Prawn Fishing

I have never tried prawn fishing with my friends before till few days ago. The first time I tried prawn fishing was with my cousins at Kenyalang Park. Few days ago, I went prawn fishing with my friends as my second time. As for my 3 friends, it was their first time. haha We went to Kenyalang Park as early as 9.30am as all of us were looking forward to it. We felt disappointed to find the shop closed. Not giving up, we went to another shop at Chonglin Park. It was closed too and at that moment, we felt really disappointed. So much of us being excited to fish for prawns. I didn't want to give up yet so I called my cousin to ask whether Wednesday was a holiday for the prawn fishing shops. It wasn't and we all could not think of a reason why they were closed. Maybe they didn't have any prawns. Haha Anyway, my cousin asked me to try another shop at Tabuan Laru. He told me that the prawns there were much bigger too. Feeling slightly happier, we drove there and guess what? It was opened!! haha



The first thing the lady did for us was chopping the big fat worms into small pieces and putting them on a plate for us as the bait.


The finely chopped worms.


Those nets were for us to put our prawns in after catching them.


Prawn fishing is apparently an almost all-male event with the exception of the 4 of us.

Anyway, besides being the only girls there, we were the noisiest of all too. Whenever we managed to catch a prawn, it was like a big announcement to everyone around us. The way we reacted caused everyone around us to look at us. Like screaming when we managed to pull the rod up and there was a big prawn. Not only that, asking each other to take pictures of the prawn whenever we caught one. No one around us did that. Whenever they managed to catch one, they just quietly put the prawn into their nets. As for us, we pulled the rods up and we didn't dare to take the prawns so we had to ask the lady to help us for every prawn we caught. Despite the fact that it was our first time and we didn't dare to hold the prawns, we were really lucky. The people around us said that too. We caught 7 prawns in the end. Well, actually it should be 9. 1 jumped off from the net and another went off when we tried to catch it from the water surface using our hands. That was actually a free catch for us because it was really at the water surface. I bet the guys would have just put their hands in to grab it but for us, we didn't dare to do that. We took so long to decide whose hands to be in and when Xu Vin finally put her hands in, the prawn disappeared. Haha




Xu Vin and Audrey


Amanda and I



It was worth it for us till the lady asked us whether it was our first time. When we told her it was indeed our first time, she said we were lucky. Probably that was why she disappeared and we couldn't find her when we needed her help to put the prawn we caught again into the net. That was why the prawn jumped out from the net as we didn't know how to put it in properly.


Soon, an hour was over and it was time for us to leave.


We brought the prawns back to Amanda's house and her mum cooked for us.


The prawns were delicious!! =D