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Fishing in rivers, pools and small streams is 
much indulged in and many methods are employed. 
The cast-net is very popular and many kinds of in- 
genious traps are to be found. Fish are also caught 
by stretching a rope, to which white streamers are 
attached, across a river and dragging it down-stream 
towards the entrance of a large trap. Fishing rods, 
too, are used and rough reels are often attached 
to them. Various forms of rod-fishing are found, 
including spinning and a sort of fly-fishing with a 
live grasshopper or other insect. Night lines, some- 
times baited with small fry, sometimes with fruits, 
are a favourite method of catching large fish. Night 
lines may, or may not, be attached to rods the butts 
of which are driven into the river bank. 
The draining of small ponds, the damming of 
small streams, and drawing off the water from the 
rice fields, are all methods used for catching fish, 
and a vegetable fish poison is also employed, the 
roots of the plant which produces it being pounded 
up with water and the resultant fluid turned into 
a stream. 
Except where fishing is undertaken on a com- 
mercial scale, it is a spare-time employment, or a 
profitable amusement, in which the Malay will 
indulge when the padi does not need his attention, 
or in the slack season between harvest and planting. 
Hunting and trapping, except in the case of a 
few professionals, also come under the^ame heading 
of spare-time employments, and here again the 
traps show great ingenuity in their construction. 
Snares, nooses, pit-traps, spring-traps armed with 
spears, are all used with effect for mammals, while 
bird-lime and decoys are among the favourite 
methods of taking birds. 
