Fasting month for the fishes too?

Venue: Changi Offshore
Time: 8.30am - 6pm
Bait: 1kg Live Prawns and Kelong Sotong
Rig: Apollo
Weather: Cloudy, Drizzling and Cold Winds
Boat: Ah Chong's Boat
Date: 27 Aug 2009 (Lunar 8th) Thurs
Kakis: Serene, Joel & Me

As usual, met up at Tanah Merah Mrt. Shared a cab down to Changi Village for a quick breakfast, bought live prawns and ice and off we go.....

Ah Chong told us he need to top up diesel for his boat first.

Topping up in process.....


Weather dun seem to be in our favour as dark clouds were spotted everywhere. Nevertheless, we kept our fingers crossed


Mr Chong, Our Captain of the day


Reached our first spot at ard 8.45am


Not wasting anytime, quickly rig up the live prawns and off goes my first cast. I put my rod into the rod holder and started exploring with my new phone 6700 Classic.

Wanted to try out the camera when I heard Serene saying dunno whose rod was bending. Thinking that she was just being noob and most probably it was due to the current, I did not really care.

It was only when Joel and Ah Chong told me then I turned ard and looked at my rod. Indeed I saw my rod gave a few tugs!

Immediately put my phone down, grabbed my rod and gave a strike! By then, my line was already pulled all the way to the front of the boat. Even Ah Chong's handline was tangled together with my mainline.

Managed to pump it back to my side and as it started to surface, I saw a familiar silver mirror...
At first I thought it was Chermin but when it finally surfaced, it was a Queenie!!!

My first Queenie (Est ard 1 kg)


Me and Queenie


Morale was high as it was only the beginning and I had landed a decent size fish already. However we were very wrong.

Bait and Rig used


Passed by this spot where we landed countless of 'nemos' on our previous boat trip


Serene waiting for her first fish......


We were not registering any bites after my first catch. We were moving from spot to spot but result was still the same.

Some of the other spots we tried



Waiting for the rod to bend.........


Getting abit tired and since the fishes were not biting, we proceed to have our lunch.

It was until 1.55pm when I finally felt a very strong tug on my rod. Without any hesitation, I gave a strike and the game was ON!

Whatever that was on the other end of the line is definitely a good fighter. It kept dashing left to right taking abit of my 20 pounds braided line out.

It took me 2-3 mins when I finally landed this fighter.

Mirror mirror on the wall, Mr Chermin!


Me and Chermin


Everything quiet down again after this catch. On and off, we managed to get small nibbles but sadly no fishes were landed.

At ard 4pm plus, I managed to land this puffer fish with peeled dead prawns.


It was released unharmed back to the sea.

At ard 5pm, Ah Chong finally landed something.......Miss Squidy


Time passed pretty fast and soon it 6pm.

Time to go back..........


Serene and Fishes..


Some pics of the catches



Overall very pathetic catches of the day (Excluding the pufferfish)

We took our dinner at Changi Village before we headed for home

Serene took the squid home and cooked it. (Well she said she cooked it but hmmmm......)

Before

After

Looked delicious but looks can be deceiving.....LOL...

And finally my catches waiting to be gut......

Finally a catch....

Date: 22nd Aug 2009 (Sat)
Time: 10am - 5.30pm
Weather: Sunny
Bait: Kelong Sotong
Rigs: Long Snood Bottom Feeder & Apollo
Venue: East Coast

Met Qw up at ard 10am and off we went to East Coast for fishing. We were fishing beside the water sport spot.

Catches as usual were not very good. Qw landed 2 baby eels while I finally managed to break my dry spell.

Nothing big, just a small baby shark. It was released back to the deep blue sea.

Baby Shark


We were fishing halfway when we were invaded by countless of wind surfers.


No way we could continue to fish there as we were unable to cast at all. Therefore we moved further up to another breakwater.

No fishes were caught there and we decided to call it a day at ard 5.30pm.

The Dry Spell Continues...........

Date: 25th July 2009 (Sat)
Venue: Pulau Ubin
Weather: Fair
Baits: 600 grams live prawns & Sarong
Rig: Floater & Apollo

Planned this trip few weeks back. As usual, we were filled with super high hopes on landing some fishes.

Met up with Joel and Irfan ard 9.30pm at Changi Village. Took our breakfast, bought our baits and off we go~

Reached the jetty ard 10.30pm. Rented our bicycles and headed for our first spot.

First spot

This spot looked pretty quiet. Was abt to go off when we spotted many surface actions.
Decided to give it a try and off we started casting our hopes into the water.

View of the other side

It was pretty quiet until Joel landed the ONLY fish of the day.

Pls put your hands together and welcome Miss Puffer

Ya, your eyes did not played any tricks on you. We got only 1 pathetic fish for this trip....

Worst still, we were fishing halfway when we were greeted by this.....

Our spot was invaded by canoes! Cant they see we were fishing there?
They were having so much fun causing a big commotion. Loud noise, big splashes, disturbing the water......
All the fishes would have been spooked. Sigh...
Anyway they were trying to go thru underneath the bridge to the other side.

Look at this 2 jokers. They were stuck! LOL!


The rest of them getting ready to go thru the bridge....

After all the commotion they caused for nearly 1 hour. There no way we could cont fishing there. All the surface actions were gone..

Therefore we decided to made our way to our 2nd spot

Our mode of transport

Met up with Yasin and his gf there.

There were also another group of orange young boys fishing beside us.

This spot looked pretty decent and potential. However looks can be deceiving. We hardly got any bites at all.

Pretty frustrated. I armed myself with a storm rubber lure and went to this spot to do some luring.

After 1/2 hr of non stop casting, I decided to give up...

Went back to join them for the waiting game.

Bells were ringing on and off but there were no hookups until Joel landed this...

A Crab

Our barang barang

We decided to pack up at ard 5.30pm.

Beach beside the jetty

And the dry spell continues..................

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!