smallie madness

Did some fishing recently and was warmly welcomed by the smallies...
Managed to get good quantity of bites, but failed miserably in trying to get some quality bites.
Guess I cant complain much for landing 7 in 3 days, all set on either the Jackall TN50 or Jackall Super Eruption Jr.

Hot on topwater!!

Fishing again at the usual spot and was lucky enough to chance upon a school of "teenage" speckled peacock bass that aggressively attacked my popper numerous times despite none being connected. Still, persistence paid off and was rewarded with yet another topwater fish...seems like I'm hot on topwater bites recently. More importantly, this 3lb-er allowed me to continue my "unbeaten" run to 5 trips at this spot, sooo lets see how long can this record last. Unfortunately, my day could be made a lil' tad better if not for a lost fish on my DUO Realis Spinbait 60 due to opened hooks. But no worries! I'll be back for revenge soon.

Rod - Rapala Kevyt 3-8lb

Reel - Shimano Alivio 2500

Line - Spiderwire Camo-braid 10lb

Lure - DUO Realis Popper 64

MAMA bass unlocked

After fishing for 4 years, I finally hooked onto a nice mama cichla temensis which is also my current personal best record and just a tad shy of my "double-digit" target of this year.
The day started out badly with on-off rain, but my kaki and I still managed to get some small guys to make the day better. It was not until the final minutes of the trip when I instinctively chose to use the Rapala Skitter Pop that quickly rewarded me with an 8-lber. This beast completely wrecked the hooks and I gotta thank my kaki for landing it swiftly or it could have got away just by a simple head-shake. All in all...it was definitely a great day worth remembering.
To all the anglers hunting for the biggies out there..NEVER GIVE UP!!!!!~ Cos it's never gonna be easy.

Rod - Rapala Kevyt 3-8lb
Reel - Shimano Alivio 2500
Line - Spiderwire Camo-braid 10lb
Lure - DUO Realis Spinbait 60

Rod - Rapala Kevyt 3-8lb
Reel - Shimano Alivio 2500
Line - Spiderwire Camo-braid 10lb
Lure - Rapala Skitter Pop

8-lber measuring approx. 60cm

Update on this week's catch

Some recent catches...the usual cichla temensis and butterfly peacock bass..

 Set on the valleyhill Airspeed 67s

A bigger one on a new bait i got - DUO Realis Spinbait 60

An alternative choice when it's brother, the DUO Realis Spinbait 80 is not producing catches.

Aggressive small guy that tried to inhale the Rapala X-Rap 08

A bigger and stronger one set on the Rapala X-Rap 08 as well

Smallie on another new bait - Jackall Chubby Vibration 40, works like a charm when the water's murky and the sun is up.

Broke virginity of new finesse rod

It's been a month since I got my last fish ...so I finaly can afford some time to do some luring, and jumped on this chance to break virgin of my new finesse rod - Rapala Kevyt 3-8lb. Firstly, I gotta say it's an awesome rod available at a very competitive price. More importantly is it's comfortable on the hands, lightweight and despite being an UL rod, it still has a good backbone to help you pull fishes out from those snags.
On this trip, I managed to land 4 peacocks with the biggest at 1.5lb. What I can say is the rod has yet to be pushed to it's limit, but still provide great fun to catch those smallies.

Rod - Rapala Kevyt 3-8lb

Reel - Shimano Alivio 2500

Line - Spiderwire Camo-braid 10lb

Lure - Valleyhill A

irspeed 67s

Rod- Rapala Kevyt 3-8lb

Reel - Shimano Alivio 2500

Line - Spiderwire Camo-braid 10lb

Lure - Rapala UL Minnow 04

A trip to be remembered forever

Finally broke my dry-spell of 3 trips by this awesome trip. I didnt have much hope of getting fishes in quality or quantity, however, it proved that it was one of my most satisfying trip because I finally had a sense of relief after getting a nice 2-lber on my trusty D-Lure Explorer. Soon after, everything went quiet till the last hour. Desperate not to let the firt fish be my last for the trip, I started throwing out all sorts of lures to tempt the fishes. Fortunately, I had a strong instinct that topwater is the way to go, so I clipped on a rapala skitter pop and started popping it with pauses in between. This retrieve proved futile and I changed to an aggressive popping to imitate a feeding frenzy. This time, my effort was rewarded with yet another 2-lber to strike from close range. However, it failed to connect and it was not till the dying minutes that a smaller specimen decided to have a go on my popper. Thus, my 1st topwater fish was caught, ending my trip on a high note.

 First fish on topwater, set on rapala skitter pop. Difinitely unforgettable.

 Yet another one that fell victim to my trusty D-Lure Explorer.

Awesome start to the new year!!!

Firstly, a very happy new year to everyone....

I, myself had enjoyed a great start to this year with 2 4-lber cichla temensis on my first luring trip of the year.

This trip had also changed my views on the new "spy-baiting" technique through landing both fish by this fishing technique.

My set-up : 

Rapala Shadow 8-17lb

Abu Garcia REVO Premier (Gen. 3)

Powerpro 10lb

DUO Tetraworks Perakko

Felt great to achieve my 2013's target of landing a bass >50cm, despite being a few days late.

As for 2014's target, I would wanna challenge myself to land >10lb cichla temensis, >50cm butterfly peacock bass and >6lb giant snakehead. Hopefully I can achieve all this targets within 2014.