CR - 18/4 to 20/4 SCS

Its been weeks since we visited a pond as we had to save up for this boat trip! We spent an enjoyable 48 hours with a group of very friendly people and came back with quite a good catch. The sea was calm throughout and other than a couple of sudden showers, it was good fishing
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My first good catch of the trip was this grouper that had faint orange spots, the very first was actually a shark.







A lucky catch for me, as no one else managed to catch them, but unlucky for the fish... Only when landing did I realise that this batang was foul-hooked!






Another orange-spotted grouper. We caught four of them in total, all weighing between 1 to 2 kg.









During the first night the barracudas were out with a vengence. We had lines snapping one after another and numerous barracudas were landed by those whose lines were not severed by those sharp teeth. Just for fun I decided to try bully some barras by jigging for them and caught 2! But due to insufficent training, my arms started aching soon I went back to bottom and being bullied by the fish. Haiz...


A lengchiam was landed on his rod by me, because he was in the toilet when the fish bit!







A trigger fish - there altogether 3 landed by everyone.







At one point on the second night, we were anchored at a spot that was supposed to yield ACKs. They are usually active when currents are strong and the the current there forced us to use weights of size 30 and above. When the fish bites, the rod only registers a very slight shake at the tip and you have to keep your eye on the rod!





My last catch for the trip, another grouper. Yumyum...







Total catch by everyone. Groupers took the centre stage this time, with an diverse assortment of other fish. A few hard-working anglers managed to catch 2 baskets full of small fish for live bait. Glad there was still quite a lot left for the humans!




The food was fabulous, the company fantastic and our catch marvelous - what more can I say?