My Pre-Birthday Celebration at Sedilli

Date: 06 Sept 08

Location: Sedilli

Time: 0300hr till 1800hr

Tide: 0303hr 2.3m High tide

1420hr 2.6m High tide

1613hr 1.2m Low tide

My best Birthday Present

Last two week, Joon informed that he has booked the Sedilli boat on the 6th Sept. Since i'm having my birthday on the 9th Sept, i informed my wife that i don't wanna have any birthday present for this year and all she need to do is to accompany me to this boat trip and of cos, everything and fees will be on me....really worthwhile for her. Seriously, this is a meaningful and the best present for me cos this is the very first time my wife is joining me to a offshore fishing trip.

Few weeks before this trip, i had a nightmare at Sedilli offshore where i puke throughout the trip and until today when i think of it, i still have the seasick phobia with me. As i have ample of offshore fishing experience beforehand and its impossible for me to throw out and eventually, it still happened to me on my last trip which is unbelievable. This time round with my wife accompany, i must make this trip a fruitful and a meaningful one. Hence, i went to the Pharmacy and get some seasick pills for the both of us which was meant to be very effective from my research in the fishing forum. Beside, i also brought some fresh ginger and cut it into slices to be consume on the boat.

On the 5th of Sept evening, we went into Johore using the woodland checkpoint and was caught in the infamous checkpoint jam. Fortunately, it took us around 40 minutes to clear the miserable jam. Since, we are earlier than what we have expected, my wife suggested to have a full body massage at JB to relax ourselves. After our dinner, we went back to our JB home at Setia Indah and have a early rest as we need to wake up very early on the next morning.

At 0300hr, we leave our home to meet at the Petrol station near to Tebrau Jusco to meet Joon, Chinlong, Frank and Louis. At the same time, we bought a few packs of ice as well as some drinks and bread for this trip which are meant to be our lunch on board as the malay boatman and the decky is on fasting month and no food is provided. After the puchasing the stuff, we headed off to KotaTinggi to collect our Live prawns for the trip whereby the boatman reminded us to brought it for this trip. Hmmm...looks like the boatman will be bringing us to tackle on some crimson snapper aka "Red chicken" , Grouper and of cos the Ebek.

Reaching the Sedilli Jetty at 0430hr

Our hardworking prawns


At 0430hr, we reached the Sedilli Jetty after 1.5hr of driving but was kind of disappointed when the sky started to drizzle but luckily it lasted for just 10minutes. At 0500hr, all of us were on the blue wooden boat setting off to our first fishing ground. Joon predicted that the wave for this trip will not be strong but he was wrong as our boat was rocking left and right non stop. I was kind of worried even though both me and my wife had taken the seaksick pills but in my mind, the "Merlion scene" on my last trip was growing heavily on me. As and when, i would be checking with my wife if she is alright....however, all my worries is too much as she replied me......"Dear, even though it's my 1st trip, don't worry as i wouldn't be as lousy as you"......hahahahahaaa!!!

C'mon don't shoot me when i'm sleeping

I wouldn't get any seasick

The 3 muskateers

Its time for breakfast

At around 0700hr, we reach our 1st fishing ground and all of us started to wet our lines. Most of us started bottom fishing where as Joon started doing Jigging. Soon, Louis and my wife landed their first fish of the day. It was an easy job for my wife as she was using the Shimano Aerlex8000 and Zeus Legend PE2-3 for this trip. Both of them landed the MonogrammedMonocle Bream if i'm not wrong. After 20 minutes later, i had a bite and it should be something big but after few minutes of struggling, the fish managed to escape sucessfully as my line was caught with the unjam rope. What a missed for me on my 1st bite!

Louis's first fish landed


Wifey caught a bream as well



Oh, it's not a small fish


On the 2nd fishing spot, Frank was jigging with his Sabiki for baitfish and out of sudden, a mackeral came near to his bait and snatched off his bait fish right infront of him. Joon and Chinlong who was doing the Sabiki jigging also saw the scene and was stunned at that evry instance...What a arrogant mackeral! After 5 minutes of bottom, another fishing boat came to our spot and fish just beside us. Seeing this, the boatman informed us to reel back our line and off we went to our next fishing spot.......very thoughful of our boatman indeed!

Grouper frenzy started

My Double hook-up

Crimson Snapper by Louis

Frank landed a Crimson as well


The third spot was fruitful for us as we managed to land a couple of grouper and crimson snapper. Although the coral spot is not very big but our boat managed to park quite near to it. My wife had a successful fishing luck whereby she landed around 4-5pcs of grouper on that spot. For me, i had the same luck as her as one of my biggest grouper which i had landed is almost 2kg. Most of us managed to landed a grouper except for our poor organizer, Joon. Hohohooo....He should have reached his quota for this year as he already caught a very big fish, a mermaid of cos to be exact. :P

Grouper for my wife

A good fight with my Aerlex8000

A Spanish flag snapper

Another Grouper for dinner


The biting frenzy on our 3rd spot lasted less than an hour and since then nothing was landed for all of us. Seeing this, i took out my Shimano Basstera rod matching with my Ryobi Zauber 2000 to jig for some small fish. Soon, somthing was landed and i thought that it would be a simple job to land this fish. To my surprised, my line suddenly burst out from my reel at an alarming speed and i was shocked to see my Basstera was bending to a horrifying angle. At that moment, i dared not reel in my line as the fish underneath is much bigger than i have expected. Moreover, i'm using light setup and my main leader is just 10lbs braided and its kind of impossible to play with this fish. After 5 minutes of struggling, the fish escaped at my expectation. Luckily, i'm able to recover all my lines and my Basstera is still in one pieces.......thanks god!

