Night fishing in the Pearl river

The Romans, in the height of their glory, have made fish the mistress of all their entertainments; they have had musick to usher in their Sturgeons, Lampreys, and Mullets, which they would purchase at rates rather to be wondered at than believed.

Izaak Walton in The Compleat Angler

Whenever I walk by any of the tributaries and branches of the Pearl river, I find anglers. One night as I walked by the East river in Huizhou, a tributary of the Pearl, I realized that angling has changed in the 21st century. The man you see in the photo was fishing with an LED light as lure. No matter how prepared you are, China can catch you by surprise at times. As I walked on I realized that the shore of the river was dotted with anglers at night. This was more traditional. I couldn’t see what fish they caught.


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