Date:06-Feb-2010 (Saturday)
Location: Sedilli
Weather: Sunny
With the help of Joon, my wife and i managed to have our first fishing trip in year 2010. This trip was never expected to be so last minute with less than 24 hours on the confirmation. The preparation of my gears was not an easy job as i knocked off from work quite late on Friday and was extremely tiring, dragging myself to dig out my fishing equipment. Despite of my tiredness, i managed to packed all my stuff within 2 hours with only less than 5 hours of quality sleeping time.
On this Fishing trip, we have no chance to purchase live prawn as bait and have to only fish with Market squid and prawn which i got it from Johore-Jaya market at ard 5am. After meeting Dickson, Lee and Tony at our meeting point, we drove to our destination and reached the Sedilli Jetty at 8am in the morning.
Sedilli Fishing Village
A provision Shop in Sedilli
Walking towards the Jetty
Wifey excited on her 2010 first offshore trip
A scene which has totally disappeared in Singapore
Nice fishing weather in Sedilli
Our first surprised of the day was getting to know that our boatman for this trip is with the nickname Mr "Holland no.1" whom Dickson had never had a satisfy trip with him. However for me, i had a splendid trip with this Captain before and all i can say is that he is a "Delighting you always" kind of guy........My fishingkakis whom nearly given up on Offshore fishing had regain their confidence after having a fruitful "Big Selar" fishing will definately remember "Holland no.1"
Busy tying knot and setting up my gears
Our second surprised of the day is that our Captain was pretty fast in locating his Fishing spot as well as parking his boat which we had never experience before. Seems that our friendly Captain had brush up his parking skill and likely will have a prosperity year in 2010 with many more fishing business. Keep it up Captain "Holland no.1"......Hip Hip Hooray!!!!
Steamed Parrot for my Chinese New Year Dish
Wifey caught a big grouper using Sabiki
Our third surprised of the day was our 2nd Fishing spot. Amazingly, our boat was parked right under a "Grouper and Parrot Den" whereby we encountered a small feeding frenzy. Dickson and i had never had such good bottom fishing experience on this boat and our view towards the Captain immediately changed. All of us had a good grouper and parrot fishing on that spot. Well done for our Captain "Holland No.1" .......your're my man!!!
Results is good for a first offshore fishing in Sedilli
Around 2pm in the afternoon, the wave became stronger and we had a hard time fishing as the boat was rocking left and right. The bite rate was getting slower and slower as wave getting stronger every minute. At around 4pm, we decided to call it a day. Seriously, the overall result of this trip is good and we are utterly impressed by the performance of our Captain and all of us did enjoy the trip very much. When the weather in Sedilli gets better, "Holland No.1"' will be in our Fishing consideration list in year 2010... Keep it up!!! :P
Pretty good size grouper for this trip
A nice and fruitful trip with Captain Holland No.1
