Shoreangler

Date: 19-06-2017      Time: 9pm +      Rod: Zzipplex M427       Reel: Shimano Torium 20      Rig: Long Snood bottom feeder        Bait: Tamban

Young Lucas caught this Cobia last night.

Date: 12-06-2017

This evening go for a short trip and caught this fingermark snapper when the tide is on the way up. Bait is a small fresh squid.

Last nite a young guy caught this Stingray estimate around 30kg at the mid part of the jetty.

Date: 06-05-2017     Time: 2230hrs      Rod: Century Vectra 13.6ft     Reel: Shimano Torium 30      Line: 30lbs braided with 40lbs mono leader     Rig: Long snood bottom feeder       Bait: Fresh Squid

My Friend Ah An caught this Fingermark snapper when the tide is full. It weigh at 2.2kg

Date: 30-04-2017      Time: 2300 hrs     Rod: Penn Slammer 10.6ft White      Reel: Shimano Torium 20       Line: 30lbs braided with 50lbs mono leader      Rig: Long Snood Bottom Feeder      Bait: Fresh Squid

Its a Sunday night….I started late around 8.30pm. Tonight I only cast out one set of tackle as I will be starting to look for squid using my lamp and net.

Manage to caught one and use as a live lure to attract others. But as the season just about to start, the second one come much later.

I use it as bait and cast out. Twenty minute later i check…its totally gone. I change another one. Around 11pm, my reel alarm screech….The line gone loose…I pickup my rod to strike, yes….fish on. The fish swim inward…I had to wind back more line before I feel tension. When it was about to surface, my bright squid lamp cause it to panic and dive down again. I quickly ask angler Lucas to pull up my lamp. After this the fish swim toward the right. I had to get pass few rods before I able to surface it. By now Lucas has already getting ready my gaff. He manage to gaff it by one try and pull it up.

It was a long tail brown stingray. It tail is super long…more than six feet. It weigh at 7kg

Date: 29-04-2017      Time: 12.45pm     Rod: Shoreangler Jetty Surf 9ft.      Reel: Silstar AT80 fix spool.      Line: 30lbs mono      Rig: Cable car      Bait: Live Tamban

I built a new 9ft spinning rod for myself by using parts of two scarp rod. The butt part is 4ft 6 from a Surecatch rod and the tip part is 4ft 9 also from another Surecatch rod. I totally rebuilt the tip part and painted it white on the tip for easy bite detection.

I tested it yesterday and it cast very well. The butt part was flexible and this is the most important of a fixed spool rod. If a fixed spool rod the butt part is too stiff, you can’t cast far. It is totally opposite of a multiplyier rod.

I use it yesterday and it start with a catch of a gar fish on a cable car rig when the tide is about to full. The real test will come when it had a bigger hookup. Lets wait and see.

I had found a fishing tackle shop in Malacca during my recent driving trip there. It is located at 140 Jalan Kubu. Just at the junction of Jalan portugis. A walking distance from Jonker walk. It store quite a number of spinning reel from big to small. No multiplier reel found. Check the price and its quite reasonable. Many difference size of sinker also. It close on Sunday.

Photo taken from google earth.

 

Date: 09-04-2017       Time: 1100 hrs      Rod: Penn Slammer 10.6ft white      Reel: Shimano Torium 20       Line: 30lbs braided with 50lbs mono leader      Rig: Cable car      Bait: Live tamban

Reach there is morning around 9am. The current flow started to change direction early as the down tide current was fast. Beginning the bait fish was rare but once the current start to move, it keep coming.

Set up two sets of tackles and with bottom and surface rig and cast out. No action at all  until 1100 am when I saw one of the rod tip rattle. I know it was a gar fish that take the bait and i waited until it jump of the water then I start winding back. A small little one and i use my rod to lift it up. The fish is given to a angler there who intend to eat it.

By the time I pack up around 1230 hrs as the current is too strong, this is the only fish landed.

Date: 03-04-2017      Time: 1835hrs      Rod: Loomis Frankling Big Game 12ft. Spinning     Reel: Silstar AT 80 spinning     Line: 30lbs braided      Rig: Cable car     Bait: Live Tamban

Went for a short trip this evening. When I cycle in to the jetty, a friend told me some wolf herring had been landed by anglers there this afternoon.

I quickly set up my tackles and cast out as only about one hours plus of day light left. I then jig some live bait and lower a cable car rig down.

Tide was going down at this hour and the current flow was smooth. I just finish my packet of dinner when I hear my reel screech. I saw my rod tip rattle but i didn’t strike as I thought it could be a gar fish taking the bait. If i strike too soon, the gar fish could have not swallow the bait and I will missed the fish.

I waited for a while then I saw a silver fish swimming just below the water surface. I know it had already hookup. I wind it in and it was a small wolf herring taking my bait before the day last light.

Located on the north eastern side of Desaru Johor Malaysia. This place is where many off shore angler embark the fishing boat there for sea fishing around Desaru area. The sea around this jetty is very rocky. Chances of your line or hook getting snag is high. So a simple short snood bottom feeder is highly recommended. It quite shallow during low tide. You need to check and fish only during the high tide.

Recently I make a trip to Adelaide and kangaroo island of southern Australia. My trip was to travel so i didn’t bring any tackles to test the water there. Manage to visit some of the fishing jetty there and here i put it up. Anyone who interested to visit there can bring your tackles to try it out.

Glenelg jetty.

Located on the south western part of Adelaide town. You can take a free tram from the town and drop at the last station. This jetty has deep water access.

 

Cape Jervis ferry terminal jetty

Located on the the south western end of Adelaide, this is where you take a ferry to the Kangaroo Island. It just beside the ferry terminal and you can fish even the ferry is around. It access to deep water.

 

Vivonne bay jetty

Located on the southern part of Kangaroo island and is facing the south pacific ocean. According to the local, this jetty is use by those crayfish fisherman to upload their catches.

 

Kingscote Jetty

Located on the north eastern side of kangaroo island. This jetty access to very deep water.

Kingscote fishermen’s jetty

Located just next to the Kingscote jetty, it is shorter but also access to deep water area.

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Kingscote American River jetty

Kingscote mooring jetty. A near bank jetty but have deep water area.

 

Penneshaw Jetty Kangaroo Island.

This is where the ferry from Cape Jervis stop. You can fish even the ferry is around. Very clear water.

 

Granite island The Screwpile jetty

Located at the Granite island opposite Victor Harbour south of Adelaide. This jetty access to deep water. You can drop at Victor harbour and walk across the link bridge between both places.

 

Goolwa Town Hectors Jetty

Located at the Murray river between Goolwa and the Hindmarsh island.