Tide up was just fully completed. I saw my rod tip rattle. Decide to check n change bait. When i strike the rod, i feel heavy at the bottom end. Slowly i wind back. A grouper surface up. Ya…finally land a sizeable fish after this north east wind started two week ago. This cold wind blowing endlessly had cause near shore fishes to go deeper water to get warmer. Early in the night caught three Murray eel as water are cold.
I had reach jetty and setup my tackle. Tide is on the way up. Leong come about 20 minutes later and just put down his backpack. Then he heard reel screaming sound. ” Leong tolong” he heard also. He look at the mid way of the jetty. Apis is fighting hard on his rod. The fish has took his bait and start to run toward deeper water. This mean Apis had to bring his rod and cross pass through 3 lamp post before can continue to fight the fish. Leong went to help him.
Now the fish is already at the end of jetty. After awhile of struggling there, due to the tide coming up, the fish goes along the current flow and come to the right end side of the jetty. By now both of them already tired out but the fish is still in mid water and refuse to surface up. “Alo” Leong call me. I went over, took over the rod. Slowly i pump the rod. I can feel the fish is also tired. After awhile it begin to surface up. “Wow” big. Brown stingray. I put more pressure on the rod and gave no chance for the fish to go down. As the rod is not strong enough to handle this weight, I take awhile to bring the fish to come closer. Leong gaff it once when it come close enough. Apis hook the second gaff in. Two of them try to pull it up but half way only. I had to put down the rod and get my gaff. Three gaff in, we pull it over the railing. Yes….landed. I weigh it and it hit the scale of 45.3kg but the long tail still on the floor. So it should be around 46kg if totally lifted up.
Tide is on the way down. I just manage to jig two fresh herring as bait before sunset. So i cast one out and just leave it there. Around 8pm plus as current is quite strong, i did saw my rod tip rattle abit. I didn’t bother as thought could be crab biting. Only around 9pm plus when the current slow down then i decide to change the second bait. When wind in line i found this flat head fish hookup and already dead.
Last evening went to the jetty. As recently hardly had any fresh bait fish around so i dig deep into my freezer and found three big arrow squid i caught about two years back as bait. (Suppose to be consume but had forgotten about it)
Tide is on the last part of down but water had come to still. After casting out, i went to jig for any life bait. After some hard work, luckily manage to caught three baby mackeral and a small selar.
When i went back to my rod wanted to change bait, i found my line got some slack. I pump hard and end of the line is heavy and feel some struggling. Slowly wind back the line and found this big puffer floating up. Too heavy too lift up by the rod so i put down my rod and get my glove. I grab hold of my leader and pull it up. Come with it is a small sucker fish that attach to the fish body. This puffer weigh 4.9kg on the scale. Both fishes was released back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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