Date: 21-10-2025

Friend can’t go along tonight so i went alone. Tide was on the way up. Water was still low when arrived. I waited until water is high enough before cast out. First to strike is a fingermark snapper. Follow by a stingray which cause my rod to bend n reel screech. Next is another fingermark snapper when tide is much higher. Last is a marine cat fish when tide is full. Stingray n cat fish released back.

Date: 16-10-2025. Time: 2100 hrs

Tide is on the way down. Current flow is smooth tonight. Bait is lasting at this moment. At 2100 hrs, my reel screech. My friend Wong strike first then pass the rod to me. I wind it back slowly. Its struggle along the way in. Can feel the hard jerk at the end of the line. When surface, a grouper appear. I ask friend to grab my squid net and scoop it up. It weigh 1.7kg on the scale. Bait used is fresh tamban jig before sunset.

Date: 12-10-2025. Time: 1800 hrs. Rod: Penn Slammer. Reel: Daiwa Saltist 40. Rig: Long Snood Bottom Feeder. Bait: Defrost kunning

Went with a friend for a evening trip. Tide was on the way down and water level is low. As i know recently hardly and any bait fish around so i brought along few frozen baits.

While i was having my packet dinner, my reel scream. I grab my rod and strike hard. The fish immediately swim toward deeper water about 50 meter out and make a leap out of the water surface. I didn’t manage to see clearly what fish it was. But my mind went through it could be a shovelnose, cobia or a big queen fish. I manage to change it direction and it start swim toward the shoreline. By now i can see it clearly it was a big cobia as it float on the water surface. I ask my friend to prepare a gaff. I keep my line short and tight between me and the fish as to prevent it of making a last minute burst of dash to go below the jetty.

As it come close, my friend manage to gaff it on a second attempt. I quickly put down my rod and grab my own gaff to put in a second one. Two gaff in, we both pull it up. It weigh 22+kg. This is my second biggest cobia caught at the jetty. My biggest was caught at year 2007 weigh 25kg. Later the night we cut it up and share among my friends.

Date: 30-09-2025

Went with friend for a short night trip. Tide is on the way down, DL Yee caught this 1.75kg barramundi on a handline with dead prawn as bait. I caught two small stingray with frozen squid and released it.

Date: 16-09-2025

Tide is turning down and current flow is strong. Just manage to jig few bait fishes kunning n tamban before sunset. Lucky this tide the bait was super lasting. First bait down was a kunning. First check it still fully intact. First fish hook was a eel tail cat fish. It took the bait and my reel screech with the help of the strong current flow. I wind it back n grab my leader n pull it up. Second bait down is another kunning. A marine cat fish take it and bend my rod. I wind back n use the rod to haul it up.

Date: 12-09-2025

Go for a night trip with friends on a drizzling night. Not even a single squid spotted. Manage to caught palm size fishes with defrost squid as bait on long snood bottom feeder rig.

Date: 22-08-2025

Fish with two friends. Total all 11 fishes was bring up. 6 golden catfish(1-3kg size). 1 Threadfin 1.7kg. 1 Nurse shark, 1 small stingray and 2 Gulama. Many was released back. Bait is fresh and defrost squid mixed used.

Date: 18-08-2025

Last evening caught this small queenie during tide going down before sunset. It took my live herring on a slide down rig.

Went for another high tide short trip. First hit was a small cow tail ray. Then come the palm size fingermark snapper. Tide full and turn down. A small long tail brown stingray took the squid bait. Both ray are released back.

Date: 22-07-2025

Tide full at 2030hrs tonight. Decide to make a short trip. Bring only limited bait and end up a palm size golden snapper, a smaller fingermark snapper and a small croaker. Both released. Bait is defrost squid i caught last year.