Cheapskate Luring

On Sunday, it was Toey's 2nd run for the 10 hour pre-service thingy. I wasn't rostered for Myer but Chen was. Anyway, we were buggered from a whole day shift on Saturday and quite easily passed out at night to try and wake up at the most ungentlemanly hour of 2am! No choice, motor has to run slow and we have to go catch squid. Launched at Tunks with quite a few trailers parked there already. Fired up toey and off we went at that painful pace. As usual, chuck on a new Berkley Frenzy I just acquired from BigW for 4 bucks which could dive to 4 meters. Prepped the burley and enjoy the slow cruise in the middle of the night. Hit the squid spot to find that the tide was running out fast. Anchored and rigged up my paternoster whilst Chen used his new 1.8 yama. I tried one side while Chen the other. Suddenly within short moments, Chen called out and said there's heaps of sotongs going crazy for his jig and indeed it was. He instantly brought up the first squid and I also dropped my pater. As the water was clear, I could easily see the squid attacking one of my yozu. Dropped a few before one decisive moment when I struck it and they squirt ink. As long as they squirt ink, it usually means the hookup is secured. Thought we saw quite a lot of squids but in the end got tricked as some were yellowtails chasing the jigs. Managed only 3 but told Chen it was enough and not waste time to move off for the 5am first light.

One of the fastest squid session with us being there for like 15 minutes. To cut the long story short... NOTHING. Tried until 2 of the sotongs got demolished by either baby snappers or Leatherjackets. That's when I randomly switched to using a 4inch bass minnow in white to imitate a sluggo. Suddenly when I was retrieving back the plastic, a small king followed it and quickly did a U-turn! Got us excited and we stayed on. Nothing happened until we saw another boat nearby hook a baby king. We were again tempted and therefore use the last squid. NOTHING. Gave up in the end and trolled back. Tried Chen's new Procaster-V (10-14lb heavy action rod) he just got at a discontinued price for trolling. NOTHING. An interesting thing happened on the ramp when a rich ang moh decided that to reverse to the ramp without securing his winch. Then suddenly when me and Chen were winching in Brooker, there was a loud thud and the next thing we know, the boat was narrowingly missing me and especially Chen! It came down like a loose cannon! Bloody idiots, the ramp was a two-way lane and that bastard just have to squeeze through in between us and another boat! Not only they didn't apologise for that, they didn't even thank Chen when he helped them lift the boat up to try and float it! And being a rich no-brainer ang moh, their fat ass mother still can happily sit in the boat and add weight to Chen and some good hearted people trying to lift that bloody heavy fibreglass pleasure cruisecraft! No wonder one guy besides us were saying this: "MORE MONEY THAN SENSE (cents)"... How true is that?! 2 words again... BLOODY IDIOTS!!!

Then, don't know if it's karma or what, say too much bad stuffs until Civic had some dramas. Got back to HQ to find that my brake pedal switch was faulty and basically when I step the brakes, the brake light is not working. KNNBCCB!!! Then, Chen told me my back tyre was looking a little flat and there it was, a nail was lodged on it! Second time happened man!!! DIU NA SENG leh.. Am I that unlucky??!! Anyway, all is now sorted when my mechanic fixed the light and repaired the tyre and it costs me like 10bucks for it. Phew!

Ok, enough of cry mother cry father.. Sms'ed rocky to see whether he finished his exams but he hasn't. So I went for a quickie to find that Le Montage was blowing hardout. Tried using Rock's cultiva mira shad for no touches and so moved down to longkang. Randomly whacked on a 1g modded head even though wind was blowing like mad. Being a cheapskate lurer as always, I put on a superglued camo worm and 1st cast got a small bream. Sweet, found out where they are. Changed the worm as it was broken during the 1st tussle. Put on another superglued worm and this time round, felt a solid bite and strike it. Ho seh liao.. Zzzzzz and ran like almost the previous biggun I got few days back. But this one felt heavy and the line was going surface. Best of all, one run was going right, the next run it went left... Orgase man! Although the banks there easy to reach the fish but this one gave me some drama trying to body-lift it but in the end no choice but to use the gripper.

SONG SONG GAU JURONG my pb at Le Montage going at 39cm. But bloody hell this biggie posed the same drama in releasing I had face awhile back in Glebe. It didn't wanna swim away and it looked pretty lifeless just before I put it back in the water. I had made sure it wasn't out of the water for too long but somehow it was quite weak. After long efforts trying to revive it and looking at it swimming a little sideways, it managed to kick away to the depths after almost more than 5 minutes struggling. Phew! The wind was blowing like no tommorrow and so called it quits when no more bites were registering.

Ronald