Saw this link on a friend’s post in facebook. It says it’s able to pay out $ if u refer friends and it’s free.. Well so no harm trying I guess.. Nothing to lose but to sign up and try to get your friends to join for free..
Who knows maybe can earn a wee bit more $ for tackle if possible LOL!!
Mathew
Hi all, I’ve got the following rods for sale to fund my new hobby of rod building.
First Come First Serve 
All collection to be at Yew Tee after 7pm.
Brand New AJN CarbonX 5ft6″, 8-15lb, Single Piece/Spinning – S$55
**BOTH RODS RESERVED TO HP OWNER **** 2915 **
Condition 10/10
Brand New AJN CarbonX 5ft, 4-10lb, Single Piece/Spinning – S$45
Condition 10/10
Both comes with rodsacks
Alternately get both for $90 as a pair.
Rapala SportsMenClassic HM30, 6ft, 15-25lb, Single piece/Baitcaster – S$25.
**Reserved by Kaki Hp ending with ****9651**
2nd in line – **** 5283
Condition 9/10
Daiwa SensorForce 6ft6′, 8-14lb, 2piece/Spinning – S$25
**Reserved by Kaki Hp ending with ****9651**
Condition 9.7/10
Alternatively, take the whole lot for S$130.
Tightlines!
Mathew Tan
The Pasir Ris Farmway 3 has become more or less a weekend outing for both my bother’s family and mine. We would normally spend about 2hrs there luring for the kicks over the weekend. Just to spend some family time between both of our families.
This trip, my brother managed to land one red tail cat Which yet again I’ve yet to land one of that size!!! And then, missed another 2 more and we were both on grubs
As for myself, I had a take that was so strong, it kinda almost pulled my setup out of my hand. The current set up I used was a custom made rod, rated 10-15lb + Abu Black max loaded with 14lb braided power pro… I managed to luckily, grip my rod in time and gave it a strike and the fight was on. This was the moment I was waiting for.. a real test on the self made rod. Camoblue V2 BC series 
Here’s one nice angle of the flex on the rod
Along came my brother’s son, Gavin to give me support as the little deckie.. Here’s his few moments of glorious spotlight on the internet
Gavin, giving me moral and eye power support!
Gavin, giving me more levelrage and making sure that I won’t fail into the pond
Felt like a scene as though, I’m fighting a huge tuna, standing up with a gimbal and the deckie holding me back lol
Unfortunately, the first sign of it was been foulhooked, was when I managed to bring it up half way through the fight. Instead of the head coming out first, it was the tail. Man.. and to think I cranked really slowly along the bottom.. Anyways, having saw that, I wasted no time and really just pumpped the fish back to end the fight fast so that it would not be so distress.
The fight ended in about 5mins or less.. I was impress of the way, the rod managed to maintain it’s loading power on such a fish… No photos, were taken of the fish out of the water as I did not want to distress it any longer. Thanks to the deckie on hand to release the fish fast and it swam away good.
Tail pic of the fish. I reckon an estimate from it’s size.. a good 10-15kg Patin…
Till next week
Regards,
Mathew
Recently, I’ve gotten myself a 2nd hand rod bay for building your own rods and started learning how to build simple rods.
The first one was alright but the 2nd one I did was much better. Started on a Thursday and by Saturday morning it was ready for fishing.
Here’s some snap shot of the new rod that I’ve build.
Rod Drying on a Friday Morning
Anyway, today I headed out for a short session with my brother once again. We decided to head out to the north side.
When we arrived at our launch site. We met up with another kayak’er whom unfortunately could not launch his yak due to a leak that he has just found out. He had generously gave us some of his prawns. While we were chatting his friend just happen to catch a chermin from shore!! Well done!!
So we loaded up and off we went for our trip.
Here’s my brother in his new Tequlia!
First into the action was yours truely with a small snapper which broke the ‘virginity’ of ‘BlueCamo’..
It didn’t really test much of it’s backbone but nonetheless, the rod caught me a fish
A memorable moment.
The action then died down totally with no fish for the next 2 hrs.. We ventured into the mangroves abit and admired what mother nature has given to us..
