Double hookup!

Decided to go for a quick morning session at usual kayak launch point. Wanted to go find new fishing spots with my fish finder. After pedalling around the suspected area, I just couldn't find the distinctive markings of underwater structure. Oddly enough, my hook and sinker was snagged at some spot! Reading the fish finder really takes some experience, sometimes the structure is so small and indiscernible on the screen.

But was rewarded with a fly-past from the air!

After giving up on searching for new spot, I headed back to my usual spot. Baited up and dropped the line down. A few minutes later, tap-tap.....tap-tap..... I slowly held my fishing rod and on the next tap...Strike! Fish ON! Tried to quickly reel it in but alas, it managed to get snagged to something. I gave the line some slack and waited. Tried to reel again, no luck. Gave some slack again, waited longer. Tried again...... darn, still stuck. But I can feel that the fish is still hooked. Ok lah... no choice. I reeled up tight and started pumping the rod, hoping to either pull the fish out or break the line. Well, what do you know, I managed to pull the fish out and it turned out to be a Kaci (Painted Sweetlips). Nice sized fish!

Had a few more hookups but the fish were all small sized so I released them. I had 1 rod in the rod holder while holding on to another fishing rod. Then as I was contemplating to head back to shore when the rod in the rod holder began to bend! Fish ON! I placed the rod that I was holding on my lap while I grabbed the one in the rod holder. Just as I was leaning to grab, the rod on my lap flew away as another fish grabbed the bait! I quickly lunged forward to grab the flying rod just before it went overboard! Phew!! This fish was pulling hard and thought it was going to be a big fish so I left the other rod in the rod holder, hoping that the fish will still be there when I've landed this fish. Fought the fish till it finally surfaced. #@!#$!*^&%$! Marine Catfish aka Ikan Duri! Not very big but from the way it fought, it sure felt like a big fish! So with the fish at the surface, I grabbed the other rod and reeled it up. Yes! The fish is still there! Not big so reeled it in quick and turned out to be another type of Eel-Tail Catfish aka Ikan Sembilang. Luckily, I was using a size 1 circle hook on this rod and the hook was nicely pinned at the corner of the catfish mouth. So this was my first, if not chaotic DOUBLE HOOKUP! With rod in each hand, I pedalled back to shore to unhook the fishes as they have some nasty stingers if one is not careful! After unhooking and removing their stingers, I gave the larger catfish to a shore angler and kept the smaller one plus the Kaci for dinner.

Gear used:
Rod - Shimano TCurve Tropical PE1-2 & Shimano Eclipse Telescopic PE0.8
Reel - Shimano Saros 1000F
Line - Fireline Crystal 10lb & Spiderwire Fluorobraid
Bait - Mussells
Rig - Apollo style

Fish ID - Kaci aka Painted Sweetlips (Diagramma pictus)
             - Ikan Sembilang aka Eel-Tail Catfish (Plotosus canius)