Shit Fishing Days Looming

The past week has been continuous rain and cold westerly winds. This had and will probably put down the bites of the fishes. Over the Anzac holiday, it was raining and so our boat trip was not a go'er. It was still raining on thursday but as soon as the sky cleared a little by mid afternoon, I snuck out for a quickie. Got there kinda late and the high tide wasn't impressive. Put on the River2Sea static shad and when trying to spray some ultrabite, the bloody can doesn't work again! It was pretty quiet initially till when I thought I hit some snag, I started cranking in fast. Suddenly a fish jumped onto the lure and I knew it was a pesky tailor!

Ok lah, at least lure not virgin liao. Continued with the lure and got a timid hit and totally no struggles at all. It was just a baby bream, but quite well hooked on a size 16 owner ST-36.

Soon, the light had faded. I went to my Lucky LC tango and did a slow roll. Once it got near the bank, the lure powered off. The pulls were strong, but this 30cm bugger didn't take much line, just jerking along the way.

Continued for another 30mins without anymore hits and I knew it was dud. The tide was quite low by now and I wrapped up for joe's dinner.

With the thoughts of getting nasi campur since I hadn't had it for quite sometime, I went to wet my line again and skipped nancy's dinner. Went off to Hen & Chicken Bay after a super long absence and got to the drains. The journey there was pretty trafficky and thus reached there quite late. Threw in my Gulp grub and on the 1st drop, there were hits already. But that was all it mustered up, except for one drop flattie which I reckon was small. Got fed-up with that spot and left for Iron Cove. Once I reached IC, it was already dark. Use the previous grub and was starting to find a patch of flatties territory. Got a total of 4 with the biggest one at 43cm. I was surprised that only this ONE grub could withstand so many flatties thrashings! I kept re-rigging it by poking here and there to make the smashed gulp stay on the jighead, yes, I'm cheapskate! The bloody camera played on me when I wanted to take a pic of the 43.

Got a 2 more small breams on the same grub before it really couldn't stay on the jighead anymore. Nice, 1 gulp = 6 fishes. As the water was kinda low by now, I gave tango another run. Stupid ultrabite can still cannot spray. On about less than 50cm of water, I kept getting hits near the oyster encrusted rocks but couldn't hook up, the risk of modded lures! Refined the technique a bit and paused the lure many times. Finally it works and got a 28cm bream. Suddenly the camera wanted to co-operate!

It was late and I was very tired by then. Such is NO LIFE. Haiz.. don't think so much and go get my fix.

Ronald

Hunting For Our BBQ

Went out with Chen with a mission to... fish, of course. But also knowingly that we had a BBQ on Sunday cum Karaoke, we needed to grab some feed for the hungry mob. It was quite a windy Saturday but not that bad actually. Launched at Tunks quite early but not as crazy as the previous week. It was a bloody low tide but still do-able. There was this asian with a (kiong-kan) face who was sort of hogging the driveway into the ramp. Never mind. Later on, he needed help from Chen to push the boat into the water since he was alone. Never mind. Then when I managed to park the car and walk back, I was expecting to board Brooker from the pontoon. But that kiong-kan asian block Chen's access to the pontoon. KNNBCCB! Later when we pass through the spit bridge, we saw him squidding there, and yet again see his lanjiao kiong-kan face. Don't say already lah, say more hot more.

Got to balmoral to try and score some yakkas. Sadly, only managed 3, somemore they are Do-Re-Me! S-M-L! Funny man! Then the snappers and baby trevally come and ruin bait gathering, so LL we had to leave. Got to the cake and no one there, sweet. Anchored accordingly to the current flow and started cubing. Suddenly Chen saw a king swimming around the berley trail and it got him totally excited. We tried every mutha farkin methods to get him including bread as bait but he just didn't wanna be fooled! I gave up while Chen still continued, swearing along the way as he berleyed continuously. In the end, we changed spot and left there with Chen still swearing about that kingfish teasing him the whole morning. Hahahaha...

