1415 hrs
We reached the pond and bumped into the fish truck making a delivery. Does that mean that the pond gets fish every Monday at 2pm? Hmm... Anyway, we sat back and observed the transportation of the fish.
Truck delivering fish for both pro and skill-fishing pond.
We witnessed quite a bit of fish being hauled from the truck into the pond. Surprisingly, there were only 3 kinds of fish - ACKs, Taiwan Ngors and Kim Chews! Not sure if they had already put other kinds in before we arrived, but we certainly saw only these 3 types of fish. What's more, the fish were of reasonable size - all were at least 1kg and some even looked much bigger.
Fish released straight into the pro pond.
1430hrs
We saw a total of 5 'baskets' of fish - about 10 Kim Chews, 20 ACKs and 20 Taiwan Ngors being released directly into the pond. That definately caught our attention! We assumed that these fish counted for the 3pm release, and even though all the fish floated around for about 30 seconds before swimming feebly away, we thought they might wake up soon?
1445hrs
We took a walk around to check out the surroundings. By the way, ex-pro pond operator Albert has moved on to take over the event pond and calls it the Big Fish pond. It is opened 24hr and charges are $100 for 3 hours. Only 1 angler was fishing and he caught a 2 plus, almost 3 kg KBL.
All fish in this pond supposed to be at least 2kg, if not above.
1500hrs
There were already 3 rods in the water when we arrived, and more people slowly appeared to observe the situation. The water seemed clear enough with no froth or muck on the surface and the weather was good. However, we then spotted 2 dead kim chews floating on the surface. They were quickly and efficiently removed but half an hour later, another 2 floated up.
To be fair, those dead fish looked very small, much smaller than those that were brought by the fish truck. If today's delivery was an accurate indication of the size of fish the new operator bought, maybe the dead ones were left over from the previous? We were impressed when the dead kim chews were speedily removed, together with a sickly looking Ang Kuay that looked like it was near its end.
1520hrs
All of a sudden, there were 2 strikes back to back. Both anglers pulled up sizable ACKs that looked very much like those released. Our eyes narrowed and our fingers started to reach for the tackle...
1530hrs
2 more strikes were registered, one fish was lost and the other one landed was another ACK! We could not resist any longer...
1545hrs
With 15 minutes, we landed 2 Taiwan Ngors about 1.2 kg each on Kembong meat. Angler beside us landed 2 ACKs using live prawns within the same time period. Sorry... too busy to keep track of other anglers.
1600hrs
Operator came to collect the fees. To our immense surprise, the starting time they wrote on the sticker was 4pm even though we had already landed 2 fish! There were only 8 anglers so it couldn't have been a mistake. Maybe this is a weekday afternoon special offer? Haha...
1630hrs
We landed 1 ACK but our neighbour managed to get 2 more! We had high hopes, but there was a long lull...
1800hrs
Fish released. We caught 2 more between 6pm to 7pm, 1 more each of ACK and Taiwan Ngor. The ACK was almost 2kg! Just when we were going to take a photo of our total catch, the battery in the handphone died... No photos of the fish, sorry...
Although we did hope to get more fish, we were rather happy with the 5 as the total weight was quite substantial. Of course, the very positive attitude from the operator helped. All in all, we enjoyed ourselves we will definately come back again soon!
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