Jul to Nov 2008 Log- Lao Di Fang fires up

8 Nov 2008 - Short hunt for dinner at Lao Di Fang

Needed a good fish for 20 people that night cos I had an aunt's birthday dinner to organise, so I called David and his dad, and we headed out to Ubin for a short trip.

Water conditions were bad, with an algae bloom and dead floating fish seen around Ubin, but still we set the lines and waited at the spot near the boatel, we call it Lao Di Fang

After a short wait, my rod took a menacing bend and I struck. Immediately, I knew it was a good fish struggling to get into the snags. It took drag for a while but I refused to let it go far, jamming my finger onto the spool to prevent it from reaching the snag, and of course, risking a bust off. Then, despite full pressure from me, I felt the fish reach the rocks and then all movement stopped. I knew that I still had a chance and the next few seconds were critical.

Refusing to admit defeat, I jerked the rod a few times and tightened the drag to the max, and suddenly the fish started swimming again and I could feel the violent headshakes of a nice bottom dwelling bugger.

Triumphant, I slowly managed to gain line and after about ten cranks of the handle, I knew I had him! The fish was in the clear and all I had to do was ensure that the hooks didn't pull. So I loosened the drag and took my time to bring the fast tiring fish to the boat. When a nice big Garoupa surfaced, David netted it and we celebrated with high fives on the boat. It weighed in at 3kg exactly. Just what I needed for dinner.

We fished for a while more and had another solid fight (it was David's turn this time) and up came a nice big Sweetlip. This fish fought really well. Anyway, though the water conditions were bad, we still accomplished our mission (to get dinner) and so we headed back to shore early as I still had much preparation to do for the night's BBQ party.

Here's how to put the pressure on the fish

Posing with a tough fighting Garoupa with David's dad

4 Nov 2008 - trying out the Spangled Emperor spot again

Dave, his dad and Vincent came along for a short 3 hour trip to the same spot I landed the Spangled Emperor at just a few days back. This time I bought more Sheng Siong prawns and we set up 5 rods.
The action was pretty good, with a good fish biting every 15mins to 20mins, and everyone caught something. Then the weather made a turn for the worse and we made a wise decision to head back to shore since we had caught enough fish for our own needs.

I was especially pleased with a 2 kilo Garoupa I managed to land after some huffing and puffing. This trip was extremely comfortable and rewarding. Fishing should always be like this.

Every fish caught was a different species. Garoupa, Sweetlip, Parrotfish, Grunter (Guhood), Javelin (Chior Lor) and Golden Snapper.

A nice 2 kilo Garoupa showed up and put in a good fight, even getting snagged for a while, before coming to boatside

2 Nov 2008

Was supposed to bring my family fishing this Saturday but it was raining cats and dogs till 11am. So sad, I thought there wouldn't be anymore fishing that day cos my kids had swimming lessons at 3pm.

In the end, I made some calculations and suggested having a quick lunch on the boat before swimming lessons. Everyone said 'yay!!' and we went to Tapao some nice food and drinks for lunch. Along the way, I bought some fresh prawns from Sheng Siong at $1.60, hoping I could soak a line.

At 1.30pm, we reached the boat and set off from shore. The kids had fun climbing the flybridge and also playing around the sun roof of the cabin. Seeing a good fishing opportunity at a nice spot just near the boatel, I quickly set 2 rods and the family settled down to lunch.

After eating, the kids played with the nets and I practiced my ESP powers by trying to use my mind to make the rods bend. I even tried communicating through mental connections to the fish in the vicinity... and then, suddenly, as though in response to my ESP, the rod on the right just took a violent bend and line just started peeling off the Biomaster reel.

"Big fish!!!"

The kids looked on and my wife got the landing net as I slowly tired the fish out with constant drag pressure. I thought it was a ray at first but the rod constantly shook with violent head shakes from the fish, and I knew we had a good fish on the line.

After a really good fight, a flash of colour surfaced beneath the boat and I realized it was a fish I had never caught in these waters before. A Spangled Emperor!

What a trip! Spent $1.60 on a few prawns and landed a beautiful fish. We even made it back by 2.30pm and reached the swimming pool just in time for the kids' swimming lessons. I think this spot has potential!