Reached the drum spot and did the same ol'. However, this time the anchoring was kinda done far away. Saw another boat not far away landed a kingfish apparently on squid bait. Suddenly there was this smaller boat with 2 adults and a child anchored right in front of us where we were casting to the structure. Chen said they totally jinxed us and true enough, we stopped getting the breams. Somemore they get to take advantage of our berley! Anyway, all they managed was an ok size flathead and maybe some pinkies. At least another player made up for the day, a 38.5cm trevally provided some entertainment. Once that boat left, the breams came back on again, really jinxer eh.. Unfortunately, couldn't produce the same outcome by scoring at least a frigate or something, but still good to be out on the water with Chen.

Got back HQ and quickly unload Brooker, but stupid me drove into the boat shed and hit Brooker onto the side fence, causing a big scratch on the side hull. Cause we were rushing to get maccas brekkie. Had our feed and proceeded back to clean brooker and tools. Chen left to meet Jenny while I fillet our BBQ fishes.

Told phil about the BBQ seafood in Singapore and he said it was nice. So he bought sambal oeleck sauce, plum sauce and lime juice to prepare it. It was our most successful grilled fish for the Team StMike BBQ machine, well done Phil!

Even aussie BBQ machine can do South-East Asian cuisine neh!

Ronald

3 Consecutive Night Ops

Yes, that just shows how 'NO LIFE' Ronald is in Sydney, Australia. But my fisho friends says: "u crazy ah?!, this kind of life we all want leh!" Ok, I 'diam diam', while secretly planning my ops in my mind. On wednesday, Rocky has been dying to get out and fish because of his reports and projects is killing him mentally. I told him later then get back to him since I was gonna have dinner with my bb bro, phil. Once I got back, I called Rocky, he was already at his playground. So he came and pick me up, and we headed to Justin's/GTK's mulloway spot in the hope to 'destroy' (chwee) it, muahahahaha...

Rocky quickly rigged up and soon got a flattie in quick time! He got it on a 3" Gulp minnow. Well done blo.

Soon, we were joined by 2 baiters armed with prawns and one of them was berleying! They too got small flatties, not bad tonight, by the standards shown. Unfortunately, I started with my EverGreen Mini Combat Crank and it got snagged on the 2nd cast! Almost come to a point that I had to drive Rocky's car back to HQ and get my inflatable but luckily with persistence, it managed to be freed! Phew... only thing was a badly chaffed leader but it was replaced immediately and no sweat. I retired the shell-shocked lure and went to soft lures instead. Used my favourite 2" Gulp grub and not long later, got a small bream. Moved quickly down to jewie spot since Rocky's main target was for that. He rigged up big-ass plastic while I still continued with my grub. At one point, Rocky felt a slight resistance and striked. There was moment of zzz'ing from his Certate but nothing was connected. I went up to him and we were both casting quite close to each other. Suddenly I felt a take and hesitantly gave a little strike. Indeed, there was a fish and it felt kinda heavy but not much struggle. My drag was loose but she didn't wanna take any line at all. I briskly wind it in and then felt some headshakes. Called for a big flathead but suddenly when near the banks, it wanted to swim sideways. Soon, we could see it was a bream! What the! This 36cm bream thought she was a flathead!


Thanks to Rock for taking some of the pics, even one with his feet as comparison! A bit letdown for this bream not giving me much entertainment, sianz... We continued for a little while before Rocky had to leave as not to upset his gf.

