FishingFanatics@Singapore: 05th~06th Oct Offshore boat Trip at Ah Ngan Kelong

Perfect Showdown at Ah Ngan Kelong and the pathetic Boat fishing trip

Tides:
05 Oct 07 1150 1.9
05 Oct 07 1722 2.3
05 Oct 07 0758 2.2
06 Oct 07 0126 0.7
06 Oct 07 0905 2.3
06 Oct 07 1418 1.8
06 Oct 07 1943 2.3

Chinese Calendar: 八月二十五 (05Oct07), 八月二十六 (06Oct07)

Without having much sleep, I manage to wake up at 0400 to prepare myself for my all time favorite Sibu Kelong trip. At 0545, I pickup Lu Cong at Marsiling 888 Coffeeshop and headed to Kranji MRT to meet up with Darren and Richard. After the JB custom, we head towards the Malaysia to have our usual delicious Wan-Tan-Mee at the Pelangi Coffee Shop which opens 24hrs everyday if I’m not wrong.

The 3 "Fish-keteer" (Lu Cong, Darren, Richard)

After our breakfast, my 3 friends decided to get some cheaper beer to make this trip more fantastic but due to such early hours and the petrol kiosk in Malaysia does not sell alcoholic drinks, therefore the idea was drop. Arthur, whom I met on my last Changi offshore trip, also joined me for this Trip together with his friend, TC. Being the organizer for this trip, I was a bit sad to see my initial planning setting off from JB to Tg Leman at 0630 was sort of delay by an hour which causes some unhappiness on my friends. Anyway, at 0730 after meeting up with Arthur and TC, we headed straight to Leman Jetty using the Sedili route which proved to be much faster than I expected.

(TeckChin, Arthur and me)

Along the way to Tg Leman, I called up Ah Ngan to inform him that I’ll be late. But to my surprise by using the Sedili route, we managed to reach Leman Jetty less than 2 hours. Jetty tax was bought for the 6 us and at 0930 sharp, the malay boatman greeted us at the Jetty and all our hearts were excited to board the Yellow Boat to the Kelong.

Morning "Green Eye" Galore

The boat ride to the Kelong took around 30-40 minutes and upon reaching the Kelong, we were greeted by the friendly Ah Ngan and his workers. In order to delight the customer, our belongings were carried up to the Kelong by the Kelong’s worker which I like about coming to Ah Ngan Kelong. Without delay, all of us setup all our gears and headed directly to wet our lines and hook. In the morning, many squid was caught by the malay guy from the Kelong. Was informed by thw workers that during the previous night before we arrived, huge amount of squid was caught. Darren was lucky enough to catch his first squid or his first biggest Squid on his first jig using his Yo-zuri 3.0 Orange Shrimp hunter. As for me, I went out to target Selar using my DIY sabiki hook and for my 1st jig, 3 decent size selar was caught on my Sabiki but 1 manage to escape while I reeled in my line. No Selar was biting since then after the fish escaped. As no fish and squid was caught, Darren, Lu Cong and I tried targeting the Rabbit fish and we will really successful catching it whereby we caught nearly 50pcs within 1-2hours.

The 1st 30minutes catch at Kelong

Darren, The Champion Sotong terminator with his first and largest Squid

After our luscious lunch, we prepared ourselves for the offshore Sibu trip. Ah Ngan, even teaches us the correct way of tighing knots and even told us our chances of getting big fish like Chermin and snapper with our live prawn. In the end, for the entire trip, no fish was caught for the few hours. There was one time when all of us included the boatman dozed off. Only by the last one hour, some small coral fishes were caught. What a pathetic offshore trip I ever been to. In addition, the worst things happened when 2 of my friends, Darren and Richard our “Captain Jack Sparrow” became the Merlion. They were cursing and swearing of not going for any offshore trip never and ever again. It was indeed a painful experience having seasickness and suffering on the boat but one's really got to get over it if you are into offshore fishing. Usually for many people, after a few trip, you will most likely prone to seasickness. Luckily for the first timer, Lu Cong, he has survived from being a merlion under such rocking condition but still swearing that no boat fishing ever again. Well, according to my 3 dear friends, they would rather spend their money on Pay-pond fishing rather than going offshore ever again... .Well, what to do...really hard to delight them leh....hohohohohoooo.

