Sunday, May 17, 2009
Team: Singapore Surf Anglerz
Cast: Azzahar, Saleh & Sazali
Date: 15 May 2009
Tide: 2.5m
Spot: Changi CP 6
Target: Small Game
It's been months that the whole lots of us has been hibernated away from fishing.
Since one of my company vessel is reaching Cambodia tonight and I am awaiting for a confirmation SMS from the vessel Satellite phone. So in order to stay awake for the whole night, I called up Saleh and Sazali if they want to go fishing together while I was on the way to the mosque for my Friday prayers.
Few fishing locations were brought up by me but we decides to go to Changi CP 6 as there is a shelter for us just in case of rain during this unpredictable wet weather month.
After my working time has ended, I rushed back home from the office to prepare all necessary stuff for fishing.
Sazali managed to secure five tubs of wat-wat worm earlier via phone order and I secured two packets of fresh squids.
I met Saleh at Changi Village at about 8pm and once we have got all of our baits and food supplies, we head for Changi CP6 second last hut. Sazali joined in while I was setting up my rod.
The skies looked as if it will be raining heavily soon but thank goodness that it didn't rain.
The water condition looked promising. As it was raining quite heavily earlier in the afternoon, we were hoping to land good sizes of Marine Catfish aka Duri.
We waited for the first bite but it seems that the crabs are feeding on our baits throughout the night.
Saleh began to switch to a smaller hook and was rewarded with a small mempinang at about three in morning followed by a small ray an hour later.
It was about five in the morning when Saleh started to rest for the night followed by Sazali later on.
I persevered but Game Over by quarter to six in the morning with the rest of the guys.
It was about half past six in the morning that Saleh and myself woke up to clear the area and packed up our things bit by bit.
While packing up, we realised that there was a long net being placed stretching from the start of CP6 to a nearby CP7. We wouldn't have realised about it until we saw a netter in his speed boat checking out his nets.No wonder, there weren't any fish bite detected from our rod tip throughout the night.
As Sazali was still sleeping and there is nothing much to post to the fishing blog, we decided to snapped some pictures of Sazali sleeping and the morning sunrise.
As such, enjoy the photos while we will be planning to try out East Coast soon.
Gone Fishing...
4:12 PM
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Team: Two Surf Braderz
Cast: Azzahar & Man Kerapu
Date: 09 August 2008
Tide: 0.7m
Spot: Pulau Ubin
Target: Small Game
It's been always Man Kerapu form for landing in fish but there's a change in luck tonight for me.
We thought of going to fish at various place but the tide seems not to be in favour with us. Most shops in Changi have low supply of baits so we decided to buy ten packets of sarong worms. After much discussion with Man, we decide to fish in Pulau Ubin and try to aim for scale fish since tide wasn't good.
Once we reach in Pulau Ubin, we moved to our first spot, heavy rain started to downpour along the way and causes both of us to be fully drench without shelter. It took around five hours later for the rain to stop.
But the worst has yet to come, as we both we attacked by thousands of sandflies and the roaring of wild boar and lots of shining eyes looking at us.
By 10.30pm, Man Kerapu could not take it and prompted us to fish at other spot since he felt very uncomfortable by the eyes looking at us. We have to take small stones and utter some verses from the Quran and started to throw into the bushes.
Since we only have two headlight for us to find our way back to the jetty area, we know that there's a high risk of wild dogs and wild boars around us so we prepare a gaff and our surf rod butt section as weapon. Thank God that nothing happened to us.
We reach a new spot where it's consider public spot in Pulau Ubin. I started out the ball rolling by casting out the bait, it was less than 2 minutes later that I reeled in good size Duri Belalang.
The next subsequent cast, it was a one cast one hit where I landed in big Tebal Pipi to rare Kerisi Bali from shore and a rare look-a-like Goatfish. Even flower crabs too were hook up.
Total catch for the night excluding baits, Man Kerapu 0 - Azzahar 16.
Whatever it is, to keep it short and sweet, view the attached picture below.
Gone Fishing...
