This section is gonna be about fishing.

Now monsoon season. The water in jurong lake can get really dirty. Sunset way too. So avoid fishing these areas during monsoon season.

Pandan reservoir. Clear. Right side of the linkway has got peacock bass.

gonna look into using lots of yozuri and topwater lures

Haven't been updating here much lately..

In the midst of a 6 week marathon training plan.. this week is week 2..

tmr shall go for a 2hr run, irregardless of distance.

Confirmed, northern side to fish at jurong lake is full of snags. Not a good place for suspending and sinking lures. Topwater and normal floating crankbaits are recommended but with minimal crank. Lots of structure under the water.

Small 5-6inches sized fish are common in jurong lake and swim in groups. Saw 3, footlong peacock bass caught by an uncle. So there must still be big peacock bass in the water, just need to find the right spot. 

Saw the long stretch of sunset way, looks promising. Will try when i get my bike.

Archery, though shall NOT meddle with grip and add epoxy. It doesn't work for actual shooting. Normal grip is okay. no need to modify. learnt something on blurry sight picture. 

A sight pin/dot should be the main focus and let the target be a blur. Reasons are that the yellow does not move so the main focus should be to place the dot into the yellow circle. Plus, when it's raining or in condition where the target is hard to see (for example, varying distances) it's much easier to focus on the sight pin/dot rather then try to get a clear picture of the target. Changed my sight pin to the one with the fluoro pin.

Want to Buy:
Inno Ex Prime Limbs 68" 36lbs.
65.5" string from blingstrings.

Fishing:
Jurong Lake
1 catch
Big fat zebra tilapia on Rapala X-rap.. another falls to the x-rap.
after rain, very close the the shore, cloudy, overcast sky..

Time of catch: 1000-1030
Fish start to surface at 0930

Fishing:

Jurong Lake Northern Promenade.

Banks are lined with trees, caution on the casts.

Water has lots of rubbish, only poppers and topwater lures to be used. Anything other than this, would result in reeling in lots of rubbish.

Rapala X-rap drew in lots of rubbish.

Rattlin Rapala lost due to getting ensnared in rubbish.

Yozuri Arms Popper lost up on a tree due to improper cast.

Skitter Pop fun to use and has lots of control and good action, better than Yozuri Popper.

Catch Report = 0

Pasir Ris Beach.

Saltwater luring.

Sungai Api-api sides and Tidebreakers steep inclined walls may get lures ensnared.

Luring from the Beach, ankle deep in water.

High tide moving onto low tide.

Used Rapala X-rap.

Taught Ryan how to fish, while reeling in about 5m to shore, got a medium sized Barramundi. Pic will be up soon.

Another angler got a big catfish in a similar fashion using the same Rapala X-rap.

Catch Report = 1

Bought a total new spinning set today, from E-waves Fishbyte:

A Rod Ford Creation Magnum Shoot and Crank Spinning Stage.

A Daiwa Sweepfire 2500 spinning reel

and also bought several lures, all from Rapala:

2 Skitter Pop

a Mini Fat Rap

a Rattlin' Rapala

and an X-Rap.

And a new braided line:

Berkley Fireline Crystal

Learnt a whole lot of new things today from Melvin. The Shop assistant that helped me with my selection of equipment. He gave me a good price discount and also good insight, tips and techniques of much better fishing.

Learnt about drag and it's purpose: to tire the fish out. Let the fish take the drag then once you feel the drag slowing down, tap the drag to stop it then reel it in and fight the fish.

Learnt about the types of rod action and how the action of the rod determines the amount of action that you get from good fights with slow action rods which bend close to the grip to ultrafast rods that bend right at the tip which provide good easy hooksets on the fish but not much of a fight.

Learnt about the some ways to work the lure. Twitch, then reel in the slack then twitch again.

He mentioned that Luring is challenging cause it makes the fisherman think. Many variables affect the success of a fisherman's luring, he said to think like the fish. Like when in the morning when the water is still cool, go for a deep diving lure to get to the fish at the bottom. Then when it starts to get warm when the fish are aggressive and feeding, go for topwater lures or shallow ones. Local freshwater fish such as peacock bass and snakeheads are aggressive and go for topwater lures. Just have to work the bait right.

After today's shopping session. I will most definitely PATRONISE E-waves fishbyte.

Learnt a couple of things from FishingNewsRoom.

The shock/bite leader line has to be 3 times the strength of the main line..

For example, 10lb braid with 30lb fluorocarbon leader.

The amount of weight to be put on a line is 1 ounce for every 10lbs line in the shock leader.

I'm thinking of getting a full Daiwa set.

Daiwa Promaster baitcasting reel

Daiwa Procyon rod

And I found a fishing tackle shop in clementi -- E-waves Fishbyte.

Monday 4/10/10

Fishing: Location Jurong Lake, Used a Yozuri Popper. My brother and his buddies used live guppies which got them 2 peacock bass which they released. Lots of peacock bass eating flies off the water surface. Looks like a good spot for fly fishing. Read a fly fishing forum yesterday and seems interesting.

Use of guppies means have to use smaller lures such as the Yozuri Aile Goby. Really need to get a new rod. Zul's proper rod with a rapala popper provided great cast and great line twitching.

May take up fly fishing soon.

Fished at Pandan Reservoir.

I lost the Yozuri Rattl 'N Vibe lipless crankbait after it snagged among the vegetation. =(.

Lesson learnt: Crankbaits and other lures are to be used exclusively in open water. Only floating types and those such as poppers to be used near vegetation.

On the upside -- i learnt 2 new easy and strong knots.. the San Diego Jam Knot and the Perfection loop..

Saturday 25/09/10

- archery. back to my 40lbs marked weight Winex, but on the fingers at 42lbs.

Got the torso twisting and the bow arm problem understood. Bought a new M sized Cavalier Elite Cordovan fingertab. The new new anchor and head position allows for better clearance under the chin, so no more abrasion cuts under the chin from fingertabs. Also understood the"thumb pulled back" part.

Monday 27/9/10

- Gym: Melt Fat with Muscle workout. Bronco Gym. 10kg plates barbell for deadlift, squat, bench press. 5kg hammer curls, lying tricep extensions and forward shoulder raise.

Tuesday 28/9/10

- Fishing: Changi Kelong Walk. Paternoster fishing rig. Bait prawn. Caught one striped eeltail catfish and one big black eeltail catfish. Total of 2 for the night. Lost my Zerek crankbait. Really need to work on my fishing knots. Bought a new Yo-Zuri Rattl'N Vibe lipless crankbait.

Wednesday 29/9/10

- Gym: Melt Fat with Muscle workout 2. Clubfitt gym at Jurong West Stadium. The barbells here weigh heavier so the 10kg plates plus heavy barbell gave quite a challenging workout. 7.5kg dumbbells decline dumbbell press, normal dumbbell press. 5kg hammer curls and lying tricep extension. 60lbs cable row.