Five of us, Frank, Daryl, Preston, Robert and I went on Ah Chong's boat. We had a lot of laughters with a hosts of original and creative humor and fun making but the catch is one of the poorest I ever have on Boat 681.
Catch:
1 snapper of about 800 gm
1 small grouper
3 other not to mention kind of tiny whinny fishes
Francis & I took leave today and went fishing at the Changi area with Ah Chong. We fished mostly at the ship channels. Nothing fantastics but I caught most of the fishes. Francis fishing quota ran out and he managed to catch only one grunter.
Took leave and went with Frank and another 3 guys to bottom-bash Changi. We caught 28 fishes but alas they are really small. The biggest is a sweet-lip of about 1kg not counting the almost almost 2 kg catfish I caught. Anway the campany is great.
My usual fishing buddies don't do weekday local fishing trips. Francis, the only buddy that is mad enough to take leave and fish on a weekday could not make it and so I went alone to fish with Ah Chong around the Tekong area. The catch was pretty good but I felt rather lonely and left for shore at about 3 pm - Ah Chong may be a good boatman but he is certainly not the best companion. Anyway the photos, not the best - taken using my handphone:
tag: catch report
In addition to GPS and echo-sounder, boatmen seriously need to learn how to take digital photos. This picture was taken by the boatman - my head was nearly chopped off, the picture was blurry and the composition left much to be desired. If the picture looks decent to you, it is attributable to my photo manipulation skills.
You should have seen the other photo taken by him. The fish heads were truncated.
But all are forgivable if the catch is good.
category: fishy feelings
Francis, Louis and I took leave today to go fishing. I think we are plain mad, spending our precious leaves just to catch a few miserable fishes. I have 42 days leave a year and that definitely makes the other 2 guys more mad than me.
The fishes were all caught between 12 to 5pm with the most happening time between 12 to 2pm. We spent the whole morning waiting in vain for chermin at the naval base area.
The highlight for me was when I was reeling in a 500gm snapper I saw a huge fish (I think it is a grouper) chasing after the snapper. It must be aleast 5 or 6 kg. Subsequently, I tried live-baiting with a ACK but ....... I will be back, I know where you are now!
My catch rate was pretty impressive today. It must be attributable to flurocarbon.
Tide pattern
26/10 0726 2.1 H
26/10 1054 1.9 L
26/10 1611 2.2 H
