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Friday, October 31, 2008

CR - HB Kelong 23 -25 Oct

As usual decided to go kelong relax a bit, but this time we went earlier before the NE monsoon because during year end, we can't go fishing anymore.

Though we were not going during the good times, we still enjoyed the trip Smile

On the first night, fought a sea turtle for 30 minutes and decided to burst line. Later on, got a strong take, confirmed not sea turtle and fought for only about 5 minutes, the crimp for the steel wire leader slipped. Next time not going to use crimp anymore. Tying is still more reliable.


On the 2nd day, managed to catch the biggest wolf herring aka saitoh I've ever caught weighing 1.7kg.












During the night, fought another suspected sea turtle again!! Didn't get to see it because it stripped my size 2500 reel. No chance of stopping that turtle. After that when I was going to take a break and sleep, managed to catch this ugly monster. Also a record breaking one for me!












Want to know how we cooked the bakdao? Do look out for new recipes which will be uploaded soon...

Monday, October 13, 2008

CR - Sentosa 1/10/08

After checking the timing of the tides, I realised that today's high tide fits my schedule to do some fishing. So decided to pack my fishing bag and go for a quickie.

After reaching the spot at around 10am, I noticed that the tide behaviour at the place is slightly earlier than what was written on NEA website. But nevertheless, we still took our own sweet time to setup our gear. After a few cast we got a wrasse, not bad for a start. Shortly after, we got another wrasse and both the parrot fish followed very closely behind. The last fish of the day was the grouper which made my day.


So as planned, we left at about 2pm, looking forward to our dinner of a freshly caught grouper!

CR - Pengibu 15 to 18 Oct 08

After last year's enjoyable trip, we decided to go Pengibu again. During the first day, we travelled for about 8 hours before reaching our first spot. It was not as productive as last year where we got about 30+ ang kueys during our first few spots at night. This time round we caught about less than 10 good sizable fish on the first night. Sad










During the 2nd day, we've reached our jigging spot. I have been waiting anxiously for this already to try out my new jigging gear and jigs. Very soon, a bulat was caught on jig with Ima jig. I changed mine to the exact same colour and this was what I caught. Not too bad for warming up.










This jigging spot was really productive, during that period of time almost everyone jigging caught something. Chermin was one of varieties caught and they are nice to fight as well.













We did not
wait long before we hit tengirri - double hook up! There was a hit on a GT at the spot and it put up a hell of a fight, but since the camera man was also busy jigging at this hot spot, no photo was taken... d'oh!










When everyone was tired and the frenzy died down, one hardworking angler was rewarded with the last fish at the spot. From the way the fish was held, can tell that the arms must be aching already.










On the 2nd night, we reached this spot that w
as supposedly able to produce some monsters. So some of us were using big slices of tuna meat and preparing heavy bottom gear for battle. As we waited for the bottom action, some of us started to use lumo jigs to try jigging for Big-eyed Jacks as quite a number of them was caught at night last time. I didn't bring any lumo jigs along, so I decided to use a dark purple jig for sihouette and try jigging under the moonlight since it was full moon that night.

It was like only about the 4th or 5th cast before I caught this bugger at the front of the boat, I was shouting for help as everyone was at the back and luckily the deckies came to the rescue. This was the best fight I encountered for this trip. And of course, there's more exciting stuff yet to come.














Back to the big slices of tuna. The whole bonito was cut into about 5 pieces and if I didn't remember wrongly, 1 was chewed into pieces, 3 was bitten off together with the hooks but the 5th managed to produce something. The sea bed was about 80m deep. After the initial burst, the angler managed to pull the fish up to about 60m and it decided to stayed there. After don't know how much donkey minutes had passed, he managed to get it to 59m. Too pathetic and too boring and so another 2 anglers took turns to take over. They managed to change the depth but to about 64m after 5-10 minutes. What a waste of my memory card as I was filming the whole process.

Anyway to cut things short, it was the strong deckie who came to pull the monster from 60m straight up to 20m. Then he passed the rod back to the tired owner who continued the fight and ended up with a backache. It was tough and messy but everything was caught on video (which is posted at the gallery section of www.myfishingfrenzy.com). So this was the monster posting with the guy who caught it and who somemore needed the help of others to carry his catch.













The total catch was not as good as last time but the jigging was much better. Maybe there are more anglers doing jigging this trip. Anyway the weather was quite windy but still generally acceptable. One angler was quite badly hit by sea sickness and missed out a lot of action and good food, but gained a lot of sleep.
No matter what, we will probably be back again next year!

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