No Fish For Lunar New Year

Frank, Daryl, Louis and I went fishing last night with a boatman at West Coast in attempt to get some fresh fishes for new year and we were totally disappointed. I caught a ray of about 5 kg, a small strip snapper and a lizard shark. Louis caught a sub-kg snapper and Frank a tiny 'kelong chi'. That's all folk and that is despite the fact that we bought $30 worth of kelong squid and $20 of some kind of live cuttle fish. The best part of it is that at 6 am the boatman told us to pack up and go back because he has a day trip coming up. I deleted his number from my mobile phone. The company was great nevertheless.

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A Surprise Catch

I went fishing with Ah Eng around the Jurong Island area today. We drifted the whole day and I was rewarded with a surprise catch - a 2 kg plus golden travelly. It put on an impressive fight, much better than the infamous golden snapper. The rest of the catch, pretty good I must say:

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Watch It & Drool

The following links to some great parrot fishing clips were sent to me by Chris and there is only one word for it - wow!

http://www.turitalo.jp/video/kandai3.wmv

http://www.turitalo.jp/video/kandai4.wmv

tag: fishy fun

Catch Report - 14 Jan 2006

This is Frank with his grunter.

This is Francis with his queen fish.

The catch

Boatman: Zainal
Area: Tekong and Ubin

I bought a Shimano Cardiff 300A and matched it with a Berkley rod this morning and used it for the trip. I caught the most fishes today. I'm very happy with the set.

Guys you call download the original picture here.

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Happy Chinese New Year

Not too early for new year greetings I think.

May you have plenty of fishes in the new year!

People's Favorite

Originally uploaded by Private Choices

I have uploaded more than 600 of my photographs to my flickr site and for some strange reason this is so far the most viewed and most liked photo on my site. Personally I have never found this photo to be extra-ordinary. I guess taste is simply very subjective; such taste diversity results in a fairer world.

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A Wet Day

Frank, Francis, Louis, Daryl, Vincent and I went fishing today at west coast with Ah Chong. There was nothing to shout about. It rained sporadically throughout the day.
This is Daryl with his blacktip shark.

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Fishy Pleasure

May all my fishing trips this year result in such unadulterated pleasure.

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Mountain And Water

I spent the last week of December 2005 touring the beautiful and exotic land of Yunnan, China. It is a mountainous region with scenic spots and many mysterious and colorful tribal groups. I had a good time with my family, I was happy, amused and hilarious, I ate some great and sometimes strange food, I was in awe with the sceneries, I climbed mountains and rested well in comfortable hotels and I filled all three of my SD cards with memorable photos and yet wished I had more cards. Nevertheless, I do think of fishing every now and then …