Changi Car Park 5

Today seemed like a good late night fishing. Weather was superb, considering that it had been raining incessantly for the past few days. Moon was out in its almost full glory. After 7pm, I drove up to Pasir Ris for dinner, planning to move to SAFYC at changi naval base for a spot of comfortable fishing till late. Reaching there, we were told that fishing now would cost $16 for two rods. Holy Toledo! It was only $7 for 2 rods the last time. Furthermore, I didn't get bait at CV, thinking to support him and get the 100g for $4 prawns. Hearing that, I decided to pack up and proceed elsewhere. It wasn't like the place was a super productive spot.

The guard house. D's reading her Pokemon comic.


Moonlight fishing


We then drove to CV for drinks, while I got a pack of live prawns and some tackle shopping. Just wanting to make it simple and convenient, I stopped at Changi Car Park 5 to try out. It had been some time ago since I had been here. I managed to get the last seat next to the army jetty, patrol by guards with rifle. To my thinking, it should be a better spot here.

Just usual, I casted out a long leader rig with my ranggong for live prawns, and another with my squid jig. While waiting for the fish to bite, I would do some squidding as well. This looked like a potential squid spot, being next to a jetty, and with all the lights, should be good.

Rod with live prawns did ring a little, but due to dancing prawns. Reeling back, prawns all covered with seaweed. Other than that, no action whatsoever. Squidding was totally hopeless. But the place was pleasant and clean, and quite well lighted. So, the fishing was quite pleasurable.

D's latest craze. Cutesy turtles.


The children got tired, and went to sleep on the mat. A was also quite uncomfortable due to some ants on the floor. So, at around 12+am, I called it quits and packed to go. A zero for me tonight.

Car Park 5 Shrimp Hunt

Totally uninspiring trip again. Was at CV to look for my rod replacement. But couldn't find the exact model. I had brought along my light fishing pack and thought of checking if squidding here was fruitful. I had read that squids could be found near Jetties, seawalls and weedy places. This might be a good spot. However, 5 minutes into the evening, realized that I was wasting my time. Spent about half hour there with no bites and no hope. Packed and move on to Car Park 5 for another try.

Reaching there, setup my luring rod and out went my Shrimphunter again. "Hunt", I commanded. But after 20 over casts, it always came back empty. Again another bad place. I rigged up my light rod with tamban hooks and baited it with Gulp!, shrimp flavour, since I didn't have any bait with me. But it didn't work either. Not sure if due to the place or just simply that Gulp! was not as good as advertised. But at the Kelong, the fishes sure did go for it. But that was dropping the shrimp bait whole. Would experiment in future if cut pieces of it on tamban hooks would work.