This is Dzhidzha’s story: I did not go fishing myself, but my mother did. During World War Two people used nets for fishing. They stretched their nets and left them until they were filled with fish. In a place called Shonkhrakhn, where I lived with my maternal grandmother, people used a long net with a bunt in the middle, through which fish enter. People used boats to pull their nets out of water. Sometimes they pulled their nets by hand while standing at the opposite banks of the river. There were plenty of fish back then. When fishing with a rod, people made various baits, including one made from dough mixed with a piece of meat. I will recount you a story about my relative. When he came home from the army in 1948, the excited locals invited him into a house where they offered him boiled turtles. He could not even touch it. ‘How could I eat such creatures!’, he would laugh while telling this story.