My 4th Offshore on Ah Chong's Boat

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My 4th Offshore on Ah Chong's Boat

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Date: 14th April 2007 (Sat)
Time: 8:30am to 6:00pm
Location Embarkment: West Coast behind McDonald's
Mooring: Ah Chong's Boat
Bait: Live Prawns (1.5Kg)
Fishing Ground: Pulau Bukom
Anglers: Ken, Kelvin, Kevin O'Hara, Juay, Shuan, Vincent & Me.

This is Ah Chong's Boat ..

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All getting ready ...
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A big catch for the day ...
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My first Parrotfish .... A good size, I kept it for my dinner table.
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And the total hauled ... Let me try to name them from left to right: 1 Orange-Spotted Grouper, 2 Indian Grouper , 3 Seagrass Tuskfish, 1 Indian Snapper & 1 Spanish Flag Snapper. (Correct me if I'm wrong guys)
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And of course, the beautiful sunset to see us thru' another great Offshore.
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This CR is dedicated to Michael Foo who was our sending-off party but could not join us!

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great catch brother.yummy parrot fish for dinner

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Nice catch there, I've not tried the Ah Chong at West Coast before though I have heard about him. :) He comes fetches you in a small motor boat opposite RSYC right?

For the identifications, you got most of them right except that the first grouper is still a duskytail grouper and the 'Indian Snapper' is in fact a monogrammed monocle bream. All fishes are edible, though I would like to get some feedback from the person who tried the monocle bream. I tried before myself and it has a funny taste. :confused:

Why wasn't Michael able to join you guys? It's really nice of him to send you guys off. :grin:

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Nice catch u got there.............. hope they taste nice !!!!!! :nod: :thumbsup:
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Post by darren »

how much do you guy paid for this trip

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darren wrote:how much do you guy paid for this trip
Take a look here darren. Hope it helps ;) http://www.handlinefishing.com/whosfish ... arters.htm

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Post by darren »

that one is changi ah chong. same as this west coast ah chong? boat look different

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Peace wrote:Nice catch there, I've not tried the Ah Chong at West Coast before though I have heard about him. :) He comes fetches you in a small motor boat opposite RSYC right?

For the identifications, you got most of them right except that the first grouper is still a duskytail grouper and the 'Indian Snapper' is in fact a monogrammed monocle bream. All fishes are edible, though I would like to get some feedback from the person who tried the monocle bream. I tried before myself and it has a funny taste. :confused:

Why wasn't Michael able to join you guys? It's really nice of him to send you guys off. :grin:
Yes Peace, we all board his sampan to his bigger boat about 300 metres out.

And I better get it right the next time - duskytail grouper!

Will also get some feedback from Ken as he was the guy who took the monocle bream back.

And as for Michael, It was supposedly his trip but was held back with some last minute work, that's when I was invited.

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darren wrote:how much do you guy paid for this trip
$300 without bait, 1.5kg prawn is $50 ...

And its the different Ah Chong of Changi.

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Post by Peace »

Don't worry about the identification of the specific species of fishes. For most of us anglers, knowing it is a grouper is good enough. The dusky tail doesn't really taste much different from orange-spotted grouper, though I personally like dusky tails better. ;)

p/s: You've got PM. :grin:

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Hi Desley, great trip u have there ! cool ! good pics too. :)

this photo caught my eye Image did u post process the pic to vignett or its an original vignetting pics?
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domvonn wrote:Hi Desley, great trip u have there ! cool ! good pics too. :)

this photo caught my eye Image did u post process the pic to vignett or its an original vignetting pics?
domvonn, its the original. I tried Auto-leveling it with the photoshop, it didn't help.

Thanks.

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Nice catch. Bro just like to know how is the boat and the skipper.
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skodok

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hello fellow brother and sister . you guy got ant ideal skodok island which spots is good for net casting cum fishing?

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Re: skodok

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darren wrote:hello fellow brother and sister . you guy got ant ideal skodok island which spots is good for net casting cum fishing?
Darren, you should start a new topic instead. :)

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