4:10 PM
Monday, July 21, 2008
Team: Singapore Surf Anglerz & Eastcorez Surfanglerz
Cast: Azzahar Man Kerapu & Obek
Date: 19 July 2008
Tide: 2.7m
Spot: Pulau Ubin
Target: Big Game
Tonight mission belongs to Man Kerapu.
The story goes like this, the planning to go for a big game mission between Man and myself started a week ahead before the said outing. Many possible locations were planned out but Obek called at the very last minutes that he would like to go to big game spot in Pulau Ubin rather than Changi beaches changes everything.
Met Man at the foot of my block, and we hailed a Cab and fetch Obek at his place and off we go to Changi Village to buy necessary stuff.
It started to rain but it didn't damper our mood as we are going all out tonight looking for biggies.
Once we reach to the spot, it started to rain cats and dogs, hence we quickly set up a shelter for the three of us to survive throughout the night.
Tide was receeding down when we started to cast our first bait. Once low tide, Man Kerapu casted his worm bait with his surfcast rod and landed in 1.5kg Tudung Periuk. Later, Man & Obek went netcasting in search of baitfish.
Obek's netcast landed in 14 pieces of Kitang of good sizes followed by Man netcast landed in 15 pieces of Kitang of the same size and a plate size Queenfish.
By then, one hour after reaching the spot, 29 Kitang, 1 Tudung Periuk, 1 Queenfish & 1 Mempinang.
We were busy chatting till we were shocked by the screaming reel which belong to Man. The 8.5kg female leopard ray was subdued in 10 minutes of battle by Man but the 7kg male leopard ray took Man Kerapu nearly half an hour to subdued it. All hail "Man Pari Lalat" for hitting 2 in a row in a space of few hours apart. Hehehe.
By then just before midnight, after cutting up and clean the rays, our cooler box was filled to the brim so we decided to call it a day and sleep for the rest of the night while awaiting for first light to return home.
Gone Fishing...
9:58 AM
Monday, June 23, 2008
Team: Two Surf Braderz
Cast: Azzahar & Man Kerapu
Date: 22 June 2008
Tide: 2.7m
Spot: East Coast Beach
Target: Small Game
It's been few weeks since we last went fishing. With the loss of my grandmother from dad side in the afternoon followed by grandmother from mum side being warded in Changi General Hospital in the evening, things were getting hard for my family.
Two weeks later, I started out working at a new company so, that causes me to rest from fishing for another week! So it was on 22 May 2008, that I really called up Man Kerapu that I would want to go fishing.
Time and spot were decided. Tonight outing are meant for short time which means few hours outing and try out at new spot. Simple bait were used for this test outing which is the universal bait; fresh peeled prawn.
Tonight outing belongs to Man as he caught one of the biggest Gemang he ever caught.
Enjoy the photos below.
Gone Fishing...
10:28 PM
Friday, June 13, 2008
Updates By Bro Y of DSG: 2008 Tournament Casting Schedule
Due to the last Malaysian Election, Tournament Casting which was confirmed last March / April in Pahang have been postponed till further notice.
But for those casters out there, don't be despair as DSG will be hosting a Mini Casting Tournament on a field soon.
Tomorrow night, Saturday (14 June 2008), located at the beach near Big Splash (DSG wet casting ground) will be hosting Mini Fishing Tournament Jackpot. Pool among DSG members and they have invites some outsiders to join in.
The joining fee will be $10. The biggest catch (1st), (2nd) & (3rd) will receives the total fees divided into 3. 1st placing will receives slightly more than 2nd placing while 3rd will receives the balance after the 2nd placed.
Mini Fishing Tournament will starts from 8pm - 8am. Please join in the fun if you are free tomorrow night.
Gone Fishing...
2:16 PM
Monday, May 19, 2008
Team: Two Surf Braderz
Cast: Azzahar & Man Kerapu
Date: 18 May 2008
Tide: 2.6m
Spot: Changi Puaka Beach
Target: Small Game
Bait were sarong worms, hook size was size 4 on two-hooked UK Apollo rig (Paternoster rig) - Made in Tampines Ave 4. A surprised CR this time!!! Let's start out the from the main story.
