Another Southern Island Catch

Anglers: Frank, Francis, Daryl, Preston and me.

Catch: Rather poor, only significant catch a 2kg parrot by me an a kg plus grouper by Francis

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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 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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The Mighty Gust

As indicated in an earlier posting, I'm hopelessly addicted to fishing. Now I find myself also hopelessly addicted to this fishing blog. I just, as in less than half an hour ago, came back from a fishing trip and I'm here posting this catch report. I like to think of it as passion and not addiction.

Anyway, last evening five of us took off from west coast and headed for a spot about 2 hours away. We arrived early to wait for the turning tide. And true enough when the tide turned a beautiful golden snapper of about one half kg was landed. Just when everybody was excited and waiting in anticipation of that characteristic snapper pull, the north east wind blew. It blew and blew itself into a fury, the anchor slipped, we were all wet and swells of one to three metres came. It was frightening for me, I never knew that this could happen in local water. We were forced to seek shelter near an island and the passage to the sheltered water was tedious, slow, rocky and grossly uncomfortable. It took more than an hour just to find calm water. The rest of the night saw light rain and lots of catfish, small rays and some eels.

This is for Francis - I did not take photos, no anti-shake will suffice in that situation, I was shaking too.

Now for that badly needed bath ...

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