Ulu Pandan Canal CR
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 6:38 pm
Went down to ulu pandan canal after school today, only brought along a cheap pen rod from amazon
Found nice spot under a bridge and sheltered frm the rain which just started when I reached. Actually wanted to try some ul lures and flies because there were many tilapias/whatever cichlids on the water surface, but when rain got heavier had to hide under the bridge again, so switched to prawn meat on small hook. Casted into the middle and waited for a while, was about to bring the bait back when there was a violent take! Quite a struggle to bring the fish up because I only had 5m of. 8lbs mono, crappy 1kg of drag and a flimsy rod, but after maybe 2mins i brought the fish up
http://imgur.com/f9QZ7Pt
^2nd Biggest walking cat so far!
After that fish the catches were all smallies like red devils and some other cichlids because i snagged my bigger hook and was too lazy to retie so just used some sabikis with prawn bits
http://imgur.com/RnDr521
^biggest red devil today
http://m.imgur.com/JoDH8Sp
^biggest tilapia today
http://m.imgur.com/ne7Jq1o
^baby jaguar?
http://m.imgur.com/KAKORCT
^small cat
After landing 20+ of these cichlids I got bored and went to search for jaguars... Went under the rail bridge but didnt get anything
Even went to the far side of the canal near the road, where water was pouring in after the rain, the current was pretty strong so i doubted there would be fish. But still tried out anyway because i would always see people fishing there, ended up with nothing but some huge plastic bag that got swept onto my hook
Some shots, even saw a stork or smth wading by the side
http://m.imgur.com/PlAVqU7
^deck is quite far from the water, probably not good for lures, maybe jigs are ok
http://m.imgur.com/Atr6IeY
^pretty strong current, could see some big fish being swept around
http://m.imgur.com/3quyvrI
^mass of leaves and litter like plastic bags just under the deck, probably swept by the waters from the rain
http://m.imgur.com/YvQv2Xo
^stork? heron?
All in all quite a nice day, happy to see that big cats still lurk in the waters despite the catch and keep foreign workers (did see a nice worker today, released all the smaller catch and only went back with a medium sized catfish )
If anyone knows where the jaguars/haruans are hiding pls share, Im a bit tired of the cichlids hehe
Found nice spot under a bridge and sheltered frm the rain which just started when I reached. Actually wanted to try some ul lures and flies because there were many tilapias/whatever cichlids on the water surface, but when rain got heavier had to hide under the bridge again, so switched to prawn meat on small hook. Casted into the middle and waited for a while, was about to bring the bait back when there was a violent take! Quite a struggle to bring the fish up because I only had 5m of. 8lbs mono, crappy 1kg of drag and a flimsy rod, but after maybe 2mins i brought the fish up
http://imgur.com/f9QZ7Pt
^2nd Biggest walking cat so far!
After that fish the catches were all smallies like red devils and some other cichlids because i snagged my bigger hook and was too lazy to retie so just used some sabikis with prawn bits
http://imgur.com/RnDr521
^biggest red devil today
http://m.imgur.com/JoDH8Sp
^biggest tilapia today
http://m.imgur.com/ne7Jq1o
^baby jaguar?
http://m.imgur.com/KAKORCT
^small cat
After landing 20+ of these cichlids I got bored and went to search for jaguars... Went under the rail bridge but didnt get anything
Even went to the far side of the canal near the road, where water was pouring in after the rain, the current was pretty strong so i doubted there would be fish. But still tried out anyway because i would always see people fishing there, ended up with nothing but some huge plastic bag that got swept onto my hook
Some shots, even saw a stork or smth wading by the side
http://m.imgur.com/PlAVqU7
^deck is quite far from the water, probably not good for lures, maybe jigs are ok
http://m.imgur.com/Atr6IeY
^pretty strong current, could see some big fish being swept around
http://m.imgur.com/3quyvrI
^mass of leaves and litter like plastic bags just under the deck, probably swept by the waters from the rain
http://m.imgur.com/YvQv2Xo
^stork? heron?
All in all quite a nice day, happy to see that big cats still lurk in the waters despite the catch and keep foreign workers (did see a nice worker today, released all the smaller catch and only went back with a medium sized catfish )
If anyone knows where the jaguars/haruans are hiding pls share, Im a bit tired of the cichlids hehe