Best day fishing ever!

Joined bro B on a boat charter at RSYC after seeing his post looking for kaki. I've never fished on this boat before and found out it was operated by boatman Alex on the boat Spearo.

Reached at launch time and as it turned out, it was going to be 3 anglers only today. B and his wife and myself. Alex already prepared live prawns in the bait well and off we went to the fishing grounds. His boat was fast and in no time, we started fishing. Bro B was using madai most of the time while I opted to fish with the live prawns.

As advised by a tackle shop owner, I had brought with me heavier sinkers as the current was expected to be strong today. Rigged up my gear with size 10 sinker and sent down a live prawn. No hits on the first spot so we moved to another spot.

This spot was near a breakwater and after a few minutes at the bottom, something took my bait and ran! And it ran hard. My drag was screaming and when it finally stopped, I managed to gain some ground. After about 5 mins, I managed to bring it alongside the boat and was netted by Alex. It turned out to be a big Golden Trevally! Man, was I stoked!

Bro B's wife then hooked onto a fish. This fish was swimming very fast as well and as it got closer to the boat, it gave an acrobatic display and jumped out of the water. We called it for a Barracuda and on the next jump, it hit the side of the boat and the hook came out. Somehow, they were quite happy that the Barracuda 'auto release' as they didn't want to deal with the sharp fangs on that fish.

A couple of minutes later, I was on again. But this time, this fish was staying down hard. I had a hard time pulling it up. After a while, I managed to bring it up and the first colour I saw was green. Yay, it turned out to be a Eng Ko (Blackspot Tuskfish)! This fella was heavy too, about 2kg.

There were no more bites after an hour so Alex decided to change spot. As I was slowly reeling my line in, I suddenly felt like my rod was being snatched away from my hand! And this happened when the end of my line was about another 3 meters away. Straight away, the fish jumped and I could see that it was a large Queenfish! It swam mostly on the surface so I managed to bring it to the boat rather quickly.

We moved to a spot near Cyrene reef. I continued to fish and was rewarded with a table-sized Chermin (Diamond Trevally). Bro B managed to catch a few more Sagais at this spot. After which we called it a day.

Back at the dock, I decided to share my catch with bro B as there was too much fish for me to carry home. We cut up the large Queenfish and divided some of the other fish.

I was so glad that my tackle withstood the 'punishment' the fishes dished out, especially the rod. Seeing that the fish I caught today were rather large fishes, I'm now confident that it can handle any other types of fish that we normally catch in Singapore waters.

This is one of my best days fishing in Singapore!

Gear used:
Rod - Shimano TCurve Tropical PE 1-2
Reel - Shimano Saros 2500F
Line - generic 20lb braid
Bait - live prawn
Rig - Apollo style

Fish ID - Eng Ko aka Blackspot Tuskfish (Choerodon schoenleinii)
            - Queenfish (Scomberoides spp)
            - Chermin aka Diamond Trevally (Alectics indicus)
            - Boon Nang aka Golden Trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus)
            - Sagai aka Bumpnose Trevally (Carangoides Hedlandensis)