As I've noticed some surface activity the night I fished with Rock and since the tide for the week was a massive 1.9+ meters, I asked Chen to go for a session the next night (yes, no life, I know). Got there and the conditions were like the night before. Not much wind and glassy surface. One good thing about luring at night is the puffer toads must be blind, because the while time I used my Gulps, it was not raped at all! So I continued my previous night's grub which had already caught the big bream and other 2 fishes. Got the usual flatties before I found it was becoming mushy and not staying on the jig properly, cheapskate hor?! Anyway, we got to my trevally spot (GTK, where is my trevally photo from your digi cam huh??) and Chen was casting whole camo worm. Suddenly he hooked up and the fish jumped and explode the surface! We both got shocked and I came over to see what he had caught. At first I called for a big tailor since there was a jump. But the runs were long and his tierra was singing hardout. However, his drag was loose and I regrettably asked him to tighten it a bit. He did this when the fish was on the side bank and suddenly he lose it! KNNBCCB! We reckon he got busted off on the oyster barnacles, diew! Chen felt gutted and I also feel I made him lose the fish. Then, we went over to 'productive' area and I stuck on to my 'little window' 1st. Saw lots of surface activity and felt that the breams were feeding. Cast few times at my window and on a parallel cast, felt a take and strike. This thing went zzzzz and woke Chen over to the window. After the zzz'ing, a splash was heard and we knew this thing jumped also! It fought pretty well and I truly enjoyed a few good hardout runs and as my expectation proves correct, it was indeed a bream going at 36cm yet again!


Thanks to bro Chen for taking my pics and also assisting me in landing this bugger from a very tight window. We continued for awhile more and I also got this 32cm which only ran once at GTK's slopy slope.

Packed up and left consoling Chen that his was most likely a bream and a pretty BIG one.

The tide was still super high on Friday night, and with my hand trembling with itch, I needed to go for another try just to see if the surface activities will still be there. So, ops order came and the time was right to set out for another assault. It was pretty quiet for the 1st half hour or so at the usual starting point with the occasional flatties. Then at my trev spot, I registered a huge take and the kix only zzz for a split sec. Sianz.. felt like I missed a biggie as it was pretty far out when I had that take. With much time wasted on those spots, I made some hasty casts at slopy slope before heading back to my 'little window' yet again. From here, I saw more surface activities and it was bustling! Cast out my Gulp grub and do some twitching good times. Then all hell breaks loose when kix just zzzzz followed by a bigger splash within a foot away from me! What a magnificent sight to see a flying bream in front of me. This fight is my most memorable bream fight to date. It ran for 5-6 times and with little room to manouvre around this small window, landing this bugger in pitch black condition is not going to be easy. But I soon improvised and learned a new thing about landing biggies from inaccessible banks. To cut long story short, this 41cm grand-daddy obliged for a successful lip grip.


Too bad it did not break my personal best of 42, which ironically happened to be at the same spot, my 'little window'. Continued for awhile more and got this 31cm which really made this a very special night to remember for a nong nong time.. hehe

All these night ops are really addictive, with the pitch black condition, you basically just use feelings to fish, rather than visual. Too bad 'everyday is not sunday', so it's back to planning alternative ops, and wet my appetite further. Hooyah!

Ronald

My First Popper Bream

This is an embarkation on a new form of breaming for me. Anyway, it was not a planned strategy beforehand so a random trip was just made to Five Dock Bay one fine morning. I remembered waking up late and it was already a bright morning, damn, sleepyhead! Anyway, seeing that I've already woken up (not that late actually), might as well go look-see-look-see.

Tried an assortment of soft plastics and not much happening. Walked to a small little mangrove tree and thought of giving my newly acquired StrikePro Rack Popper a try. Made a far first cast and applied all the techniques I read about bream popping. Ploop... ploop... SPLASH!! No connection, damn! Got me excited already! Continued popping the same area and soon, the SPLASH becomes... zzzzz... Yeehar! My first popper bream at 27cm.

Pretty-pretty-no-run-water! After that, it was no return for me. Basically pop the whole session later on for many swirls and misses, diew! It was really really addictive, mind you! Where I was popping, there was a fellow angler not far from me. Suddenly, I heard this bloody loud drag. I saw this guy fighting the fish like curry. So stopped my popping and ran over to busybody a bit. His Daiwa Steez 2506 went berserk, super loud drag and very solid cranking, almost made me partially orgase right on the spot! hahaha.. At first I thought it might be a jewfish but as soon as he tamed it to the bank, it was a huge bream! He told me he's only using 4lb leader and that's why his drag is loose, quite professional angler I'd say. The way he played the fish was quite confident, take my hats off him. I volunteered to go down the steps and help him body-lift this monster, it was BIG, at 42cm total, 39cm to the fork!

