Prawning at Bishan Park

Date: 4th Dec 09
Location: Bishan Park


Nice layout of the pond at Bishan

Have not been Prawning for many months when my good friend pop out a question asking me to join him at Bishan Park. This friend of mine, since i know him in Polytechnic never ever like such kind of hobby at all and hearing that he is interested to learn, i'm very much willing to share and teach him a few trick on this and i'm not bullshitting..hahahaa :) Since he doesn't want me to review his name in my blog, i'm ok with it cos he is not suppose to come out of his house...hahahaaa!!!

Within an hour catch

We took our lunch at Toa Payoh and headed to Bishan at ard 2pm. Luckily, not much people around since it is a weekday and it has been raining throughout the day. Actually, on his last prawning trip which is few months ago, he and his wife togther with their colleague tried out prawning here and it was not promising with only 6 prawns caught. To be truthful, i can say that prawning need skill and patience and it is not so easy at all. If you're bringing your girlfriend to prawning and you wanna impress her, do brush up the prawning skill or you will be in deep deep trouble.....heheheheee!!!

Need more to impress the girls

Nice size for my dinner

Total catch for us...40pcs

With my guidance, this friend of mine finally get to know what Prawning is all about. Amazingly, he is able to master the skill pretty fast and managed to catch quite a lot of prawn all by himself. For me, it was a fruitful prawning as well and in total, we caught around 40pcs in 2hrs.

Washing up the prawns with Salt

Its BBQ time..yummy!!!

Do you wanna have some for dinner?

Since, we do not want to bag the prawn home, my friend suggested to BBQ it on the spot. Its a first time for me and It was really nice trying out the fresh BBQ prawn and watching people trying their 101 ways in catching the prawn. On my future prawning trip, will likely to bring the Soya sauce,chilli and fresh lime for my BBQ prawn and a few cans of beer to have my maximum enjoyment. Yummy....!!!

Eatng the BBQ prawn and having some beer works magic!

Excellent Bottom Offshore Fishing trip 24th-28thOct09

Location: Sabah Malaysia

Equipment(Reel): Shimano Torium 30, Penn Baja Special, Shimano Stradic 8000

Equipment(Rod): Shimano JigWrex PE6, Calstar 410, Shino Monster GT PE5

It was a trip that i have been looking forward to since Febuary this year. After months of waiting finally it time for some serious "4 Days 3 Night Hardcore Bottom Fishing" at the South China Sea.

Anyway, Will let the picture do the talking :P

Boarding the Plane at Johore


Fish noodle anyone???


Sabah Marlin Statue near the Port


2 trolley of food for our trip


Edmond with his 5kg Tenggiri


Fresh bait is the Key to success


Jaws........lurking around!!!


Lots of 3-5kg Fish caught


An Alien Fish caught


The first awesome Red Ruby caught


Durian caught from the sea


What an Ugly Shark caught


Thats a beauty...6kg Red Grouper


Time for some live bait fishing


Red Grouper by Merlion Chong


Alan's Setup:Tiburon SST with JiggingMaster rod


A big Red Snapper with a good fight


Monster work!!!


What a big fat Ruby!!!


Another Ruby which took me a while for photo-taking


Largest Red Ruby caught on this trip


Part of our catch


Many more Fish caught


Red Ruby anyone :)


Time to invest on this type of gear


Shopping at Sabah after our fishing trip


What we had for dinner...BBQ seafood

Hungry Alan and Edmond


Delicious Grape like seaweed


A local fruit, Buah Talap that can be found in Sabah only

Overall, this was a very good experience for me as this is my virgin trip to Sabah. Nevertheless, i had very good company on my trip which really makes my day. Thanks to my organizer for making this trip a dream come true for me. Will be looking forward for another trip to Sabah soon with more heavier gears .... :)

16th Oct 09 Kayak Fishing at ECP

October is a rainy month and its quite hard to have a good fishing day for me. Morning was raining heavily at my place and i was uncertain if i could go for a fishing trip. In the end, i decided to give a try in the afternoon praying hard that weather will be good. In this trip, Yip CK, my Secondary school fishing buddy which i have known for many years will be joining me on this trip.

