man... how i miss fishing.... :D

Yesterday i was making the back ups for my external harddisk i was reminded of how much i love fishing... and how much i really missed it...

I still remember the regime we took just for the sake of fishing... and i remembered it like it was yesterday - so my fishing firends, hope this jogs up some memories for you too....

i still remembered the first time we decided to go for a big gang fishing outing.. took a whole month just to decide and plan where to go! if i remembered correctly, about 5 of us went to sukida (and that started the whole fishing for life regime - work also not so strict leh), not only did we arrive early, but somehow we choosed to wait at the side entrace of the place shouting over the gate fearing that the place was closed - not until we went further down the road and behold! the entrance :D i still remember how silly we must have looked :D - though not much catch on that day except for the patin which Mr. Lam caught... the rest were just tilapias.. and remember, its a C&R pond, so no souveniors (not counting the sunburn & ant bites of course) - i wonder who took the picture of me on the phone? :P

The following trips there after would be even worst... worst in a sense that it has become / permanently marked on our "MUST DO LIST!" just above eating and sleeping... 3 of us, shuan /adrian and yours truly can't get enough of this fishing heaven (sukida) and we proceeded this time with all our newly purchased "special tools" - lipgrip la, lures la, bomb hook la, haam la, ai... i forgot what else... seemed like we just brought the whole tackle shop there with us la.. oh yeah, i think we spent more time horsing around rather than real fishing :D

then i think after the 3rd tip to sukida we bumped into a new fishing heaven called the "tow foo pond" on MFN. i think our conversation went something like this:

shuan: "oi! got new fishing spot ah! tow foo pond, check out in MFN!"
me: "towfoo??? fishing??? how ah??? cannot stick on hook wan la! must be hoax la"
shuan: "u check out first la! ***, sukida very far la!!!! and always u no catch big fish wan!"
me: "@#%#@^$, ok la ok la, we go this weekend! but where ah?"
shuan: "i know the place wan! no problem wan! we panamaxicomp people sure can wan!" (yeah shuan, i still remember that word!)
me: "ok ok! this saturday i come to ur house at 5am! we go chiak breakfast near adrians house then fetch that guy also"
shuan: "oi! when we reach there make sure look out for this albert gan, some resident expert there"

well, it didn't really took us long for us to find that place, kinda fast , very accurate description from the MFN forumers. And true enough, if your the newbies in the area, the resident expert albert gan will always try to "poison" you in the art of using lure (yeah, and make sure u don't let him cast your lure more than 5 times, else it'll end up talking with the fishes in one of the pond!- remember ah shuan how our friend run away after that? @#%%)

Anyways, if you weren't a C&R and a lure fisherman, i bet you after a few times of poisoning by this resident expert, u'll be one... you can bet on it.. (speaking from experience... i think all adrian, shuan and myself collection of lures, rods, reels and stuffs, we can open up a small tackle shop already la) - and here i think was one of the victims on the "poisoned" lure fishing.

As you can see from the photos, we some how morphed from a chair seating, icebox lugging talking on the handphone bengs to a light weight, efficient, all on your body gear fisho's. (i can't believe how thin i used to look... now i can't even fit in that pants anymore - photos add 15lb to us ah)

Though we kinda morphed into a slightly "more sophisticated" (yeah rite) fisho's, we still clowned around with baby pacu's with light tackle, at the same time try to catch the toman that try to attack the babies at the same time (using fishing net weh... dun play play... somehow the toman couldn't be bothered - if you looked closely at the photo below, u can see a purple shadow just behind the pacu kia)

Then we somehow turned our view towards boatnapping :D initially we wanted to pa for it, but i htink cause the co-owners sees us everyweek, he just lets us use it for free. :D but now have to pay liau lo... got pontoon somemore leh.

And here are one of the catches from the first trip out, pity the fella, swallowed the whole hook

Then came the "tour guide" edition i posted last year :D and it wasn't bet as you can see from their catches :D all smiling away, should be okay la... there you go, tow foo pond should pay me for the "work" of "poisoning" people too :D

Then not forgetting the MSRC (Maxis Sports and Recreational Club) competition. look what we brought along (YUP! its a TV!)! :D however the gang and i did not bother for the following years after that as the fishing was not fun, people were not friendly, and too many crosslines (wheres the fun in fishing la when u have so many people with gloomy faces, cross lines and so called "big sponsor tai kohs" taking all the good spots and crossing peoples line?)

So as all my fisho buddies are everywhere in the world (and of all places you all go to places that cannot fish! how can la?) here i am, thinking and dreaming when would be my next wave of fishing regime gonna start up again :D

till then, ta ta for now....

PS: this lil' boy here is the grandson of the tow foo pond, and he's the only one that can bully the owner or break his most precious fishing rods without ah wong (the owner) making a peep! :D

Nibble nibble, taut taut, STRIKE! Fish On!!!