Sedili Boat Fishing

Date: 1st Nov 2008
Venue: Sedili Offshore
Group: Patrick, Marcus, Lu Cong,Thiang Siang & Myself
Catch: 1 Tuna, 1 Queenie , 1 "cowtail" Fish, 2 Rabbit Fish, lots of Selars

This trip was organized by none other than the seasoned fisho Patrick. The thought of the last boat fishing constantly came to mind, but in the end decided to go along with it. This time however, did prepare many ginger flavoured titbits and raw ginger too. All these effort made was in the hope that the merlion will not follow us this time round.

As we need to reach the jetty at 7am, we went in jb the night before to rest at Thiang Siang's home. By the time we settled down after late supper, it was way past 1am. And we have to get up by 4.30am to meet up with Patrick at his in-laws place also in jb. Turned out none of us able to get a good rest with the exception of Marcus who claim he did managed to doze off. Thiang Siang being at his own house too couldn't get a good sleep! He was too excited about the trip......hahaha
The alarm soon sounded to the relief of Thiang Siang & Lu Cong, both of them couldn't sleep at all. We meet up with Patrick and drove to nearby 7-11 to get our ice, food and drinks for the day. Next was to collect our live prawn on the way to the jetty, saw a few fishing kakis there who were also going to Sedili for fishing. As the boatman we indent had a poor reputation among the regulars, it was some how comforting to hear from them that it do depends on luck. We reached the jetty on time and immediately called up our boatman, the weather was glooming with dark clouds, but thankfully it went away as soon as it came.


The carpark was quite small.

The jetty view

Unloading our stuff, waiting for the boat.

The team happily posed for pictures!

We quickly boarded our battleship and posed for pictures, before the mood dampen with the merlion spirit! We started preparing our rods setup and chatted how each of us gonna get the biggies, after an hour or less we reached our 1st spot.
Can't wait to fish!
The 1st spot was quite promising, Lu Cong was able to hook up a almost 2kg temmengong, good fight he had with it! The boatman assistant was eagerly hooking up lots of selars and soon I joined in the fray! It can be quite addictive to see your sabikis loaded with selars everytime it was pulled up! Soon the bait well was full with selars!



The 2kg Queenie

Small queenies eagerly snatching at the sabikis as soon as it touches water!

After the frenzy die down, we moved to our 2nd spot. This time, we encounter lots of bait stealers, nibbling away at our live prawn. I managed to hook up 2 palm sized rabbit fish which is bigger than those I used to foul hook at kelongs! Next came the only set back of the trip, our anchor was stuck at the bottom of the sea bed, tried as they might, the anchor was not giving way! The guys took this 1 hr break to catch a little nap while the poor chap and his assistant continue their tug of war with the anchor.


So tired....zzzz.....zzzz...

After the short nap, we soon reached our 3rd spot. The selars taking the sabikis were not as big as they were from our 1st spot, soon we shifted to our last spot and the climax of the trip! The tuna was spotted splashing on the surface. The bait fishes were coming in like a production line, and we were at first blur blur on why the boatman was supplying us with so many tambams....Soon we were enlighten by the boatman with his method of tying the live tambam and the jig to catch the tunas, it was so simple and yet pretty effective! The live tambams were able to swim out and provide a good tempting meal to the tunas!
All our rods were deployed and waited eagerly, it was then that Patrick's reel started screaming...fight is on! After a 5 minute fight, the 3kg tuna was landed, this make us even more excited and the thought of getting more tunas had us all engrossed in the waiting game...we
remained silent for a couple of minutes...but alas that Patrick's tuna proved to be the one and only...sigh...we signal to our boatman and call it a day.

Patrick's tuna!

It was already dark when we reached the jetty.

"cowtail" fish and the rabbits.

Our total catch minus the tuna(inside our stomach)

Overall, this trip was considerably a good outing, with only Thiang Siang suffering from sight seasickness. This certainly boost my confidence for future boat fishing trips!