First fish for the year 2009

3rd of January 2009, 3 days into the new year, and I had yet to land my first fish of the year, haiz sad...

After a fruitless trip on the new year day, after losing a lure on the new year trip, after hooked myself with a lure on the new year day... I am in an extreme despo mode on this day's trip, on the 3rd day of the year...

After meeting up with Gary, SH and Abang Ali in the morning, we set off on the trip, hunting for our very first fish of the year.

Not long into the trip, a black tip shark was spotted at the shallow, attracted by Gary's Bitstream, luckily and unluckily, it did not take the lure, it was a 1 meter + long baby black tip.

We carried on, I got my suger minnow snagged on the rock, it never came back. 1st lure gone for the trip. Sad.

A small commotion broke out near the surface, Gary cast towards it and landed his first fish of the year, a baby Todak on bitstream, the first fish landed on this lure after 2 years, finally.


Todak(Hound Needlefish (Tylosurus Crocodilus Crocodilus))

I lost my second lure, Daiwa SL14 Hokkaido special edition, soon after that, sad, sad...

Abang Ali had lost a few rubber by now.

We moved on, luring along the long stretch of breaker, trying our best to lure a bite from the fish, any fish will do in this case...

SH had a very strong take on the Norman Deep diver, the near full locked drag of his 2500 size reel cannot even stop the taker, he watched helplessly as his line was spilling out of the spool like water. All stopped after a few seconds, the hook fail to set in. lucky he still got his lure back.

I snapped on the Daiwa Morethan darting Z, feeling good and sent it out. Let it sink to the bottom, twitch it up and start "walking" it at mid water. on the second attempt, a fish took it from nowhere, it took with such a speed that my rod was twisted to the left fully bent in a split second, the relatively light 2kg drag setting did nothing to buffer the shock and the main line snapped in an instant. 3rd lure lost, sad sad sad...

Retied a new shock leader and snapped on the Smith Surger, sent it out and worked it all the same, and the same thing happened!! Damn!! No change to fight back!! 2nd fish lost, 4th lure gone!! DAMN IT!!!

Tied a new leader again, snapped on a spoon by pro hunter, shot it out, work the same manner, another fish hit, line was being pulled out at a very fast speed, and "piack"!! main line snapped! a gain!! 3rd fish lost!!! Along with my 5th lure!!! GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!

Not giving up, I tried again, this time with Little Bit, a tiny jig. It never come back, was snagged to the bottom the moment it touches bottom. 6th lure gone. $^%$&$%^*$%^$%#$%$^&;%*%$%*#%">#%$^%$&^$%^*$%^$%#$%$^&a%*%$%*#%!!!!!!!!

I gave up. But I STILL wanna get fish, extremely despo.
I switched to bait.

Set up my 4lbs class pole rod and started looking for cheap thrill.

SH hit something, I ran over and took some photo before the fish was released.His first fish of the year, his first fish on Deep diver, the first of its kind, and the biggest of its kind for him.A 2.5 kg Tiger Grouper (Brown-marbled Grouper, Epinephelus Fuscoguttatus).











One more shot of the man, oops, boy. kekekekekeke





Fish was released after Photo shoot.

Finally, after some work out, I landed my FIRST fish of the year, on pole.Yes, it a smallie, but, SO WHAT!!! ITS MY FIRST FISH OF THE YEAR!!! OK??


Sergeant Major (Abudefduf Saxatilis)

The 2nd and 3rd are of the same type, same size, so I shall only put up one pic.Here goes:


Diamond Wrasse (Halichoeres Nigrescens)

All fish released unharmed.

By the time I landed the 3rd fish, it was also about time to end this trip.

Total score:

Gary, a smallie Todak, released, but never made it, it will become fish food.
SH, a huge miss and a 2.5 kg Tiger grouper, release without further harm except for a sore mouth.
Me, 3 smallies on bait. YES! ON BAIT!, 3 huge take, 6 lure lost. Why me....
Abang Ali, a few miss and a few rubber lost.

This conclude the trip's CR.Stay tuned for the first proper catch on lure for 2009. Coming soon......


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