Sickle Fever

At my usual launch point, I headed out to the fishing spot. I rigged up the Telescopic rod with mussel bait from the blue barrels and used the Shimano TCurve Travel rod to rig up with the leftover 3inch Berkley minnow soft plastic on a jighead. I parked the Telescopic rod and used the TCurve to jig the plastic Minnow up and down but nothing was interested. However, I was getting some bites on the mussel bait that I had on the other rod. Unfortunately, I didn't get a solid hookup.

So I thought I might as well put some mussel on the hook at the end of the soft plastic. Tossed it out and jigged again. Something grabbed it real quick and the fish was ON! Took a bit of line but I managed to bring it up and it was a Sicklefish. Nice round body! Looks like the mussel trick worked. Put the fish on the stringer and continued fishing.

Re-baited my soft plastic and tried again. Nothing for 30mins then another hard pull. Felt like the same fight, so I called it for another Sicklefish. True enough, it was. Only that this fella was slightly bigger. Strung him up as well and headed back to shore.

I think the soft plastics can be effective but it would depend on the water clarity. As you know, sometimes the water in S'pore can be rather poor.

These 2 Sickle Fish would be great for dinner!

Gear used:
Rod - Shimano TCurve Tropical PE 1-2
Reel - Shimano Saros 1000F
Line - generic 20lb braid
Bait - Berkely Gulp Minnow 3 inch
Rig - weighted jighead

Fish ID - Chao Xi aka Sicklefish (Drepane Punctata)