Made our acquaintances and pleased to meet Eric. A very courteous bloke and very willing to share knowledge. He caught it on a ZipBaits Rigge Deep 35F, the colour was a unique black hue. Had a sudden *Evil* thought which I always joked with Chen when we saw cool gears of other anglers we met while fishing. The next moment you hear is *SPLASH*... hehe... Unfortunately, this grandpa bream won't be able to be caught by me in the future... sad...

Continued popping non-stop for almost 2 close hook-ups. It went quiet and I left with the constant thoughts of all the swirls, splashes, and close-calls. I'm officially hooked to TOP-WATER action! Ganbatte!

Ronald

2 Days Of Hardout Boating

Sat and Sun saw me and Chen totally went berserk on the fishing front. Well, Chen deserves these 2 days of hardout boating, as working full time definitely sucks big time. On sat morning, Jeff was joining us. An unfortunate event happened when he lifted the esky to the boat, he hurt his back. He was in pretty bad shape. We had to apply plaster and gave him anti-inflammatory pill. At some point his pain was so excruciating we had contemplate to bring him to the hospital but he insisted not. Both me and Chen felt kinda bad and left him to rest while we proceeded a late launch and worried about his condition at the same time. Anyway, got to tunks and launched with practically no one else there. 1st time we used the navigational lights and the anchor light works great too. I had thought about getting some live baits and told Chen we should try Balmoral. Just as when we're about there, I shined my torch and saw some panic-stricken garfish and we stopped immediately. Proceeded to berley and using the LJ rig, got onto some super small yellowtails. I told Chen we might be in for some good action. Got about 13 of them and as soon as the sun rises, we shot off to the wedding cake.

Chucked one lightly weighted and another for the bottom. Chen went for cubing while I tried to see if there's any Leatherjackets around. Well, only hoisted really small Chinamen while Chen got the obligatory breams. By then, we were feeling really buggered and told Chen let's try a new spot. Went to the Quarantine marker and there were a few boats there. That place was very deep, and anchoring was tricky but still managed to do it. Chucked the live baits and sat back. As it was too choppy, both of us kinda felt a little sea-sick. We were both craving for maccas breakie and so we gave up and left quite early for a fishless saturday.

Chen woked me up on sunday morning and off we 2 crazy cunts took Brooker out again. Did the same ol' and we motored to Balmoral for the live baits. They were still there and we got 7 in quick time. Shot off to wedding cake 1st and there were few boats there already! Anyway, did the same ol' and Chen and me cubed. At one point, Chen had a huge run and that instantly woke him up! But it pulled hook on him, DAMN! I pulled in my bottom yakka and to our surprise, it had a gruesome ending. The whole body was gone and only left the skeletal remains of its head! WTF, anyway, sacrificed another one and the waiting game begins. Nothing happened for an hour being there, so we shot off to another spot we never tried before, as Chen needs to meet Jenny early.

Got to Clifton's outer white can and to my surprise, the water depth was quite similar to the cake as I would know from anchoring. Anyway, the current and wind kept flipping us around and we were kinda near to the drum. Casted diagonally away from the drum and we were absolutely hammered by the breams there. They kept climbing on board and to our amazement, the smallest was 28cm while the biggest was 32cm. Most were in the 30s and they were great fun. We lost count of the quantity for sure. Then the powerhouse begun. Finally my 1st trevally of the season, a 37cm and it was a good highlight for the day. The headshakes, the blistering run and the oohs.. and the ahhs..

Then, the best highlight of the day unfold on my el cheapo BigW outfit. This particular run was so characteristic of a king that we thought it might be a rat. But all it managed was that turbocharged run and that was it. Nope, not a king, it was a frigate mackeral! Sweet, my 2nd one for the season. The yakkas were again untouched to our dismay. It was time to pack up and we left early yet again. While bleeding the frigate in Brooker, it made a murder scene! Haha..

