Monday, October 19, 2009

All night long; All day long

(teenage grunter caught at first cast; gave to malay friends)

(a beautiful sicklefish caught by my 12 feet; returned to sea)

(Riana and her beautiful emperor fish - she caught a few other!)


(Ma Qian and her whiting; became bait later...)

The trip started last night with a stop at Mark's to pick up worms and live prawns. Then I proceeded straight to 6-pipe as there are often sightings of sea-bass there (they eat live prawns!)
The campaign started promisingly with a strong tug on my 10-feet 5 minutes into the first cast. A teenage grunter (photo) came up. It definitely gave a good fight. I thought the night was going to be good. But it turned out to be a really quiet night. Not even catfishes - only one came up. Of course I thank God that there are no catfishes. They are a nuisance.
I packed up at about 1230am and went to Macs to freshen up, have a double cheese burger with hot milo, and watch soccer on their big screen. Felt tired and retired in the back seat of the car.
The alarm woke me up at 630am. After freshing up, off I went to Carl's Jr for part two of my campaign.
When I reach there, I discovered that all my live prawns except one died. The pump must have died in the middle of the night.
After fishing a while alone, Joshua and his kids joined in, and then Riana and Maqian! Riana and Maqian were such good fisherwomen that they each caught a few fishes and our little "fish tank" was filled with fishes!
The trip ended with a good KFC meal with the Doulos girls.
Thank God for everything.



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