Top view of fishermen celebrating the traditional

Pabna - Rajshahi Division - Bangladesh

Fishing festival is one of the old traditional festival in Bangladesh. Hundreds of villagers, fishermen take part in this festival spontaneously with a bamboo made fishing tools, in knee-deep water forgetting their woes of the summer and cheering with their mates when they trap fishes with their trap. Fish festival usually takes place in late winter as the water of the low land area began to dry up and the farmlands aren't prepared yet to harvest new crops at the riverine regions of the country. So people of all ages, sitting idle at home or yearning for an adventure, participates in the festival while hundreds of others enjoyed the event. Local people are catching lot of different types of fish in pond, bill, lake etc.