Fishing on the Luban Lake

yang | 05 五月, 2009 08:56

Fishing was one of boys' favorite childhood hobbies, so when I heard that Yuyu had never fished in his whole life, I was really surprised. It made me wonder that if there were no any rivers or lakes in his hometown. As I continued asking him about what was he playing with in his childhood, Yuyu said that he used to play with ants and grasshoppers.

Yuyu was a young boy, rounded shoulder, rounded face and a little bit overweight - actually I should say he was fat, at least than he should be. I used to think that Yuyu was a good boy, warm-hearted, unworldly and humorous, but after this trip on the Luban Lake, I realized I was totally wrong. I couldn't believe that he was so lazy and unhelpful, though he was not as selfish as some dim-witted drones. When I thought about the reason, I doubted maybe his behaviors was bad because of his interest in girls not fishing. However, all of these were absolutely acceptable, one thing that made me crazy was - his loud snores. In the first night, we camped near by each another. He fell to sleep immediately after entering his camp, while I was checking the security and the situation around us, and trying to wrap my fishing stuff. Soon after his snores became noisier and noisier along the wave of shakes coming through the earth where just few thin grasses were growing. Lordy, my head was painful and I really wanted to hit his foolish head with a big rock. The continuing snores lasted for the whole night. Until next day I got up to find a reasonable fishing position I could hear his noise. I only remembered two of three nap which I managed to make during that night, it was a terrible night.

So after that night, I cursed and swore that I would never make my camp near him. I'd rather sleep on a slope side of the hill which was what I did.

The Luban Lake is well-known for its big carp and grass carp, before we went to there I checked out information about this lake. Many people who went there fishing for several days caught some big fishes. Therefore, it was hopeful for us to catch some big fish - the truth was we did catch a big fish, at least it was the biggest in my life. Mia was very cheerful and refused to give the fish away at first, the bighead carp was extraordinarily lovely, particularly after we caught so many small fishes, like perch, grass carp and so called yellow catfish. We were very lucky and unlucky, this kind of bighead carps are preserved to improve the quality of water, though I caught a big one, we had no choice if we wanted to obey the fishing rule, which we did as we often thought we were unlike most of uncivilized people who make the nature and environment worse. Also this bighead carp was lucky and unlucky. I knew it was an accident that it was caught by my fishing-rod, I didn't know any sign of trapping a fish, I was just fetching the line back. So I couldn't tell that there was a big fish caught by the bait, I though it jus happened again that my sinker and hook was trapped by the stones or rocks on the bottom of the lake. But it was weird that I could retrieve the line with heavy strength. When I was cursing the damn stones in my mind, I saw a big fish at the end of the line. I screamed, "Help! Get the landing net." After an awkward struggle, we lifted the fish into our soft bucket and I was really disappointed to see this one was a bighead carp - a preserved fish. So when we started to discuss what to do with this fish, we all wanted to keep it at first.

The night was fine and translucent, we could easily see the seven brightest stars - Big Dipper which is belonging to the Great Bear. After whole day's fishing, we were tired and eager to sleep, so I decided not keeping fishing through night. :) The truth was, I didn't take any headlamp and even a decent night fishing float, so it was impossible to go on fishing after twilight, although, I was still a little bit excited to hope catching a big fish.

The weather of two fishing days were fine. Though the quality of water in the lake couldn't compare to Ma Lake, the fresh air in there was still pretty good, much better than in the city. Plus fishing people were relatively less, it was very pleasant fishing on the Luban Lake.