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.

Toman Hunting

I was invited to try at this new and secret spot by another friend of mine. Supposed to be infested with huge tomans (snakehead).

Parked my bike at his block, waited around few minutes for another friend to fetch us to Yishun for live baby catfish for bait. Actually it was the first day of the Chinese New Year, surprisingly the tackle shop open for business on the first day. Have a quick breakfast before proceeding to the spot.

Tall grasses and slippery slopes making the walk to the spot from the main road a bit scary. Plus the silence makes the whole place spooky. But anyway, seeing the picture that my friend showed me of his last trip with his 6kg catch doesn't bother me at all.



This trip was a bit special, coz rig and bait was already prepared by my friend. I just need to prepare my reel and rod and even my friend helped to me hook up the live bait.

Although I didn't got any hooked up, I was surprised how the tomans took the bait. Totally half of the eight inches size live bait gone when the toman strike.


The trip only produced a twelve inch toman but at least I had the experience on how to hunt for tomans.

Catfish Fever!

Okay.. okay... this blog was "dead" for almost a year.

Been fishing for the past few weeks at a new spot introduced by an old fishing kaki.

The first trip catch... 10 eeltail catfish. 1 sicklefish. 1 ray. 1 small snapper




Bro in law with his sicklefish


The second trip...

Fishing kakis from bachelor's time till now.

Combined catch... 8 eeltail catfish. 3 rays. 1 bream