Night Prawning

My jc gang met up at Jurong Bird Park & Reptile Farm carpark on Friday night to go to a prawning farm just beside the carpark. We met up at 9 pm and waited for a few of the latecomers.

Jim had bought some worms which were supposed to be some food which prawns eat.

Little worms

We started prawning at 10 pm and gotten 3 prawning lines shared among the 7 of us. It costs $25 per 3 hours per rod. Terence, Jim and i shared 1 rod while the rest of the couples shared 1 rod per couple.

We set up rods and hooked bits of the chicken heart which they provided us. In beginning, we were not too sure of the whole process and consulted Ade and TH who had done prawning before. We started prawning soon after.

Prawning!

We were chatting throughout the whole activity as we have to wait for some time before some unlucky prawn gets greedy and eats the bait. Edwin and Shiqi was the first to catch a prawn after 20 minutes. We were all excited and keen to catch the next prawn after the initial catch.

Some of us were observing a man who catches prawns at quite a fast frequency. The prawns he caught were extremely huge as well. We followed around the area where he hangs the bait but to no avail. He left soon after catching a basketful of prawns.

1 hour had past and me, Terence and Jim had not any luck with getting any prawns. Ade and TH got a slightly bigger prawn after some time at the other end of the man-made pond.

We continued prawning and suddenly there was a commotion. Apparently, someone had caught a super duper huge prawn. I quickly rushed over to snap pictures of the gigantic and fierce looking prawn.

Look at the LONG pincers!!!!!!!!


A hand cannot fully cover the prawn

The man who had caught the gigantic prawn let us nosey people snap away and put it on the ground to let us snap more pictures.

King Prawn? I didn't know prawns got pincers before lor!

Wow, it was quite exhilarating to see such a big catch and we were pumped to go catch GIANT prawns.

Prawning, prawning, prawning..... Ade and TH caught another huge prawn and we quickly went over to help them with removing the hook from the prawn. The pincers looked rather fierce and we were a little apprehensive on how to prevent our hands from being caught in the nasty pincers while unhooking the prawn. Luckily, the guy who previously got the gigantic prawn came over to help us. He grabbed the prawn body as well as the pincers and unhooked it within seconds.

The first big catch!


Comparison of the size of the prawn to TH's slipper (darn big right?)


Group Photo

Jim left at around 12.15 am as he had to wake up very early the next day. We continued with prawning and Terence got the BIGGEST catch of the day. It was slightly bigger than the one ade & TH caught.

Me and the prawn Terence caught


My foot gently resting on the pincers of the prawn to prevent it from attacking, while using a borrowed pincers (tool) to help remove the hook

It was slightly nerve-wrecking to hold down the twitching and jumping prawns that splash some water everywhere.

At around 12.30 am, the owner refilled the tank with prawns and we were having a prawning frenzy. Edwin used his bare hands to grab those smaller prawns near the surface of the tank and it was quite amusing watching him grab the prawns.

Terence got another big prawn and that more or less sums up the entire catch of the night. 3 hours of prawning came to an end at 1 am and pulled up the basket that contains our prawns we caught.

Not a lot for the 7 of us but still a commendable effort


Me, Edwin, our catch and the prawning rod

We split the prawns among only 3 of us as the others did not want to bring the prawns back home. I got the smallers prawns and when i showed my mum the prawns when i got back home, she said 'How come the prawns so big?'. Maybe i should have brought back one of the super big prawns instead, ha......