An unexpected gift from the sea... a pretty rare large Spangled Emperor, known for its firm tasty flesh... we had that for dinner

Just bought $1.60 of prawns from Sheng Siong... good returns

This koi was on a suicide mission... so sad

26 Oct 2008 - freshwater luring session

Ed kindly invited us for a picnic (on great-tasting Arnold's Chicken) and luring trip. So I packed some nice lures and joined them on this eye-opening luring trip. After gorging myself on 4 pieces of chicken, I started casting lures from the shoreline and was pleasantly surprised by a school of visiting Toman, including their babies.

Using rubber lures, I landed 3 small Toman in quick succession and released them. Then I switched to a shallow Reidy's lure and we moved to a different spot when the bigger Tomans came along. Wow! Didn't expect to get big tomans on lure at this spot when normally what we catch is Peacock Bass.
Did manage to land about 5 nice Peacock Bass and released them. Arthur was the only other guy to land a fish that day. Must have been the lures.

Well, my rubber lures all lost their tails due to the razor sharp teeth of the toman, but it was all worth it.

These two beautiful Toman went crazy over my Reidy's 6-inch lure... and both put up good acrobatics and fight before being subdued

Ed wants to say that this was caught by him. Arthur holds up his small Toman

Many good-sized Peacock Bass such as this were landed on lures. All released

21 Oct 2008 - Golfers go fishing again

This time we took the small boat out around the Southern Islands and had a pretty decent catch. Of course we landed some nice Parrotfish and Timun (Spanish Flag Snapper), and of course the wonderful Scarlet Breasted Maori Wrasse. And Mr Seasick Ong delivered his Mee Soto to the sea Merlion style, with great enthusiasm. Attracted by the constant berleying efforts of Mr Bubbly-gurgling-merlion Ong, a Black Tip Reef Shark came along and gave him a good fight before making its way to his dinner table.

At least Mr Merlion-mee-soto managed to pose for this pic before depositing a huge chunk of partially digested mee soto into the sea

18 Oct 2008 - fishing with Jamie and his friends

went for a short morning trip and ran into a small school of Kerisi (Yellowbelly Sea Bream). Also landed a nice Flathead. Still made it in time for 18 holes of golf in the afternoon!
14 Oct 2008 - LONGKANG FISHING

Decided to initiate my kids into longkang fishing (my favourite childhood pastime) just for fun. They thoroughly enjoyed it, catching guppies of all sizes. The small colourful males are quite pretty, I must say.

Real longkang fishing. They didn't want to go home even after a few hours with their nets. It was pretty fun!

4 Oct 2008 Brought the golfing gang fishing last Saturday and this Saturday. Last Saturday we had to stick to small fish, landed over 70 of those for the dinner table, including Javelins (Chior Lor) and Croakers. When I tried to move to deeper water, one fella couldn't take it so we hung around Ubin. But at least everyone landed something.

One week later. This time Ed, Leon, Art, Dave and Dave's dad came along and we tried a few deepwater spots for bigger fish. The Barramundi weren't biting, but the other fish were.

Of course, at the Bao Chia spot everyone landed some fish. When the count hit 50 and we had packed the fish on ice, I moved to some deeper spots.

Fortunately, the water was relatively calm, so not a single soul had seasickness. And at the final spot, the nicer fish obliged, and the notable catches were Leon's beautiful Red Snapper and my delicious Flathead.

Leon fought this fish skilfully to boatside, and his tiny hooks were almost straightened, but his skill saved the day. Nice Red One

Of course I was extremely delighted with my Flattie, cos I was having a BBQ that night and a Flattie is always the best fish for BBQs.

Here's the Flathead that got me thinking of dinner immediately

And so when I reached back, I wasted no time starting the fire and grilling this wonderful eating fish.

See the flathead on the grill? just right cos the flesh is tasty and the shape is just right for easy and even grilling, just like stingray... flat flat

Of course, I prepared two of the Golden Snappers I caught that day for the grill too.

These 'caught today' Golden Snappers look like they can't wait to be grilled. Haha!

Well, overall, this was a relaxing trip with enough action to keep everyone happy. Of course the bags of fish we took home were a bonus.

Maybe next trip I'll show them the southern islands.

13 September 2008

Jamie had arranged for me to bring his group of buddies out fishing but when I woke up at 7am, it was raining cats and dogs. Just felt like staying in bed. I called Jamie and Pin, and they told me they were already around the Pasir Ris area and would wait till the rain stopped. There was no stopping these guys man!!
Anyway, went back to sleep and woke at 9am when Jamie called again. "Uncle! The sky is clearing up. What time can we meet ah?"

"Huh? Erm... 9.30am ok?" I said, sleepily.

