www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

Continued from last week..... I walked around, needed some food and drinks. It's been awhile since I last had "fan choy' and it tasted good. When you are hungry, everything taste good. I noticed a small pond where it is much easier to get your fish but the fish is smaller. It's the kids' fishing pond meaning younger children can experience fishing here. When you caught one, the staff is there to help. You pay $5 per rod but once you get a certain size fish it is over unless you pay again. I saw much bigger children fishing there. It was all quiet on the western front. No bites, no fights, no noise. The fish ain't biting. This is where the restaurant is located. $8 for fried rice. No thanks. Just "fan choy" and a beer will do. Only the family with grandpa, father and young son were getting fish, maybe 8 of them. What to do? Be patient. Hang loose. Sometimes, you want to sleep when you can't and you won't when you c...

Fishing is like golf or as Forrest Gump said: "Life is a box of chocolate. You never know what you are going to get". Even if you are not at sea but at a river or pond. In the old days, the ponds will have tilapia, grass carps, big head carps, Japanese carps and even Soon Hock and eels. You don't know what is at the end of the line but you know it is going to be one of these and this is part of the fun especially when you got a fish and then the ensuing fight. I mentioned golf because the stalking of the bites, the fight and hauling the fish is like your chase for Eagles and Birdies. Later, the business side of it began to spawn. The ponds got much smaller such that you don't have more fun of casting your line longer like hitting it off with a driver. Do you know how fun it is to cast your line long, look at hooks, line and sinker flying into the distance and final drop into the waters, listening to the sound of the fishing line with this action, reeling the line...