{"id":472,"date":"2012-01-16T12:58:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T04:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.singaporefishing.org\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2012-03-19T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T10:28:14","slug":"15th-january-2012-ops-kilo-tango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.singaporefishing.org\/blog\/15th-january-2012-ops-kilo-tango\/","title":{"rendered":"15th January 2012 – Ops Kilo Tango"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom was finally free today so Nigel asked him along. For reasons I can no longer recall, our expected arrival time was 30 minutes later than the meeting time so Nigel gave Tom a call but he was already on his way.<\/p>\n

When we arrived at the spot, we saw him casting his lure out in the open. We were shocked and immediately made an about turn to “pick him up”.<\/p>\n

We brought him in and we started fishing. He had only 2 lures and the sun was beating down like it was going supernova so I hid under some trees while the two of them went about their business.<\/p>\n

Nigel had a hookup on his first cast but “ignorantly lost” that estimated 300 gram Peacock Bass before retreating back to shade while stoicly declaring that there were fish and urging Tom to cast out quickly. I wanted to laugh but I was tired so I only managed to slightly wiggle a big toe.<\/p>\n

I lit up a fag while Tom took “my spot”. By the time I had finished my cigarette no one else had caught anything so I went to the second spot and casted out.<\/p>\n

I immediately had a hook up and landed a nice “koktao PB” (species yet to be determined). Tom helped me with the customaries.<\/p>\n

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It was bleeding in the gills (side not shown in photo) but nevertheless still appeared to have some energy in him so I gently released him back into the water. After making a very short dash away from shore, he made an about turn and swam to the grasses directly in front of us where it “hid” until we left.<\/p>\n

A couple of minutes later, Tom, after losing a small PB near the shore, joined Nigel near the end and a couple of minutes after that, I hit another PB. With no one around, I had to cam-whore.<\/p>\n

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Then Nigel called out my name and asked me to bring his camera over. He very rarely carries his own camera.<\/p>\n

Tom had hooked up his very first PB and needed a picture. The fish broke free of his grasp and almost manage to flop it’s way back into the water but Tom managed to grab it with his hands and “tame” it.<\/p>\n

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Shortly after that, Nigel caught a Temensis on pencil (after missing a small haruan on frog).<\/p>\n

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I never really saw the point of this spot so once all the fishes had been released, I headed back to my first spot while giving them a time limit to return back to the first spot.<\/p>\n

Because Tom was still with Nigel at the end spot, I managed to reclaim “my spot”. On my first cast, I had a good bite from another PB but when I moved to strike, it was gone. Tom joined me shortly after and took the second spot (where I hit my PBs) and then took “my spot” when I gave up.<\/p>\n

With Nigel’s return and lack of fish and “a feeling”, we moved to E2 but bashed our way in to a new spot.<\/p>\n

We had a ton of misses by PBs here (both fish misses and human misses) including a pair of 1-2+ Kg PBs chasing our lures but not biting.<\/p>\n

After some hard work (and losing another PB near the shore), Tom managed to land this small but pretty PB.<\/p>\n

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The highlight of the day was when we walked back and fished at the very first spot with Tom snagging his lure on what we later found out was a submerged empty gunnysack. When he walked into the water, he found 2 other lures on the guni sack. He threw away 1 feathered jighead but kept the Ima Sasuke 125, which was in fairly good condition!<\/p>\n

Total Tally:
\nMe: 2x Landed PB, 1x Fish Missed PB
\nNigel: 1x Missed Haruan, 1x “Ignorantly Lost” 300Gram PB.
\nTom: 2x Landed PB, 2x Lost PB – (Virgin PB catches!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom was finally free today so Nigel asked him along. For reasons I can no longer recall, our expected arrival time was 30 minutes later than the meeting time so Nigel gave Tom a call but he was already on his way. When we arrived at the spot, we saw him casting his lure out in the open. We were<\/p>\n

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