Sit-Rep-Changi Coastal Fishing 9/10/09

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Took a few hours off work and went fishing at my usual spot today. Bought some wat-wat and a small pack of fresh squid from Gary's shop in Changi Village and started off using squid since I didn't have any cooler box with me. I set up two rods and rigged one with a long leader and another with a apollo. Things got off to a good start with small sharks landed on both rods. Was using small pieces of squid initially and started using whole squid (2") on the long leader set up to see if the "big bait big fish" theory worked. After casting out the two baits, I started fiddling with my stuff when suddenly my outfit with the whole squid started screaming! Something was taking off with my bait and the rod almost doubled over. After a brief 5 minute fight, a 5kg+ stingray was flapping on the water surface and successfully landed the help of a passerby (the nice chap actually climbed over the concrete rails and pulled the ray up for me). Not long after that, I had another strong take but the hook pulled out. Suspected it was another ray and it could have been bigger than the first because it was really heavy and took line aggressively when it felt the hook. Other than the ray and the big take, I was lucky enough to have landed several different species of catfish, eel, shark and even foul hooked a sea snake!

This was certainly a good day for me and the 5kg+ ray is my personal best after fishing at my fav spot regularly for more than 2yrs. Keeping my fingers crossed and hope to catch something over 10kgs one day

[bugeyed]

bro, after taking over the shift from you, got these 2 baby rays. After that for the next 3 hours it's all quiet

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Hey Bugsy, 2 rays is better than no bites at all!! We should try fishing in the day sometime. Better bring hat & use sunblock though... feeling the discomfort in my neck now!!

Oh by the way, the ray was caught with my Shimano Surf Leader EV SF 425BX and Shimano Power Aero Spin Power (loaded with pink 14lb Fireline)

[boonkm]

not bad dude nice stingray

3 years ago, use to caught stingray ranging from 8 to 15kg... near my place,,,
after tsunami no more fish, very pity

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hahaha you're one lucky chap buddy. If only we had that many rays lurking in our waters

[jorje.sflucky]

hi mike, i gave up that place and u caught these, haha . george

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LOL... its 95% luck & 5% local knowledge no matter where you fish. Come back and join me lar! I don't drive so Cafhi area is by far the cleanest and most accessible to me.

[fiore]

hooray! nice catches!

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Hey Fiore, have you been fishing lately? weather is kinda sucky ain't it? Wanted to drag my butt out to fish but worried it might rain... so end up rotting at home