Burn Out

Saturday's outing.
Met Mr. Din at junction to Labrador Park at 7.30 am after stopping by at KTM to buy drinks and breakfast. Got to know that Mr. Dem will join us shortly.

Set up my Schimtar and L & F 13 footer, hoping that today my tallest rod will catch some fish as this will my second time trying this new set up. After casting at the seabed full of rocks and weeds, I need to setup my stomach with nasi lemak and a packet of kopi 'o'. Weather was really humid and burning hot. Decide to go topless while fishing, cause the heat made me uncomfortable with a long sleeve T-shirt on.


Mr Din yelled at me that my shortest rod got a strike. When reeling in my sinker got stuck under the rocks. Force it out and managed to get it back losing the fish.

That was the first and the last strike for the whole outing. The rest was snag after snag. Went down to the waterbreaker area, but still there's no bite at all.

Went down here, still no bites!

Mr. Dem casting his Prokat

Another boring Labrador outing ending up trying to change to a new hobby...

... rock climbing.



Watch out for beautiful green tree snake while sitting under the trees at Labrador Park.

Sunday
Woke up with aching body plus all the sunburnt. Around 11 am, Mr. Jay called up whether I'm interested to join him at his spot around Punggol area. As I got nothing to do at home, why not joining him.

Met him at the Punggol Exit before we ride in some unknown dirt track. I just follow his bike to the spot. As I was riding along, I was talking to myself, who the hell want to fish at this area, cause the journey is quite spooky, worst if it's raining. Huge puddle here and there that I must avoid.

After reaching the area, I was surprise to see a lot of cars, pickups, vans and even lorry parking by the side of the railing with a huge canal-like that separates Punggol and Coney Island. Found a space to park our bikes and set up our gears.




I only set up my 10 footer rod with my Rapala reel bait up with peeled prawn and cast about 70 metres from the railing.

Two hours later, the rod bend fiercely and I quickly grab the rod. Had a good fight for a few minutes, then slowly reel in the fish near to the edge. Mr. Jay asked me to tired down the fish before lifting it up from the canal, but luck was not on my side, as I was about to hold on, the 30lb braided line snap to due to line rubbing on the sharp cement edges of the canal. A huge loss, but anyway that's fishing.

Few minutes later, Mr. Jay's turn. And again, the line snap. This time I think it was my mistake, trying to lift up the fish by pulling in the line by hand. Seeing the two losses, I set up my 13 footer and cast out.

At about 6 pm, the 13 footer broke "Her Virginity" by hooking up a decent size duri (catfish). 7 pm, we packed up bringing back the catch to my inlaws.

Mr. Jay's catch

My catch

Quite happy with the outing, eventhough I lost a biggie. Maybe this weekend I will try again at this spot.

13 footer try out

Left house at 4pm and met Mr. Dem at Lagoon Food Centre to pack some food and drinks. Mr. Din was already at the former Big Splash's carpark entrance.


Weather was not on our side that evening as it start to drizzle. Set up our gears, bait up and cast. From 6 till 1.30 am there was no bite. There's a few twitch on my 10 footer, other than that, the worm bait were still intact when we reeled in to check.

Mr. Dem caught a tiny grouper and released it back. Boring outing with no bites.

New Gear

Mr. Din called me asking whether I can knock off early from work to meet him at Beach Road. I tried to, but I got stuck with a rush job.

Met him near Sultan Mosque and straight to the tackle shops around that area. In and out the tackle shops ending up at Hong Guan.

I really need a longer rod and decides on 13 footer Loomis & Franklin pairing with Tica GE1000. I think this is longest rod and the biggest reel that I've ever own before.


Can't wait for this Saturday to try out this combo.

Out Of Boredom!

Drop by Mr. Dem's house after sending my daughter to her religious class. Chat for awhile before he decides to follow to the tackle shop around Ubi. Collect my Schimtar that I've send earlier that week. Actually I send two rods, the other one is gift from a friend, an old Loomis & Franklin 9 footer with a broken ring.

With various rods in my collection, it seems that my eyes could not resist looking at new rods. I have been eyeing some 12 footer surf rods, but the one that really catch my eyes was the 12 footer D.A.M Fenisee. Checked with the staff there and got feedback that the new blanks are all Malaysian made. Only the old models were made in Germany. Still contemplating to get one coz it's quite pricey.

After collecting my rods, Mr. Dem asking whether want to wet some lines later on. We agreed to meet up at Changi Village at 3 pm. Our arrival there was greeted by the heavy downpour with loud bangs of thunder. While waiting for the rain stop, Mr. Dem met his old kampung friend and was asked to join them fishing later on at their spot. As we don't have any idea to fish that evening, we decided to join them.

Car park 6, most of the anglers called it. A spot where anglers landed huge rays. This is the second time I tried the place. The first one came empty handed and hoping this one will produce some good results.

Mr. Din joins us hours later.




Around 7pm, one the guys multiplier went zzzzrrrrrrrrrttttttt... with his rod bending furiously. Unfortunately after reeling in slowly, he noticed that there's nothing on the other end. Looking by rod's action and the alarm of the multiplier, it was a huge one but lady luck was not on his side. Anyway that's fishing. You win some, you lose a lot!

Later at night Mr. Dem was so happy he reeled up a plate size ray and got a slightly bigger one few minutes later. For me, I got nothing but happy for Mr. Dem that he reel in two rays that night.

Mr. Dem with his ray.

We packed around 11pm, while the other guys stayed till the next morning.

Dissapointed Outing

Turn out that the kelong trip that most of the kakis were eagerly waiting since for the last two weeks didn't promised us with good catch.

5.30 am received a sms form Mr. Dem, yup! 5.30 in the morning, checking up on me whether I was up. This guy is too eager on the trip, or he's just plain blur sotong. I'm wondering why the hell he's up so early since the boatman will only pick up us at 8 at the Changi Jetty.

6.30 am I make a move to Mr. Sam's place. As he was driving, might as well I park my bike at his place and go together in his car. Noticed Mr. Dem was snoozing at the hawker centre and ask him to join breakfast with us.

Three of us were virgins of kelong fishing including me. Never tried fishing from a fishing farm before. The rest had past experience but not on the same place. So it's like The Blind Leading The Blind.

Left the jetty around 8.45, stopped at another fish farm to buy some live prawns for bait. Once we reached the so call "easy place to hook up fishes", we geared up and one of us asked the kelong guy where's the best spot to throw our lines.

I settled for two short rods, since we are fishing from a fish farm, but once I found out that on the my Schmictar rod ring is gone, I regret not to bring my other rods. Tape the broken ring with a handyplast and cast out to sea hoping to get the huge fight that I've been told by some of the experienced kelong fishing anglers.

A good sign of hooking up huge fishes brighten up our spirit when one of the kaki managed to hook up an almost 2kg sicklefish. The ooohhss and aahhhhss are buzzing around and we all are hoping that the rest will get the same fight later on.

But... for the rest of the day, we only managed to hook up the most pathetic fish, that is the.... duri belalang! I got only two duris and a palm size snapper.

Feeling so disappointed with the catches, I'm too lazy to snap the catches.