Setting up the battleship

On my arrival to ECP at 1230pm, the weather was pretty hot and sunny. We are pretty lucky that we are able to do our Kayak fishing in the afternoon as the forecast predicted that the weather will not be favorable for the whole day.

Yip enjoying his kayak fishing


What a hot weather!

Yip who is a first timer on Kayak fishing was impressed with the AEC and was quite confident fishing on this kayak. For the whole afternoon, my Garmin fish finder was reading many fish underneath the Kayak but the fish was not biting at all. We can see many fish but luck is not with us on this trip.

At around 4:00pm, the fish started to bite and we managed to catch some blue-lined hinder and a Parrot fish. At least they are some action on this trip and Yip was enjoying it a lot.


A nice Parrot for Yip


Yip waiting patiently for some serious action


Time to have some icy cold water


A small hinder caught and released back to sea


Another Hinder caught by Yip


Time to packed up

Sadly, not much action for us on this trip but at least, we can fish happily for a few hours with pretty good weather. Will be going for my 4D3N Sabah offshore fishing next week and hope i can have good action by then. :P

Kayak Fishing at ECP on 10th Oct 09

It has been a few months i have not been out for Kayak fishing since last July. Since i'm free on Saturday, i decided to check with Ian where he will be heading for the Saturday trip. Beforehand, the trip was suppose to be at Tuas but was last minute changed to East Coast Park.

I woke up at 5am in the morning and reached East Coast at 6am. Besides Ian, Mervin who owns the Airis Kayak joined us as well for this trip. Before 7am, we are ready to set off and was quite excited as Mervin informed that we will be heading to some wreck spot on his GPS and i'm pretty eagered to fight some big monster.


A group photo at East Coast Park


Heading to the wreak spot

While we will finding for the wreck spot, Ian paddled to a marker buoy to get some live bait tamban and since, i couldn't locate the spot, i might as well get some tamban fishing to start my day. I took over Ian's tamban jig and have fun doing my tamban jigging on my Kayak.

Tamban jigging fun

After a few fruitful tamban jigging, we could see dark clouds coming towards us at a fast pace and without further a do, Ian and I decided to paddled back to find Mervin. Half way back, the wind and the strong wave did gave me a big headache as i could really keep up my pace as well as trying hard to paddle towards Ian's direction. At that moment, i was struggling and extremely tired. Soon, the rain was pouring heavily and i have no choice but to head straight and give up on meeting Ian and Mervin and most importantly, i got to land on the beach to avoid the strong wave and rain. What a stormy weather for me!!!


Help!!! The Storm is coming !!!

I landed on the other beach which is around 300m away from Mervin and Ian. Ian tried to call me on my mobile but it couldn't reply due to the rain and most importantly, rain water entered my Handphone and it was dead.

Ian paddled safely to shore

After almost half an hour or so, the weather get slightly better and i paddled back to meet Ian and Mervin. I really felt bad to made both of them worried for me. I was really exhausted when i paddled back and after a short rest, Ian suggested to have a "round two" mission. Since, the weather turned better and not to disappoint everyone, i decided to carry on the fishing.


Mervin on his Airis

We headed to some rocky spots which is not too far from the beach i landed during the storm. Surprisingly, looking at my Garmin fishfinder, i can see some potential structure with many fish spotted on the screen. Without further a do, i quickly wet my line and up came the Lattice Monocle Bream (Angkoli) which took my tamban.

An Angkoli that took my Tamban bait

Mervin and Ian also caught some Angkoli and Parrot fish at this rocky spot which made this trip slightly entertaining for us.


A beautiful fish caught

Overall, it was quite a nice trip for me and indeed a very tiring one. Will be looking forward for more Kayaking trip in future with my Kayak gang. :)