Hi Amit,
In this kind of fishing, people use varied tools to dry out a pond/any small water body and send the water to another adjacent pond and stop the water from rolling back by making an earthen embankment (visible in the photograph). As the pond dries up, the fishes jump on the mud and gets caught. In this photograph, the kids have almost dried up the pond (if you look the kid at the center and notice his legs, you will get an idea of the original water level). The girl is scanning the water with a bowl to catch fish and they had just started the process when I clicked this. So no fish in the snap
shisir to be very precise…back home after winter people lease their pond to some fisher man kind of persons for one day (the lease amount varied from Rs 300 to 500 during those days (early 90s)). the fishermen used to suck out the pond water with electric pumps and take away the fishes….i don’t know if the custom is still followed….
But where is the fish?
Hi Amit,
In this kind of fishing, people use varied tools to dry out a pond/any small water body and send the water to another adjacent pond and stop the water from rolling back by making an earthen embankment (visible in the photograph). As the pond dries up, the fishes jump on the mud and gets caught. In this photograph, the kids have almost dried up the pond (if you look the kid at the center and notice his legs, you will get an idea of the original water level). The girl is scanning the water with a bowl to catch fish and they had just started the process when I clicked this. So no fish in the snap
shisir to be very precise…back home after winter people lease their pond to some fisher man kind of persons for one day (the lease amount varied from Rs 300 to 500 during those days (early 90s)). the fishermen used to suck out the pond water with electric pumps and take away the fishes….i don’t know if the custom is still followed….