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.