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Post by xxJiMboZxx on Jan 29, 2006 11:19:45 GMT 8
After a few slow catches at BR, I decided to try my luck this morning, the first day of Lunar Chinese New year! It was very nice and quiet as there was nobody around doing exercise or jogging. First time going to BR with not much ppl running here and there! At last my bro, the person who poisoned me into fly fishing, the PoisonMaster finally gets to fish wif me. Dunno why, BR its still slow, as last week I caught a big.... big...... 0! I said to myself, oh no! not again! especially I promised the PoisonMaster big PB here. Then after half an hour I felt a thug, I immediately strike......... nothing and I casted again, this time I felt a thug again, then nothing but I kept on stripping then.......I felt something and I just lifted my rod slowly.... and "Wala!" my line kept running out as my rod gave a nice bend. Ha Ha ;D I told the PoisonMaster , ''I finally got one for the New Year!''. His looks... hmmm disappointed! and I can see his anxiousness of getting one too! In my mind, I thought to myself.. please let him get one, or else he will be too disappointed to come flyfishing all the way from West Coast to BR. Boy! he was ''sian!'' and as he was about to bring in his line, he felt something heavy. I thought his fly got caught in the rocks....but then...... it moves! and he was grinning away. ;D Wow! First time he was so excited, catching his first freshwater fish on fly. Finally he landed his fish! Immediately he said, come on, lets do it again! and we cast and stripped few times, saw a few PBs chasing our flies and no take, so I decided we better go and have some pratas and head on home to our wives before we got banned for fishing on CNY! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by poisonmaster on Jan 29, 2006 11:37:48 GMT 8
Finally...I breakspell.... ;D ;D Tomolo again...mai tu liao... Thanks to my bruther Jimboz... PoisonMaster self poisoning...
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Post by fly on Jan 30, 2006 17:08:32 GMT 8
Nice Fish Jimboz, What size rod were you using??
Angus
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Post by xxJiMboZxx on Jan 31, 2006 6:03:12 GMT 8
Hi Angus, I am using a Japanese #3 fibreglass rod. And sometimes a #3 River Runs rods which we specially ordered from my friend. ;D I really had alot of fun with these two rods and you can check out the thread River Runs did it again ,the sizes of the fishes we caught wif the rods. Cheers
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Post by poisonmaster on Jan 31, 2006 9:59:54 GMT 8
A quick post before u hit BR again is it?.... ;D update CR ley...
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Post by xxJiMboZxx on Jan 31, 2006 11:23:43 GMT 8
Yesterday, 2nd day of Chinese New Year the PoisonMaster, Elmo and myself decided to start the morning at 73 before we our busy day of CNY's visiting to our relatives. It was still dark and windy when reach there. Elmo immediately heads towards the trees while PoisonMaster and myself starts and work our way up from the signboard. The very first cast, ..... all of us got something. Good eh?....all weeds and algae just below the surface. In my mind I was thinking to myself, that I should tell the PUB guy that we are not fishing but clearing weeds and algae for them, as everycast we bound to bring up something. Then just before the dawn breaks, I saw flash came up to my fly and missed it. I immediately cast to the same position again and ... wham! my reel screamed out! ha ha ! this time I really got a big one. the Poisonmaster looked at me in surprise! before he could say anything, his rod bent and his running out from his hand. Excitely he shouted and me brother! we both go hooked up at the same time, and grinning away! ;D ;D ;D . But sad to say, my fish went tru the thick algae and threw my hook with all the algae stuck to it. I quickly lay down my rod and ran up to the PoisonMaster and help him land and took this picture for him! Its not really big, but a decent size enough to make him happy. Elmo too caught a biggie, dashing around franticly, it did afew violent head shakes then...poop! the fly flew out of the fish's mouth to Elmo's dismay! We saw quite alot of fishes swimming around and tried casting again..... then Beep Beep! I turn around and saw a yellow old Mazda van, with the guy waving at us! That means, its time for us to go. Being PoisonMaster, this time he really got poisoned by me! I remembered the last time when I told him about flyfishing in freshwater, he told me that he never will have any interested in freshwater flyfishing as the he always thought freshwater fishes are sluggish and will never put up a good fight..... until he joined our flyfishing forum and saw our pics on our posting. Last night while I was watching tv, he sms me and ask me where to go today, being the last day of a none working day for CNY. Otherwise dunno when he will be able to flyfish again, when work starts tomorrow. So this morning we made our way to Bedok. As usual BR is abit slow, saw a few big pacus and but they doesn't seem to have any interest in our flies. Then the PoisonMaster started grinning away as usual and it really bend his 7# rod. I immediately knew that the fish is not small. He fought the fish for about 10mins and as i reached out for my camera, the fish jumped and threw his fly. The grin ;D was turned to dismayed again. Then when I pick up my rod again, I saw two PBs in the water about 10 feet in front of me. They ignored my fly when I cast right into them. So I start slapping the fly on the surface! Slapped , slapped ,slapped then next thing I knew waa one bigger of the pair took off wif my fly. And wala! was this picture taken...! Then we tried casting a few times and it was prata time again. After a hearty breakfast of pratas, we bid farewell till the next holiday shall we meet again. I am glad, that these first 3 days of Chinese New Year did changed the PoisonMaster's way of thinking regarding freshwater flyfishing and I am sure he really enjoyed himself ,although its a one fish a morning thing!.....hmmmmm cool!
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Post by poisonmaster on Feb 1, 2006 9:23:47 GMT 8
Thanks to bruther Jimboz for fishing with me... CFMed my best fishing kaki to date!!
but prata after every morning session isnt good bro... ;D
cant wait for my RR to come so i can "scale down" to 3# ;D
p.s.Bruther, thats an excellent CR man!!!
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Post by xxJiMboZxx on Feb 1, 2006 22:21:01 GMT 8
;DYes bro, RR is the way to go. Its the best 3# graphite rod I ever used, so easy to cast. When the 2 rods arrive, you take one and if that Desmond doesn't want it, I will buy over the rod as spare. So brother please let me know when the rods arrives. Since now its more difficult to get stocks I better keep one more RR . ;D
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Post by alberto on Feb 4, 2006 17:43:00 GMT 8
Hi Jim,
Gong Xi Fa Cai to you. Nice Pbs. Hope to wet a line with you soon.
regards Alberto
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Post by xxJiMboZxx on Feb 4, 2006 22:57:03 GMT 8
Same to you Alberto, so has everything settled for you? Missed fishing wif you.
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Post by alberto on Feb 6, 2006 8:49:47 GMT 8
Same to you Alberto, so has everything settled for you? Missed fishing wif you. Hi Jim, All settled in at my new home ;D ;D ;D ... and this will be where I'll learn to tie my flies regards Alberto
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Post by xxJiMboZxx on Feb 6, 2006 20:40:51 GMT 8
Wow! so nice and neat! mine like storeroom
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Post by poisonmaster on Feb 7, 2006 10:50:10 GMT 8
Wow! so nice and neat! mine like storeroom your current one is much better then the jungle I saw last time at ur bro's place ;D
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Post by alberto on Feb 7, 2006 13:38:03 GMT 8
Wow! so nice and neat! mine like storeroom your current one is much better then the jungle I saw last time at ur bro's place ;D Is that where Jimboz keeps all the fur and feathers alive regards Alberto
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Post by xxJiMboZxx on Feb 7, 2006 19:06:15 GMT 8
I wanted to be Tarzan ;D But turned out to be Jungle Jim!
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