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
January 16th, 2012 at 4:11 PM
nice to see that ur rod stood up to the test !
always enjoyed ur CRs on yak !
January 16th, 2012 at 5:24 PM
I tried the same pond before on my own with some very satisfying action and good time with the family. Catch and release fishing.
February 8th, 2012 at 5:05 PM
ur son so cute.. big liao!
last time saw him he was in diapers
February 8th, 2012 at 5:07 PM
alamak! sorry… juz relaised it’s not ur son…
but looks like…