Fish for lunch

Do you know how to catch a salmon? Have you ever experienced a situation where people weighing more than hundred kilograms tried their best to pull a big two kilogramme salmon up from a lake? If not then go to Anatoki Salmon Farm in Golden Bay.

 

ELTO Intake 30, studying at NMIT had an amusing and fantastic experience there on Sunday 14th February, 2010. It was the first day of the lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day with beautiful sunny skies after a gloomy rainy day. The last destination in our three days visiting Golden Bay trip was Anatoki Salmon, where we would catch fish ourselves for lunch.

Initially, most of us didn’t know how to use a rod for catching. But everything would be easy with the Anatoki owner’s help. You merely cast your hook with bait in the lake and wait, but you should be careful if you don’t want to catch your back because the hook can fly behind you and pull your back after casting. Wait until the fish has bitten the bait, then you should pull up the line quickly, or else it will be the end of the bait.

 

Now I will tell you about Mary’s salmon fishing in Anatoki.

 

Every one of us had caught a fish except Mary – our administrator. She was still patiently waiting for her salmon. Beside her were three assistants ready to help her in any circumstance. Suddenly a salmon bit the bait, and the line stretched. Mary tried her best to pull up the line but the fish seemed too heavy for her. All of her assistants came immediately to help Mary pull up the fish. The fish was very strong, although we tried our best we couldn’t get it out of the water. In contrast, it pulled us and made Mary’s line get entangled in another’s line. He felt his line stretch. He though that a fish was biting his bait and said loudly “I caught a salmon.”

 

Finally, after exerting all our strength the fish was pulled up and it was hooked by Mary’s fishing rod. Mary and three of us were quite excited because the salmon was very big. The man was sad as it was not his fish. Four of us totalling more than two hundred kilograms tried our best to catch the salmon. That was the first fish Mary had ever caught in her life. And the process of catching it was extremely funny and memorable as the salmon was caught by four of us.

 

Fishing at Anatoki, Golden Bay was our lucky day. According to the Vietnamese, if you catch a fish on the first day of the lunar New Year, it means that you will be lucky for the whole year. Hopefully, luck will come to all of us in this year of the tiger.