Fishieeeessss!!!!

I love fishing.

Amazing fact for someone whose experience of catching fish is buying them at the grocery. I never caught a fish in my life and that's not because of lack of attempts. I last tried to do this almost 14 years ago at El Nido. Everyone around me were catching fish while I did not have even a nibble.

Let me expound on that further though.

Maybe it's not fishing that I love but the visceral images of catching fish and preparing them for a meal--yes, including the part of cleaning and chopping them out.

In our younger days, my siblings and I would spend summers over at our grandparents at Tanauan. Since the house was just a stone throw's away from the market, my aunts would go to the palengke to buy fresh meat and seafood almost daily. I would tag along either to bug them to buy ampaw or the latest Aliwan or Funny comics (Abangan!). Of course, that would mean going into the wet market.

It was an interesting but not unwelcome experience when we would buy dalag or hito. The vendor would kill the fish in front of us and the blood won't faze me (ok, I guess it's no wonder that I can stand watching OCN shows).

So to end this long post, here's a channel that I became interested in lately. Prior to this, the fishing channel that I regularly follow was Deer Meat for Dinner (don't ask how that became a fishing channel). This one just popped in my suggested feed and not only is the host a cutie, but the sea life that he catches and how he eviscerates them caught my fancy (that's it. I must be a shark in my previous life seeing how much I love seeing fish. Oh wait, I think "whale" is more applicable). :)