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Fishing Time

December 31, 2011 by Dave7 Comments

Every year around this time the villagers drain one of the local ponds into an adjoining rice field. This takes all night – a couple guys stay up all night with the pump.

Then in the very early morning about 15 people gather at the banks for a mud infused assault on the fish. This is not clean work – they jump into the mud, sinking up to their waists and crawl around with small nets and buckets collecting all the fish.

By mid morning its a small party at the pond. A number beer bottles are strewn about, a small fire cooks a few of the fish, and mud is being flung about! Young and old participate in the fun.

By mid day they have collected as many as they need and start draining the water back into the pond. It looks like we will be eating fish for the next few weeks!

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Filed Under: Asia · Tagged: Beer, Fishing, Seafood

Comments

  1. Ajeya Rao says

    January 3, 2012 at 8:34 am

    Very nice post and blog. Happy new year

  2. Richard Murdoch says

    January 4, 2012 at 12:10 am

    That looks like fun

  3. Paulo Bettanin says

    January 5, 2012 at 10:52 am

    Não é uma disputa justa, pois os peixes não tem chance alguma, além das outras espécies que vivem na lagoa. São práticas que nos mostram que devemos lutar cada vez mais pela preservação do ambiente natural.
    Paulo Bettanin

  4. AJ - Fantastic Travels says

    January 9, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    Well that’s certainly a new way to fish on me. Amazing how so many ordinary things are done so differently in other Countries/Towns around the World. Thanks Dave, interesting to know.

  5. Lane says

    January 10, 2012 at 2:29 am

    That was a wonderful look into an event in the lives of people across the world. As always, excellent.

  6. David says

    January 15, 2012 at 7:47 am

    Thanks for your nice comments – 🙂

  7. Wolfman says

    November 12, 2018 at 2:15 am

    I have a pair of fighter plakat bettafish from Thailand my favorite place. I will soon be breeding them and I asked Cambodia would they want to challenge them with their fighter plakat bettafish when they get big I wilcall my fighters (20* MUHAMMAD ALI STYLE FIGHTER PLAKAT BETTAFISH.) Cambodia NEVER RESPONDED I think their scared to challenge.😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

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