16-05-2009, 05:12 PM
Awesome! That was a great help. I am learning to bargain hard where I am in Cheng Du. I bought some fishing gear yesterday but it was all freshwater stuff. I got a 5 metre fishing pole (which is a zoomable one that you can set to 4, 4.5 or 5 metres long. I am hoping I can use it for garfish back home. And I bought some nifty floats that I have not seen back home. They are like sets of 5 little floats in a row. And as the fish pulls you see the row of floats slowly disappear under the water. I think they are pretty neat. Also I bought an extendible fishing net which has a nice folding mechanism so it packs up pretty small. All up I spent 400 rmb so that is about 80 bucks AUS. (current exchange rate is 5.1 which is not too bad). The starting price was around 600 rmb. Maybe they are cheaper in hong kong. If so I might buy another fishing pole! I still have to learn how to attach the line etc to the end. I will upload some photos in the China thread of the type of fishing pole i am talking about.
Cheers, Glen
Cheers, Glen