The fish

Yesterday, at about 2.00pm, my family and I thought that the weather was very windy and cooling, as it was just after a downpour. Thus, we decided to go fishing at Bedok jetty, to have "quality time" together. The ride there was about 25 minutes, and I kept controlling myself from bursting out with excitement! It had been quite a long time before we actually went fishing together. Adrenaline just kept rushing through my body!

Just as we went there, I realised that the clouds were dark and i thought that it was going to rain again. Just as I was about to get my raincoat, My father said that it would not rain, and he was right. Usually, when we fished there, we had to wait a long while before we could get a fish. I thought that it was going to be the same, but it turned out to be different. Just as I put my 2 baits into the water, i felt movement and pull immediately, a second later, both baits were gone. (By the way, I am not "describing", it was really one second.) Then, curiosity struck my mind as I looked down to see what exactly was happening. I was devastated. A school of fish were at the surface of the water!

Then, after my father put 2 more bait on my rod, I slowly railed it into the water. This time, I was aware of what was happening. I lowered the rail until it just reached the surface of the water, as the school of fish rushed to it. I could see the fish biting my bait. This time, i quickly railed it up and caught two of them. Now, I knew why my bait was gone the previous time. All the fish were attacking at once. The next moment, after my father put another piece of bait on the rod, my brother shouted I got 2 fishes! Then, my father let out a heavy sigh as he knew that it meant more work for him.

The fish repeatedly got tricked by us as we railed them up one after another. However, after a while, the fish seemed to get smarter. This time, when i put the rail in, they bit only a part of a bait and when I lifted the rod up, the fish would just drop back into the water. This happened the same 10 times in the row(I am not joking), causing me to be both frustrated and infuriated!

Just after this frustrating experience, my brother said,"Look how stupid these fishes are!" Then he showed me his rod and then i knew why. He had no bait all along and the fishes just got hooked on to it for no utter reason! Then, he looked into the pail that we kept all the fishes we caught and observed them closely. Next, he said," These fishes can it prawn shells!"
Hearing what he had just said, I took the prawn shells and used them as bait as the fishes still got tricked by us and got hooked on to it. At the end of the 2-hour fish, for once, we actually managed to get more than 20 fishes!

It was a really fun experience and I really hope that the next time the school holidays come, I would be able to go fishing again.