This trip was to give Nick a somewhat minor tour of Ubin. A full on grand tour would take more than the number of hours of daylight in a day, possibly 3.
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We launched at around 1pm and headed straight for ketam…. well, kind of. Nick wanted to try his luck at his grunter spot again so we stayed there for about 20 minutes before heading to Ketam.
He tried his hand at netcasting.
With nothing coming up and with the tide still high, I decided to bring him for a little tour in one of the mangroves.
We stayed a while till the tide went down.
He caught basically nothing for the first 15 minutes or so and then all of a sudden, before the next 10 minutes had passed, he somehow caught about 300 grams of prawns.
Although well aware that he got lucky, I ended up buying a castnet. My line of thinking was if I could get lucky too, I wouldn’t have to drive all the way down to Changi and spend money on buying prawns, or I wouldn’t have to peddle all the way to the kelong to, again, spend money to buy prawns.
After another 20 minutes had passed and with nothing substantial in his cast net, we headed out to fish with freshly caught wild prawns. Those prawns were extremely feisty.
I landed this little guy.
Eventually, Nick caught this little fella.
While I, on the other hand, continued with the catfish.
Then Nick caught this seabass.
While I caught yet another catfish.
We eventually called it a day and head home.