Monday, June 23, 2008

The 24hrs Fishing Trip

Date:14-06-2008
Destination: Pahang-Pekan
Type of fishing: Jigging and Bottom fishing
No of people: 8
Set off location: Kranji MRT station
Set off Timing: 0130am on 14th Jun 08

"Yah....its no joke!!!" This trip is indeed a 24hrs trip where every minute is fully utilised. The Journey to Pekan is roughly 4.5 hours from Johore bahru and luckily we are not driving up there as after the fishing trip and after a dinner at Pekan, we got to return back to Singapore and its sure to be a hectic and tiring trip for all of us.


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1am at Kranji MRT station


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3am drinking my teh-halia with the folks


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Early morning at Pekan Kopi-shop


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Our transportation to Pekan


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So many things to choose for breakfast


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Its coffee time!!!

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Boatman also came for a cup of coffee


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How i wish i had this in Singapore


Pekan is a nice and lovely fishing village which one can really feel relaxing and certainly feeling less stressful compare to living in a fast pace city like Singapore. Frankly speaking, Singapore is a fast developing country and many Fishing Spot in Singapore has already give way for commercial buildings or places mend for tourist more than for locals to enjoy. Without much place left for doing our hobbies, we Singaporeans tends to find other places in our neighbouring countries. "Hmmm.....so sad for us"


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Time to wet our line


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Its jigging time...too bad no fish


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Arthur with his first snapper on died prawn


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My 1st catch of the day using died prawn


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Ricky's rod is bending

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A big parrot


At roughly 6am in the morning, we reached Pekan. After a breakfast at a local Coffeeshop, we headed off to the Boatman's house to have some freshening up, and soon the 8 of us were on the way to the Jetty to board the fishing boat. This time round, the old boatman will not accompany us but has informed has son, Ricky, to bring us out for this trip.


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A good fight for Ricky


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Squid jigging session


Shortly, we were all speeding out from the estuary into the big sea and it was a hell of a bumpy ride for Arthur, Trick and me. The 3 of us were sitting at the bow and the impact was really fantastic......or maybe painful to be more precise. Seriously, Pekan seems not really an ideal place for fishing as i can see that Bubus were scattered all over the sea and there are many local fishing boats around. Fishing at such high fishing pressure area doesn't seems to be promising at all. Our liveprawns which we brought over from Singapore for targetting the Ebeks had failed its mission as all prawns were found dead when we wanna use it. Really miserable...as no live prawns means no ebek for us.

Jigging was simply pathetic for most of us as nothing took out jigs after jigging for many hours. After the long jigging, most of us decided to change into bottom-fishing. Ricky uses crab as bait and managed to land a 3.5kg Parrot fish. As for us, only small groupers and small snapper was caught using died prawns.


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Sean caught something big


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The cobia finally landed


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Sean with his 8kg cobia

The biggest catch of the trip is from Sean who uses live bait fish. A Cobia took his bait and it certainly gave Sean a good workout. Initially, all of us thought that the fish was way too easy to counter as within a shortwhile, the cobia surfaced and all of us are able to see the fish swimming near to the boat. However, the real fight begins when it suddenly made a dash into the deep and i can hear Sean's Accurate reel screaming for help with his line peeling off meters by meters into the water. After much struggle, the fish finally gave in and a clear victory for our tiring Sean.


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Arthur caught a Sakai


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Squid on my Yamashita

Bottom fishing was not doing fine as well. However, what really interest me is the jigging of Green-eye reef squid from the boat and it's my first time doing it. I managed to catch 3 squid whereby i have the intention to bring it home for cooking but then came to realise that it was taken away by the boatman from the Icebox without my knowing. The squid ended up as baits for the guys fishing at the stern.


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The Fusiliers pair (Potato Fish)


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Double combo using sabiki


Sadly, my Majorcraft offblow jigging rod and my Daiwa Caldia Kix4000 reel had no chance to perform due to the poor jigging result for the whole day. In the end, this 500 over bucks equipment was used with the Sabiki jigs to jig for small fish...and i really meant it. Hahahahaaa.....when one's really damn boring, he will likely to do all kind of funny stuff.


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Icebox too small for the cobia


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Say cheers!!!


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Who owe the Loanshark $$$!!!


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A long waiting dinner at the Pekan

The fishing came to an end at around 6pm and i really glad it finally ends. After unloading our stuff from the boat, we went to a nearby shop for a drink waiting for our driver to fetch us back to the boatmans house for a much needed shower. At around 7:30pm, we headed to a nearby chinese restaurant for our dinner. The Parrotfish which was caught in this trip was included as one of the main dishes in our menu. All of us had a great meal and its pretty cheap as well. The long drive back was really tiring. At roughly 2am, we finally reached Johore.......and thats what i meant for a 24hrs fishing trip.

