Your boatman finally drops anchor and parks the boat. You checked the GPS and yes, you are satisfied. You are back at your old hunting ground and the boat is parked right. While you put on your branded sun shielding sleeves that keeps you cooler than a polar bear during winter, your favourite hat that is proudly made in America, and you slap on some SPF 2000 sun block.
As you are putting on your new pair of Oakley sunglasses, you get the boatman to put on your bait for you (as you always do), and you free the line allowing it to drop to the bottom. Excited, you wait patiently for your brand new reel to scream. In your mind you imagine fighting the brute on your new setup, and how much of a workout you will be getting.
After the first hour you begin to wonder. You ask the boatman if he indeed parked the boat properly. Your friends too begin to wonder if this is the secret spot that all of you used to fish at. The quietness is out of the ordinary. In your head you regretted not buying the fish finder. Your favourite boat does not have a fish finder. It was on sale but you decided to buy the RM8,000 (Ringgit) reel that now adorns the reel seat of your RM2,500 (Ringgit) fishing rod. “Maybe it’s the tide,” you tell your buddies.
After six hours of fishing you got so bored. Some of your buddies have resorted to eating the baits from the live-bait well. You have been clearing all the unwanted pictures and “good morning” forwarded messages from your phones picture gallery. Your phone now has an additional 30 gigabytes of free space. Your buddy sitting at the back starts to take a piss and almost falls overboard. Secretly you wished he did, so that you could tie the live saving ring on your line and cast it out to him. At least you got to fight something.