Tamban Jigging at Bedok Jetty

I ended up at Bedok Jetty early today morning after a quiet night at Tanjong Rhu, which had a horrible catch rate for me. There were zero bites. I figured that I might have been using the wrong bait of sliced sotong and dead prawns.

Anyway, we ended up at Bedok Jetty at about 2 a.m and thought it might be a good idea to pick a nice spot to rest before waking up in the early morning to jig for tambans as live bait.
When the sun started to rise at about 6:35 a.m, we started jigging for them.

After about 3 hours, the weather was too hot to bear for us. It ws a pity that we did not bring any sunblock along, due to this trip originally being an overnight fishing trip.

Bedok Jetty looks almost surreal at dawn, it was so beautiful with the orange hue of the rising sun casting a magnificent glow over the jetty and from where we were, we could see that the surrounding sea was teeming with literally tens of thousands of tamban darting around the water!

Anyway, at the end of the day, it was a pretty good haul of a hundred over tambans and 3 kunings which I have since kept in my freezer as baits for future use.

There was also a strike to our bigger rod with live tamban bait attached to a long snood bottom feeder, with the rod suddenly jumping up high while we were in the midst of jigging.

Unfortunately, the fish went under the jetty and the line got snagged beneath it. It was later retrieved with everything intact except the hook and live bait. Oh well, we'll be back for revenge another day.