Fishing today 31 March 2007

After some time of absence from Bedok Jetty, I went down again today with my wife in the afternoon. High tide was over, the tide was ebbing, but luckily the tambans were biting. By that seems to be the only thing that was biting... my wife managed to get quite some tambans within a short time jigging for them. But using the tamban for bait, I was not able to catch anything. And to top it off, there was a sudden shower that made everyone run for shelter, disrupting the fishing along the jetty for a short while. The wind was strong today, making it hard to float out my floats. Even casting was a challenge. In the end, we packed up and left, giving away the tambans that we caught.

No joy with mealworms

After a long time, about two months, of not fishing, I managed to drag myself down to Bedok Jetty today, to try if mealworms (the kind you get in aquarium shops for feeding to fishes) can work as baits. So I bought a box of mealworms (if it doesn't work, I was going to feed them to my goldfishes and koi back home), got to Bedok Jetty, and hooked up the mealworms and cast.

After 3 hours, in which fishes nibbled at the mealworms but there were no strikes, I came to the conclusion that mealworms don't work good as baits. They died the moment they touch water, so they don't move around in the water to attract attention. And since they don't look like they smell (not like prawns), there is basically nothing that is going to attract fishes unless fishes just happen to be right beside.

And goldfishes don't seem to like them too... I tried feeding them to my goldfish, nope, not very popular with them. I will try with my koi tomorrow, probably with better results.