Afternoon fishing

Finally an afternoon fishing with Kai and Toh. They went to keppel for an afternoon fishing. Toh start casting without hesitation. But soon after the cast, security guard came in and tell us to leave cause this is a private property. He tried to demoralise us by saying that there are no fishes in this area. So no choice, we had to packed up. So Toh start to reel in his line, but were stuck in the pier. So as usual, had to pull and pull.... Then came a women jogger who thought Toh got a big fish. So she kept looking at Toh pulling the line using his hand... But we already know the line were stuck. So when the line snapped, the women got a shocked and immediately continue jogging... So shameful.

So off we went to Seletar to recce... Hmm not a bad spot but the breakwater looks like we gonna had a hell time of stuck. So we started out using float again. Again, it was so boring then Toh stared out casting another rod using weight. Around 2 tries, no stuck at all. So Kai immediately use weight to fish. And the fishing goes on as usual.

Today is Kai day as he caught a sting ray around 1 kg. He told Toh to come and see what he caught. It was a small ray. So after photo taking, we try to unhook the ray, and set it off. But when unhooking, the ray started to give birth to another baby ray which is around the size of a human palm. We got a shocked and still trying to unhook the ray as fast as possible.

After unhooking, another problem occurs. How do we get the ray into the water? The rocks are slippery, So Toh got the ray on the plastic bag, and threw it hard into the sea. But the heavy wind blew it away onto the rocks. This time, Kai had no choice but to go down and save both the mother and child. Sorry Kai!!!

But soon after that, everything went ok with both ray released into the sea. Our Mission: We do not kill for the sake of fishing. We only kill for the sake of eating!!

Ok so our mission carries on until Kai bell rang hard this time. Kai pulled it out and sadly, the line stuck in the rock. So Kai had to go down again to save the fish. And this is where the funny part is.

Firstly, Kai slipper is slippery resistance like he is able to walk on the slippery rocks easily. Maybe he concentrate his chakra on his feets..... Ok so when Kai trying to remedy the line, The fish jumped out and landed on the rock, near the shore. Both Kai and Toh got a shocked. Toh threw a plastic bag to Kai so that Kai can wrap the fish around it. But the fish kept jumping and nearly hit the sea water around 10cm away. Kai had no choice but to hold the fish using the plastic bag. He doesn't know what to do. So Toh came down and help and they were able to subdue the monster. Ok.... what fish was that???? So Kai immediately did goggling on the spot and realise that this fish was called flathead. We knew that this fish was edible. Haha... ok let's bring it home. And that is the catch of the day.

Lastly, Damn the water skiier for coming so near to our fishing site. We can even hear what they were talking. This will scare the fishes away. But thanks to the coast gurad who chase them away.

Marina Bay

Because of float, Toh Kai and Kel went on to Marina Bay to test float fishing. As the breakwater are full of stone, using weight is not advisable. Therefore Kel is the first to use the float. Ok the cast is far and looks ok. So we proceed on using the float. But we had to concentrate on the line which still might get stuck on the stone.

The journey to the breakwater is rough. small pebble or stone spoil the suspension of Toh trolley. Damn it and the worst thing is the float stuck in the breakwater and the line snapped. Still can see the float and there are light indicator on the float. As the wave and wind current is strong, We had to spread ourselves out around 100m between.

kinda of boring. looking at the float movin, no one to talk to, reel in after awhile. therefore we decided to change place as it was too boring. Ok so we went to East coast 6 pipe. This is where Toh realise his trolley is spoiled. The stupid suspension sound irritates not only me but everyone on the jetty. So shameful.

Again, no catch.... we call it a day.

3rd Pasir Ris trip

The 3rd trip aslo ends up without a catch. As the tide is going up, Toh and Kel move into the secret spot where they walk along the sand which soon going to be filled up with sea water. We had to jump across the mini lake caused by the high tide. The funny part is when Kel jump across, he did not realise the sand is soft. therefore he jump across it and his body landed flat on the sand. Toh got a shocked and jump over it cautiously.

Ok destination reached. Looking for a big rock to sit on. Toh looking around the rubbish and saw a big stone. Wanted to carry the stone to where his rod is planted. Before that, he looked closely and it turns out to be a dead puffer fish. Again like the 2nd trip, He jump up high above the ground. The puffer fishs is totally bloated and looks like going to explode anytime.

Thank god he didn't touch it. But as the tide is going up, they proceed on to the break water. Of course no bite as usual. A group of China mens kept casting their rod to our side with pissed us off. They can still say sorry and still cast at our direction. Toh is annoyed and kept on cursing them.

Curse and curse, they caught a crab... Curse and curse, they got a snapper around 1.5kg using a float. Damn it. float can catch fish... till morning they caught a chaoxi.... This is where Toh and Kel packs up and go home..... Still cursing the China men

2nd Pasir Ris trip

Because of the 1st trip which spoiled our mood, Kel and Toh went on to recce the spot again on the next week. But still, there is no better route to the spot. So we went to west plaza and buy 3 pairs of rubber boots for later night. Kel is not feeling well, so he went home and rest early.