We then decided to go out for another 1 hour or so.. The wind was picking up and thanks to our anchor.. we mentioned to anchor down to our spot to have more time over the drop and structure. A couple of snappers came and go.. Mark caught 2 decent size snapper as well..
As for me.. I was still dry from the first fish. Desperate for a bigger fish. For the first time.. I’ve hooked up 2 live prawns onto my hook. Down the bait went… within 1min.. there was a take.. Strike!!!! This fish was not fighting like a usual snapper. It had some weight and led me to think that it was a decent size grouper! From the deep then it appeared a shark-like figure.. I honestly thought I hooked up a small blacktip at the north.. But I was mistaken.. a decent sized catfish that managed to push the light rod to the limit. I’m thankful to the fish for testing out the bend on the rod
Here’s a short clip on it.
After awhile more.. we decided to head back shore. Paddling against the wind
It was fun as well meeting up with 2 kayakers on hobies in the sea
Nonetheless it was a good day out on my fishing machine.
Feeling free on the water!
Tightlines.
Regards,
Mathew
Recently, I managed to secure myself a 2nd hand rod bay to build rods that comes with the rollers and a drying motor. Thanks to Anthony of AJN. I managed to get myself some accessories to get myself started and built my own very rod..
The first time for myself.
Anyway, Don and myself, launch one weekend.. despite that the area we have been fishing lately has been ‘dry’ due to the crazy weather. As usual we arm’ed ourselves with 400grams of prawns in total.
Almost 30mins past and no bite.. as I was paddling a drop.. I lowered my bait and began to bounced it along the drop slowly.. and soon a small tap rang through the blank.. a couple more of hits and I struck into it.. up came the first fish to break the duck on my first custom made rod
Happy days!!! So happy that I end up fishless throughout the rest of the trip LOL!! Nonetheless.. I was resting at one spot in this particular position.
Took some Glam shot of the ‘Ninja’ Fishing under the hot sun.
Not to be outdone just before we headed back..
Don managed to land a small herring that gave him a good fight on his light rod
Soon after.. we decided to head back as the wind was picking up quite strongly.
Tightlines.
Mathew
With Bohemian Rhapsody playing on the background and looking back at some fishing photos, I realised that there were a couple of photos that has not been shared before.. So here are some of them in no particular order as I’ve forgotten when I caught them
Here’s an ang cho taken off a madai jig. Greedy fish took both of the hooks at the same time!
A another small baby grouper fell to the madai jig.
Here’s Don with a AngCho at one of our favourite spots to fish
One advantage of fishing from a kayak is because… you get to try out this kind of spots
Mangrove01
Mangrove02
I’m really am guilty as charged for not updating my blog for the past 1 month!!! How time flies!…
Been pretty busy with the festives and I hope all of you as well. The fishing as been slow with strong winds howling thus making kayak fishing abit hard.
Nonetheless, I did manage a few catches of which I will consolidate them and post them up in abit.
Hopefully 2012 will bring bountiful catches for all the kayak anglers and shore anglers alike!
Tightlines!
Mathew
The app I’ve created with the help of some friends is finally out on the iTunes App Store!
Download and support the local fishing community!
SG ANGLERS on the App Store!
It’s still abit raw but I believe within 2 months when information is collated and updated properly it would be a useful app!!
Tight lines!!
Mathew
It has been almost 2 weeks since my last trip out and sometime mid week, our fish stock in the fridge has been depleted. So orders from the maid was to stock it up for 1 week. So that we can cont. to have our daily fish meal over dinner.
Anyway it was a short 4 shorts trip with about 1 hour allocated for paddling. Here was our result. All caught on Ultra Light set ups which gave us a run for the money when a huge fish take the bait.
Here’s Don with his beast from bottom his yak!
I wished I could get a snapper of that size, but it seems that the chermins were always visiting me today >.<.. Here's our overall catch. Took back 6 Chermins for the week.
Yummy and easy to clean.
Amazing stuff which I believe would come in useful for us if we ever do get caught in that situation. But the person showing the technique is truly a mental case!
