Young men fishing from single poles in the shallows off the south coast of Ceylon. Each man is using a thin pole with a line tied to the end as his fishing rod and the pole he is standing on is a thin branch of a tree. This practice is also known as stilt fishing and is a method of fishing unique to the southern coast of Ceylon. The vertical pole is driven into the sand a few meters offshore and, from this high position, the fishermen casts his line and waits until a fish comes along to be caught. Although the approach looks primitive and ancient, stilt fishing is actually a recent tradition which started during World War II.