Goodbye Tornado, Hello Crossbeat!

Alrite Fishos, just some news to share with you all. Broke my beloved Team Daiwa Tornado Rod few days ago before birthday at the newly opened Woodlands Waterfront. Haiz... It broke just before dawn, some monstrous kimbaklor must have gotten my lure and went across the bridge hard and it broke after an overwhelming C bend load. :( Oh well, a sacrificial rod has to be laid down to appease teh fishing lord over here mah. Goodbye Tornado, U would not be forgotten!

Anyway, dearest wifey bought a replacement for me liao for my birthday. A Daiwa Crossbeat 6'6'' Light Action Rod! ^^ Very happy since it's longer, lighter and most important, matched the color of my Luvias reel. Shiok! Also spooled in new white 8lb SpiderWire for tighter luring action! Lagi Shiok!! Kekeke. Thanks Dear!!! *Muackz* Since everything is going lighter, I went and bought a new matching and lighter bag for my luring needs. Matching fishing combo set liao. SUPER DUPER HAPPY!!! ^^

Daiwa Crossbeat in Cool Silver & Black Color

Luvias & Crossbeat in matching colors. Sweet ^^

My Light & Black Pack ^^

Enlightening From Teh Toman Shifu ^^

Been a zero fighter lately though and getting pretty demoralized. Lost several lures liao yet hit almost nothing and totally clueless what strategy to formulate in each waters. Haiz... Went Youtube watch Fishos having a ball of great time with their catches lagi SIAN 1/2. HAIZzz.. Sad... :( Disillusioned and completely in need of enlightening, i stumbled upon these splendid vids by one FISHINGBANHOCK. Kudos to this Fisho man. How he managed to strike down these majestic Toman time and time again is beyond me... Plus he is also a CNR Fisho!!! Cool!!! Hopefully, from his art can i learn and reap some rewards. Hahaha!!! Enjoy these vids and learn from the master!!! ^^

Fish!!! After A Month Long Absence!

These are trying times I guess. Really have not been into the mood in fishing after gaming up ALOT. Dunno if my amateurish fishing skills had degraded or not. LOL! Went over NSLK to pick up the slack today. Weather is not good at all, rained some time after wifey arrived. Had to take shelter else would be drenched for good. Tried out the usual hard plastics but damn fished up so much debris. The river current is too fast and not to mention how the heck so much weeds had grown over the past month! Also tried a small topwater plug i bought yesterday but quite weak in action though. Switch to soft plastics. No luck at all. Damn... After a while wifey call me up into the tunnel and guess what i saw. An injured EarthEater. Quickly scooped it up and check for damage.

Palm sized fish food. Don't last long cos kena whacked by other fish.

EarthEater was so weak that i caught it easily in the water. Released it soon after, hopefully can recover but i highly doubted it. Went over to the other side of the longkang and tried some burn and stop. Nothing. Wifey called again and i rushed over. She say got some fishy bubbles. Hmm... No harm trying the spot. And BAMM!!! :)

5-inch baby Peacock Bass caught. Very feisty. :)

Another Baby caught. Or was it me... Lao Baby!!! (^-^)

So ends another fruitful day at the river. Hopefully this would fire up my passion more for fishing again! LOL! YAY! Went over fishing shop and get supplied with more soft plastics cos they get sungkot so easily... Oh Well! Cya Fishos!!!

Flash Back... Beginning Fishing...

"Heya Fishos, you must be wondering when did i started to hook on fishing. To tell you the truth, my very first time fishing was years back. Me and my best friend Fuliang was wondering if we could catch big fishes as a hobby. We were really noob then, went to Beach Road and i think i bought a medium-heavy rod and he bought a super expensive light-medium rod. Close to 1k then, the Team Daiwa Tornado Rod!!! We spooled in mono lines and bought some lures and set out to catch at LPR at nite.

Of course with nobody to teach us, the result was horrible. Reel and rod dropped into the pond, fast retrieve without pause, etc. LOL! In the end, went to Bedok Jetty tried our luck. I managed to hook 2 Beltfish A.K.A Todaks that nite with spoon! But super tired throwing lures on the med-heavy rod leh. Good fun that day but fren quitted and gave me his super expensive rod to me and i stored it till one day last year.

Basically wanted a cheap and good way to cut down my weight. Gonna have my wedding photoshoot next year so don't wanna be all chubby. Pretty fat that time loh. LOL! Went LPR one day and tried a lure and must be very lucky cos Peacock Bass just went for it after my lure was cast into the waters. And then my old mono went beehoon. Finally took my solution to Team 7 Pro Tackle at Yishun to help out.

The two nice young Sam and Desmond really took time to explain to me all about lure fishing. Bought some beginner reel set and lures, spooled in some new mono and off i go Toman hunting. LOL! In the end i did landed one tiny Toman! And i decided to put this hobby in firm resolution.

So that's how the poison started and i loved every minute of it! Hopefully this new passion of mine won't stop so abruptly like last time. I'm gonna learn and hone my skill so next time, when my fren came around. I could teach him how to fish and hopefully, get him hooked!!! LOL!"
 

MY VERY FIRST PEACOCK BASS!!!

Stout fella! Hopefully we'll meet again when u're bigger!