A little whisper in the dark

Welcome to my playground

I spent most of Friday at Redcliffe, north of here, fishing with three other friends. One's a friend from Gatton, one's my ex-classmate, and then there's my housemate.

Seems like I am the common link to all of them. 6 degrees of friends, just like Friendster claims.

Like how Shuxian knows Peiyun?

Anyway it was the first time that I've held a fishing rod. They say its better to teach a man to fish, they just didn't mention that it costs $130 for a rod and $80 for a reel, not to mention the wide array of hooks, sinkers and floaters that you tend to lose (seemingly every 15 minutes).

We needed some live bait, and it wasn't too hard to land a few bait fish from near the pier, the dodgy part was extracting the fish off the hook, because they were struggling so hard. I would struggle too if I had a hook stuck in my mouth, my neck or straight through my eye. I didn't really enjoy pulling the hooks back out.

I managed to land 4 on one line (there was 5 hooks on the line).

Learning to fish starts from assembling the rod, attaching the reel, and then (I hate this part) tying up the correct knots to attach the required hooks and weights. Even the way the fishing reel works needs instructing. But complexity isn't something I am very averse to especially if its something mechanical - cameras are wonderfully mechanical and technical!

I guess I prefer taking photos of people than pulling sharp hooks out of other living creatures, especially when there are 4 twitching fishes dangling from the 5 hooks on my line. Fish don't have Friendster, but these 4 sure are linked by the fishing line they've all been hooked onto.

posted by Chung Leong @ 1:32 AM