KRK

Na Jadranu se lovi
svim poznatim alatima,
na`alost ponekad i nedopu{tenim
sredstvima. Ti
nisi mogao ribarit gdje
ho}e{ i kad ho}e{, ve}
samo na svojoj po{ti
prema `drijebom izvu~enom
rasporedu. Ako je
netko lovio na tu|oj po{ti
morao je dati pola ulova
onome ~ija je to bila po-
{ta toga dana. A danas,
kako i gdje love? Ribu
lako otkriju uz sva ta
~uda od tehnike i elektronike,
ne moraju vi{e
poput nas strpljivo ~ekati
i Petrovu i Velu Gospu i
mrak. U moje vrijeme se
govorilo “sveti Marko
gori sve lokarde polovi”.
Na lokarde se i{lo u
mjesecu svibnju i lipnju,
u{ate se lovilo od lipnja
do konca rujna. Kolovoz i
rujan doba je za kanje.
Od Miholje do korizme
najbolja je doba za
ugore, a love se na crva s
kraja, obi~ne gujavice u
no}i kad je tamno. Ako
Ribari u kr~koj luci
Fishermen in the port of Krk
grmi i sijeva ugor ne grize. A lovrata? To ti je
najlukaviji vrag! Ne}e zagristi ako te vidi, mora{ se
sakriti, legnuti, a zubatac kad je pun sjemena legne na
tlo i ne mi~e se. Od zagoznice nije bilo koristi sve do
Petrove, sve dok se ne isprazni. Za zubaca najbolja je
je{ka mali mrka~. U mar~u i aprilu lovile su se nekada
sipe na sipac. A zna{ za{to? U to vrijeme, u no}i osvjetljenoj
od `utog u{tapa sipe imaju nagon da se
oplo|uju na mjese~ini. U svijetloj proljetnoj no}i mi bi
iza{li barkom, jedan bi veslao a drugi je po moru
vukao sipac. Sipac ti je od smokvina drva izra|en
ovalni model u obliku sipine kosti s umetnutim o~ima
od puceta ili komadi}a stakla i i{aran urezanim
rova{ima, ispunjenim bijelim vapnenim inkrustom
tako da sli~i na tajanstvenu sipu. Pod mjese~evim
svjetlom na sipcu vu~enom po povr{ini mora titrale bi
svijetle {are, a razdra`eni mu{karci puni sjemena u
omami zalijetali bi se na njega misle}i da je ona i u
tom trenutku trebalo je munjevito reagirati i brzo
zahvatiti sakom sipu i sipca. E tako ti se nekada lovilo,
nije bilo svih tih dana{njih ~udesa.”
Praskozorje, `ari se nebo i prve zrake jutarnjeg
sunca zlate zvonik i ribarske brodove u kr~koj luci.
Zadivljen promatram kameni kompleks kr~ke katedrale
umiven zrakama izlaze}eg sunca. Skladan odnos
~ovjeka i kamena stvorio je plemenito zdanje, ~udesno
djelo sabranosti, smirenosti i zanosa. Tu je ~ovjek
surovom i sirovom kamenu podario oblik i sklad,
sadr`aj i `ivot, a kamen i stolje}a danas govore i
mnogi im ~uju glas.
whomever the hide
belonged. And today,
how and where do they
fish? They can easily spot
the fish with all those
miracles of technology
and electronics. They no
longer have patiently to
wait for St. Peter’s Day
and the Feast of the Virgin
Mary and the darkness.
In my time, the people
used to say: ‘St.
Mark is burning, catching
all the mackerel.” The
time for catching the
mackerel were the
months of May and
June. The black-tailed
sea breams were caught
from June until late September.
August and September
were when the
combers were caught. The
time between Michaelmas
and Lent was the
best for eels which were
caught with a worm
from the mainland, the
simplest earthworm on a
dark night. During thundering
and lightning, the
eel will not bite. Then there is the gilthead. It is the
most cunning devil. It will not bite if it can see you, so
you must hide and lay down. When the dentex is full
of semen, it will lie on the bottom and it will not
move. The seine net was of no use until St. Peter’s Day
when it discharged itself. The best bait for the dentex
is a small musk octopus.
In March and April, the cuttlefish were caught
with a sipac, the mock cuttlefish. You know why? At
that time, during the night illuminated by the yellow
full moon, the cuttlefish have the urge to mate in the
moonlight. In the lit spring night we would go in a
boat. One would row and the other would drag the
mock cuttlefish in the sea. Sipac is an oval model
made of fig wood and shaped as the cuttlebone with
inserted eyes made of buttons or pieces of glass and
variegated with chiseled tallies filled with white lime
incrustations so that it resembled the mysterious cuttlefish.
In the moonlight, the ornaments would twinkle
on the mock cuttlefish dragged on the surface, and
the amorous males full of semen would rush into it
thinking it was a female. In that moment we had to
react fast and quickly cup the cuttlefish with the
hand. That’s how fishing used to be done, when there
were no such wonders as there are today.”
It is dawn, the skies are turning incandescent and
the first rays of the morning sun gild the bell tower
and the fishing boats in the port of Krk. Amazed, I
contemplate the stone complex of the Krk cathedral
bathing in the rays of the rising sun.
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