So last year, been telling my sisters jokingly about a pool of water accumulating beside our storey house. My idea was that the pool is an upcoming Lake, but my point aimed to that the pool contains fish.
No one believed me. Because ,the sort of swamp is beside a road and looks shallow,and dirty brownish. Well guess what,just the other day, some local skilled fishermen got more than 20 big mud fish. Worry not I have pictures.
So last year, been telling my sister’s jokingly about a pool of water accumulating beside of out storey house. My idea was that the pool is an upcoming Lake, but my point aimed to that the pool contains fish.
No one believed me. Because ,the sort of swamp is beside a road and looks shallow,and dirty brownish. Well guess what,just the other day, some local skilled fishermen got more than 20 big mud fish. Worry not I have pictures.
It’s amazing right. I mean, a guy from nowhere ,with a trap fishing technique that apparently from locals,he made it on spot.
So I had to dig up, old science of geography from high school. How do you know a water body no matter how small it is,has fish life. Ok so birds ,swampy vegetation ,greeny plant life floating and bubbles floating time and again.
In this case, these were mud fish,very unique. How did they get here:
1- They were already there burried under the mud .Fishy right because little ones been playing sand soccer at the exact pool location when it gets dry. All in all, mud fish are known to burrow deep enough, and wait long enough for water to come by perhaps by rain. Almost half of last year, the pool was dry.
2- Mud fish were carried here in a rainy season. Oh by the way, this location is some place in Thika,Kenya. Thika has many small rivers which break up into smaller streams when water becomes too much. That must be how this fish got here.
3- Thirdly, that birds usually carry scales ,fish or fish eggs that get attached to their legs when they move from one water body to another. So a fish,fish eggs or several may have fallen from a birds grip and fell in our little lake.Pretty solid explanation.
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