Car : Altis, Starlet & Civic
Kelong: Ah Ngan's
Weather: Heavy rain on 1st day afternoon, the rest of the day sunny.
Catch : 1 trevally (Brian), 2 Ribbons (Brian & Darren), 2 Squids (Darren), couple of todaks(Marcus, Richard, Tian Siang)
The team gathered at Kranji Mrt at 0545hr, proceeded to cross the custom, quite surprised to see a que forming up at this hour. Went to the usual kopi shop to take our breakfast, met a interesting situation, an indian mad man was ranting away with 2 policeman on site to calm him down which apparently does not help. After the commotion died down, realized the mad man had broken a glass panel of a stall owner at the kopi shop.
The trip to the jetty was scattered with a few downpour here and there, no signs of any flooding to our relief. The boat ride to kelong was much bumpier than previous trips due to the monsoon season.
We started the fishing with our squid jig namely the yamashitas & the yozuris, no signs of any squids biting just as the tide was receding to its lowest posssible. The rain came down and all of us retired to our bed to take a nap. The evening was greeted with a few ups and downs, the up was because Brian caught a trevally with his tamban on a single hook. The down was because I lost a giant squid. I was pulling up the fellow, felt no tugging but like dragging a big piece of trash up. To my dismay, due to my hesitant I lost the bugger after it gave its last burst of water! The afermath was even more demoralising, realized that my rod tip has broken off due to the heavy weight.
Throughout the night we tried every possible forum's method of fishing, none work! The rubber jig failed miserably, and Patrick was in his all time low. We retired to bed early after the supper was served.
We woke up late at 6am, none of us was inspired to wake up early due to the poor catches. I switched to my newly acquired lure and started casting away. Managed to foul hook a ribbon while pulling in. Other than that, no take at all. The guys switched to todak hunting when the sun came out, the todaks was seen flying all over after taking the baits. However, it was not easy to hook them due to their strong tough beak! Marcus managed to pull a couple up after sizing down the bait to bite size to allow the todak to swallow whole, this immediately reward him with a todak. After the frenzy die down, we packed up and get ready for lunch. We were told the boat will only leave at 1430hr, so we retired to our bed again, those pillows were heavily utilised this time round!
Tian Siang & Patrick continued fishing while we were in dreamland, they woke us up with their constant ranting about the frenzy biting! It was none other than the Todaks again...delighting us with their acrobatics! Richard cannot resist the challenge to take them on, who spectacularly set one up after missing a few hits. You can see his grin ear to ear and gladly posed for pictures!
That sums up our trip which we deem were fairly disappointing, bye bye kelong and hello paypond!
Ouch...u played dirty!
1st squid pulled up.
2nd squid on yozuri shrimp hunter.
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