Date: 10-03-2026

Go for a short day trip. Tide is on the way up. Got a double hookup of lizard fish. One took the top live bait and the other took my bottom defrost tamban.

Date: 06-03-2026

Tide was on the way up. Current flow was smooth. I saw my friend surf rod tip rattle once. Went over and wait. When it bend the second time i strike hard. Fish On….I slowly wind back and the fish struggle along the way. When it surface up near the jetty. Grouper ..I get friend to hold the rod and i grab my squid pole net to scoop it up. Yes..1.6kg it weight.

Date: 20-02-2026

Today is the fourth day of the lunar new year. Tide will be full at about 1pm. I decided to try my luck. Good enough a queenie come season greeting. It took my live bait just after the tide is full.

Date: 04-02-2026

Caught this queen fish with live herring on a slide down rig when the tide is full.

Date: 30-01-2026

Today go in the late morning. Tide is on the way down. Cast out two rod with top and bottom bait. Around noon time, i heard one of the reel screech. Pickup the rod and strike..yes…line out running with reel screaming. I had to adjust the drag to prevent it for going too far. It struggle awhile with the current flow before i able to gain back some line. After few minute, it had tired out and i started wind back the line. When it reach below the jetty, i lift it on the water surface to totally tired it out. I ask one angler there to help hold my rod then i grab my rope gaff. One in but wasn’t secure. I took another gaff and sink it in before we both pull it up. It weigh 11kg.

Date : 24-01-2026

Time just pass midnight. Friend saw his handline which hang at the jetty railing drop down. It mean fish has taken his bait. Went over to check and pull out a fish at the bottom jetty pillar. He call out to me to get my scoop net to bring it up. It turn out to be a 2.2kg Mangrove Red Snapper. This fish is more reddish in colour and had very sharp teeth on it mouth. Different from a Mangrove Jack which is more brownish colour and smaller teeth. Below is a photo of a Mangrove Jack which i caught in year 2021. See the difference on both fishes.

Date: 19-01-2026

Go for a morning trip today. Manage to jig enough live bait. Tide had just turn down and current flow start to pick up.

Around 11.30am, I saw my rod tip bend and the reel screech. I strike hard and a fish jump up on water surface. Queen fish had just take my slide down rig live bait. I slowly wind back and haul it up.

Two minute after i re cast out, the same rod tip bend again. I wind it back and a small cobia come up. It swallow the hook too deep that i can’t release it back. End up i fillet both meat.

Date: 16-01-2026

Tide is about to full. I went to check my bait. Pump the rod and it was snag. I gave a hard one and its out. I wind back slowly and a eel surface up. Its a small conger eel. Released back.

When tide is full, one of my reel screech. I pump hard and a struggle at end of the line. When surface up, a big golden cat fish about 3kg appear. Just lift it up on the ground, my second reel screech. I grab the rod and strike then slowly wind in. Another smaller golden cat fish surface. Both strike within minutes. Bait used is fresh small kembong i scoop up below jetty light.

Date: 10/11-01-2026

Pickup a left over bowl full of sea worm from the jetty on Friday night. I decide to do whiting fishing on the next two days. It is what i had done 58 yrs back when i was just 11 yrs old. Without proper tackle at that time, only a bamboo stick tie with a mono line, a small sinker and two hooks. Drag along a bamboo make fish keeping basket floating on the water which i tie a small rope to my body. Go to the unreclaim beach to just dig a hanful of sea worm as bait.

Date: 21-12-2025. Time: 0055hrs. Bait: Defrost squid. Rig: Long Snood bottom feeder.

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.