Day visit to the kelong

Spent a relaxing day at kelong... :)



(Man feeding groupers)

(Chermins swimming but not mine)

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.

1 fried 1 steamed

Steamed silver biddy

fried threadfin bream

12 feet and 10 feet each score 1 !

Interesting fishing experience.

Caught the biddy first with the trusty 10 ft rod. The rod did not shake at all. But as I retrieve the line, a good sized biddy came at the end of the line!

Then caught the bream with the new 12 ft rod. This time, the entire rod fell sideways like something has given it a huge tug! Turned out to be the biggest threadfin bream I've ever caught. :)

12 feet; feel confident!

(small flathead returned to sea)

(12 ft rod from Mark's; Decommissioned after 2 use because joint too tight - then spoilt!)

(Monday) Was not a good day to fish - rapid water flow and cold waters.
But Roland, Joshua and I still met up to fight our fate at Carl's Junior Jetty. We were armed with prawns, worms, and sotong!
I felt extra confident because I was armed with a new 12 feet rod! Bought it from Mark's on Sunday.
True enough, I was the only one who caught something (with the 12 feet rod) - a small flathead. Better than nothing!
Near the end of our fishing trip, Ah Hwa turned up. Happened that all 3 of us knew him separately!
So I made it amply clear to him that we are all from the same church. And I passed him my namecard and suggested he visit us on Sunday. I certainly hope he will!
Ah Hwa, if you are reading this, we love you!

Steamed

Karyn, Peng Peng and I enjoyed this for lunch today. :)

Another huge sicklefish in 2 weeks

Praise God. He has been good to me.

Another huge one landed this morning at Carl's Jr at 8 plus using frozen sea worms as bait (works every time). This one is slightly bigger then the one caught 2 weeks ago.

This guy did not put up much of a fight while I was reeling in, but struggled hard when it came right in front. For a few times, it just took the line and dived. I have to struggle with it for a while.

After lifting it off the waters, I secured it with a fish keeper hook and returned it into the waters to keep it alive. Because it was hooked on the lips, it was still very active and it remained alive all the while in the waters and even after I reached home!

One surprise was that I discovered the Daichi hook was broken at the tip! Thank God it did not escape. This lesson tells me always to keep the lines tight while fighting fishes!

I used kelong sotong too in this trip. But it did not yield anything. Instead it attracted puffers. I still have 3 packs in my fridge! Maybe will bring them along for the kelong trip that I'm likely to take with Thomas (a church member) later this month.