To save costs, we actually tried to buy live prawns from Sheng Siong supermarket. Unfortunately, they were sold out last night and stocks had yet to arrive this morning at 7am. Thus, we set off for one of our favourite spots armed as usual with 300g of live prawns from Pasir Ris Pond bait house.
As our last visit to this spot was about 4 months ago, we had again forgotten that the tides here are a little wacky - at least 1 hour earlier than the timing given in the tidal tables. The meant that instead of arriving 1 hour before the change of tide, we arrive during!
This would explain why this catch is poorer compared to previous ones.
The one and only squid caught!
While jigging with tamban hooks, I spied a couple of green-eyed sotongs following the baitfish up. I used my eging lure and caught one immediately! Excited, I quickly continued to try catch more, but... unlucky me lost the lure to sangkot!
This precious squid was 'dissected' to become bait, which then caught us 2 reasonably sized fish. The crab in the photo was caught as it greedily refused to let go of the prawn in its pincers!
2 fish caught using fresh sotong as bait.
We actually released a dozen or so smaller fish which we hope to meet again when they are much larger. :) The todak was caught by floating a dead prawn out. It was released after photo taking.
This was one of the 5 todaks spotted swimming around.
Well, we simply MUST remember to turn up much earlier for a better catch!
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