Fatum's Fishing Thread - 2007
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Really? I thought it is sea bass. Is sea perch good to eat?Originally posted by Fatum:
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I see three sweetlips, one parrot fish, one grouper, one coral trout, one fingermark snapper, one fusilier and ... now that's very very rare ... a sea perch (not the sea bass !)
damm ! I miss fishing at the lighthouse ...
at the right seasons you can get pelagics like spanish mackeral there ...
Which is the coral trout n fusillier -
the fussiler is the oval shaped red backed, yellowtail'ed fish ....Originally posted by elindra:Really? I thought it is sea bass. Is sea perch good to eat?
Which is the coral trout n fusillier
the coral trout is the grouper like fish with the sharp instead of rounded tail ...
the 4 kilo monster is a coral trout too actually ....
the sea perch is a relative of the common sea bass, but frequents open waters instead of estuarine waters, I've only ever seen one other caught before, and I've never eaten one ...
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The coral trout look like a grouper lehOriginally posted by Fatum:the fussiler is the oval shaped red backed, yellowtail'ed fish ....
the coral trout is the grouper like fish with the sharp instead of rounded tail ...
the 4 kilo monster is a coral trout too actually ....
the sea perch is a relative of the common sea bass, but frequents open waters instead of estuarine waters, I've only ever seen one other caught before, and I've never eaten one ...
Which is nicer to eat?
So the sea perch is like a salmon?
Can live in the sea and river? -
the seabass, (barramundi in oz speak, or gim bak lor, ikan siakap to us, lates calcarifer to boffins) is an esturine species, it thrives in brackish waters, I've caught them up to 15 pounds in swamps before, but they can live in totally fresh water too ....Originally posted by elindra:The coral trout look like a grouper leh
Which is nicer to eat?
So the sea perch is like a salmon?
Can live in the sea and river?
the sea perch belongs to the same family, but is a totally salt water fish, they also grow much smaller ... the only one I've seen caught was in the waters off pulau ubin ....
both the coral trout and the grouper are nice to eat ... but I personally prefer to catch a coral trout, cos they are better fighters on a line by far ..... hooking a grouper is like winching in a dead weight ... -
How to cook a fusilier?
Also how to cook the sweet lips
I have never eaten these before
Also for the stripped coral trout steaming it HK style works? -
yeps, hongkie style works fine ... process sweet lips like a snapper ...Originally posted by elindra:How to cook a fusilier?
Also how to cook the sweet lips
I have never eaten these before
Also for the stripped coral trout steaming it HK style works?
I'd just fry the fusilier ... as a pelagic fish their flesh's rather like the mackeral's a bit dry .... -
But if it is as fat as a saba fishOriginally posted by Fatum:yeps, hongkie style works fine ... process sweet lips like a snapper ...
I'd just fry the fusilier ... as a pelagic fish their flesh's rather like the mackeral's a bit dry ....
Grilling is really nice
Ok then I fry the fusilier and drizzle it with black vinegar sauce -
okay ... here's some more recent pics ... this one's a monster lake white fish caught by one of my buddies last thursday ..... estimated at more than 6 pounds taken on ultra light spinning tackle ....
(he's not a small guy, just that this is a huge fish)
hooked only 6 feet from the shore of the lake we were fishing in (Lake Blackstrap)
I caught 5 perch and one medium sized walleye (and lost 3 more hook-ups
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but his fish pwnz all of mine put together ....
this chap thinks like a fish ... he doesn't cast far out at all at night, the theory being that the fishes would be cruising up and down the shoreline looking for food at night ... -
Nice catches.. trouts looks yummy ... shud have cnr the little ones tho..
me also an avid angler .. havent done much out of singapore ..but will plan something for aussie and south USA
Cheers!
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thanks ... I DO cnr most of my catch actually ... unless they are delicious species like walleyes and trout ... within license limits of course ....Originally posted by gonefishing:Nice catches.. trouts looks yummy ... shud have cnr the little ones tho..
me also an avid angler .. havent done much out of singapore ..but will plan something for aussie and south USA
Cheers!
know more about me fm my blogs...
haven't been updating the pics here ... but I've been doing a lot spinning and night fishing lately, will post up pics soon ...
yesterday's catch report : 21 pike in a afternoon's fishing, two anglers, using weedless spoons tipped with powerbait grub tails ...
will be heading up north to canadian shield country for some serious lake trout fishing, and maybe a grayling or two .... stand by for pics ... -
careful ! Thunderstorms are here !Originally posted by Fatum:thanks ... I DO cnr most of my catch actually ... unless they are delicious species like walleyes and trout ... within license limits of course ....