"Ok uncle, see you there."

So I quickly brushed my teeth, fed my koi, put on a shirt and jumped into the car. Picked the group up at Pasir Ris MRT station. There were four of them, Jamie, Emerson, Jeremy and PY. Pin was going to meet us at the boat.

We got over to Changi Village for some supplies and soon we were on our way. Once the boat was in the water, Jamie and PY joined me on the flybridge. I told them, "hey it's still raining you know, the rain can be quite painful when we're moving at high speed."

"It's okay uncle, we can take it," they replied.

You should have seen the look on their faces and the shouts of pain as the rain came horizontally into the flybridge when I pushed the throttle forward. Quite a sight! Well, I slowed the boat down when I saw that they were suffering from the cold and driving rain, and eventually we reached the Cliff zone and dropped anchor. The moment I cut the engine, the rain stopped and the fish started biting like crazy!!!

Basically, we landed a huge assortment of fish like Black Sweetlip, Garoupa, Croaker, Mangrove Jack, Tiger Tooth Croaker until we ran out of bait. After the first 2 hours, I counted 40 fish in the bait well. At the end of the day, we were picking up scraps of bait from around the boat just to keep on fishing, even though the live prawns were gone. Landed close to 100 fish, of which around 15 were lousy catfish which we released. Everyone went home happy with a huge bag of fish.

Guess this is what fishing after the rain is like. But I'm most happy with my 1.8 kilo Mangrove Jack.

How's this for a wild Mangrove Jack? Wonderful tasting fish with succulent flesh, no wonder PY looks like she's about to eat it.

Here are the four of them enjoying some quiet moments at the back of the boat since we had run out of live bait.

Overall, that was a really fun trip. I did go on other short trips and managed some good stuff.

Landed this red one in early September from Southern waters

Daniel also came back for a short holiday from Australia, and we went for a short trip, where David came along too. Did some drifting and Dan had all the luck with a Snapper, a Garoupa and a Grunter.

Here's Daniel with a nice healthy Golden Snapper, just before flying back to Australia

will probably fish more in the coming weeks. I think I'll try to target Snappers on the next trip this Saturday.

12 July 2008 

How time flies! I remember the last fishing trip like it was yesterday. In fact, when I look at some of my archived stories, I cannot believe those trips took place so many years ago... they all seem to have happened just a while back. Now, this site is around 10 years old, and I'm amazed at some of my old galleries, at one point I didn't even know how to insert pictures.

Anyway, on Saturday 12 July, Kings wanted to go fishing for a while, and since the small boat was out, we decided to use the big boat at Loyang. What a good decision!

By 12 noon we reached the first spot off Tekong and started tying our rigs. The current was weak and the spot looked promising. But by 12.30pm, all rigs were baited and in the water, and there were only some small bites with no positive hookup.

So I shifted the boat to another part around the reef, and then the action began. My Surecatch $16 rod suddenly jerked in the rod holder and I grabbed it. Feeling a fish on the line, I reeled in some slack and struck!

Line started peeling off the Biomaster reel and the lovely sound of drag filled the boat. There was obviously a good fish at the other end of the line. There was a lot of head jerking action and Kings and me thought we had a Permit on the line, but to our surprise, a nice 1.5 kilo Grunter surfaced and was netted.

Soon, I re-rigged and cast to the same spot. It was 1.15pm now, and there were dark clouds looming over the horizon. Anyway, Kings had an appointment and we had to end our fishing by 2pm, so I was eager to land another big one.

This time, the bite on the same Surecatch rod was small but unmistakeable. Some light tapping got me alert and I picked the rod from the holder again, waiting for the pull. When the fish finally took the bait, the first run got me by surprise, and I almost lost my grip on the rod. There was a violent fish on the other end.
Going by the swimming action during the runs, we both knew it was a Permit. Huge body surface area allowed it to generate powerful bursts of speed. One again, the beautiful melody of a screaming drag filled the boat.

The fight was really awesome, with the fish staying just out of sight below the boat for quite a while, when finally it got tired and we got a glimpse of a golden Permit cruising like a ghost beneath the boat. With much effort, I guided the fish into the landing net and we exchanged high fives. This was another big Permit from the same spot I landed a Permit a couple of trips earlier.

Beautiful fish! 2.5 kilo Permit and 1.5 kilo Grunter -- how's this for a 2 hour trip?

