Fishing at lower seletar reservoir

Hello all,
             Well it was the start of a week long Holiday and i received a call from my Long-time-no-see friend Zavier asked me to go fishing at lower seletar reservoir to fish for snakeheads, it was my first time going so..... what the heck, i love surprises. We met up at my home, packed our lures and rods and off we went.

Zavier chose a popper and i chose some soft plastics.


We arrived there at about 3pm and set up our gear and tied our lures while looking for the iconic 'trace' of snakeheads, like bubbling in the water (snakeheads coming up for air) and splashes.
Soon enough our lures are good to go and we started casting into the beautiful water. After 20 minutes, reel reel, cast cast cast and still no fish.
 Then all of a sudden a glimmer of hope, about 8 meters away from the banks, Zavier spotted 2 snakeheads spotted coming up for air. Zavier and i casted into that area and slowly worked our lures and then...... WHACK! all hell broke lose. A small but feisty snakehead was on Zavier's line and soon after a small struggle, it was landed with hook lodged deep in throat. It died before the hook was removed so......keeper it is.

Zavier's snakehead

Knowing that they are here and biting, both of us poured full fury into the hunt and while casting near the
rocks, i got a small snakehead

My snakehead

After casting and catching two more, we called it a day and kept two and released the other two.

Our total catch

Snakeheads emerge at about the time the sun sets so fishing for them during midday would not be good. When fishing for them, work your lures near spots that are rocky or areas with lush vegetation. Signs of them are splashing or them coming up for air.
They posses razor sharp teeth and must be handled with care when unhooking. I would really recommend lower seletar reservoir as it is a shady place with wide grass grounds perfect for a picnic and the waters posses quite a lot of fishes at times but are not large though. Great for people who are starting their obsession of fishing.

Fishing at Punggol pay pond tips.

Hello all,
             Its finally the hoildays and bored as heck. So i decided to go on the internet and look up for paypond fishing areas in Singapore to cure itch and sure enough Found it!!!!! The paypond is located in punggol and operates 24 hours. Called up my friend John and we went.

We arrived there at about 2pm.

The fishing rates there are quite average like many other payponds, 3 hours for $50.
Setup our fishing poles and bait and casting we went. As for bait we used both live and dead shelled prawns. The rig was a simple spinning rig which is a size 1/0 owner hook tied with 30lbs flurocarbon and clamped with a lead split shot. like so.....

The first half hour of fishing was very slow apart from a few nibbles from smaller fish in the pond. John got frustrated and decided to change the bait to dead shrimp thinking that the scent produced would attract fish and sure enough.........It did!

After casting the shrimp into the water something pulled and tugged on the line which felt like a hammer. John picked up the rod and STRIKE!!!! The hooked fish ran all over the pond and the reel screamed like mad.
It turned out to be a small good table sized golden pomfret measuring in at about 45cm plus.

John's catch

I too immediately switched to using the shelled shrimps and after 3 minutes i got this little mangrove jack while John got another golden pomfret.

My toothy catch

After that three fishes were caught, there was an episode of total silence for about 20 minutes but felt like an eternity but after that SOME HOPE.......Tug ,tug, tug.......RUN!! my reel screamed and i jumped, grabbed it and tightened the drag. After sometime of fighting, the tired fish floated to the surface and it turned out to be a good sized red drum aka. Taiwan ngor measuring in at about 70 cm.

John's rod started getting some action as well and after a short struggle a fifth haul, mangrove jack! Which soon followed by golden pomfrets by each of us.

Counting down to the last minutes of fishing i insisted in using a live prawn. Almost after i felt the rig touch the bottom, I felt a good take on my line and striked. The fight and struggle of this fish was diffrent, it was stronger and swam close to the bottom. The word GROUPER! came to my mind . But my happines was short lived as the hook suddenly came out of its mouth just 3 meters from the banks!

After that time's up and we packed up and left for dinner of fishes at my place.

total catch.

The trip there was definitely worth while. Though the catch rate is just about average there but good for my first time there. Fishing against the current flow there would be good, cast your bait let it sink and wait for 4 to 5 minutes, no takes, slow cranks and try all spots in the pond. I would recommend novice anglers to pay that place a visit.

Rating: 6/10

Introduction

Hello there,
                 My name is nigel and I am a novice fisher from Singapore and created this blog to share my thoughts, catches and methods on fishing in Singapore. I greatly enjoy freshwater, saltwater and eging fishing alike. Passion towards fishing is the key foundation in my catch reports and posts. Hope all would enjoy.