haven't been updating the pics here ... but I've been doing a lot spinning and night fishing lately, will post up pics soon ...
yesterday's catch report : 21 pike in a afternoon's fishing, two anglers, using weedless spoons tipped with powerbait grub tails ...
will be heading up north to canadian shield country for some serious lake trout fishing, and maybe a grayling or two .... stand by for pics ... -
the shop talk at my favourite fishing hole and among all the CO (conservation officers, the chaps who check your license) has been of the world record rainbow trout taken at lake Diefenbaker at the beginning of this month, the lake is only about an hour's drive out of the neck of the woods where i live currently ....
check out the monster's pictures here ...
http://www.trophytroutguide.com/articles/world_record_rainbow_trout.htm
yeps, that's the very same spot where my 6 pounder was taken at the beginning of may ....
I've heard of the two chaps and have seen them around fishing ... the lure and technique they said they use are just to fob people off .... they troll huge, i mean HUGE plugs instead .... there is no way they can cast metal spoons that size on 6 lb line ... -
wah seh.........good catch, fatum!
actually fishing is quite a boring sport~~~~~~~~~~~
*sprints away*
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trip report for my expedition up to the (precambrian) shield country ....
as I've told several forumers, there were rain storms just about every single day on my trip up north ... we only managed about 5 hours of fishing one late evening when the sun broke out ... however, we hooked more than 6 dozen fish during that time ... all pike though ... and not exactly the lake trout we were after .....
here's some scenery pics and such ... when I have more time I'll sort out some more fish pics to post them up here ...
sun set in shield country
small pike that crashed my lure right at boat side ... the water was crystal clear, and many times, we'd have fish follow the lure right up to the boat and strike at the last minute .... one of the chaps had his IM7 rod broken and lure snapped off when he left his lure dipping into the water and a big pike slammed it ... this little guy crashed my fluorescent orange Rapala X-rap lure about 2 feet from my rod tip ....
more shield country pics .... I'm glad we're in a boat, cos you run a good chance of running into a bear along the shoreline ... -
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whao
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WOW!!! Fatum!!!!
Great pics and so nice to read about your fishing trips. Tell us more, tell us more............. -
Fatum can you ID this fish?
MPB's catch from Pasir Ris
He says it's a Chao Xi?
It's as large as a dinner plate
Apparently his friends caught nothing -
hmmm ... Interesting ... I remember catching this off changi before ... but the name eludes me, my marine fishes reference books are stacked away in Singapore ...Originally posted by elindra:
Fatum can you ID this fish?
MPB's catch from Pasir Ris
He says it's a Chao Xi?
It's as large as a dinner plate
Apparently his friends caught nothing 
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Oh wellOriginally posted by Fatum:hmmm ... Interesting ... I remember catching this off changi before ... but the name eludes me, my marine fishes reference books are stacked away in Singapore ...
Looks like I won't know what it is for some time -
Fatum! Gonefishing IDed the fish for me
SURE!
The Malays call it Tudung Periuk (Lid of a pot)
The Chinese call it ChaoXi
The General Ang Mo term is Sickle Fish
Then Ang Mo call it Butter Bream
Sickle fish (or butter bream) are a common bait fishing target in our tidal estuaries and the salt water section of river mouths.
This pretty little fish grows to the size of a large dinner plate, and is just as round with distinguishing black spots over bright silver bodies.
They use the current to their advantage, turning side on and offer a much more spirited fight than their size would suggest.
Best caught on light spinning tackle, a standard running rig, 1 to 1/0 hook baited with peeled or live prawn.
They are good eating, as their common name would suggest. A great family fish -
which is the perch?Originally posted by Fatum: !
I see three sweetlips, one parrot fish, one grouper, one coral trout, one fingermark snapper, one fusilier and ... now that's very very rare ... a sea perch (not the sea bass !)
damm ! I miss fishing at the lighthouse ...
at the right seasons you can get pelagics like spanish mackeral there ... -
that's the one that looks like a fat sea bass ....
in the other news, I just booked a place next june to here :
http://www.davinlake.com/ ..... -
FatumOriginally posted by Fatum:that's the one that looks like a fat sea bass ....
in the other news, I just booked a place next june to here :
http://www.davinlake.com/ .....
I have been itching to get a fishing rod but not sure how many pounds fishing thread i should be getting on coastel fishing? any suggestion? -
I just read this news..
some guy in new zealand caught a blue fin ...about 342kg fish!
going to be in guiness world records soon.
Omg..thats like pulling in 3-4 guys combined.