Shoreangler

Date: 12-09-2023. Time:1955 hrs

Caught this palm size Emperor fish on the early night of 12 September while the tide was on the way up. It took a small fresh kunning (yellow tail scad) as bait.

Date: 15-09-2023. Time: 2120 hrs. Rod: Penn Slammer 9ft. Reel: EA 12000. Rig: long snood bottom feeder. Bait: fresh tamban

Tide was on the way up. Had just change the bait and cast out. Suddenly I saw my line went slack. I tighten it but it keep slacking. Quickly I grab the rod and strike. Yes, feel a little heavy at the end of the line. Slowly wind back and a golden snapper surface. Get my friend to lower my landing net to the water surface and i guide the fish in. He pull it up and the fish weigh 665g.

Date:31-08-2023. Time: 2355 hrs. Rod: Penn Slammer 9ft. Reel: Fixed spool CTS 12000. Rig: Long Snood live bait rig. Bait: Live Selar pan 6 inches.

As usual go on a night trip before sunset. Manage to get few live bait before sky turn dark. Bait was lasting tonight. Nothing happen until water was about to full and current start turning down. I happen to jig a big selar-pan under my lamp and keep it alive. Decide its time to cast down as now the bait that casted down start to disappear very soon.

Around 1155hrs, friend tell me the rod start to wobble. I took up and strike hard. Fish ON..Its manage to strip some line out before come to a snag. After awhile i manage to got it free and wind back. Surface up a big snapper. Got my friend to get my landing net down to the water and i pull it into the net. Lifted it up and it weigh 1.8kg.

Date:10-08-2023. Time:2330hrs. Rod: 9.6ft Ugly Stik. Reel: CTS 12000. Rig: Alo live bait. Bait: Live 5 inches Selar-pan

Went before sunset and manage to get few live herring as bait. Casted out but nothing caught. Tide full and turn down. Half way down got a hard pull on the rod alerted to me by a friend but didn’t hookup. The few live bait had finish by now and i had to switch back to dead one.

Not satisfy, i try jigging under my squid lamp and caught one big selar-pan. Quickly casted out. Around 2330hrs, while i was searching for squid, i heard my reel sounded. Grab hold the rod and strike hard…the fish go airbone..it jump few times before i bring it near jetty. Barracuda…i got my friend to get my landing net and lower into the water surface. I use the rod to steer the fish into it and my friend pull it up.

Date:07-08-2023. Time: 2200hrs Rig: Alo live bait rig. Bait: Live yellow strip scad(kunning)

My self make Urgly stick rod strike again. Tide was about to turn up. My friend there heard got reel alarm screech sound. But when we check the two sets of tackle don’t have any movement so we didn’t take any action.

It only after about fifteen minutes later i wanted to check the bait that i feel some weight at the end of the line. I can feel some struggling that i realise i had a hookup. Slowly winding back the line, a fingermark snapper surface up on the water. I get my friend to hold the rod while i grab my sotong net to scoop it up. 475g it weigh on the scale. Half the size of the one i caught the night before.

Date:06-08-2023. Time:1945hrs. Rod: Urgly Stick 9ft. Reel: CTS 12000. Rig: Alo live bait rig. Bait: Live herring

Reach there before the sunset. Tide is on the way down. Quickly setup two set tackles. Jig for live bait and got a few of it.

First cast out on this big tamban on the rod that with the live bait rig. The other rod are on a long snood bottom feeder rig.

For the pass days fishing i know the bait at this timing is quite lasting, so i didn’t check often.

Hours plus later around 1945hrs as the sky turn dark, while i was taking my dinner, I heard like got line running out from reel sound. I was sitting on the stone bench and look up at both my rod. Nothing le.. but when i stand up and look, WoW…the rod that was block by three girl who standing there the tip is bending downward n line is running out. I stop my dinner, grab the rod and strike. Yes…fish on…not so big but its struggling. Slowly i wind it back. On surface up it is a snapper. One looker offer to help and i ask him to hold the rod while i grab my sotong net and scoop it up.

Date: 28-07-2023

Although the southern wind was blowing endlessly, last night fishing was full of excitement. Bernard and I was the only angler there before Simon Yeo join in around 10pm.

It all started around 7pm plus when i hook up a small barracuda with a fresh tamban as bait. This little fish might had come to pay the debt for his mother who had grab my bait and cut my line the night before. Haha..

Bernard got his first hookup when his fixed spool set rod tip bend and line run. He strike hard and the fish is on. It begin to run in. We thought it was a small stingray…then before it surface, it make a dash turn and run against the current flow. Wow…not stingray…its a shovelnose. I told Bernard to play slowly while i fixed up the gaff. But unfortunately, the fish managed to straighten the hook and escape before my gaff is ready. We continue to hookup few small fishes before Bernard saw his multiplier set line loosen. He strike but was snag at the bottom. I use my hand to slowly put his main line…i can feel old broken line at the bottom of the sea bed broken under my pulling. Finally its free and the fish is still at the end of the line. Bernard wind back and i scoop it up. A 2.8kg Sweetlip. His bait is defrost squid.

A while later..I saw my rod tip rattle..I strike the rod and i can feel the fish struggling. I slowly wind in and a grouper surface up. Simon Yeo grab my net and scoop it up. Weigh 1.5kg on the scale. Bait is defrost tamban.

Date: 21-07-2023. Time: 2310 hrs

Friends Bernard Tan caught this 2kg Threadfin salmon when the uptide current slow down. The fish is wind back by Simon Yeo who is first to strike the rod when the reel alarm scream. I scoop it up by using my scoop net.

Date: 13-07-2023. Rod: Penn Slammer 9ft. Reel: ES12000. Rig: Long snood bottom live bait. Bait: Fresh baby cuttle fish and Live kunning.

Tide had already turn down and the current is picking up fast. I manage to scoop up a baby cuttle fish and quickly use it as bait then cast it out. First check on the bait after 20 minute later was still fully intact. I cast it out again. Within a minute, i saw my rod tip bend down and the reel alarm screech. I pickup and strike..Yes fish on…slowly wind back and a good palm size fingermark snapper appear on the water surface. I used the rod to haul it up.

Around in the early morning after my last cast, when i was cutting the fish, my reel screech again. My friend pickup the rod and strike. I quickly wash my hand and take over. I can feel the fish struggling at the end of the line. Slowly wind back and a lizard shark appear. It took my live kunning bait and was hook on the lip. Unhook, took a photo and released it back.

Date:04-07-2023. Time:2115 hrs. Rig: Long snood bottom feeder. Bait: Cut green eye strip.

After few days of resting, I headed back to the jetty in the late evening. Tide was on the way up. The south east wind was blowing endlessly causing the water very choppy. Tonight i only setup one set of fixed spool tackle. On my second bait change, i notice my line went slack. I tighten the line a little and the rod tip rattle. I pickup the line n strike. A little heavy at the end and follow by jerking along the line when i wind back. It turn out to be a lizard shark about two over feet long. It was deeply hook behind the throat and i can’t retrieve the hook. Decided to keep it as food.