So I went fishing on Saturday thanks to a Specialist Mess event organised by Chevrons, so I only had to rent the rod when I went there. It was an entirely new experience for me - prawning doesn't even come close to this, but I'll let the pictures do the talking since that's why you guys are here for!
A not-so-good panorama of the fishing pond (one of the many, but this happened to be the one that I was fishing at together with my colleagues) The differences in lighting for the segments may have been due to the cloud cover shifting while I was too busy shooting to notice ):
The reel segment of the rod I rented. I took a few tries to get used to using the rod, including putting on the bait, reeling in the line and tossing the bait out into the pond. Fortunately for me, and people who were trying to teach me, I got the hang of it quite quickly after forgetting to release the line and flinging a prawn straight into the pond to its murky demise.
The weather got stormy towards the end and even rained for a good 45 minutes or so, but I liked how simple this shot looked against the dark clouds. The bokeh helps too! ^_^
Our bait for the day - different people swear by different methods of preparing these unsuspecting prawns. I was told by one guy to hook the prawn by the second last segment so that the prawn can continue to swim inside the water; another guy taught me to unshell the prawn and just hook a piece of prawn meat onto it. To each his own I guess haha either way I didn't catch any fish ): I did have a few nibbles though!
Sadly, most of the times we thought we had a bite, we ended up doing this - untangling our line from another unsuspecting angler's line ):
They use smaller fish to feed the bigger fish in the other pond that we were unable to access, I think the people fishing there paid much higher rates to catch larger fish. Here's an opportunistic fly trying to grab a bite before the fish gets tossed into the churning waters in the other pond.
Here's the dude who was standing there for like 1 hour at least feeding all the hungry fish in the other pond. Wonder if the fly got tossed in along with his meal, but it probably didn't happen.
A fish someone else caught and it was quite huge... They left the fish flapping there until it probably suffocated, not too sure whether they managed to transfer it into a smaller pond containing all the catches in time. Either way, I wasn't too optimistic about that fish's prospects.
While waiting for something, anything to bite, I walked around the fish farm and saw cute turtles/terrapins/tortoises (I honestly don't know how to tell the difference), and this was the biggest of them all!
All these photos were taken with the 50mm f/1.8, and I didn't manage to catch any fish over the 5 and a half hours I was there. ): Still, I got pretty nice pictures to show for the work and sunburn haha I'm not asking for too much right? =p
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