Around pm, Kel told us that he is not coming as his sickness gone from bad to worst. Well no choice Kai and Toh proceed on the the site.

As it was high tide, proceed on to the site was not easy. The high level of sea water cover the entire sand onto the grass land. So Toh started fishing at the breakwater while waiting for Kai. Toh had to carry all the equipments by himself. By the time Toh reched the breakwater, he is totally shagged out. But still he still continue fishing.

Kai came and started to fish with hstitation. The first catch came from Kai with his trademark catfish. While Toh is tying a few leaders while waiting for some fishes to answer his bell.

Then suddenly, Kai rod had a heavy pull. Kai continue to reel in the line while we saw something like water fountain kept on splitting water out. Then it came to be an octopus. Oh gosh. None of us dare to hold this monster. It's slimy, sticky and looks dangerous.

So we took around half an hour or more just to place the octopus on the barbecue pit. As toh has no impatient, he try to hold the head of the octopus, immdeiately, the octopus head stimulate. Toh had a loud cried. He jumped up high above the ground and had a weird feeling about it. And so Kai kept the octopus in the net and we carried on fishing.

So as the tide went down, Toh and Kai went into their secret spot. As usual, walk through the sand, climb a mini cliff, jump over the rocks. And they start fishing. around 7am, it's feeding time for the fishes. Kai caught a sotong which he says is heavy but no fight at all. Once the sotong reached inland, he released the hook immediately. We seperate the octopus and the sotong because in case the octopus might eat it. And it was quite a boring trip as there was totally no bite .

Tried to sell the octopus but to no avail. Too bad... better luck next time. RIP octopus.... Sorry for throwing you away..... Stupid Toh, Damn Toh.... Curse him forever.

Photo by Kai

1st Pasir Ris trip

All along these times, Toh doesn't like to go Beach fishing. Because he admit he cannot cast far into deep sea. But it started out with Kel told Toh that There is a place at Pasir Ris that is good for Kim.... Ok let's try. So Toh went to recce for the spot. Hmm, quite convincing and productive.
Ok let's do it for the night. So it started out with the 3 musketeer went on to the spot, wearing our army boots. Around 12pm, Kai met us there and off we go.

We had to walk pass the beach, across the rock, and we reached the destination. So immediately, we started to cast our rod. But the clouds looked red and evil. So we took our chance hoping it will not rain. During that period, Kai cause a catfish (his trademark fish). and the fishing goes on until Jennifer told Kai to take care because it started to rain in Siglap. Oh well let's pray for the rain not to reach our destination. But thank god, It started to rain cats and dogs. We packed our stuff immediately, and ran into the forest. Not knowing where the places are, we kept on walking and walking. Thunder and lightnings brighten our path sometimes. And our handphones kept ringing. Dun dare to answer - scared of lightning strike. So we proceed on in the forest. Around 1 hour or more later, we saw a road. Then we proceed on towards our car by walking along the route.

The day ended with no catch at all, waste of bait, mullets and sotong and soaking wet.

Third Fishing trip

In this trip, we had daffi to accompany us to the fishing site. Although Toh has went to this spot before around 2003 with his ITE friends and he caught a Chao xi. But that time, only bikes were able to go in as there were barriers in the entrance.

Now it is a so called public places for anglers. Kai went to this spot to take some photo. He sms Toh that this is a good spot for fishing where we can fish with the car parked beside us. ok let's do it.

When we reached there, heavy rainfall immediately pecked on our bodies. We had no shelter to cover. In the end, we were all drenched. But still, we do not let the rain spoiled our mood for fishing. This is where we start fishing from around 4pm till midnight. This is our catch..... Nothing much to see as we caught nothing, less the stupid cat fish and some very very small fish and a surprised.

The night ends with a guy kept talking to us about life, gym or whatever. Toh and Kai continue to fish while Daffi kepts on entertaining the man.... Lucky us....

Photo by Kai

A trip to Keppel

Kai told Toh that there is a nice place for fishing at Keppel Bay. So we took off for another fishing trip. Everything started out with parking lots available, scenery is nice and there is a no fishing sign on most area except the place where we were fishing. But we were told to pack up as this is a private property.

Around 1.30am, we left the place and went to KTM to filled our stomach before filling the fish stomach. After that we went to East Coast 6 pipe to continue our fishing for the night. Luckily we had a trolley to freed us from carry the accessories in such a long distance walk.

There is no bite from 2.30am till 6am at that time, we were looking at the clouds, and the plane flying above us thinking that it might be the end of the world for us....... whatever.

Then around 7am, Kai got a catfish. He was called the "king of catfish" by Toh because every trip, he would definitely at least 1 catchfish. Then around 7.15am, Toh took a cast and within 1 minute, he saw the rod was shaking. So he pulled the rod and started to cast as fast as he could. So the fish came onto surface, it was a flatfish.



