What do YOU think he was doing??

Chancer3001

So, I'm over in Cambodia at the moment. Lovely country. Was being driven along in a tuk tuk today on the way to a temple , and we were driving parallel to a canal. Very brown water. Goes for miles. There's a bank on the edge and a drop of about 4 foot into the water.

So anyways, one of the most random things I've ever seen.

There's an oul fella, about 60, and he's got a bamboo pole fishing rod, long string tied on to...a duck.

Yup, a live duck, string tied around its wings.

The duck was being bobbed up and down in the water, just it's feet in to the water and then being bobbed back out of the water again.

I got to look for about 10 seconds.....

Was he fishing with a duck? With it's feet as bait? Was he teaching it to swim? Was he insane?

All theories welcome

fortwilliam

Cormorant fishing, very popular.. google it.

BeerWolf

Duck dives into water to catch fish, comes out - man takes fish out of duck's mouth.

Rinse and repeat.

Known as cormorant fishing.

ireland.man

String tied tightly around throat so the bird can't swallow the fish... Pretty cruel looking.

Raminahobbin

Just when I think I'd heard all the ways people were dicks to animals, along comes another thing I hadn't heard of.

Feck sake

Donkey Oaty

Tourist: "How many have you caught?"

Duck man: "You're the third, so far today".

solomafioso

Veiled 'oh look at me, I'm in Cambodia watching old men interfere with ducks' thread. :pac:

BeerWolf

solomafioso wrote: »

Veiled 'oh look at me, I'm in Cambodia watching old men interfere with ducks' thread. :pac:

Well, he IS a chancer after all... so, why not? :P

Gyalist

BeerWolf wrote: »

Duck dives into water to catch fish, comes out - man takes fish out of duck's mouth.

Rinse and repeat.

Known as cormorant fishing.

A cormorant is not a duck!

Jinonatron

Asia is great.

I was once on the bus in Beijing when I saw a man lifting his daughter up, pull down her underwear and hold her over the bin where the child started taking a ****. Note that the bin was on same bus as me.

"Thinly veiled I've been to Beijing post"

wazky

He was teaching the duck how not to drown.

corner of hells

Clearly the duck/comorant was talking his pet man for a walk . As we all know ducks etc have no hands and like to swim , so its easier for him to keep.the man on a leash/bamboo pole thingy attached to bis neck.

Chancer3001

Ok it wasn't cormorant fishing.

It wasn't a cormorant. And the duck wasn't even being submerged, just bobbed up and down. And the rope wasn't around his neck, it was around his middle.

Looked for all the world he was teaching the duck to swim!

stevedublin

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Ok it wasn't cormorant fishing.

It wasn't a cormorant. And the duck wasn't even being submerged, just bobbed up and down. And the rope wasn't around his neck, it was around his middle.

Looked for all the world he was teaching the duck to swim!

Was he using the duck as bait?

Ruu

Duck was a terrorist, making him speak!

Chancer3001

I thought about the bait thing?

But he hardly had hooks in the ducks feet

Lapin

Chancer3001 wrote: »

So, I'm over in Cambodia at the moment. Lovely country. Was being driven along in a tuk tuk today on the way to a temple , and we were driving parallel to a canal. Very brown water. Goes for miles. There's a bank on the edge and a drop of about 4 foot into the water.

So anyways, one of the most random things I've ever seen.

There's an oul fella, about 60, and he's got a bamboo pole fishing rod, long string tied on to...a duck.

Yup, a live duck, string tied around its wings.

The duck was being bobbed up and down in the water, just it's feet in to the water and then being bobbed back out of the water again.

I got to look for about 10 seconds.....

Was he fishing with a duck? With it's feet as bait? Was he teaching it to swim? Was he insane?

All theories welcome

Stopped reading after the first word.

Sunnyisland

Lapin wrote: »

Stopped reading after the first word.

Yet you copied the whole post ?


Come on Lapin tell us what's happening ...

Chancer3001

Lots of reading can be scary

Arthur Beesley

Jinonatron wrote: »

Asia is great.

I was once on the bus in Beijing when I saw a man lifting his daughter up, pull down her underwear and hold her over the bin where the child started taking a ****. Note that the bin was on same bus as me.

"Thinly veiled I've been to Beijing post"

So have I, but I didn't observe the aforementioned phenomenon (fortunately).

Saw a guy with his trousers and underwear pulled down, humping the pavement on 5th Avenue New York.

Arthur Beesley

realies wrote: »

Yet you copied the whole post ?


Come on Lapin tell us what's happening ...

There should be a rule about quoting something you haven't read.

franer1970

HSBC advert with cormorant fishing.

jandm

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Saw a guy with his trousers and underwear pulled down, humping the pavement on 5th Avenue New York.

Well there's loving New York and "loving" New York!

Chancer3001

Duck fishing it is then.

I've seen many cormorants. It wasn't a cormorant

catallus

They can even train otters to catch fish for people!

Pretzill

He was Duck fishing something the Cambodians have copied from the Veitnamese (who by all accounts are better at it) the duck is in a sort of harness - so there aren't hooks in the bird itself.

From a google search btw. Travel yourself interesting my ar*e!

Chancer3001

Google link?

You sure you didn't mix it up with DUCKLING fishing?

This was a fully grown duck

kylith

Probably fishing for predatory fish, or crocodiles. Predator eats duck, man eats predator. I've heard of something similar with frogs or ducklings to catch pike.

Pretzill

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Google link?

You sure you didn't mix it up with DUCKLING fishing?

This was a fully grown duck

I did say they're not very good at it - yes duckling should be used.

I could attach link but it's easy to find. But you are there why don't you ask a local?

Cantremember

Speaking of ducks and Russians as we are and courtesy of Reddit....

Larianne

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Was he fishing with a duck?

Yes.

Watched a programme (based in China) on something similar.