Plenty But Lonely - 28/2/2006

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:

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CR: 31st Jan 2006

Frank, Francis, Moo, 2 new young guys (sorry forgot their names) and I went fishing with Ah Chong in the Changi Area. The bite rate was poor but we did have 7 diamond trevallies. It was however a bad day for me, I lost a chermin and only managed to hook up a small snapper. My trevally quota has run out ......

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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 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

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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 …

Spratly Safari

Wow, I hope that gets your attention. This is from a catch report on Spratly found in the Malaysian fishing forum. There are just so many places to fish but so little time and too much commitment in life. Click and drool here.

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World Record Freshwater Fish

This is the world's record for largest freshwater fish, at 646 pounds (293 kg). It is a Mekong catfish. Giant fish researchers - led by Zeb Hogan of the WWF and University of Wisconson tried to save it so it could spawn yet again, but it died and was consumed by hungry villagers.

Wow, tom-yam fish head that is enough to feed a whole village. Aloh mak!

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Girl Power

A 15 year old girl, Sara Hayward caught a record breaking wahoo off Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico. The fish weighs a whopping 184 pounds. That's not just 30 pounds more than the record, that's 50 pounds more than she herself weighs.

Read about it here

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Jellyfish Attack

Multitentacled giant jellyfish of up to 200 kilograms and with diameters of up to 2 meters have returned with a vengeance this season. Fishermen in Japan say they are under siege.

Read about it here.

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