This continues from the previous posting - How to catch Barramundi.

I revealed a few locations, here are a few more: Bedok Jetty (you can look at Melvin's website to see the catch), Lim Chu Kang end (yes, the shallow swampy area beside the floating jetty), Senoko breakwater and of course, any of the inlets at Pulau Ubin.

There are many more land-based locations for wild barra but as you can see, it's not where you fish but whether you fish often enough employing the correct technique that determines if you catch the fish of your dreams.

Here's a simple story of land-based barra hunting that went right.

It was 1999, my small boat was under repair, but I needed to fish, so I called a fishing buddy and we decided to go land-based barra hunting. We checked the tide and found that the tide was high at about 3am. So we estimated the bite window would be from 10pm to 2am. (The Barra at this spot were normally caught on the rising tide.)

So we reached Sungei Api Api bridge at about 8pm with some live prawns bought from nearby Pasir Ris Pond and set up 4 rods with small cork floats and 4 feet leaders (2 with split shots and 2 without). We place the rods facing the sea and when the tide came in, it swept the floats under the bridge, just what we wanted.

At the other end, we cast 2 rods with apollo double hook rigs to catch nonsense fish like catfish just for fun, or played tai-tee under the lampost. Of course, the fish came on schedule and we landed 2 barras on the float rigs (about 1.5kg each) around midnight, and lost another 2 good bites which took drag. In the excitement, I noticed my apollo rig rod take a good bend and struck hard to hook something heavy. Turned up to be a 3kg mud crab which grabbed a catfish that was already hooked, and the crab was tangled in the line.

Stayed on till morning and enjoyed the run of Asam fish, hooking many on jigs (foul-hooking, mostly).

The End.

A few of the land-based barras I caught can be viewed in my older fishing galleries on my website. So at some spots, a floating rig works best, provided you have the right bait and fish at the right time. At other spots, floats can't work well (eg Bedok Jetty), so a simple double hook Apollo rig would be effective.

Here's the end of the land-based bait fishing for Barra tips. Next time, I'll write about lure fishing for Barra and then Boat fishing for Barra.

i know its going to sound real stupid cos i'm still a newbie with floats... "it swept the floats under the bridge" why didnt you face in-land and let the float out rather than face sea-wards and let the float float under?

also, i'm using a 9ft Shimano Travel concept rod... the one that breaks into 8 pieces, is it recommendable?

hi, because the fish were biting under the bridge.

the 8 piece rod is very fragile, I've seen one break with my own eyes. Maybe for travelling it's fun, but not for serious fishing.

OMG... thats... not good... thanks lots~