Chapter 3 Fat mandarin fish
If you go out carrying a bucket full of loaches, you will be lucky tonight. The moonlight is so bright that you won’t be unable to see your fingers.
To fish, you need to find a very good fishing spot.
Zhang Ze used a stick tied with nylon thread to pat the grassy areas from time to time to prevent snakes hiding in them from sneak attacks.
Soon, he came to the northeast of the village.
This place is located upstream, and there are many gaps between aquatic plants and rocks. It is a preferred habitat for fish, and the probability of fish taking the bait is naturally better than in an open location.
After finding the fishing spot, Zhang Ze directly picked up the loach and threw it into the water to make a nest.
A live loach will run part of the way, and this part of the running will cause fluctuations in the water flow, which can attract various predatory fish to eat, so it is worth wasting some.
In fact, Zhang Ze also has a way to prevent the loaches from running away. He only needs to soak them in white wine for ten minutes in advance. The drunk loaches will obediently stay in place and stop running away.
But for his family, soaking loaches in white wine to make nests is obviously a luxury.
Nowadays, the fields are full of loaches. Catching a handful of them is worthless, and they don’t feel bad if they escape from their nests. There is no need to say more about what to choose.
Later, Zhang Ze put on a pair of worn-out gloves from home. There was even a big hole in the gloves.
But the loach was too slippery, and it was not easy to cut his hands when pulling the nylon thread with gloves, so he made do with it.
Grab a loach and put a fishhook through its back. This will keep the loach alive for a short period of time and prevent it from dying so quickly.
Then he picked up a small stone and tied it to a nylon line to use as a lead sinker. After tying it, he threw the hook bait at the position where he just made the nest.
The coquettish swimming style of the loach in the water has long attracted the attention of some predators. In future generations, even if the loach makes a nest, it will have to wait until there are fish.
But what time is it now? It is an era when all kinds of water resources are extremely exaggerated, and this time is exactly the time when fish come out to look for food.
No, the small stone sank into the water with the loach. After a short while, a strong pull came from the nylon rope on Zhang Ze's index finger.
"I'm going to be so fierce?"
A strong force came, and the nylon line jumped straight instantly. It was obvious that the fish in the water was eating hard and was a ruthless fish.
The fish swims back and forth in the water, and the nylon line swings back and forth to follow the fish.
After feeling it for a while, Zhang Ze had an idea in his mind.
The size of the fish was okay, but he thought he could just pull it back.
So he grabbed the nylon line with both hands and started to pull it back. In just a short while, the fish was pulled to the surface of the water, flapping its tail and struggling non-stop, making a splashing sound.
Another ten seconds passed and the fish was pulled to the shore by him. He clamped the fish tightly in its mouth with the pliers he used to clamp the fishhook today and lifted it up.
If you are targeting big fish, it is very necessary to have something similar to a fish controller.
Lift it directly with a rope, and the fish may be detached as soon as it flicks its tail.
I have suffered losses many times and watched helplessly as the fish broke free from the hook and ran away, causing me to have trouble sleeping. This is a lesson learned through blood and tears.
The fish is not very big, probably between one and a half to two pounds.
It just didn't seem right. Zhang Ze took a closer look under the moonlight and was shocked when he saw the fish's appearance clearly.
The fish has a sharp head, stripes on its body, and thick and sharp fins on its back. This is actually a mandarin fish.
Are there mandarin fish in this river?
Zhang Ze really doesn't know much about it. He used to do farm work and farm work and was not a fisherman.
After I left my hometown and went out to work hard, I gradually fell in love with fishing, and I never came back.
I didn’t expect to come fishing today and gave myself a big surprise.
Since ancient times, mandarin fish has been a precious freshwater fish unique to my country. Egrets fly in front of Xisai Mountain, and mandarin fish are fat in peach blossoms and flowing water.
The meat of mandarin fish is delicious and has no thorns. Steaming requires no oil and has no fishy smell.
If the fish is fat, it can also produce some oil and water. Oil and water are what people in this era need most, and they are deeply loved by everyone.
For such a famous fish, our country has already begun researching artificial breeding technology in the 1970s.
However, it was not until the mid-1980s that pilot mandarin fish farming began in the south.
In this day and age, everything is wild and natural, and there are no protected animals. It is really very friendly to a fisherman like him.
Mandarin fish like to hide in stone crevices and aquatic plants. Today there are many aquatic plants and stone crevices in this location. It is indeed their favorite habitat. It is not surprising to catch them.
The motivation is here!
Originally, Zhang Ze wanted to catch some grass carp and sell it on the black market, and then buy some seasonings to go home and cook a grilled fish dish for his family.
Now that mandarin fish is available, it is naturally a better choice.
If grass carp can be sold for 50 or 60 cents per catty, then the retail price of mandarin fish should be around 80 cents to one yuan.
Zhang Ze knows the prices of most freshwater fish and seafood in this era, but he really doesn't know much about mandarin fish.
He still had to go to the market to find out the specific price.
As my heart moved, the mandarin fish in my hand suddenly disappeared and appeared in the fishing space.
At the same time, the fishing space in my mind also gave a message.
[Successfully caught a mandarin fish with a cocked mouth, weighing 1.83 kilograms, experience 7.]
Hey, it can also directly give the weight of the fish, so doesn’t he even need a scale?
Zhang Ze was a little surprised. He didn't expect that there was such a function. It would be much more convenient for him to sell fish in the future.
And if one fish has seven points of experience, then it only takes a dozen fishing spaces to upgrade, and it seems that upgrading is not very difficult.
Then Zhang Ze wasted no time and quickly hung up the loach and continued fishing.
This time the hook was faster, and it was another mandarin fish weighing more than two kilograms. It was obvious that he had come to the mandarin fish nest.
For the next hour, he could catch a mandarin fish basically every five or six minutes, and he didn't catch any stray fish.
The mandarin fish is very ferocious, and in the place where it is located, other fish would not dare to come and snatch its food.
Of course ferocious fish like snakeheads dare to snatch food, but there is a nest of mandarin fish in this water area, and even the snakeheads have to be timid.
In this hour, Zhang Ze's fishing space already had eleven mandarin fish weighing between two and five kilograms swimming in the small space. It was estimated to be over twenty-five kilograms.
In fact, one cubic meter of space is not bad. The largest fish box Zhang Ze ever bought was one hundred and twenty liters.
The length is 105 cm, the height is 47.5 cm, and the width is 44 cm.
Normally, if it is filled with fish, it can hold almost one hundred kilograms including the ice cubes.
One cubic meter is equivalent to one thousand liters, which can theoretically hold about one thousand kilograms of fish.
However, these units cannot be converted and there are certain errors.
In other words, the fishing space is special enough to raise fish, otherwise the fish would probably die of lack of oxygen inside.
The current experience value has reached seventy-seven, and four more mandarin fish can be upgraded.
It was still early and Zhang Ze had no reason to go back.
I hooked up the loach again and threw it into the water, but this time no fish took the bait after waiting for a long time.
He had already noticed it when he was fishing just now, and the time interval between each time he was hooked was getting longer and longer.
It should be that the loach has been almost eaten, and the effect of making a nest has been lost.
So he took off his gloves and continued to pick up the loaches to make their nests. Then he washed his hands and put on his gloves and continued fishing.
This time, after waiting for a while, suddenly, a huge pulling force came. Zhang Ze didn't pay attention, and the nylon thread almost came out.
Chapter completed!