Art of Netting

A long vacation indeed and one of the many ways to beat out the heat is to mimic the aquatic life. Much of the inspiration was drawn from the adventures of Pi. The day started with the idea of hunting fish on stagnant waters and gathering a group of people to carry out the activity. I too joined them with a big fishing net made up of fine threads and decorated with wooden pulps and stones. The stones for keeping them in tact with ground and the pulps to give them a direction. The water channel was tapered and L shaped, it was quite difficult to maneuver the net in those topographies, and to add to it the ground beneath the water was uneven and rocky. Five of us got aligned on a straight line and i had to keep myself at one extreme so that i don't have to land into uneven surface and deep waters. We adjusted ourselves to cover the entire width of the water channel and we started to move towards the other end. The guys in the middle had to dive deep to ensure the stones at the bottom don't get stuck and has to be synchronous with the pulp movement. We could see small fishes escaping to the other sides as soon as they find a gap, but the bigger ones had to succumb to the fine net. Some where in the middle we found the water depth is more than the net height, where a large number of fish happily escaped through a good clearance.The adventure went on for three hours and finally we managed to reach the other end of the channel.