Credits to Kai

At first we didn't know what fish it was. Toh really hate the eyes of the fish as they looked like frog so forget it. We gave the fish to an angler who just arrived the site. Until now, Toh is regret that he gave this fish to that uncle....Sigh

An all out fishing trip

With Kel expecting to join us in the next fishing trip, Kai and Toh went for some recce mission around Singapore. the mission came to an end as we chose Marina South Ferry Terminal as our next fishing trip.

As this is an all out mission for Toh, he borrowed around 3 rods and reels and in the end, he managed to cast out 7 rods into the sea but of course with the help of Kai and Kel. But the area was stone infested as many of our lines were stuck in the first throw. Within half an hour, we lost a few weights. Damn it man.... therefore we give up on this area and proceed to Labrador Park.

Carry our stuffs and accessories back to our car was like one of a hell. imagine 9 rods, 5 to 6 1'5 litres of waters, 500grams of live prawns, 3 foldable chairs and other bulky items. we were already shagged out after we reached our car.

But still we procced on to Labrador Park. Luckily the journey to the site from the carpark was near. we managed to fix our stuff and proceed on to fishing as we are already behind time from high tide.

Suddenly, one of the rod slipped on the railing and fell to the ground. Kai immediately tell Toh to reel the rod as he was standing nearest the rod. Toh pick up the rod and gave a hard pull. but there is no fight. it might be a catfish or some sea weed. But to his astonishment, it was a Spanish snapper.

After this catch, the rod became silent only for seaweeds to spoil our mood. As the tide is going down slowly, we agreed on other location. The reason is due to the low tide, protuding lots of stone in the area where our line always got stuck on it.

Well, we are not professionals. We proceed on to Lorong Halus where Toh trucks got chased by around 6 to 7 dogs. As we reached the area, none of us dare to open the door. But as the dog gave up chasing, we able to get out of the car and recce the place. The place are of full of sand flies, mosquitoes and mud so we moved on to Punggol where we start to recce a suitable place for fishing.

While we reached the destination, Kai went to pick Jennifer while Toh and Kel continue fishing. As usual, we checked on the rod and changed bait. As I were reeling in 1 of the rod, Toh felt the rod was heavy. No bite, no feeling, just heavy. Therefore he reel it in as fast as possible hoping that might be a tired fish after frequent struggled. But what he and Kel saw was a yellowish plastic thingy.... thought was a plastic bag but no it's moving, it's a lobster... And no, it's a crayfish..... And fially, when the thingy was inland, what in the hell was that, A few anglers came and tell me that this thingy can be eaten.

And when Kai came back with Jennifer, Many of us couldn't believe what that thingy was. But Kai managed to find out that it was a Lobster, crayfish family known as Mantis Shrimp. We had a fun but tiring night and day. Let the picture do the talking.











Credits to Jennifer

Around 3pm we start to pack up and leave this area... Its been a tiring day since we start fishing at 11pm the day before.....

2nd trip in New Year eve 2007

Location of SAF YACHT CLUB Credits to flickr.com

Another day of fishing trips which also went fruitless. Toh realised he do not have enough weights after got his line broke off many times, he drove all the way to Changi V just to buy sufficient weights for this trip. Toh and Daffi met a guy who talks and gave us some tips about fishing. Although this irritates me and my mood in fishing, but the picture in his handphone showing a few big catchs turns me on. He gave us some bait before he leave and therefore we had to stay longer to finish up the bait.

Jinyu and Kai arrived around 8 to 9pm and this is where we start to focus on fishing. In fact there were around 20 over anglers which cramp on the 20 meters alley. As we used up our baits, we returned home without any catch.

First trip since 2001

Location of TMFT Credits to panoramio.com

Its been a long time since we went fishing. well... due to our commitment to the school, jobs and national service, we finally managed to find time for our first fishing adventure since 2001.

During Christmas day 2007 The thought of fishing came right into our mind when Jinyu said he feel like fishing. This leisure immediately shot through Toh brain. the excitement of reeling and fighting against the sea monster.

The very next day, Toh brought Jinyu to Changi village to buy a rod and a reel. To Jinyu, a rod is a rod, it doesn't have to be expensive since is was only for leisure. Therefore he bought a fishing rod with reel cost only about 27 dollars if i'm not wrong. At the same day, Jinyu and Toh went to a few places for recce mission, bashing through those bushes and shrubs and finally set a sight on a site which looks productive for big fishes which is Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal.

The next day, Toh and Jinyu set off early morning to catch the high tide and did some fishing. Toh and Jinyu have a difficult tying the fishing line because it's been a long time since they does it and forgotten how to do it. But somehow, Toh remember how to tie the knot and they start fishing after nearly 1 hour.

Kai and Daffi came later in the afternoon as the excitement of fishing also runs through their brain. But this excitement doesn't last for long because our line always got stuck on the rock and and lost a few of our weight.

That's it. Our very first trip ends up without a catch although 2 or 3 crabs which we released unharm.