ANOTHER SMALL GAME FISHING TRIP OFF PULAU UBIN...

Another small game fishing trip off the pulau ubin waters...With my third stingray, too! Hope you enjoy the pictures...

SMALL GAME FISHING OFF PULAU UBIN...

Fishing is always fun...YUP, I agree. More and more anglers from all over the world are targeting big game fishes such as tarpon, snooks, redfish, sharks, stingrays and snappers...Sad thing to say, sometimes, my father and I do big game fishing off the coast and most of the time, SMALL GAME FISHING...mostly at pulau ubin. During another small game fishing trip off pulau ubin, I finally caught my third stingray, although it looks small, it already hit the scale at 1.5kg. The pictures I showed above are some of the fishes caught by me and my father during the second small game fishing trip 2009...

WENT TO PUNGGOL TO FISH...

Fishing at Punggol, seems familiar...On the 17th March 2009, my father and I went to Punggol Pier to fish on the boat, just on the boat...Guess what we caught, good catches...A snapper, pink-eared emperor, silver biddy, 5 remora fish, more than 10 catfish and a few good sized flower crab...The picture above shows one of the remora fish and a 2 kilograms monster catfish...

DURING THE NEW YEAR PERIOD 2009...

During the Chinese New Year period 2009, my family and I went to Malaysia, my mother's hometown to celebrate the new year...As we reached there on Saturday, my uncle, whose hobby is fishing, too, called me and my father to accompany him to fish the next morning, Sunday. My uncle himself own a 'sampan', a small boat used by fisherman, usually...We are all excited. On Sunday morning, we woke up at 6am in the morning, took a shower, went to the local coffeeshop, ate our breakfast, bought the earthworms as baits and set out to the boat parking place known as Pasir Panjang. We boarded the boat at 7am sharp and went out to the bigger sea to fish...We fished for a moment and I felt a tug on my rod. I waited for a while more and this time the tug with even harder...I set the hook immediately and to my surprise, came a baby bamboo shark...It was like...imagining too much...you would have thought, what kind of sharks would eat earthworms?!?!?! Same here...I'm also thinking!!! Am I going crazy?

CAUGHT MY SECOND STINGRAY IN DECEMBER 2008...

Went to Punggol Jetty on this stormy day and lucky enough, I got my second stingray...I hooked my bait- sotong and casted the line out...My rod was lying there innocently when I looked at it the first time. The second time I turned around and looked at it, the rod was tugging and the line was running out! WHAT A SUDDEN TUG! I fought the fish for about fifteen minutes and to my surprise, my second stingray is here. WHAT A LUCKY DAY!

MY FIRST STINGRAY...

My first stingray is landed on the 26th July 2008, that is just one day before my sister's birthday, that 2 day 1 night boat trip was indeed a memorable one...My father thought of going for the 2 day 1 night trip is for us to celebrate my sister's birthday, on board...Actually, its my sister's rod that the rod bell started ringing, the fish was tugging and the line was running out as the fish is swimming at a fast speed motion...My sister set the hook and bullseye, the fish was on hook. My sister found it quite heavy after the fish was swimming here and there and she is tire out. She called out to me as I was just next to her...I helped her to tame the monster and at last, we landed the 2 kilo plus brown stingray...

THIS COMING MONDAY, THE 16TH MARCH...

This coming Monday, which is the 16th March 2009, my father going bring me to Bedok Jetty again...Quite excited, actally. But since the last time I went to Bedok Jetty and came home without anything- that means no fish lar! I had been discouraged already...Hope that this coming trip on Monday would be a memorable one...With lots of good fish...Yup...really hope that we can catch something good!

WENT TO BEDOK JETTY...

During the December holidays, my father brought me to Bedok Jetty...I did a lot of research about Bedok Jetty before we went to fish there...After researching, I also found out that Bedok Jetty is one of the most famous fishing spots and many monster fishes were also landed there...We went there to fish but the other half of the jetty is closed. We fished for about 3 hours and got nothing! Except for 2 pufferfish...Maybe it is because of the blockage that we can't go to the extreme end of the jetty and all the big fish are at the extreme end! SO ANNOYING!

FOUND MY FAVOURITE BIRD-CATCHING HOBBY!

During the New Year period 2009, My father and uncle brought me to a new experience...Catching birds. That was their past times when they are kampong kids...They brought me and my cousin, Jacky to go and catch birds. It is some kinda trap made up of invisible string, like loops...very fun, actually. The bird was known as 'ku-ku' or spotted dove/spotted turtle dove. Their cooing sounds are very pleasant and peaceful. I like it very much. They are heavily trapped to be sold as cage-birds or to enter bird-singing competitions. If it is a 'good' one, it may be sold as much as a few thousand dollars or more. NICE EXPERIENCE!

NOTHING THESE FEW DAYS...

These few days did went fishing, but there wasn't anything during some trips...WHY? Who can I ask? Only sometimes can get small stingrays but most of the time, nothing...even the angler's bait stealer, the catfish also not many liao...WHY? Is it because of the population increase in Singapore, so more people are picking up fishing as their hobby? Ya, let me tell you something more. That day when I went fishing, guess what I saw? I actually saw some dead marine catfish floating on the waters...sometimes can even see some dead snappers floating...Is it because of water pollution?

TOOK FISHING AS A HOBBY

Since primary 3, I have already took fishing as my hobby, and I did not make a wrong choice. Instead, it was a superb choice. I love myself for this. I picked up this hobby from my father, as well as my uncle. Both of them love fishing and often go out to sea to fish in Malaysia and even in Singapore. Till now, we, the three 'fishermen', still go out to sea to fish. Sometimes, we are tired of going out to the sea, we will go to some places like beaches or even jetties to fish. The fishes there are also not bad, sometimes when we are lucky, we will get good fishes like snappers, groupers or even bamboo sharks are also available. But if we are the unlucky ones, we may even get nothing even if we go there for the entire day...

ALL ABOUT ME...

Hello....My name is Desmond. I am from Singapore.... yup...that tiny island in South East Asia. As this country is surrounded by water..beach fishing has become one of the most common choice for an angler. My hobby is FISHING! Many people often consider fishing as boring, or lame...Actually, the answer is wrong. Fishing not only let us discover many different species of marine life, to let us understand about the dangerous fishes and what they do to us, it can also help us to train our patience, as well as unity. So, FISHING IS FUN!