so I was invited by Eduard, the boss of Baithouse to a tenya session on Sam's boat. Took me a while but I did a fierce prep....
Too fierce according to some... hahaha
After a quick breakfast session at a canteen nearby, we proceeded to the boat a short distance away. There I realised why the others were loaded so lightly, the access point is quite limited and rickety. Lucky the others were kind and assisted me with my load.
Rigging up on the boat, I realised that the others were using mainly heavier gear as opposed to the lighter gear that me and Marko were trying out. Well, who knows... but I'm more hoping for the table sized fishes anyway. Hahahaha...
I started off with
#8 Daiwa tenya and it held it's ground for most of the day... the first hit came... smallies... lucky, not mine.... hahaha
Then this decent one jumped on my rig.

In between, the rest of us has hits and misses... a lot of misses. Quite a few times the meat were all picked off leaving on the shell of the prawns on the hooks.
The next good take on my Daiwa Kohga Tenya game rod was super enjoyable... The fish grabbed and I struck hard... the rod bent over in a sweet curve. The fish was struggling... But I managed to pump and wind the fish up slightly... Then it dived.... Oooohhh the sweet sound of the Daiwa Kohga EX 2508's drag was music to the ears... I pumped and wound again... a few seconds later, it dived again... This is what I was going for... hard clean fighting fishes...
On surfacing, I realised it was only hooked on the stinger hook and needed a net to land safely.

Just lovely... It went into the live bait tank to join another parrotfish caught earlier by another kaki, Ah Boon (who had graciously gave me a ride to and fro).
The others were filling up the iceboxes and live bait tank slowly but surely...
Marko also slowly increased the sized of his catches... from arumugam, to blue lined hind and even a monster sized puffer fish...
But his final catch of a solid sized ang gao, that was the kicker of the whole trip....

One final grouper came up to me for a closing.

And minus all the throwbacks... here is the final tally for the whole boat of 6 anglers.

Apologies for the quality of the last shot... it was drizzling and I was probably rocking on the boat, thus it could have blurred the shot like this... Was decently fun, but the regulars were saying this was not even a good result... Guess that shows how good it could have been...
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So, still trying to find a light tackle friendly charter for now...