Date: 10-08-2022 Time: 2100hrs Rod: Penn Slammer 10ft. Reel: CTS 12000 Spinning. Rig: Long Snood Bottom Feeder. Bait: Fresh Tamban (Herring)

Another night of short trip. Manage to jig some fresh bait before last light. Tide is on the way up and the current flow was smooth. Just about another half hour to go before full tide, the current started to change direction. I saw my rod tip rattle. I waited for it to bend then I strike hard. The fish quickly swim inward. When it almost surface up, it take a deep dive downward stripping some of the line out. I had to resurface it and saw it was a Threadfin. I steady the fish and use my rod to haul it up. Luckily it only hook on the side of the mouth and the hook part already had a tear opening. If I had delay, I might lost the fish.

Date:30–07-2022. Time: 10.40hrs

Go for a short day trip as the bait is more lasting then the night fishing. Caught this Queenie on a surface rig with live bait.

Date: 25-07-2022. Time: 2131hrs. Rod: Penn Powergraph Surf 12ft. Reel:Reelsking 10000 Spinning. Rig: Long snood bottom feeder. Bait: Fresh Herring.

Caught the Round Travelly in the early evening while jigging for fresh bait. It gave a good fight on my light tackle.

The Fingermark Snapper took the tamban bait around 2130hrs when the tide turn down n current start to pickup fast.

Went for a short stay at The Westin Desaru Coast. But the beach Infront was not allow to do shore fishing. I had to drive another ten over kilometer further down to Batu Layer beach to fish. I also forgotten to bring my own bait so just bought some dead prawn to stop my hand itch. But the bait was not lasting after cast out. Only manage to caught a small fish.

Date: 15-07-2022

Went for a short trip on this afternoon and caught this beautiful Grouper on bottom feeder rig with dead tamban as bait during a full tide run.

Date: 11-07-2022 Time: 2230hrs. Rig: Long Snood Bottom Feeder. Bait: Fresh Herring

Went for a short trip in the evening on this holiday night. Tide is on the way up but current flow is slow. Can’t get any tamban on this uptide. Luckily friend Simon Yeo was there and he passed me about twenty pcs on his early catch.

The water change direction early as the down tide has a strong current flow. Bait was not lasting at this period. Need to be hard working to change bait constantly.

Lucky enough, around 2230hrs, I manage to wind back this 30 over cm long Threadfin when i found out that my line n the rod tip had a ninety degree angle. This cause me to check on the bait. The fish could have hookup when I was searching for squid on my light and didn’t notice it. As the current was so strong, immediately after hookup, the fish was wash away by the current flow n result without hitting the reel alarm.

Date: 28/29-06-2022. Rig: Long snood bottom feeder.

First caught this threadfin at 2300hrs by a multiplier set tackle with fresh dead tamban as bait when the tide turn down.

Then around 0110hrs, the spinning set hookup this 1.3kg fingermark snapper with defrost baby squid as bait.

Date: 26-06-2022. Rod: Penn Slammer 10.6ft. Reel: Surfmaster 30. Rig: Long snood bottom feeder. Bait: Frozen squid.

Caught both fishes when the tide is turning down. The travelly only cause the rod tip to rattle but the cat fish make the reel go screaming when i was busy searching for squid.

Date:23-06-2022 Time:0020hrs. Rig: Long snood bottom feeder. Bait: Squid

Friend Ah Poh caught this 35cm long Threadfin very early this morning when the tide is about to turn up.

Date:18-06-2022. Time:2150hrs. Tackle: Spinning set. Rig: Single hook short snood bottom feeder. Bait: Frozen squid.

Another Fingermark Snapper caught last night when the tide is on the way up.