Kayak fishing catch report Pasir Ris Beach-24/7/14 ~ Fishing Kims

Hi we're back for another session of KayaKims!(yes that's the official name now until we can get something better)
Pushing our buoyant boats to the limit again.
Today's report is based on catches at Pasir Ris beach!Launching from WaterCross Kayak rental area with our inflatable kayaks!

Featuring: Advanced Elements Lagoon 1 and Sevylor Quikpak K1. The Air Fusion is currently out of service for awhile because it's too troublesome to assemble and pack up. For those who want to invest in cheap inflatable boats,I would recommend you try out Pasir Ris beach before heading to other areas.This is because Pasir Ris beach has one of the calmer currents as compared to east coast, Changi and Punggol.

Personally I've had my fair share of cheapo boats such as the Toys R us, 300 Explorer Dinghy(google that), which lasted out for 2 hours before slowly deflating.

For those who don't know where WaterCross is,it's indicated on the map below "RIGHT HERE".

So begins our day!
time of launch: 4.00 PM
Tide:High tide
Current: Calm
Water conditions: Murky and dark brown
time of Return:7.00 PM

First of is our setup as important as always! Today we'll be trying out running ball sinker rigs with size #1/0 Circle hooks by "Gamakatsu" and "Owners".

The water temperature was fairly cold today and of quite a strange colour of dark brown but nevertheless we set out anyway in hopes to get another awesome fight with yet another mozambique catfish as seen in our previous catch report.
I won't lie to you,all I had on my mind was the intense fight it put up the last time.everything on a kayak is definitely more fun and intense as compared to casting from the beach because every move you make on that small boat determines how well you can handle to fish and most of the time,we get dragged out by the fish.

we paddled out to the army base section of the beach and strapped ourselves to the floating blue barrels.we do have anchors but unfortunately Bryan had lost his to noobness(forgot to strap in the other end of the line).

We started the day well with some striped eeltail catfish(no pics because it's not worth the effort taking out my phone and risk dropping it into the water) but they were all small and we don't really consume these particular species.
following the striped catfish was the black eeltail catfish which surprisingly differ sightly in colour as compared to those caught nearer to shore or at Sungei Api Api bridge. They had an olive green colouration and more defined eyes.

after releasing this fella there was a tug on Bryan's line which he described,felt like an eel on the other end.But to our surprise,it was a small juvenile orange spotted grouper!
macGrouper anyone? Just kidding it was promptly released back to grow and thrive.
time passed and there were a few more small catfish hookups.Bryan had another grouper on the line again but this time,it was a small juvenile Sixbar Grouper!Good sign of a healthy population of groupers here despite overfishing in some parts of the beach.

And there I was getting bored of constant catfish hookups. Don't get me wrong,I do enjoy reeling them in but it does get kinda boring after an hour of the same kind of fishes.oh well fishing requires lots of patience I guess!

Soon after, there was another strong tug on the line and once again.....flowercrab!Yes you heard right,flowercrabs are quite plentiful in pasir ris for some particular reason and most kayak anglers who venture here tend of hook up 3-4 of them in a single trip.
They are pretty small and usually the ones we hook up are female(eggs behind) so we release them to spawn.
But i didn't come out today to catch crabs,where's my mozambique catfish....

today seemed like Bryan's diversity day as he hooked up his first stingray on rod and reel,definitely no struggle but just a 'heavy' feeling when reeling in due to the ray's big surface area. It was a small brown stingray so we let it go without any hesitation.

We continued through the evening with our usual pass time which was to talk tons of rubbish and listen to obscene music hahahas which is all highly unrecommended because it scares away the fish but on the other hand,it may be attracting catfishes to investigate the noise.

at this point,the prawns were starting to smell alittle and it was getting late so we decided to use whole prawns in hopes that big bait means big fish.

AND TRUE ENOUGH.............ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I've not seen my rod bend this much for a long time!sorry for the poor image quality because this was taken from a video screenshot.

My favourite instrument, the fishing spool, played the song of my people!the fish kept taking out line even with almost the full drag on.after repeated attempts to reel it in,the line was taken out 3 more times because it stopped and the fish was stuck at the bottom leaving me to hold this awkward position with 2 hands on the rod for at least 2 minutes.

first thoughts were "could it be a stingray?' since it was stuck at the bottom for quite some time so speculations started as we tried to guess what was on the other end.
Soon after the fish gave up and released itself from the seabed and began to swim upwards(I still don't understand why) making the load significantly lighter to the point that I though that the fish was gone.

but nope nope nope nope still on the line!
what was it?the very thing we stayed till 7pm for,a mozambique catfish!Huehuehuehuehue

could finally sleep in peace tonight!*phew*
normally we won't keep catfishes but this time we wanted to try cooking it into fish and chips!
with that satisfactory catch,we head back to shore as they sun began to set and light was fading fast.

its been a tiring day out at sea and I do look shag in this picture but regardless of that,it was a great day out.

the next day,we began the cooking process with the recipe that we've been wanting to try for quite some time
the link of the full recipe is here: http://fishingkims.blogspot.sg/2014/06/easy-beer-battered-fish-2-step-process.html

the steps are in the recipe and now,enjoy the visual process.