Just infront of us.
1 burst line
1 miss strike
2 escaped
1 lost to the snag

Fishing Trip on 7th March 2009

Venue: Tmj
Rig: Floater
Baits: 300gm of live prawns
Weather: 7am Drizzling, 8am Cloudy, 12pm Sunny, 3pm Windy, 3.30pm Thunderstorm

Have been a Zero Fighter for a few trips liao. Went Boatfishing ZERO, Went East Coast ZERO.
Decided to give Tmj a try today. Reach the pond at ard 8am.

Was told that they have change their rates. No longer 7 hr slot.
Now is either 7am-7pm or 7pm-7am $35. Hmm seem not bad ar..


Views of TMJ


Anyway setup my tackle and started fishing at ard 8.15am.
Was having my breakfast halfway when I saw my float moving.
Give a STRIKE but nothing..Sigh
First Miss of the day.

Soon 1/2 hour have passed but I dun have any bite. Anglers ard me started landing fishes but not me...

Was getting abit sian when I saw my rod tip moved! Search for my float but it not found.
Immediately reel back the slack line and give a hard STRIKE!

Fish ON! Wooohoooo...finally...

The fight is strong and it keep taking up line. After 3-5 mins, it was landed.
Estimate 1kg MJ.


After landing my first fish, it was another long wait.
I got one neighbour keep landing fish after fish. He use float, I use float, he use live prawns, I use live prawns.

Wonder why I am not the one...

Anyway ard 12pm, I went to the front and cast near the pond. That when I got my 2nd MJ.
Again, it was a nice strong fight. Estimate ard 1 kg.


30 mins later, as I was slowly reeling in my rig. I found something heavy on the other end.
First thought was Sangkot..

But it was actually a 1.8kg Taiwan Ngor. I nv knew Taiwan Ngor can be such a GOOD fighter.
It gave me a super good workout pulling out my line like a non-stoppage train.

At one point of time, it actually was dashing towards the pump. Lucky I was able to stop it and drag it away from the pump.

1.8kg Taiwan Ngor Aka Good Fighter


All actions end at 12.45pm for me. I dun have even a SINGLE bite until 7pm.
Abit disappointed but I should be contended. At least I broke my dry spell. Haha

Total Catches:

Prawning Trip On 28th Feb 2009

Venue: Bishan Pond
Time: 4.30pm - 7.30pm
Rig: Float
Bait: Chicken Heart
Weather: Super Heavy Rain

Been a super long time, we went to bishan for prawning.
So we decided to visit the pond and off we went off in a cab.

However on the way there, the rain started to get heavier and heavier. But since we already on the way there, we still cont with our prawning session.

Look at the floor, super wet after the heavy rain!


We share a rod for 3 hours.


Nite View. Nice Blue Lights!


Prawns in the net


Total Catch: 26

Prawning Trip

Date: 22 Feb 2009
Venue: Bottle Tree (Khatib)
Rig: Floater
Weather: Cloudy and Cool
Baits: 1 worm and chicken heart
Time: 630pm - 815pm


Still got remaining 45 mins left from a session ages back. Therefore decided to use finished it.
However, the person in charge want us to top up at least 1 hr before we can use back the remaining time.

WTF. They never mentioned before! Anyway since we are there, we paid and start PRAWNING!


The pond



Our catch

Continuing my Dry Spell

Date:20th Feb 2009 (Fri)
Baits: 500 gm of Dead prawns
Rigs: Apollo
Time: 11pm to 6am
Weather: Cloudy
Venue: 'G' Spot

Met Joel at clementi and off we set off for our fishing trip.

When we reach our spot, the tide is already at it highest. Without any hesitation, we set up our tackles and started our waiting game.

I think my luck is really going down or I have forgotten how to fish. YA! I am a Zero-Fighter again!!

Sigh.

Anyway Joel manage to land 2 Smallies.

For the first fish, It was really a thrilling exp.

Joel was reeling up his fish, when it got sangkot in the rocks near to the water.
Well after some hesitation to went down due to the slippery rocks, we still proceed down.
Manage to make my way down and saw the fish stuck in the rocks.

There no way i can pull it up or get it out using a plier.

Fish mouth facing upwards


After i poke it down with a fishing rod, it went deeper down into the rocks!


In the end, I decided to use my hands and manage to get it out.

'Unknown Fish' still waiting to be ID


Mr Pufferfish


6am, we pack up and I left as a zerofighter AGAIN!
Worst till, we walk dunno how many miles to finally get a cab..

Pathetic Day

Date: 7th Feb 2009 (Sat)
Venue: Changi Offshore
Baits: 2kg Live prawns & Sotong
Rigs: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy
Boat: Ah Chai Boat
Catches: PATHETIC!
Deployment: 1 Rod and 1 Handline


Ever since the last offshore 1-2 years back. Been wanting to go offshore again.
Finally I manage to contact a boatman(Ah Chai) and off we chiong.



Seriously I dunno whether is the boatman prob, our prob, weather prob, sea prob or fish prob.


7 Kakis, 5 Pathetic catches.

Out of 5 pathetic catches, only 3 are consider good fish.
Luke got 1 nice and beautiful fish and 1 puffer fish.
Ben got 1 guhood.
Qw got 1 Ah Seng.
Qw's collegue got 1 MJ.


Needless to say I am a Zero Fighter.

Met Qw at 7-11 at 7am.

Puffer fish Released~

I hook up one weird thing using peel dead prawns on my handline. (Released)

Total Catches. (MJ & Pufferfish not in pic)

Thanks to Ben, he gave this guhood to me as he dun wan it.

The Final Moment

Venue: Tmj

Time: 9 plus to 3 plus

Baits: 100gm of Live Prawns

Rig: Floater

Weather: Sunny and Windy

Date: 2/2/2009(Mon)

Took 'Urgent' leave and went to TMJ for some fishing.

It been a long time I went fishing alone. Took a cab and NB the cab driver dunno the way.

End up taxi fare near to 18 bucks!!

Anyway reach the pond, setup my tackle and went to the centre pump (socalled hot spot)

Waited for near to 45 mins, when I saw my float dip and came up again.

Needless to say, the fish has escape.

Rebait and wait again.....Bite rate was super low..except for one guy.

The guy in red easily got 20 over fishes.

Well my 2nd bite came after 2 hr of waiting after my 1st bite.

I saw my float dip and sank into the water..

Heart pumping, grap my rod and slowly reel...

Suddenly my float came up again...LOST THE FISH AGAIN!!!!

Super demoralise...It was ard 1pm already..I still zero fighter.

Other anglers are also zero fighter..but dunno why the guy in red keep landing fishes.

Cont my waiting game..My float floating ard without dipping at all...

Very soon, it 3pm already.. I decided to go home once I finished my 100gm of prawns.

Rebait my very last prawn and cast it to my 'high risk high return' spot.

My stuff are all packed up already. In my mind, I have gave up.

Walked back to my rod..pick my rod up and suddenly I feel a tug!

Reel back slowly, den give a strong strike.

The KBL jump up beautifully high up into the air!

Have a quick fight with it before i landed it

Estimated ard 1 kg.

Released it immediately into the lake.

Was thinking of cont cos i got 2-3 hours more. But since i already packed up all my stuff, I went home....