Pyeongchang Trout Festival
Pyeongchang in Gangwon-do Province is host city of the Winter Olympic Games. Prior to the international event, the city organized the Pyeongchang Trout Festival to make the winter truly unforgettable.
Let’s take a glimpse of the festival to enjoy the seasonal beauty.
Pyeongchang is one of the coldest and snowiest areas in Korea. Because of the cold weather, all the rivers freeze to a thickness of up to 30cm or 12 inches every winter. The trout festival takes place on a 25,000㎡(square meter) frozen part of Odaecheon Stream in the city.
"This festival provides many fun winter activities, including open-ice fishing, tent fishing, and barehanded fishing, which is the most popular activity that takes place twice a day. It also has various programs for children, so the entire family can enjoy quality time. "
Offering the unusual experience of ice fishing, this festival draws over 50,000 visitors from all across the country every year.
The first step to catching trout is to make a hole in the ice. Then drop a baited line below the ice hole. There are some special tips for trout fishing.
"Fishing requires patience. While waiting, we have to jerk the bait to give fish the impression that it’s alive. That way, everyone can catch trout."
Fishing is all about waiting... and more waiting. The anglers are waiting for their trout in all different ways.
"I’m lying down here to see trout swimming through the hole. It’s very interesting."
After gently holding the rod in the cold weather for a while...They get trout they’ve long been anticipating. Trout are a cold-water fish that live only in the cleanest water with a translucent quality. Since trout fishing is relatively easy, children can also enjoy fishing.
"It's a cool experience to come out here, and enjoy something that I really don't get to do anywhere else. So I think it's pretty cool."
"I'm really excited to be here, excited to catch some fish,...and participate in Korean culture."
The whole family can engage in this ultimate winter festival, making treasured memories together.
"I’d like to catch as many trout as possible, but I’m happy regardless as my children are having fun here. "
"Cause I get to bring my daughters with me and my father, so it make this is into a family event...so I think it's a lot of fun."
The festival organizers stock the stream with trout every 20 to 30 minutes to enable the visitors to catch as many trout as possible.
"We release about 4 tons of trout every day, which is about 14 to 15 thousand."
Pyeongchang is the first city in Korea to develop trout farming back in 1965, and now it's the biggest producer of the fish in the country. The trout at the festival were also raised in Pyeongchang.
Fishing is not the only way to catch trout at this festival. Visitors can also get them with bare hands through the noodling event. To participate in the event, visitors have to wear shorts and t-shirts in the sub-zero weather. Then they ha
Let’s take a glimpse of the festival to enjoy the seasonal beauty.
Pyeongchang is one of the coldest and snowiest areas in Korea. Because of the cold weather, all the rivers freeze to a thickness of up to 30cm or 12 inches every winter. The trout festival takes place on a 25,000㎡(square meter) frozen part of Odaecheon Stream in the city.
"This festival provides many fun winter activities, including open-ice fishing, tent fishing, and barehanded fishing, which is the most popular activity that takes place twice a day. It also has various programs for children, so the entire family can enjoy quality time. "
Offering the unusual experience of ice fishing, this festival draws over 50,000 visitors from all across the country every year.
The first step to catching trout is to make a hole in the ice. Then drop a baited line below the ice hole. There are some special tips for trout fishing.
"Fishing requires patience. While waiting, we have to jerk the bait to give fish the impression that it’s alive. That way, everyone can catch trout."
Fishing is all about waiting... and more waiting. The anglers are waiting for their trout in all different ways.
"I’m lying down here to see trout swimming through the hole. It’s very interesting."
After gently holding the rod in the cold weather for a while...They get trout they’ve long been anticipating. Trout are a cold-water fish that live only in the cleanest water with a translucent quality. Since trout fishing is relatively easy, children can also enjoy fishing.
"It's a cool experience to come out here, and enjoy something that I really don't get to do anywhere else. So I think it's pretty cool."
"I'm really excited to be here, excited to catch some fish,...and participate in Korean culture."
The whole family can engage in this ultimate winter festival, making treasured memories together.
"I’d like to catch as many trout as possible, but I’m happy regardless as my children are having fun here. "
"Cause I get to bring my daughters with me and my father, so it make this is into a family event...so I think it's a lot of fun."
The festival organizers stock the stream with trout every 20 to 30 minutes to enable the visitors to catch as many trout as possible.
"We release about 4 tons of trout every day, which is about 14 to 15 thousand."
Pyeongchang is the first city in Korea to develop trout farming back in 1965, and now it's the biggest producer of the fish in the country. The trout at the festival were also raised in Pyeongchang.
Fishing is not the only way to catch trout at this festival. Visitors can also get them with bare hands through the noodling event. To participate in the event, visitors have to wear shorts and t-shirts in the sub-zero weather. Then they ha
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