Got back to HQ and started cleaning up and preparing the Frigate sashimi for the mob's night gathering of beer and fresh fish. Only kept 2 breams being the biggest of all.

Luckily Sunday saves the weekend for us.

Ronald

Luring on Friday The 13th!

Yup, of all days, I must go lure on Friday the 13th. Actually, to be honest, I didn't even realised that it was friday the 13th till when I came back and surf a fishing forum that saw people complaining about bad luck in fishing on that day! A quick check on the computer clock and it was indeed correct. Anyway, before the chain of events which will occur, I received my belated birthday present from my bb bro Phillip. It was a collectors edition of a Rapala Tail Dancer! I was over the moon! Thanks phil, you made my day..

Definitely won't be using this gift, it's gonna be properly guarded! Anyway, out of boredom, I headed out for a evening last light session at Le Montage seeming the high-tide is kinda low. Reached there kinda late but seeing that the water line was quite high, I gave soft plastics the go 1st. Used my camo worm and got a small flattie, only to come back without the worm, bastard! Then, went for the gulp grub and still only managing just ok size flatties. Seems like flathead territory for that day.

As soon as the light fades to almost complete darkness, I randomly selected my LuckyCraft Tango 45SP. Bad luck on friday the 13th? Never mind, cos' LuckyCraft is called LUCKY for nothing! As soon as the 1st few casts were made, on a particular retrieve, it was hammered by an angry flattie near my feet. This flattie totally went berserk, taking line at a speed that I thought even a bream also can't achieve. Started to panic and tighten my 'possible' pussy-drag. Ok, finally managed to subdue her and to my surprise it was just a normal size flathead! Good fun I'd say!

Didn't measure her but i'll say it was legal. The tango was badly scratched as it was also again swallowed quite deep, and the obligatory head shakes of flattie's causes their teeth to take some paintwork off my precious tango, KNNBCCB! Nonetheless, I still like it to tango in the water. Not long later, kix suddenly goes zzzzz like there's no tommorrow! This run immediately made me orgase on the spot. As it was pitch black, I could see shit how my line moves. Followed the direction of how my rod tip moves and knew it was a bream run and might be a good size. A few more dashes and her fins got caught up on the 5lb Nitlon DARM fluorocarbon leader. As there was no steps around Le Montage, I had to lift it by the leader. It was harrowing but luckily she stayed still and a 31cm bream was forced to have her picture taken.

By then, the water was getting really low. Could feel that tango is getting near the bottom pretty fast after a few cranks. By then, I incorporate a slow lift approach and wind in the slack like working my soft plastics. Sometimes I had to resort to raising blackhole up to hopefully keep the bib up. But, this had risk, as it will cause the treble to lower, and thus possibly getting snag by the hooks. There was once when I got a minor snag and luckily it wasn't unmovable and it was out in no time. Continued and a baby bream wanted to attack this lure too.

Getting hungry and thinking about my nasi campur joint, I made the last few casts. Wind in like usual and then there was a pussy take and I gave a slight strike. At first I thought there was nothing but suddenly when the slack was wind in, there was actually something on the other end. It was a crappy tussle and a 28cm bream came in as the last fish for the night.

Bloody bugger thrashed non-stop on the grass and all I could think was why the F it didn't waste its energy trying to run my drag and instead gave me a hard time to remove the treble. Packed up for the night and left for dinner without knowing it was "LURING ON A FRIDAY THE 13TH NIGHT".

Ronald

Easter Holidays Luring

Sigh... NO LIFE man! Easter holidays got nothing better to do so no choice but to go luring! Was supposed to go boating with Chen to test run Brooker but stupid weather played on us! Anyway, on saturday night (that's right, saturday nite!), I was supposed to go coles and buy bread for burley. Had organised to go with Phillip at around 10ish and so looking at the clock, I couldn't resist to go for a 1 hour trial run of my modded EverGreen Mini Combat Crank. Crazy Ronald, it was actually still raining but still opted to head out in the intermittent rains. Reached Iron Cove and proceeded to rig up my evergreen under the shelter of the rowers club. Seeing as the rain has stopped, I quickly headed out and started casting. Few casts later near the structures, got a take and a smallish bream was landed. Lure de-virginised!

