Casting Practice @ Kranji & Bedok

We will have a chance to do popping in the Andamans, a trip we have been planning for ages, next year. As we have never popped before, the group of friends with whom we are going to the Similan Islands invited us to their casting session at Kranji Reservoir. We arrived slightly past 7am and walked all the way in to the end of Fishing Grounds A.

Cool breezy morning at Kranji Reservoir... Beware of mosquitoes!

One thing that caught my attention was this sign put up at the sign of the path. Does it mean that I cannot use live prawns but dead ones are ok??? If the point is to minimise any pollution to the water, shouldn't the sign say "Only artificial lures allowed" instead? Hmm...

Can I use dead prawns, fish and sotong?

We started practising around 7:30am and in hour, our arms were aching already... And we were told that we would be casting for hours on the trip! Pengz... Looking at our friends casting their poppers to what seemed to be an incredibly far distance, we quickly told ourselves that we needed weekly practices... at least!

We were so enthusiastic about improving our casting that the 1 over hour session in the morning was not enough - we went for an evening seesion on our own! There were much more people over at Bedok Reservoir, including many runners/joggers and families with kids out for a walk. Our presence was rather unusual among the handful of anglers fishing there. We attracted quite a bit of attention especially with our relatively big popper!

Casting with the sunset as a backdrop...

Hopefully, we will really be consistent in practicing and improve our distances!