Ye Yaodong turned his head and was about to go home, but A Zheng was pulled, "What's the hurry! Can't we know that the water level has risen? It's a short story. He went to the rice fields to check the drainage yesterday and saw many newly-drawn eel holes on the rice fields on the ridge ditch. It was probably because the rice fields were flooded, and it found the holes again. He thought that the typhoon had just passed, and everyone's house must be busy cleaning up, so he came to call us until the sun was not so strong."

"This is almost the same. Have you brought both the hook and the earthworm?"

"I brought it with you, do you still need to say?"

"Then you wait for me, I'll change my rain boots and get a bucket."

He hasn't caught eels for decades, so he is quite interested, and he only has this kind of hobby of the country people.

After coming out, he looked at Xiaoxiao curiously again, "Did you have too many fish in the rice fields yesterday?"

"It's okay, crucian carp, carp, and grass carp. The grass carp is quite big, and the other fish are very small. I don't know where to swim. Do you want it? If you want it, go to my house to get it. It's so unpalatable. I don't know why my father took it home?"

Everyone shook their heads. At this time, the people at the beach didn't like to eat freshwater fish very much, and they felt that the earthy smell was too strong!

Only Ye Yaodong said bluntly: "You don't want me. I'll go to your house to get grass carp and crucian carp later, and I won't want carp."

He doesn't like to eat carp, he likes to eat braised crucian carp and tofu soup, and braised grass carp is also good.

Yesterday, his elder brother and second brother went to the field for inspection and did not say that he would catch some fish. He probably thought it was small, and he was used to eating sea fish and thought it was not delicious.

The group walked slowly to the road and then towards Dongqiao Village. The fields of the villagers were at the intersection with Dongshan Village.

The transplanting of rice seedlings has not started in early July, and the fields are empty, and the late rice will not start transplanting in mid-to-late July.

Walking in the dirty fields, Ye Yaodong looked at the mud on his feet, fortunately he was wearing rain boots.

In fact, it is best to catch eels in May. At that time, the climate becomes warmer and the water temperature rises. Eels drill out of the mud holes that have been overwintering and gather in relatively spacious shallow waters such as fields, ponds, and ditches to find bait and fatten. At this time, the appetite is strong, which is the best season for fishing.

Xiaoxiao put down the bucket, "You can take the fishing rod and earthworms yourself. If there are empty bottles in the bucket, pour a little earthworms on each one, and each person will share some."

Their fishing rod is very simple, just make it by yourself, with a small wooden stick tied with a thread and a fish hook. Although it is very simple, it can still be used multiple times.

Ye Yaodong took the small wooden sticks in their bucket and the jar containing earthworms. He put the earthworms on the hook at the end of the bamboo stick. The earthworms did not reveal the hook tips, and the others also put them on and started looking for them.

"Each one has taken action."

"The old rules, it depends on who catches more in the competition, and the least one will drink and wash dishes next time!"

Oh, it turns out that there is still such a rule, and he almost forgot about it.

When eels are in the water, they usually make holes in soft mud or caves in natural mud or stone caves. Therefore, you must first find eel caves when fishing for eels.

However, not all eels have ventilation holes, because not only are eels but also earthworms and insects living in the soil. The holes between them are interconnected and can be borrowed from neighbors' ventilation. They may not necessarily leave the hole in the same place when they eat at night.

Sometimes it is blocked by a piece of grass, or the water is not clear enough, and there are many small floating lotus.

However, there must be eel holes on the mud shore. At this time, you have to rely on your fingers to find them. Use your index finger or middle finger to insert all your fingers at an angle of 30 degrees to 45 degrees on the shore between 5 to 10 cm from the water.

I felt that it suddenly became empty inside. I could see water when I took my fingers away. The internal space was very large. You could dig it open to fish, which means that I found the eel nest. Sometimes there would be bubbles on it. If there were bubbles, then this was the legendary Huzai Cave, which was the eel cave that hugged the nest.

There are also holes that can be identified by the naked eye. You can see them if you look carefully within an area of ​​8 cm above the waterline.

Ye Yaodong had just walked a few steps and saw multiple round and smooth holes around the mud bank under his feet, probably the size of his thumb. He was about to put it in the hole when he heard Xiaoxiao shouting, "I caught one!"

"Oh? It's quite big, it looks like it's half a pound!"

Awei also said happily: "I caught one too! It seems a little small."

"I have caught it too!"

When everyone was getting something, Ye Yaodong was not in a hurry. He hooked the tip of the cave and fished for a while. He clearly saw the water in the cave in and out, and he also heard the sound of "pa" sound.

Take the bait!

He caught a very large eel with about seven taels of light, and it looked very thick.

At this time, wild eels generally look more than two or three ounces in size. Eels reaching 4 ounces are rare. This one is really huge.

Decades later, with the pollution and destruction of the environment by people's production and life, fewer and fewer wild eels in rural fields, and such large ones are usually cultivated.

He was lucky. He caught such a big strip the first time he caught. Ye Yaodong was instantly full of passion. He put it in the bucket, continued to bait, and replaced the next hole.

At this time, there were many eels in the fields, which were easy to fish, and it was basically not difficult to catch. Moreover, many holes on the ridge ditch shore were newly harvested, and some had traces left by eels foraging, which was easy to identify.

After only two fishing, Ye Yaodong saw two eel caves (eels that lay eggs) because there was foam at the entrance.

He didn't put down the bait to fish, because the eels caught fishing the eel roe in the back hole, or the newly hatched small eels would all die after a period of time.

Is it sustainable?

Why bother to exonerate children?

In the future, there will be fewer and fewer wild eels!

He slowly moved his position, and there were more and more eels in the bucket, both big and small. The largest one belonged to him, and the small one was two or three taels.

After using up the earthworms in the jar, he straightened his back and stretched his back, and the sun was about to set.

He shouted to several friends who were squatting or standing not far away: "Hey, the sun is setting, I'm done and I'm going home for dinner!"

"The last two earthworms are here, let me finish fishing!"

A Guang shouted and continued to squat down. No matter whether the others had finished fishing or not, they walked out.

"How many have you caught?"

“15!”

“16!”

“13!”

"Oh~ you wash dishes! I have 18!"

"It's true, I'll look... It seems that there are more than us. If I had known it, I would have taken two more earthworms!" A Zheng sighed.

"Don't worry, A Guang is not going to be cured." Ah Zheng shouted to A Guang who was standing up in the distance, "A Guang, how many have you caught?"

“These two have caught 16!”

"Okay, I'll wash dishes next time."

I am willing to accept the loss!

"Hurry up, go home for dinner quickly. I'm hungry and just take it back and put it in the pot to stew."

This bucket is 5-6 kilograms. Ye Yaodong silently counted the heads in his heart. There were 17 people in his family, just enough for one person to one, and there was one more left.


Chapter completed!