Fishing Is Tough

No more hip hop curry pok sessions nowadays. Maybe it's so much easier blaming on the fact that it's winter. The wind nowadays are blowing heaps of gusts, and I didn't have much chance to use soft plastics much. On thurs, I was reluctant to head out seeing that the wind wasn't as kind as wed. But since I knew I couldn't head out on Fri evening, might as well just go once more for this week. Reached there with the wind pounding sure-fire but at least it's from behind. Still, it makes soft plastic fishing uncomfortable. So tried quite a few hardbodies like: Megabass Baby Griffon (1 hit), Zipbaits Rigge, Basspro XPS and SX40 sydney guppy. After luring there for almost 2 hours, the first more noticeable hit came almost last light conditions. Wah lao, pathetic, such a long wait. 2nd cast saw another hit and I got frustrated, the fish was still there but not eating the SX. Put on more Megastrike and finally 3rd cast the rod tip automatically loaded up. With the way how the fish not striking my lure on the 1st hit, I knew it was a pup.

Well, at least not a donut trip. Actually I was on the verge of going home when I thought let's give a few more casts, lol. With the wind blowing at an awkward position on the snag, I thought I'll fire a hard cast at an angle near the snag and walk a bit to where I want the lure to swim in the direction when I was reeling. This technique paid off, when the lure swam in a curve pattern rather than straight retrieve. So basically when it was swimming near the snag as close as possible, one bream came out of nowhere and clobbered the SX! This was a hardbody that I treasure very much and so quickly tightened drag and skull pull the bugger out. Luckily it works and the fish wasn't pulling line but just yank my rod down near the banks. To my surprise, it was quite a good size even though this was a windy and shitty day.

31cm just before 6pm. The sky was almost completely dark and the wind doesn't seemed to die off. Got really sick of the wind pounding on me and so left with at least a bit of satisfaction. The breams are yet again icy cold. Bummer..

Ronald