did christmas came late or early for me?!?

depending on how one would look at it... christmas either came late or early, courteousy of santa's not so little elf... sharma. haha. didn't realised that they had post laju at the north pole but the package came by pos laju. when i opened the wrappings i was like... "sharma sent me cooking ware?... knn!!!"... but when i opened the box i saw the real presents... 4 lures and 1 fishing tackle bag. of the 4 lures, 1 is THE tasmanian devil and 3 are thailand made lures called MAN GO. the tackle bag is from surecatch... and it is one BIG bag... which i will be using during my sea trips.

so sharma!!! thanx again bro.

7th day of CNY fishing (24 Feb 2007)

felt the urge to do some casting. called noel and chen but both were busy. so i went to sg pinang on my own. brought two setups. 1 baitcaster and 1 spinning. abu d5 6600 with with daiwa vip and bakau green & yellow bushwhacker. bakau is tce's own brand. my spinning was my shimano slade coupled with a light fishing rod and attached with my trusty berkley blade dancer.

arrived at pond around 2.30pm. proceeded to the back pond. water was full as compared to the last time i was there. red tilapia can be seen everywhere as the water was clear. splashed was also everywhere... by unknown fish, which i suspect to be puyu (climbing perch). started casting and on my 3rd cast, the bushwhacker was ambushed, but i struck too early lost the fish. then one of the caretaker of the farm told me that pond was off limits and i moved to the ponds in front.

quite frustrating as i got many takes on my bushwhacker at the other pond but no hook-up. i was getting tired so i used my spinning setup to cast. then i noticed some commotion near a corner of the pond i was near to. so i started jigging my blade dancer. within a few minutes, i got a take on the lure. i hesitated the urged to strike immediately and counted to 3 seconds and was dully rewarded with a 1kg haruan right at 4pm. i snap a few photos and the fish was safely released. then i went to another corner and started casting using the bushwhacker again. there was a take on the lure and i can see the line tightened and moving off to the right. again i waited a few seconds before i struck, and another 1kg haruan was landed. again, i took photos and released the fish.

then i moved to two other ponds but the result was zero. i moved back to the pond where i caught the 2 haruans and started casting again. a few missed strikes but i didn't give up. the same corner had a commotion again, so i took the blade dancer and started jigging, immediately when i dropped the blade dancer, the line moved and a few seconds later, i struck an i got a ketutu (marble goby) of around 800g. lastly, i caught another 1kg haruan using the bushwhacker. all in all, i would say it was a productive fishing for 3 hours. i also noticed that my casting with my D5 was getting more and more effortless. (ahem!!!)

so sharma... how many points do i have? you do the math.

btw, my total score is now 20.3 points!!!