Catch report 16 Jun 07

After a long break, I finally went down to Bedok Jetty today. At first, it looked set to be a hot sunny day, but then the clouds started to build up, and it was a rainy one instead. The catch was slow too... at where I was, about halfway up the jetty, people were landing tambans at the rate of less than five in an hour.

As I didn't buy any prawns for use as bait, I got down to jigging for tambans, and was quite bored with the slow catch rate. I did manage to catch a whiting on tamban hooks, which I used as bait and floated it out. But I didn't catch anything with that.

While jigging for tambans (caught a total of five), I managed to catch a wolf herring (about 25cm long) and a small little trevally. Someone else caught a baby queenfish on tamban hooks too. Otherwise, no one seemed to have caught anything big in the morning. There was a sea bass floating in the water, it seemed half dead and no one really bothered to try to catch it.

Time too fish? Not!

If anyone thought moving house was tedious... wait till your boxes are all in. Getting the boxes from one place to another is the easy part. Finding places to store all those things inside those boxes, however, is another challenge altogether. And because of this challenge, I have not been able to find any opportunity at all to go down for a short half-day fishing session. How I miss fishing... maybe in another two more weeks, things would have settled down enough for me to go wet my lines... I wonder is by then, the fishes would still be around... hmm...