Then, rain pelted down and I quickly dashed back to the shelter. Waited for 10mins and the rain stopped. Went out and casted. Nothing this time. Rain came back again and I dashed back to the shelter. Crazy Asian! Third time out and by then, time was up. On the last cast, got a few hits but failed to connect. Mission acccomplished. End up didn't go coles as Chen called me and I told him it might rain tommorrow. Left for HQ and instead went to Maccas with Phillip.

Bullshit! Stupid forecast of "frequent showers" is bluff one! No rain in the morning! Chen was devastated man.. Never mind, I asked him for a lure session. We left for IC and it was kinda cloudy actually. Since it had been raining hardout for the past few days, we went to the drain. The high tide during the day now is pretty shit, with only sub-1m waters. Anyway, gave my tango a swim and on the 2nd cast, got a small flattie that likes to 'tango' too.

As the wind was soon 'at-my-face', we went over to Le Montage. 1st cast of my gulp grub and it was eaten straightaway on the drop! Too bad it was a flattie but it thrashed around quite well, and to top it off, it was a good legal size. Didn't bother to measure, besides, the moment I took out the lure, it slid itself off into the water. Chen got a flattie on his big-ass camo worm while I got another flattie later on. Got bored and decided to head off to my favourite Nasi Campur joint for our lunch fix. Went to FishFinder tackle shop and got a can of Egimax Glow, 2 packs of Decoy Snaps, 1 River2Sea static shad and 1 StrikePro Rack popper, a pack of gulp worms and end up coming out of the shop $57 poorer, KNNBCCB!!!

Easter Monday saw me yet again, NO LIFE! Go luring loh! It's been awhile since I've lured at Double Bay and also eager to try the popper. Got there around almost to high tide and tried soft plastics 1st. The sps got raped but tells me a good sign that at least there's fish around. Seeing that the sun was up and the water quite clear, I went for the EverGreen Spin Move Shad which still hasn't caught any fish yet. 1st cast of it with my new can of Stimulate spray, it got something. A small whiting almost the size of the lure ate it somemore on the back treble! Muahahaha...

Ok lah, can't complain, lure de-virginised! EverGreen hooyah! Few casts later, baby snapper also like to get a taste of Spin Move Shad. It really liked the treble, took it into it's mouth.

Bad thing about this lure is it will swim deep in matter of few cranks, because of it's sensitive weight transfer system. Diew na seng! Kept getting plenty of weeds and I have to 'high-stick' my rod to hopefully keep it away! Got sick of it and decided to changed to SX-40 in SA Tennesee Shad colour (damn fanciful colour names right?). Sprayed some stimulate and on the first cast, I got a heavy pull-in quite near my feet. At first thought it was a clump of weed as it didn't move at all. Once I pull it near to the surface, wah lao eh...!!! Numb Ray ah! KNNBCCB!!!

Somemore the treble is near it's big-ass mouth! Luckily never swallow the tiny sx full-on! Make me look like an idiot asian trying not to touch the numb ray while unhooking this bastard. Heard that if touch it barehand, will instantly give my an electric shock, that's why call NUMB ray mah! Finally managed to safely dehook it and I gave it a slight kick with my Crocs and sent it into the water again. Continued with the SX and got a good size flattie at 41cm.

Was contemplating to "packet" it for a feed but to keep up the GTK spirit of "I don't take fish when luring" (yah, right..), I sent it back to her home. As the SX was getting quiet, I finally changed to the lure I was meant to test-run. Gave the StrikePro popper and few throws but got nothing and also the wind was not favourable. Changed to Anglers Republic Rapid 45DSP and crank it faster than usual. Was boring for quite sometime but as soon as I moved to the area with less weed, I was rewarded with a super duper small pinkie. It was almost the same size as the lure!

