The Late Fightback

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

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

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~!

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!!!

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