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1Jun2009
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Singapore Jurong Island

Posted in Fishing, Hobbies by decem

People are easily affected. They tend to listen and be absorbed by the inexperienced and intentional false statement of an impostor. It then spreads and floods the minds of the victims who hasn’t even try experiencing themselves. Until the day they feel it with their own hands or see it with their own eyes, then i guessed it’s time to rely on one’s own self-willed.I was one of those listeners, one of the other part of them who did a tryout everywhere that an angler should. I am saying that everyone should if they take fishing as an ambition. Of course there are also people who thinks they won’t prefer to fish in Singapore just because the water condition is lousy, or the fishes are getting lesser and is always tiny.

I organized this charter again for another offshore fishing after a few months due to its booking has been filled. And so i chose a fine date for this occasion and gathered the fellowmen to participate. Drifting on the waters of west coast, swept around the island of Jurong, a man-made hive that later became the world’s busiest container port.

Jurong island is located to the southwest of the main island of Singapore, off Jurong Industrial Estate. It was formed from the amalgamation of several offshore islands, chiefly the seven main islands of Pulau Ayer Chawan, Pulau Ayer Merbau, Pulau Merlimau, Pulau Pesek, Pulau Pesek Kecil, Pulau Sakra and Pulau Seraya. This was done through land reclamation. It is located at the crossroads of the world’s major shipping routes, and that’s why there were several shipwrecks around the coast. So apparently shipwrecks are normally the playground for underwater species, which also attracts fishes into them.

Fishing on the coast of Jurong island is prohibited. And even then it is not allowed to take photographs or videos of Jurong Island. So actually the charter will shift about whenever there’s a sign of vessel or boat coming towards while alerts under-by the binocular of a watchmen, aka the helper on board. It was pretty exciting and fun then.

I love drift-fishing so much because it’s most likely a luring and finding fish method. Unlike anchors and stills, normally you wait or spot it. Ultimately the nip, they lasts. I strongly prefer exploring through the seabed of the deep, that it will somehow surprise me in the very moment i strike a tough nibble. Allow me to share, that it could be monstrous. And technically, it is advanced in progress.

The rare local species that we had landed are in the shape and sizes that hardly seen in Singapore waters nowadays. The two most remarkable Red grouper-(Epinephelus morio) had caught me a bit off guard then. Then followed by the 7.5kg snapper that wowed everyone. So i will say that this trip is a lesson to learn that fishes swims around and they can be anywhere just by chance. Even then it could be on your hook just by a matter of wits. dscf0214.jpg

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