Spratly 2009 - Part II

Here are some pictures taken before and after boarding Sea Maiden, before all the jigging and popping starts.

Michael, the organiser for the trip. If you would like to join him on his trips, log on to http://www.fisherzone.com/forum/ Do note that it's in chinese. Or you can always call him - 0126418880. Oh... better speak Cantonese or Mandarin...

KY and his Nature Boys rod tube.

Alan and KY

Michael sorting out the food and sleeping arrangements. We bought so much snacks and tidbits that even Michael was a bit shocked. But by the 2nd last night, we've finished EVERYTHING!!!

Johnson and Alan checking out the sleeping area. This room here hold 3 double deckers, and on the left and right are 2 more rooms which hold 1 double decker each.

This is the other sleeping area and toilet at the front of the boat.

Here are some pictures around Sea Maiden 1.

This is where we spend most of our time jigging... Picking up Sea Baby and GT1; our popping buddies for shallow reefs.

Time to get ready... :D:D:D

If you know how to tie FG knot, tie lo... if you don't, watch lo...Or you can ask ppl to help...Or DIY with SIFU's guidance...

The number of Stellas on board was really shocking... we had 15 anglers on board and I'd say average of 2 Stellas per angler. It was Stella everywhere la...

Expedition Spratly - Intro

A week ago, a group of Sometimes Can Anglers set sail on board Sea Maiden 1 and headed up north from Labuan, to the infamous islands & reefs of Spralys in search of their Sometimes Can Dreams...

As usual, the packing began early...

Light Jigging

Golden Mean Sabel Dance II PE1 matched with Shimano Stella 5000 loaded with 20lbs Xzoga. Bought this rod a week before the trip. Very similar action and weight to Evergreen's Spin Jerker, at half the price.

Medium Jigging
Evergreen's Spin Jerker PE 2.5 matched with Shimano Stella 8000 loaded with 30lbs PowerPro.

Heavy Jigging
Hot's Wei World matched with Daiwa Z6500H Dogfight loaded with 80lbs braid.

Popping
Shimano Kaibutsu Light Pleasure PE2-4 matched with Shimano Stella 10000 loaded with 40lbs Xzoga.

My solid rod case - Nature Boys. Sometimes Can Anglers scattered all over...

Sea Maiden 1

After passing numerous oil rigs...
We finally reached Layang Layang... couple of hours later, the popping and jigging begins...

Toshiba Satellite M300

Toshiba Satellite M300

For the past few years that I've been blogging, I've always been using company's laptop, and it has always been IBM's Thinkpad. Recently, because of security and cost cutting reasons, we had to switch all our laptops to desktops. And that is why the past couple of weeks I was not able to blog. No laptop and worst of all, all my pictures were stuck in my company's laptop as they disabled all the USB ports, again for security reasons. Am kinda upset as I still have lots of pictures that I wanted to post but didn't have the time... so kinda need to retake all the pictures..

Anyway, knowing PC Fair was around the corner, I decided to buy a laptop of my own. Hahahaha... after so many years.

As usual, I was doing some extensive reseach on CNET and multiple forums and the finalist were down to HP's DV4 and Toshiba's M300, with similar specs and pricing. And since Toshiba seems to be slightly more reliable with better built quality, I got myself the Satellite M300 :)

Here are some pictures...

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Fisherman - Big Game Power Handle

Minor pimping for the Stella 10k :) Fisherman Big Game Power handle from Plat.

I have a feeling I'll be doing a lot of weighing with my mom's digital scale... I actually weighed all my rods and reels over the weekend... :-p