22nd January 2012 – Ops Cocoa

Shawn/ January 23, 2012/ freshwater, Singapore/ 0 comments

After chumming the place yesterday, I decided I wanted to come back here to try out the water. Nigel declined an invitation to join me (and yesterdays 9 strong group, today only 5 strong) but nevertheless proceeded to bombard me with status updates. There were no fish caught or landed by anyone. The water was completely brown. There was however

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New Yorker fishing in Singapore

Shawn/ January 21, 2012/ Fly Fishing, freshwater, Singapore/ 0 comments

NYTimes SINGAPORE — “Singapore has to be the worst place in the world for fishing,” said Jerry Tay, minutes after he introduced himself on the fishing dock. He then pulled out his digital camera and proceeded to show me a slide show of huge peacock bass caught in the Singapore reservoirs. Tay approached me as I was making my first

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