May Fishing Trip Diary

Mon, 26 may 2008, 2238hrs

Going out with dad, bro, 2nd uncle, an Eastern Time reporter, Professor Dr Chong, Uncle Eng, Shui and their friends for this 3 day 2 night fishing trip. Left boat club at 6.29pm and will b arriving at our destination around 4.30am. Had a bad mood earlier. I'm okay now after taking an earlier nap. Kinda tired now. Need to sleep and get ready for video shooting tomorrow.


Tues, 27 may 2008, 5.30am

Reach destination around 4am. Dad made the first catch of the day which was either a trevally o tuna that weigh around 4~5 kg. Bait used is frozen squid.


Wed,28 may 2008, 0120hrs

End of day two for me. We're now at the mackerel fishing spot. uncle Eng, uncle Seh Foh, dad n my bro is still fishing outside while the rest are asleep. Today has been a tiring day 4 me. One of the cause is the hot afternoon and the 1 metre wave which was rocky and it make me felt giddy. Then again it could cause by me going into the hot deck and then going back into the chilling cabin that made me felt sick. To several naps that afternoon and only recovered after 4pm.

Today got quite a lot of big catch. I missed recording the afternoon fish session as i was in bed. Fishes caught were mangrove jack, red snapper, trevallies, juvenile GT, groupers, herrings and mackerel. Uncle Eng caught the first mackerel. Damn 7 tired adi. Nite.


Wed, 28 may 2008, 1055hrs

It was almost sunrise when i was woken up by the freezing temperature in the cabin. So i force myself onto the deck and found dad, uncle Shui, Eng and 'cikgu' catching squids. Squids were all over d place.
We r now on our way back to the boat club. Overall, everybody manage to land at least a fish. 2nd uncle got the biggest grouper n dog shark while 'cikgu' landed the biggest red snapper. As for me, i landed a grouper n a few herrings or sardine.
Estimated Time of Arrival to reach boat club 6 hrs. So we'll be reaching around 4:30pm.


Fri, 30 May 2008, 1428hrs

Is has been more than 24hrs since the fishing trip. To put a close to this diary, we reached the boat club around 4:30pm. Total catch should be more than 30 fishes.


Attached below are the catch of the 3 days 2 night trip.