Amidst work and exams, one has to find a little play time to relieve those stressful thoughts that lurk at the corner of our minds. My mum had some ideas about bringing my grandfather on prawning trip on a Thursday afternoon to Bottle Tree Park at Khatib but I protested vehemently since I had a bad prawning trip at Bottle Tree Park once. The pond water level was shallow there and the prawning hook up rates weren't amazing. My mum was a complete newbie at prawning so in the end I suggested Bishan Haibin since I had decent prawning experiences there. Haibin at Bishan was also one of the more established prawning ponds in Singapore and had decent surroundings with a beer garden and fish spa. I made some time to accompany my mum and grandfather so that they can have some guidance and prawning tips. When we got to the place, I realised that the prawning rates had went up to $33 per 3 hours and also, there weren't any longer prawning rods to be had. Well, if you are a regular at...

Many anglers have Emailed me to share my Desaru fishing contacts so I thought why not blog about the contact so everyone can benefit. Desaru is becoming a good convenient place for Singaporeans to cast a jig and satisfy their jigging needs because with the recent ulu tiram highway, Desaru is just 45mins away after crossing the woodlands customs! This means light jigging right at our doorstep! Therefore a one day trip is possible for the angler and it isn't really hard to get a slot compared to local changi offshores or southern islands. The rates of desaru charters are around 650rm to 1000rm depending on the boat size and they launch directly from the Desaru beach. They offer jigging at the famous TU Lighthouse (you can pop too), the famous tukun reef and so on. There is a good range of fishes at Desaru with the most common being pelagic fish - the Queenfish, spanish macks, trevally species and you also have the reef species like groupers and snappers. Now while a one day trip...

Finally the long awaited Bintan, Tanjung Pinang or TP Fishing had come. So far, half of my TP Trips (some with Elly Kelong (Trikora) or some with Ah Khiang) had been good and the other half had been bad. Some of the fishing pals were just ready for some fishing action after a long break due to work, children and so on. Some wanted revenge from last year. Some had not even went on a 3D2N offshore before. As I had booked this trip very pretty in advance, we had the luxury of a weekend date with Monday being the only weekday. There were some new birds (Shawn, Nick, Mark) but we had some old birds as well so I wasn’t too worried about whether the crew could cope. A pre trip shopping was also put up at beach road before the trip so everyone could buy what they needed. We went to Joe's tackle mainly, Deep Sea Tackle, Angler's Oufitters and even Sabre tackle. It was a good eye opening experience for the guys and also so that I could share my own knowledge on which shop was better...

It's been 3 weeks since the crew came back from our TP (Tanjung Pinang) fishing trip on the Kansas 99 with Captain Asiq but I haven't found the time to compose the CR! The catch report is already at fishingkaki.com though. No fishing icebox problems this time! Our Coleman Iceboxes made it through safely and made it back! Anyway, we had a dinner gathering for the group at two chefs eating place commonwealth. You can google if you need two chef's address. 2 Chef is usually known for their gu yu or milk power pork chops, golden mushroom tofu and raw hum. But they usually will entertain you if you bring your own fish (cleaned of course) to them. We had brought a snapper (big spanish flag), bulat (bludger trevally) and chermin for them to cook! Out came teochew steamed chermin, sweet and sour fried snapper and bulat curry! Nothing beats having your fresh catch cooked and having drink over fresh fishing stories! On this trip, nick was the only merlion (seasick) but he stil...

The famous Alan Chan at www.acfishing.blogspot.com had told me that someone had backed out for his ah ho ( best bet ) aka captain henry trip and I grabbed the slot even before I apply my leave. I’ve always wanted to go out with ah ho but his booked is not easy to book as he is such a popular fishing charter in Singapore. Everytime someone asked me to tag along i didn't have the time but this time i made sure i went! The best thing about fishing with ah ho was that I only lived a few blocks away from him and I can hop on to his ride to RSYC! Ah ho is a very direct boat captain and will tell you immediately if you are doing something wrong. He is usually right about what he says so it will be wise to follow what he says. I found this out from him the first day when he shared with me the better way to work a inchiku jig. The day started off poorly as a torrential downpour hit us. This seemed like the last southern island trip with abang! Rain and rain and rain... I cast a gl...

Hi all cooking fans and fishingkakis who want to know how to prepare your fresh catch! In this post, we have some fish cooking tips from Nick (a friend of mine) who got his wife to prepare for him homemade baked cobia with herbs straight from the heart! In this post, i will share his pictures and his rough instructions on how to bake the Cobia with a little tips here and there from me. Hopefully, fishingkakis will appreciate the humble Cobia more and accept it as a great tasting fish! The Cobia is in the same fish species as the hamachi or hiramasa aka japanse yellowtail kingfish and is considered good eating! Cobia sashimi is excellent if you have the meat bled! Follow the below steps so you can learn how to bake Cobia! Baked cobia is one of the best ways to cook this fish and it is healthy as well so it's a winning recipe! Cobia is actually a little like chicken meat and i love to prepare it pan fried Cobia, fried with vegetables, baked, fish n chips or even in pasta! You ...