Have you ever tried fishing? Me and my friends wanted to try how it felt to be the ones catching the fish we would be eating. That's when we decided to visit D'Pond in Yati, Liloan. You need to look for a sign at the side of the road for D'Pond. You then need to ride a tricycle going to the exact location of the pond.
Once you get there, you need to inform the people in charge if you will be renting a cottage and what type of cottage. There are cottages that float and some are just at the side. There's no entrance fee at D'Pond, which is nice. You then need to pay for the improvised fishing rods (Php10 each I think) and the fish feeds to lure the fishes.
The place was peaceful since there were only a few people there on that day. It's a good way to spend a weekend afternoon if you want to be away from the city and reflect.
Catching the fish was just quite easy once you throw the feeds. But getting them out of the water is quite tricky, but fun. It was fun at first until I noticed that the fishes don't die immediately once they are out of the water and placed in the provided container. It was like watching them die in a slow, painful death. I may be overreacting to this, but I just really pity them. Because of that, we just caught one fish each. Another reason was that one kilo of bangus would cost us around Php300+ so we made sure to just catch as few fishes as possible. Aside from this, D'Pond stated in their rules that once you catch a fish, you should never throw them back again in the water since this will just eventually lead to their death and contaminate the water.
You can actually let the staff cook your fish but you need to pay them. We just decided to bring home the fishes and just order some other food. We ordered talaba and bangus sisig. Their food was good that's why we ordered a second set of the talaba.
One thing I liked about D'Pond is that they take a picture of their guests and print a copy with their logo for free. If you request for another copy, that's when you pay Php50 per copy. They also post the soft copy at their Facebook fan page, which is quite cool. It's like another version of a photobooth.
If you are quite bored of fishing, they also have videoke and zipline there too but we didn't try them out since we just went there for the fishing experience.
After visiting D'Pond, we then decided to go to a public beach just to get a glimpse of the sea. That's when the staff directed us to Wiggy's. We just saw the usual things you see in a public beach: families swimming in the beach, lovers, drunk men singing in videoke machines. That was until we saw two men in the sea walking towards the shore holding a big piece of fishnet. It was like a manual kind of fishing. We can't help but be curious and approach them when they reached the shore. Other people approached them too.
We saw that they've caught small fishes in their net. We asked them if they were going to sell the fishes. They said no and would just eat the fishes for dinner. Having lived in the city since I was young, I can't help but be amazed at actually seeing how they obtain their food and at their simple lifestyle. Made me think of how the Filipinos in the past used to live. It must have been interesting.
It was indeed an experience to remember: having planned to go fishing using improvised fishing rods at a pond and accidentally finding another version of fishing at a public beach. It was an interesting day. :)
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