Man Kerapu had just returned from Brunei from his two weeks reservist recall. Two weeks in the jungle without fishing was his main sickness since then.
Man called the night before to planned out to fish in Pulau Ubin but due to a last minutes from both sides, we decide to fish at Changi Puaka Beach as we have not visited it for quite some time. Met Man at the foot of my block at around 5pm and off we go to Changi Village to get our supplies and our early dinner.
Once reached spot, setup and cast our baits. The catches were good when we were starting out but we stopped fishing for the night after 1am. It was only at around 0640hrs that I waked up and continued fishing.
At around 0915hrs, when the heat from the morning sun was at an unbearable heat and humidity causes us to take cover at a nearby hut. While chatting up with Man, he saw that my reel drag alarm had gone off and the rod was bending at an angle.
Since my knee operation area still have the painful effect since had my operation in January, Man ran to grab my rod first as the line was peeling out fast. We were thinking what kind of fish had took my bait and judging the way the fish fight was just as same as a stingray as it keep playing on the sea bed, but later, when the fish moved up and played at the mid level, we change our thoughts that it could be a good size scaled fish as the bait was sarong worms on two-hooked apollo rig.
To our surprised, the fish that took my bait was a Queenfish, I was shocked to see that Queenfish took sarong worms? I thought, they normally goes after prawns and bait-fish? It was a shocking first ever experience for both of us that Queenfish do take worms when they are hungry.
Once landed the Queenfish, it weighs 3kg on my fishing weighing scale.
Enjoy the photos below.
Gone Fishing...
2:36 PM
Monday, May 12, 2008
Team: S.S.A.T.M.C
Cast: Azzahar & GF, Uncle Kamsani, Uncle Sulaiman & Uncle Samsi
Date: 10 May 2008
Tide: 2.4m
Bait: Wat-wat, sotong kelong, market squid and market prawn
Spot: Pulau Ubin
Target: Small Game - Tourney Fish Points
A week before, Uncle Kamsani smsed the rest of the guys to go on a outing to Pulau Ubin on a one day (morning - afternoon) trip to aim for fish points for our tournament.
It was one day before the outing that I called Uncle Kamsani to confirm my attendance for the trip.
It was at 4.25am that Uncle Sulaiman called to wake me up and get ready to meet the rest at Nadeerah Restaurant in Changi Village by 5.30am.
I called my gf to wake her up as she was interested to follow me to Pulau Ubin as this would be her first ever outing to Pulau Ubin. At 4.45am, it was raining cats and dogs which prompted me to call Uncle Kamsani that I might be reaching a bit late depending on the heavy rain situation.
Thank God, the rain stopped at 5.15am and off I fetched my girlfriend at her residence and proceed to Changi Village. Along the way, I met Uncle Samsi who was riding his bike and was also going on a trip with us to dig for wat-wat and sarong worms for his fishing trips tonight.
Once reached Changi Village, sat with the rest of the guys including with Abang Jaws and wife from Team Jaws 9 having their breakfast together. Bought drinks and meals for the whole day outing and off we proceed to take the bumboat to Pulau Ubin.
Reached spot at around 6.45am but we didn't start fishing as water was at it's lowest so we just set-up and put all of our stuff nicely as we could see the black clouds around us but thank God it wasn't raining that whole day.
While setting up our rod, we chatted and later Uncle Kamsani and Uncle Sulaiman went off to search for wat-wat worms. We only started fishing at around 9 plus in the morning when water was rising up.
Open ceremony catch was from Uncle Kamsani who reeled in a Duri Belalang and it was followed by me. It was consider a slow catch with assortable size Duri and duri belalang being caught till Uncle Sulaiman reeled in a grouper at his spot using whole sotong kelong. Later, most of us shot to the area where he casted and we were rewarded with grouper too.
Just before stopping fishing, Uncle Sulaiman caught a 2kg Belukang and released it unharmed as none of us consumes the belukang while Uncle Kamsani reeled in the last duri belalang.
Total catch was 15 but the other fish was not in the photoshoot session.
Enjoy the photos.
Gone Fishing...
1:12 PM