Friday, June 13, 2008

My Pekan Light Jigging Preparation

This Pekan trip was confirmed only by this Tuesday and was kind of rush mainly due to the recent increased of petrol pricing causing many Malaysia boatman to increase the price at the very last minute. Since this Saturday trip was solely for light jigging, luring jigs of 40-60grams is needed as the water at Pekan is not very deep and the gears for this trip does not need to be too heavy. Nevertheless, really hope that this Saturday trip will be a very promising and fruitful trip for me and my friends.



Kabura Jigs


Jigging hooks


My range of 40-60grams Jigs


The Jigs that will be used for this trip



Jigging Rod: Majorcraft Offblow Jigging game
(Model:OB-S58/4 PE1.5-3 )
Jigging Reel: Daiwa Caldia Kix 4000

A Prawn Fishing session for my friend

Met Joon roughly at 6:30pm at his work place and then drive to Pasir Ris. After visiting a tackle shop at Pasir Ris Paypond, we headed to a nearby food court for our dinner. Since my job for the night is to teach my friend how to do prawning, we went straight to a nearby Prawning Paypond at Farmway1. Surprisingly, Not many people were doing prawning when we reach our destination but this doesn't means good news for us.......saw some dead prawn floating in the pond and it could means that the water condition is not that good and also, the bite rate will be affected. Anyway, we just settled for a 3hrs session with one Prawn rod and hoping for the best.


The Paypond counter


The receipt for Prawning


Bait for the Prawns...chicken liver


Waiting for the target


Busy man


Dead Prawn Floating


The 3 hours catch


Location: Pasir Ris Farmway 1 Fishing and Prawning pond
Time: 8:25pm till 11:25pm (3hrs)
Price: $30 for 3 hrs
Catch Rate: Simply pathetic
Conclusion: Many dead prawns floating and the kind of bite rate...really speechless.
Will most likely trying out other prawning areas.
Main Objective: Luring my kaki into prawning...Fully Accomplished.
Hohohooo...My friend decided to get a prawning rod :P

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Fruitless Luring trip at Bedok Reservoir

Date: 10th June 2008
Location: Bedok Reservoir (Legal fishing site)
Catch: A big Dinosaur Egg

After sleeping from 10am till 3pm after a tiring night shift, really need some motivation. As i could't bring myself to sleep , decided to have a fishing session somewhere nearby. Since i have not done freshwater luring for quite sometime, luring at Bedok Reservoir will be a good choice.

As i'm quite new to this reservoir and i have never done any luring/fishing in this area, it will be a good try out for me. Usually, i would drive to fish but recently, i just bought a class 2A motorcycle meant for my fishing trip, it will be a good travelling distance to warm up my bike since i have not use it for around 3 days.









I arrived at Bedok Reservoir road roughly around 4pm and had spent some time finding a sheltered parking lot near the SS supermarket. With my gears, i started searching for the fishing jetty for nearly 15 minutes for the legal fishing site. Finally, then i came to know that the fishing spot is quite far away from where i am..... Seriously, i almost decided to give up searching for the Jetty. Immediately, i ride my way to my destination to prevent wasting my golden opportunity on catching my prize fish. Hehehe....no matter what, i got to wet my line.





After reaching the Jetty, i can see some Uncle doing their fishing at the Jetty as well. They seems to be using live baits which is illegal and its a no..no as it will pollute the water in this area (Drinking water). Only artificial baits are allowed to be used in our local reservior. Got to be more considerate for other people as well as for yourself.






At the Jetty, I can see a couple of juvenile Peacock Bass swimming around and the bigger ones are roughly around palm size. Moreover, i can see some surface action at the wafer but every cast is a disappointment. It seems that no fish were interested with my lures. For this Fishing session, i used my 2 River2Sea lures (Humbug)and a Cultiva pencil to try out this spot. Sadly, No bite at all!!! Hence, no chance for me to post my catch today.






Nevertheless, i will once again give it another try luring at this nice fishing spot or maybe gather my luring kakis to fish here. Believe me,I'll be back soon.....:)

Friday, June 6, 2008

The Blue Angel at Bottletree Park




Its been many weeks since my last Fishing trip at Tanjung Pinang trip and the "Fishing Urge" really kills!!!
In order to stop it...or maybe cure it for the meantime, i need to do something....and the best temporary solution is to do prawning :P


Date: 6th June 2008
Time10:00 -11:00
Weather: A bit hot but still not bad
Gear:7ft prawn rod
Total catch:26pcs