CR 26 March 2006

Ok since now at bit slack in office, decided to update some more. Just a story on how I picked up fishing.

I used to join my friend, Jimmy, when he goes fishing around Singapore shoreline. However, my main purpose is not to fish but to join him in a couple of booze. He is one of my best or should I say only booze buddy. We can drink the whole damn night and not get drunk. I guess our charaters match and so there is alot of things to talk about during our booze session. However, I feel that this will get less as he is starting to become a more family man with his second kid approaching. Nevertheless, I will anticipate those special occasions like BBQ parties, birthday, Christmas, New year, etc to booze with him again. Anyway, back to the main topic.

So during those many occasions, I never thought of picking up fishing. As I used to think that at the moment my career/business is more important and unless I can declare myself semi-retire, I would not pick fishing as it takes up a lot of time if you are hooked on it.

Then a long time friend, Charles, came back from Australia, as he is quite free due to not able to find a job back in Singapore, I always meet him up for lunch, coffee breaks, etc. Then one day, we were so bored we did not know what to do and suddenly the topic of fishing popped up. After much persuasion by him, I decided to get my first set of fishing equipment.

Abu Garcia 2-piece rod and a Shimano 1500 spinner. Then I got hooked. Sorry was unable to get pictures of the first few CR - Catch Reports as I did not bring my camera. But today, would like to share my first proper sea-fishing trip at Pulau Redang with my wife.

Before that, I have already acquired another 2 sets of reel and rod. One set from Malaysia, KL and the other from Hong Kong.

Malaysia: Silstar rod 6" (2nd hand from Charles) and Daiwa spinner 3500
Hong Kong: ATC boat rod 5" and a shimano spinner 8000!

Spent quite a bit on fishing equipment already, die man kena poisoned already!!!

Anyway, the pics are as follows for Redang trip.


My wife got the 1st bite, landing a baby grouper. She didn't even know it was hooked on until I told her to reel back and check if the bait is still around??!! Then when she reeled back, HEY! kena fish!

Caught a couple of these, which actually has better fight than the groupers. Still cannot identify what fish is this. Looks quite nice though :)

This is our total catch for about 4 hours fishing. Was actually persuaded by a few tour operators not to go as the sea is choppy but I insisted as I bought all my gear along. Anyway, it was a good experience for my wife. Hoping she can kena fishing poison also so I can fish more. Muahaha...!

Stay tuned for more. Especially my CR on SG offshore waters. It was one of the most power trips I've had so far!!!