Fishing with the kids

Fishing at East Coast at the canal next to Road Safety Park. Training my kids so that one day when I'm old, they'll bring me fishing. Impressed my kids by catching a puny rabbit fish. (What else can you catch from a drain?) Video as proof.

Marina South

Tried a new spot this morning with Joshua. Marina South - next to the Marina South Pier.
I arrived earlier and started my usual way of fishing - fishing with weights.
Action began pretty early! What seems like a garoupa bit my bait, but remain lodged in between the stone crevices. There is no way to coax the fish out. Tried pulling, relaxing, and everything! And these happened not just once, but 4 times! There must be lot's of garoupas here... Anyway, lost all my rigs.
Josh, seeing my state, decided to fish from the water surface. He used floating baits, and he caught 1 todak and 3 halfbeaks within 30 minutes! Happy man!
I've learned my lesson about fishing garoupas... There is no way to beat them by force... At least not this way... I shall go back to my "shifu" (Henry from my usual fishing equipment shop) to upgrade my skills... Will be more prepared the next time... You garoupas, watch out!

1+1+1=?

Caught 1 malabar grouper, 1 brownstripe red snapper, 1 diamond wrasse. But all mini versions! Well, at least there is action! Hope to catch bigger ones next time... Anyway, an old friend (Wee Kwong) came to the beach to meet me for lunch (and I also ran out of ammunition - i.e. prawns) and we had Ipoh Hor Fun at Old Town Cafe. Was a good catch up session.

At last!

This is a Silver Biddy - a kind of bream - I think. Happy to catch it at the jetty close to Carl's Jr. It doesn't fight much. But at least the trip yielded something... And the meat tastes good! :)

Hound Needlefish

Went to Bedok Jetty this morning. It was drizzling so less people... good! So set up shop with 2 rods and 2 hand lines. 4 chances!

Soon 1 unknown fish bit but got away. Then, 2 todak bit when I was away at the toilet. Thank God for Ah Boon who helped me retrieve the lines. One escaped and the other is this one in the photo.

Later, when I was pulling in my hand line to call it a day, another todak bit the tamban on the line. I quickly let it loose so that the tamban can run and swallow the fish. But the todak escaped too.

I thank God that this is an eventful day.

PS: 1 lesson learned today... Always use new hooks. They are sharper and increase your chance of a hook-up.

A catch is a catch

Has some left over live prawns from last night fruitless trip at Kelong Walk, so went to exhaust the ammunition this morning at 7am at mini jetty outside Carl's Jr. The live prawns lured nothing but the dead prawn meat landed this one.
This guy may be small but very strong. Once hooked, it buried itself sturdily under the sea-bed such that it created a "sunkut" feeling for me. But I was not about to be tricked. I left the line alone and once in a while pump it in. Finally, I pulled directly on the line and it gave way. Happy to land my first stingray. Small, yes, but it will be an experience for me to deal with it's bigger cousins next time.
Finished the morning at 9am with a delivious breakfast at Old Town Cafe. :)

Todak caught

This (bigger) 2kg "todak" (or hound needlefish) was NOT landed by me... unfortunately. But by Ah boon. Spent $5 to buy from him to show my sign of a good supportive customer. The other smaller one is caught by me though.

I have another bite by a queenfish. But it escaped because I did not tie my knots properly. From today onwards, I am going to use good lines and tie my knots so dead that even godzilla cannot escape!