These Permits are great sportfish when they get to this size, so Changi anglers can expect a good fishing time ahead, cos it looks like these fish are here to stay.

Anyway, soon, Kings had to keep his appointment, and I had fulfilled my mission for the day -- catch big fish!

2008 Jan to Jun - Picking up the pieces

Jan to Jun 2008 Fishing Reports and Pics

21 June 2008 

Kings brought a large group along so we took the bigger boat out and fished around the Ubin area. The water was rather murky around Ubin, but the fish were still cooperative.

  We had a cosmopolitan boat that day, with Jabez, Kel, Ya Ying (from Taiwan), Minh Tu (Vietnam), Chu Ka (Mongolia) and Adeline from Singapore on board for a fun time. So we headed first to the Aunty's farm and got 1.5 kilos of prawns. Everyone enjoyed thelselves there viewing the huge fish in the nets.

Here's a part of the group on the boat

Now loaded with bait, we moved to the first spot in the Channel, where I think everyone managed to catch a fish. Looks like the fish were biting. Kel got a nice Garoupa at that spot, I remember.

Kel takes time off from fighting his fish to pose for a picture with Minh Tu

Of course, later we headed to many different spots, but finally ended up near to Changi Beach... and that's where most of the action took place. I landed another Garoupa and some other fish when a school of Red Emperors (Ang Kueh) moved in, making it really fun and exciting for everyone on board. The fish seemed extra hungry for that period of time and everyone was fighting good stuff. Minh Tu even managed to pull up a rather large Garoupa among the Red Emperor.

After the fish feeding frenzy, we all just grabbed a fish for a pose... check out the head of Minh Tu's Garoupa... but I was more happy with the Red Emperor, an indication that the water quality might be improving

Anyway, I had to bring the kids to ExplorerKids (Downtown East) that evening for a birthday party, so we ended a little earlier and washed the boat down. So it's hard to decide if fishing around Ubin or the Southern Islands is better, cos both areas seem to be producing nice fish in good quantities.

17 June 2008

Went on a short morning fishing trip with my wife. Just bought 500g of prawns and headed straight to the productive spot (Been landing tons of fish the last few weeks here) around reef 42.

This time, the fish were still hot! Landed a couple of Parrots and Snappers, then I had a strong pull and knew a good fish was on. Played the fish out of the reef and when it surfaced, my wife helped to expertly net it. This beautiful Red Coral Trout with metallic blue spots weighed in at 1.9 kilos. That fish was on the dinner menu!

My wife poses with the Coral Trout. Nice fish for local waters ya?

Well, we both kept catching nice table fare when I hooked up and landed an even more exquisite fish. A rather large Scarlet Breasted Maori Wrasse! This fish has succulent white flesh that melts in the mouth!

This is one of the larger specimens landed locally... you don't get these often!

Anyway, with the fish hot on the bite, we quickly finished the rest of the bait and went home happy, with enough fish to last about two weeks. And we even managed to squeeze time to bring the kids to Wild Wild Wet in the afternoon!

There were many more productive trips, will slowly upload them every few days.

13 June 2008 - out with the guys .

Was playing golf at Tanjung Course in Sentosa and telling my golf kaki Art about the good catches we'd been having, so he was eager to see for himself.

So quickly arranged and Rich, Kings, and Art hopped aboard the Sampan Express with a kilo and a half of live prawns and zoomed straight to the 40 zone reefs.

Art hadn't fished in a long time but once we let down the lines and the fish kept coming in, he was hooked on fishing! We caught the usual stuff, parrots, timuns, garoupas... and a school of large Blackfin Selars (don't really know the exact name) came in to be harvested as Sashimi (Kings said they were excellent!).

Art and Kings with their Garoupas... just right for that night's dinner centrepiece

Rich and me were more focused on our key targets ... Scarlet Breasted Maori Wrasse, and boy did we land some! Big SBMs fought well and were landed. Now these are the real Grade AAA fish not everyone has had the pleasure to sample in Singapore.

A pair of beauties... lightly steamed, fluffy white meat... ahhh, gastronomic delights

So we headed back with a box of fish as usual, and Art was hooked on fishing, quickly arranging for us to take him out the next week. Well, with such delicious fish, who can blame him?

Here is only one part of one of the catches... check out those three-pound Parrots

9 June 2008 - a really good day turned HORRIBLE!!

Actually planned on a full day of fishing today. My wife took the day off from work, the weather was fine, got a kilo of live prawns just for the 2 of us, filled the boat with petrol, and we were on our way to reef 41, just 50m away from reef 42.

