Prawning

Me, Lionel, Zongyang and Daren went for a prawning night last saturday. There are quite a number of prawning farms in Singapore, we went to the one at Jurong (the previous crocodile farm) as Daren had been there before. Charges are at $13 for one hr and $25 for 3 hrs. We reached around 8 and started to prawn. From the hooking of the bait to waiting patiently for the prawns, it was a first time experience for me. One of the assistant there taught us how to place the rod and the bait and we were ready to go. After abt 15 mins, Zongyang finally got the first catch of the day! Daren helped to hook the prawn out of the hook as he is more experienced!

Our first catch

We were excited and hoped for more to come in. There were some experts opposite us who had prawns almost every 5 to 10 mins. Zongyang got another prawn after 20 mins while me, lionel and daren were still waiting to break the zero. After abt 1.5 hrs, there were still no sights of any prawns, we felt some tugs but we lost them when we were pulling the rod up. Sob, probably i did not know the technique to correctly pull the rod. As Lionel and I shared one rod, we took turns to prawn. Daren had his first success after 2 hrs and subsequently another one in a while. That brought our total catch to 4. Sadly, it remained 4 after 3 hrs. Lioenl and I were quite disappointed as we didnt catch any at all for the night! haha.. but we bu gan yuan and vowed to come back again to practise again. We took out miserly 4 prawns to the 'zhi cha' stall there and had supper there - cereal prawns, sambal kang kong and furong egg. Nice esp eating the prawns we had prawn ourselves. As the 7th month is drawing near, there is also a mini Ge tai there which blasts hokkien songs, with some happening aunties and uncles grooving to the music. They also had retro techno songs which livened the whole atmosphere. Would wanna bring my family here one day for a fun filled day of prawning and listening to those hokkien songs (my dad's favourite!).