A good fight with light tackle

Its going home time


Our favorite Blue wooden boat

Overall catch for the day


The catch rate is not that good after our 3rd spot and nothing much was landed for everyone of us. We ceased our fishing trip at 6pm and everyone of us are happy to have some fish to bring back home and all of us enjoyed this trip. Although, our harvest is average and no big fish was landed, it was a pretty good trip for me. Both me and my wife was free from seasick throughout the trip and most importantly, i had my best birthday present ..............a priceless birthday present indeed.

Changi Fishing on 21st August 08

Since i'm not working on thursday and have nothing much to do, it will be good enough to go for a few hours fishing trip at Changi. On this trip, i intended to explore the Hyundai area using my bike but it seems that going into the fishing ground which i had visited few years back was an impossible job and the road seems to be blocked by the new highway to the new Aerospace center. After trying for a few hours without avail, i decided to stop at a breakwater near the Tenah Merah Ferry terminal for some luring action. Nothing much on my catch with lures but still mange to land some Blue-lined Hind grouper and a small parrot fish.

Nice spot for fishing


Another nice scenic view


A small parrot foul hook by my Yozuri diving lure.


Greedy Blue-Lined Hind landed


My honda with my all my gears


Another Blue-Lined Hind caught by my diver

Prawning Session at Permas

Prawning at Permas Jaya-Malaysia

Date: 9th August 08 (Saturday)
Time: 8pm-10pm (2hrs)
Charge: RM20 for 2hr

As i happened to be in Johore during Singapore National day just to do some painting of my house for the whole afternoon and nothing much to do in the evening, i decided to go Permas Jaya to visit a newly opened Prawning Shop where there was a promotion of RM$10 per hour for just 3 days. And of course, it will be my very first prawning trip in Malaysia as well.


Nice and clean environment for prawning


Not much people in the evening


Is this yummy enough for you?

At the end of the 2hours, i managed to land 16pcs of prawn in total. Not too bad for a first visit to a new prawning ground for me. However, it will be RM$15 per hour on my re-visit to this nice prawning place as the tempting promotion has ended.

My Sedilli Unjam Offshore trip

Date: 02 August 2008
Location: Sedilli Malaysia
Time: 5am till 5pm

This Offshore trip was organized by Joon and it's a trip which i had been waiting desperately for many weeks. Due to the early timing to board the boat at a shocking 5am, i have no choice but to stay at Joon's place for the night at Johore. Unfortunately, i did not have much rest as Joon and i had too many fishing talks throughout the night and without any sleep for me, its 0230am...and its time to go for some serious stuff.

Our meetup point at the Petrol Station




3am Breakfast at a 24hr coffeeshop

5am Carpark full at Sedilli Port


At 5am when we reach the fishing Jetty, We can see that there are already many cars parking near the Jetty and many people were waiting to board their fishing boat. The main reason for the crowd was mainly due to the news of a recent big havest of Mackeral at Sedili waters and many anglers were eager to land it. However, at our arrival, no one are able to set off for the fishing due to the extremely low tidal condition and all the boats could hardly park near the Jetty. Our malay boatman informed us to wait till 6am when the water are good enough for the boat to move near the Jetty.

Arthur and Winson looking fresh at 6am




Got to use this for the trolling

At 6am, we finally board our boat and off we head to our first fishing spot which would need around 1.5hours to reach. Since there was plenty of time, Arthur tried out trolling with my Boomer lure but somehow, he decided to stop it as his gear was not suitable for Trolling.

Our 1st spot at 0730am


Our first destination was not very promising for me and due to the oily food which i have comsumed earlier and no sleep throughout the night, it become a disaster for me as I got a seasick throughout this trip. What a Merlion day for me.



A nice Parrot landed by Winson



Emperor Snapper landed by the boatman



Me... the Merlion man trying hard to fish



Edmund with his John Snapper



Serious Sabiki Jigging by Arthur




Its lunch time but not for me




Joon with his Cencaru




My precious Cencaru




Winson caught his 2nd grouper




A 2kg Todak caught by Arthur

Bottom fishing was not pretty good but Winson managed to land some good size grouper and parrots. Results on Light Jigging was poor as no one caught any fish on jigs. However, Sabiki Jigging was pretty promising as there were plenty of Selar, Tanbam and Cencaru. Everyone was happy fishing with the Sabiki setup.

I'm exhausted after being a Merlion




Part of our catch in the morning



Catches by the boatman



Finally back to shore



Its hot fishing period at Sedilli




It's my favorite Durian shopping




No fish...buy some will do



Our main objective at Sedilli was to buy these

Overall, this fishing trip was a total failure for me and lesson learnt is to have ample rest before any offshore trip and no oily stuff was to be consumed before the trip. Just Hope that my next offshore trip on 6th September will be a better one for me...('O_o')