one fish, two fish...

we went fishing over the weekend with friends. we went to a man-made fishing pond in the New Territories where a supply of fresh fish is manually added to the pond three times a week so that people can fish there. it felt a bit odd fishing at a small body of water where the supply of fish is "planted". it just seemed a bit "unnatural". but i guess there's a better chance of catching a fish if you know there are fishes in there and they're all confined to a pond.

in the 3 hours that we were there, our friend caught 2 fishes... she was the only person in our group of five to catch any. larry had 3 misses- by the time he reeled in his line, the fishes had escaped each time. meanwhile, a couple to our right kept catching a fish every 20 minutes. they probably caught about 8-10 fishes total. some people just have all the luck.

when we checked out, they weighed our catch. i guess they felt bad that we had caught only 2 fishes between the five of us, so they actually gave us 2 extra fishes for free! how cool is that?! that would never happen back in the States. in the States, if you end up not catching a single fish that day, they'll say "too bad, better luck next time!", and that's it buddy! there's no way they'd throw you some free fishes just because you didn't "catch enough"!

last night, Larry cooked up one from the catch, and it was yummy... :)