When we arrived, we baited up and the fish were HOT on the bite! My wife landed some bream and Spanish Flag Snappers, and even a Parrot, within minutes, and I contributed some too. Then, suddenly, my line had a strong firm pull and I knew this was the biggie for the day. So I played the fish carefully, and finally a beautiful 2 kilo Garoupa surfaced, and my wife netted the fish. We both thought this was going to be a wonderful day! Within half an hour of fishing, we had already landed several great fish.

Nice 2 kilo Garoupas like these are starting to get common, and this is a positive sign!

(don't mind the bettas, my new hobby)

But then, Murphy had to strike. My in-law suddenly called and told us to get back home immediately. She was frantic as she told us that our maid had run away... sigh...

So we cut our trip short and zoomed back to shore to settle the maid issues. Spent the rest of the day from noon to evening at the maid agency, dreaming about what we would have caught, and about the live prawns in the baitwell.

Fortunately, I got my revenge on the fish on another day, and we managed to settle the maid issue within a week.

8 May 2008 -

 did some light fishing with soft rubber lures, landed a 900g Barramundi with Kings on a short trip after work on Tuesday. Trying to get my Bettas at home to breed too (digression). Anyway, my fishing buddy Dan from Down Under sent me a pic via email of an awesome Coral Trout. Enjoy!

Check this Coral Trout out! 5kg

26 April 2008 trip report

- Jo brought her friends David, Ben, Clifford and Uncle along while Norm and Joshua came too. Had to take the Eastern boat this time cos of the number of people. 8 of us met in the morning at Changi Village to load up on food and supplies, and soon we were heading out to sea.

First, I brought them to a deep reef, thinking that the rain over the past few evenings had affected water clarity and salinity especially in the shallow areas. No bites. So after a few minutes I tried another shallower reef structure with a high rock further out to sea. And that's where the action began.

After spotting the school of fish hovering just off the bottom (courtesy of Hummingbird), I quickly positioned the boat correctly and dropped anchor. Spot on! Almost instantaneously, Ben was into a strong fish. He kept saying " big fish, big fish!" And after a good struggle, he eased a nice Queenfish into the landing net. He was visibly happy with that.

Deciding to join in the fun, I rigged up and let my line down with a small weight. After a few misses by the rest of the group, I felt some light tapping at the end of my line, so I waited in anticipation for a hard pull. But the fish was even more patient and kept nibbling away at my bait, so I tried to raise my bait slowly to tempt the fish, but it was too smart, and just kept nibbling softly at my prawn. That's when I thought my bait must have been totally dismembered and decided to give a good strike because it was now or never.
STRIKE!

Time froze, and that familiar big fish feeling came flooding back to me, as I felt the fish just sitting there wondering what had happened. (Note.. only big fish can just sit there after a strike.) As the tension grew in my line, the fish decided to take off on a run!

"Big fish on!" I told the rest, but it was too late. The fish was really too fast, and had swum in a big circle underneath the boat (typical of this particular species). And the biggest Char Bee Hoon of the year emerged, when almost everyone on board got involved in a huge ballooning tangle.

So, while I tried to keep my fish under control, everyone co-operated and did not put any tension on their line. This was key because any tension on their line and their line might slip down to my hook and pull the hook out of the fish's mouth. But soon I noticed another problem. The mess was so bad that my line was getting stuck in the middle, with no way of pulling the fish in. Still, I held on and put pressure on the fish, and everyone waited anxiously as the big messy tangle hung precariously at the waterline.

Finally, I had to handline the fish through the tangle and slowly but surely, the fish started coming in. With everyone trying to peer into the water to catch the first glimpse of the fish, the fish emerged from the shadows of the deep. A huge silver outline could be seen, just like a big serving tray.

"Woooow! Ooooh!" everyone said in unison. This was indeed a big fish but I hadn't yet identified the fish until it was up on the surface.

"My gosh! That's the biggest Permit I've ever seen in local waters," I said, as I admired the beautiful fish about to be netted.

Fish information- the Permit is a highly sought after light Gamefish on the Florida flats in the US, growing in excess of ten kilos at times. Introduced into local waters as initial escapees from fish farms (sold as Golden Pomfrets, in order to entice the local populace by linking it to the tasty Pomfret family, it is NOT a pomfret) the Permit has started to thrive and multiply, with captures reported from Punggol to Changi to East Coast to the West Coast. Preferring shallow waters, the Permit is easily accessible to shore anglers (just like the Chermin). Most common name: Kim Chew.Permits sold in markets are farmed to the 600g-800g weight, where they are ideal eating fish.

