Of fishing and Nerf Guns

This is a blog that is suppose to write on my fishing with my boys but so far, they are more keen to go playing with their Nerf guns. Both of them bought a Nerf Vulcan and both wants to be Rambo. The gun is built like a real General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) and it fires via a magazine belt of bullets! I have bullets shooting all over the place and its chaos. I had to confiscate the guns yesterday cause it was getting really heated. Only on weekends when I take them to an open space, can they start using them!

I did fish last Sunday, 24 Jan at PRPP. I have not fished there for sometime and decided to just go and not think so much. Paid and proceed to cast my line with the usual white squidies. A couple of knocks but not much action. Saw people hitting nice size snappers with fish meat but I resisted the tempatation to use baits and continued to lure.

One hour past and I was sorely tempted to use the KS that I brought. At the 1 hour 15 minute mark, fish ON! The line peeled off and fought the fish till it was subdued. A nice 1.5 kg ACK. Cast off again and fish ON again - WOW 2 in a row! Reeled up a real fighter of a mangrove jack. I thought that I hit a rich vein of fish but after the 2 bites, it was all quiet! :(

On the 1.45 hour mark, I decided to give luring a rest, changed the rig and used a large piece of KS. Cast and just waited. What do you know. The line started moving and I struck and before long, a 2 plus kg ACK came up.

Did not have further bites and it was getting late and dark. Packed up and it was a fruitful day of fishing. Now if only the Nerf Vulcan is able to shoot the fishes! Gotta bring the boys out and savour the outdoors. Enough of the Nintendo Wii, game boys, Nerf guns, TV, Internet etc......Did not have those as a kid and we just played with whatever our imagination took us. So next trip, the boys will be joining me for sure! Or else I am going to use the Nerf GPMG on them!:)

FW1- Return to Baiting

After breaking the duck at Kyoto Pond last Saturday, I decided to move to FW1 after getting reports that it was on the mend. I do not have very good memories of this pond cause the last 2 times, I fished there, it was nothing short of quiet. In fact, I fished at the pond in Dec 09 and paid $100 as it was a so-called "competition". I ended with 1 sea bass which to me was the most expensive fish I have ever caught!

I left the house at 8.30 pm after talking and putting the boys to bed. I got to the pond at 9 pm and started fishing thereafter. This time around, I decided to use baits which is a move away from my usual luring.

Went to the recommended spot and placed in the floater. Within 2 minutes, the float moved down and FISH ON! Out came a very nice 1.5kg Russell Snapper or as we locals would call it, an Ang Chor Kee. Within the span of 2 hours, I managed to haul up a 2kg Red Drum (Taiwan Ngor), a 2 kg Red Snapper (Ang Kuey) and 3 Golden Promfrets (Kim Chews). Yayyyy....my duck has been broken.

Went back home happy and called up my neighbour at midnight to give her the Red Drum and Golden Promfret. She was indeed happy and I was happy for her. I kept both the snappers as it makes good fish curry.

All in all, a great fishing trip and to catch fish after weeks of fishing in a no-fish zone was exhilirating for me!!

Fishing at Kyoto Pond - 9 Jan 10

After 3 fruitless fishing trips, I decided to go luring at PRPP. When I reached the pond at about 7.45 pm, I noticed that there were quite a number of people fishing but it was pretty quiet in terms of fishes been caught. I spoke to a chap and he told me that he had been fishing for about an hour and caught nothing. And I had thought that the operator had put in a lot of fishes earlier in the day as adversied in FK.

I decided to move to Kyoto and my resolve was to lure and not use any baits. I reached, set up my gear and proceeded to fish. First half an hour, I broke my duck (Hooray...finally!!) and hit a decent size barramundi. After that, I had managed to secure some hits but the hook did not set.

Coming to the second hour, I decided to change from the squidies to the bright luminous green Berkeley Gulp lures. After 5 casts, the water exploded and FISH ON! It was a large barramundi (estimated weight 5 kg) and it did some pretty spectacular acrobatic jumps. After about 5 minutes, it was no match against my GL IMX rod and new Daiwa Exist 1003 reel. Fish was brought up and picture taken before Mr Kim was released back safely into the pond.

2 hits but as far as I'm concerned, it was beautiful as I finally got my fishes!! Thank God for that!

Will post the pix up when I have the time to download it from my camera phone.

Zero Fighter

It's been a frustrating fishing time for me for my last 3 trips. Was a "zero" fighter. The last trip I went was last Sat at FW2. The first 2 hours was very quiet and when they released the fishes, I managed to hit a snapper. But it went over quite a number of lines and before long, the fish slipped out! Ahhhhhh......

Think that I had better just keep a low profile. Perhaps I will try to break the duck tomorrow or on Sunday evening. Will see la.....:(