There’s something inherently organic about fishing – after all, the entire activity is about the hunt for a living thing (be it fish, crabs or prawns) and so there’s always an element of the unpredicted. While fishing may once have been many a childhood past-time, it has since lost out to competition from school, the computer and tuition. Memories like yg’s about using rice water to capture worms for bait and using bamboo fishing rods remind us about how fishing was like in the old days.

to catch the pasir pasir, he would use a bamboo rod with a line and sinker. first, he needed to hunt for the bait. this could be found in the exposed sand along the beach of pasir panjang. he would use the water that his mother had used for washing the rice grains. this water was sprinkled over the sand. then he would placed his palm on the sand. when he felt the worm biting, he would swiftly grasp its head with his thumb and forefinger and pull the wriggly worm out of the sand.

Rediscover the past-time of fishing on ygblog in catching prawns and pasir pasir.

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