Continued peppering the same spot without much major movements and on a particular slow retrieve, the Rapid was hammered pretty hard! Finally the kix decided to sing! At 1st thought, it might be a snapper. But as soon as it was near the beach, I could see an ok size bream! Made a few short bursts and finally coaxed it in for a snapshot.

Moved to near the swim baths area and on a slant cast, got a take which felt like gotten clump of weed or something. But turns out later the fight was distinctive of Mr Flathead. True enough, it was another good size flathead at 46cm!

All the trebles were stuck sideway of the flatties mouth, suggesting it might be a sideway attack on the lure. Nice, even though I was only using one treble. Imagine if I've kept these two flatties (double bay is clean mah), my meal is secured for the whole week! Damn!

Ronald

Post-Thesis Therapy

After thesis, I needed some therapy. What therapy I'm talking about? Want to go fishing say so lah! On tuesday morning, brought brooker to the mechanic yet AGAIN with Chen. Dropped her off and Chen needed the trailer to be conditioned up as well in case we're heading off to another further fishing location. After dropping Chen off at his office, I headed over to five dock again for the 3rd time. I wasn't keen at 1st but thought what the heck, I needed the therapy.

Reached there with the sun already up and burning. Tried a few plastics here and there only to get bitten off and snagged! Instantly I knew it was a stupid trip. The wind suddenly picked up and was blowing quite uncomfortably from the south. Switched to LC tango and lo and behold... I caught the bastards so famously raping our soft plastics, dear MR PUFFER aka toad!

Revenge was shweet!!! Muahahahahaha... But obviously I don't wanna turn into a bastard too and so it was safely returned although it did blow itself up when it was on land.. hahaha.. Then the tango finally managed to get me a bream! It was small but it took the lure hard-on.

The water was getting low fast. Switched to smaller profile lures and my favourite Ecogear SX-40 managed to snag me 2 flatties just before I left. This one was the biggest.

Wednesday night I was bloody bored at home. I was contemplating to either lure or go squidding. Checked that the wind was blowing northerly, so I opted to squid. Grabbed Egimax from Chen's bag and off I went to Greenwich. The conditions there was quite alright, the wind wasn't a pain-in-the-ass. While I just got there, there were 2 asian guys there too, and they turned out to be Kenny's greenwich pals. Anyway, I tried the new Yozuri Aurie-Q size 1.8 brown coloured squid jig Chen helped me buy from eBay to no effect. Next up was the Yamashita 2.0 jig I got from Singapore but there was no business. Time was running out as I only wanted to be there for 1 hour. After 45mins, I switched to my 1st jap jig which was a yozuri OITA size 2.0 in pink. I remembered squid jig has to be jigged over weed beds and being knowledgeable about the terrain at Greenwich, I dropped the jig over the beds and quickly jig it near the surface. Voila, 1st cast over the weeds and I got a take. Slowly reeled in the see that I still haven't jagged the squid yet. It really liked the Egimax scent and was holding on tight to the side. Kept the drag light and slowly reel in near the water surface. The moment I tried to lift it off the surface, the barbs successfully jagged its head. Quite a good size squid! Continued for another 30mins but no more takers. One squid for 1hr 15mins, diew!

The squid is freshly frozen in zip-lock bag and in newspaper for our kingie bait. Next up is an update on... LURES collection! Over the thesis period, got a sale and snap up somemore ammo of GULPS.

Bloody 2" pseed gulp grub still hasn't gotten me any good size breams! Then, even while writing thesis, I still can stray over to eBay. Got 2 more Lucky Craft lures, a Bevy Pencil 60 and a Bevy Prop 55. Both are topwater lures and most likely to be used in Sunny Singapore but will be added into my topwater lures collection. Got them because after a quick thinking bid, it cost me AU$24 for both which is damn cheap considering they are LuckyCraft lures!

Well, I guess now I better stop buying Jap lures. No more scholarship, damn!

Ronald