My Daiwa sealine SL50SH and Zeus Red Scorpion

My Daiwa Dynastar and Shakespear Contender

Darren and our Captain Richard Sparrow surrender!!!

No fish until Organizer Doze off....Zzzzzz

Grouper anyone?

Beautiful sunset at Sibu

After having our dinner and a good bathe, our fishing urge was filled up to the max and everyone started to jig for squid or do some luring. Arthur who is concentrating on doing his luring managed to catch a few juvenile Barracudas. Darren, Lu Cong, Captain Jack Sparrow and I continue on Squid jigging and all of us are very happy with of catches during the night. Yamashita Squid jig seem to be the most effective for the night on Green eye Squid and Aero Squid.Darren became our man of the match for the night, “Sotong-Terminator Champion of Ah Ngan Kelong”. The night supper, coconut milk with red bean soup was fantastic. During my Eging, I have lost a couple of Squid jig which is fortunately enough, all are cheapo lures. This Cheap stuff still managed to get me some Aero and Green eye squid as well. At 2300, I’m too tired to carry on and I stopped my squid jigging but on the other hand, I started my squid dreaming. Judging by my personal test on all the squid lure which I have used, I can concluded that Yamashita is the best to be used for Squid Jigging….Yamashita san, do consider giving me a few percent of your increase sales on the Squid jig....hahahahahahaaaa!!!

Cheap lure seems effective too but not as effective as YAMASHITA!

Who say cheap lure is no good?

Aero Sotong also cannot resist the temptation

Woke up at 0400 without enough sleep is really tiring but who cares if I can get some good fishing. When I woke up, Arthurs has already started his luring and Eging. Luck was with him when a school of Parangs was attracted to his Yo-zuri L-minnow. One after another Parang was being caught by his deadly Yo-zuri weapon....which I think will be out of stock soon after reading my blog..... J Total of 6 Parang was caught by him within less than an hour. No squid was caught after I started jigging for squid and everything is quiet till around 9am where the Selar and Kunning started feeding. Within 20 minutes of bait fish jigging using the sabiki, I have already caught more than 50 over pieces of my favorite Nasi Lemak fish, Kunning. Although not much fight by the small fish but it was really fun. Lu Cong managed to catch a decent size todak and he was really out to target them. As the todak become more careful in feeding after the first was caught, no fish was brought up since then. I have also setup my line for Todak as well but without paying much attention to my rod, I discovered than my leader (50lbs braided) was torn and my 2 gang hook was missing after retrieving back my line. Oh boy, what kind of fish had took my bait and escaped with my hook?

Arthur, The 6 Parangs and Yellow tail Barra Terminator

Yo-zuri did it again!

Around 1030, everyone started packing up so as to prevent stuff being stolen when the crowd came. Our Captain Richard Sparrow has full of energy like the Alkaline Energetic Battery. He can talk for hours none stop and every one of us will sit in and chat with him. All of us really enjoy listening to his conversation which brightens up everyone’s heart. His action speaks louder than his words when he performed his spectacular casting which reminds me of the action hero, Superman....hahahahaa. Our Captain Richard Sparrow never fails to delight us with his action and words. Without him, this Kelong trip will be a boring one, isn’t it? Everyone stopped fishing as the weather become hotter and we waited for our lunch before heading back to Leman Jetty.

Captain with his pail of "Kunning"

Good morning...Captain Richard Sparrow

Hey...This is the correct posture to cast far... OK!

Captain Richard Sparrow waiting for his "Yellow Ship" with pretty girls

Lu Cong the Todak Terminator

Ok, a guideline for newbies who is interested. The Total spending for the 6 of us is roughly close to RM1200 which inclusive of the stay and food at Kelong (RM132 per pax), offshore boat fishing (RM300 per boat) and the live prawn (RM75) used for the boat fishing. The Kelong trip was indeed fantastic for me but not the boat trip which I personally felt that it’s not really worthwhile as Kelong is more productive compare to boat fishing. Maybe it’s our luck for choosing the wrong timing and tide resulted in the poor catch which is beyond of our expectation. Nevertheless, its part and parcel of our life where unexpected always happened. All in all, I have really enjoyed the 2D1N trip but still having some mix feeling of disappointment whereby i will not mentioned it here to spoilt my mood....hohohohoho. Just be happy and forget the unhappiness and i'm sure I will have better result on my next upcoming offshore boat trip with big fish. FISH FOR PASSION!!!