Big enough

Caught 2 silver biddy on Monday morning with sarong.

The bigger one is my biggest record for silver biddy.

This guy though smaller than other fishes, gave a better fight.

Anyway, steamed them on the same day. Definitely delicious.

At least something

Arrived at about 7am. Within a short time, the sky was pitch dark and the wind swept strongly. Thank God all my things are secured.

But I chose to battle on. I put on my trusty raincoat and got myself ready for the rain - which turned out to be only a drizzle.

I fished with left over baits of worms, prawns and a whiting. It is the whiting that yielded result.

This stingray bit my second serving of the fish fillet. But there was no ring. Only when I retrieved my line did I realised there was something heavy at the other end.

At first, it just felt like a piece of really heavy dead weight. So I just kept pumping it back. But as it was really heavy, like it was "scraping the bottom", I started suspecting that it might be a fish.

Finally, I felt some jerking. I started to get excited but stayed calm and kept on pumping back. At times, it felt like it got "sunken". But as I pulled hard, it gave way slowly.

Finally, I saw it! This "small" stingray! I thought it must be something bigger given the drag it produced.

Nonetheless, I'm grateful the trip yielded some excitement and some thing to bring home. :)

Steamed Cao-Xi

Looks ugly but taste alright. Not as good as grunter, but one should give thanks for fresh fish any time.

Way BIGGER Cao Xi :)

Caught a way bigger Cao-Xi this morning! Am I happy. :)

I picked David (Moser) up from his home at 6.30am and off we went to the Carl's Jr jetty - my favorite spot - for good reasons (nice sunrise, quiet and often serves up good fishes)!

We fished with sea worms. I didn't catch anything in the beginning. But David caught 2 whitings for me to use as baits.

But I pressed on with the worms with my 2 longer rods. Finally, the rod shaked slightly at around 9am - it was high tide (I think around 2m). I striked and realised there was something heavy on the other end.

As I retrieved it, it did not fight much but boy was it heavy. I was quite certain it was a sea creature because of its slight jerks. But as the "creature" came nearer to shore, it started to fight. Once, it managed to overcome the drag and swam away. But of course, it finally gave up and as it came closer, we realised it was a beautiful and huge cao-xi (or sicklefish).

As it was gut-hooked, I was more confident about lifting it out of the water by the string.

It was a beauty, we were both impressed and started taking pictures... Thank you GOD!

Now David is convinced that there are big fishes in our waters. :)

We finished the trip at 10am with a good breakfast at Old Town. The sharing was great and we managed to put in some prayers...