Escapees, however, have started to grow and a few 2 kilo specimens have started appearing, with reports of the occasional 3 kilo Permit emerging.

But this Permit was huge, and appeared totally out of proportion compared to all the other Permits I have seen and caught. It looked just like something out of an American fishing magazine's Florida Flats fishing article.

"Whoooo Weee! Shiok man!" I exclaimed as the fish was brought into the boat and I noticed the tiny hook was almost straightened. A few more minutes in the water and it might have been Bye Bye Fish.

Everyone thought the tangle was worth the fish. And after taking the customary pics, I was contented to relax for the rest of the day.

How's this for a seven and a half pounder? I'm sure we'll be seeing more Permits of this size as the escapees keep growing and breeding.

Shortly after, Norman was also into a good fish, and I helped him net a nice 2 kilo Grunter.

Here's a happy man - Norm with his 2 kilo Grunter

Of course the rest of the gang managed to catch some nice fish (about 40 keepers), with a good number of Spotted Javelin (Chior Lor) landed too.

Everyone was happy by the end of the trip, with each person taking home a bagful of fish. I was happy with my one big fish, and I gave the rest away.

Next week gonna try again man!

April 2008 update

The catches from the small boat seem rather interesting these days. I get to explore many new spots in the Southern Islands and land some exotic fish I hardly get in the Northern waters.

Here, a short trip produced some nice Spanish Flag Snapper, small parrots and an interesting Rabbitfish. Most importantly, check out the Scarlet Breasted Maori Wrasse!

Big fish bend! This fish pulled the rod tip into the water many times

But on another more recent trip, my wife came along and was the champion of the day when something big and strong took her bait while she was eating her Nasi Campur.

Turned out to be a 1.5 kilo Blackspot Wrasse, a member of the Parrotfish family... expensive fish you know

But I caught my share too, and so did the rest on the boat. My parrot weighed in at 1.3 kilos, just slightly smaller. So my wife was the day's champ!

Plenty of good sized Timuns turned up to entertain us

Also did some Toman hunting and landed 4 of the buggers (ALL RELEASED to fight another day). The kids had fun too.

Here's a family pic with a 5 kilo Toman ... putting my new Boga grip to good use

Here's a close up of another one of my Tomans weighing in at 5 kilos

All the Toman were 4.5 kilos to 5 kilos in weight. Good fighters and jumpers man!

March update

Went to Pasir Ris main pond a couple of times with the family, landed Kims, Kim Chews, Drums (Taiwan Ngor), Mangrove Jacks and Golden Snapper. Quite fun and relaxing actually though most of the time I won't stay for the full session cos the kids always want to go back early.

Did manage to go on the Eastern Boat with Jamie and gang on 23rd Feb, everyone landed decent fish. Caught 39 fish for the ice box, not too big fish all round 300g to 500g...

Here's the group, with Jamie and Emerson packing the fish while Jeremy and PY look on

And of course the Southern Islands were good. On Sat 1 March 08, we went to reef 47 and also the 83rd spot, and landed good as well as bad stuff.

Wanna know what we consider good and bad fish? Take a look at the pics below..

Badfish, classified together with fork-tailed catfish, are like these.. baby sharks, queenfish, and Chermin (Diamond Trevally... this fish has a really bad smell man!!)

I mean, bad fish are not really bad, but it's just that there are better fish worth catching, like those below... the good fish.

Good fish like Spanish Flag Snapper, Sagai (Silver Trevally), Waigeu Sea Perch (Marine Kim), excellent Parrot Fish and not so good Black Kaci (Harry Hotlips)

But of course, it's not whether you catch good fish or bad fish, who cares anyway. Being out at sea when the boat moves and the wind blows in your face... already got good feeling ya?

Fishing's been good! No time to write stories yet, will just dump the pics in first.

Dan recently landed this nice Barra from Ubin on the boat when he came back for a holiday

Luke and a big Peacock Bass from LSR

Alex and a nice Garoupa

Kids at Seletar Dam having fun

Typical Southern Islands catch

Big Blackspot Wrasse from the South

Matt and his Chermin

Matt fighting the Chermin

Caught a nice Garoupa from a wreck

Spent much more time with the family from Jan to Mar 2008 - not much time for fishing log updates.