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. :)