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