Chapter 132: Night fishing! The hooked fish is quiet!
Zhao Dahai walked to the edge of the mangrove and had to go around the place where blood eels were dug. The tide receded a few meters but not enough. After waiting for half an hour, it retreated further and exposed the tidal flat. He carried a hoe and a small basket into the sea.
, as soon as I stepped into the sea water, a group of small fish were startled. They were not big, only small whitebait the size of small chopsticks. Don’t look at it as inconspicuous and worthless. Dry it in the sun and fry it in oil. It will be fragrant. You can’t catch it without a fishing net. Keep going.
Walking forward in the water, when my feet stepped into the sea mud, something hard hit my feet. I bent down and stretched my hands into the mud along my feet to dig out a clam half the size of a fist.
"Ha!"
"Is there such a good thing?"
Zhao Dahai straightened up and looked forward. The place where he could dig blood eels had to be two hundred meters away from him. The sea water was probably waist deep and it would be difficult to pass through it. He had nothing to do but dig some clams to pass the time and have food for dinner.
. Clams are very common on the beach and can be found on tidal flats and other places. Generally speaking, when you find one, there will be several around it, sometimes there is one.
Zhao Dahai bent down, with the place where he was standing as the center. He inserted his hand into the sea mud, one palm deep, and pulled the circle from the inside out. As expected, he dug out a dozen large and small ones from half a meter away. He walked a few steps forward.
Step by step, I followed the same pattern, and in less than half an hour, dozens of clams weighed four or five kilograms together. There were many around. I brought an iron rake and used my strength. Maybe I could get one or two hundred kilograms in half a day. However, clams are not worth digging so much.
I had enough food for the evening. I washed it and put it in a mesh bag. I picked up clams on one end of my hoe and a bamboo basket on the other. The tide had receded far enough at this time, and the place where the blood eels were dug was exposed. I strode over there.
,Business matters.
Zhao Dahai bypassed the mangroves and reached a place protruding into the sea. The vast expanse in front of him was covered with tidal flats, a mixture of sea mud, sand and small rocks. This is the environment where blood eels like to grow. There is plenty of food and good water quality.
The quality is very high, which is the key to the famous blood eels in Langtou Village.
Zhao Dahai walked forward slowly. Don't be in a hurry when digging for blood eels. First, you have to find the entrance of the hole to find an eye. Second, walking too fast will alert the blood eels to drill down. It is very difficult to dig out. The tidal flats at low tide are densely covered with various
There are all kinds of holes, big and small, for crabs, jumping fish or other small animals. Blood eels are just one of many creatures that can dig holes. Inexperienced people can't tell which one is a blood eel.
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Zhao Dahai squinted his eyes and looked at the tidal flat carefully, looking for blood eel holes. Children who grew up in fishing villages are not short of this skill. His father is also a master at digging for blood eels. He started rolling on the tidal flat with his back when he was five or six years old.
You don’t need to learn anything to learn it, and it doesn’t take long to find one.
Could it be that no one has dug up blood eels recently?
Zhao Dahai looked at a blood eel hole one meter away. If you look carefully, you can even see a few strands of mucus at the entrance of the hole. This is a very obvious feature of blood eel holes. Digging blood eels is indeed hard and not easy, but the price is high.
If there are more people, the number will be smaller and the hole will be difficult to find. I found one immediately after I walked a few steps. This can only mean that there are fewer people digging recently, especially this year, at least for the past month or two.
Zhao Dahai was a little excited. If his guess was correct, it would be a good thing. If there were fewer people digging, there would be more blood eels and they would be bigger.
Zhao Dahai carefully looked around the entrance of the blood eel cave, pondered for a while the direction of the blood eel cave in the mud, and then chose a direction before walking over.
Why are blood eels so difficult to dig?
One is sea mud and sand plus small rocks. It is easy to dig it down with a hoe, but the sea mud will absorb the hoe and it is not easy to pick it up. If it is sand and small rocks, the hoe will bounce up with a "bang" sound and it will not be dug down.
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The other is the Blood Eel Cave. You need to dig several square meters of holes under the tidal flat and the depth can be up to one meter. Once you are frightened, you will drill into the deepest part. If you want to dig it out, you may have to dig a hole with an area of four to five square meters and a depth of one meter.
A big pit of rice. This is not something that can be done with a hoe. In other words, if there are not many people to dig such a pit, it will be abandoned.
Zhao Dahai approached lightly and took a closer look. He was sure it was a blood eel eye. The mucus was very obvious. He slowly dug a few times with the hoe in his hand. He couldn't dig straight down with force. If he did it like this, he would get a blood eel eye.
After dredging up the sea mud and blocking it with sea water, I couldn't find it. I gently dug out the sea mud, and a larger and more obvious hole appeared, about the size of a toe.
Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry and was very patient. The hoe in his hand became lighter and he continued to dig out the sea mud layer by layer along the blood eel hole. After more than twenty strokes, as soon as he picked up the hoe, he suddenly saw something in the hole.
Things flash by.
Coming!
Zhao Dahai perked up and quickly dug the hoe along the blood eel hole five or six times in one breath. The last piece of the hoe dug out contained something with its tail wagging wildly in the sea mud.
"Ha!"
"I can't run away now!"
Zhao Dahai was very happy. He put down the hoe, bent down, and clasped the blood eel with his middle finger in front and the remaining fingers in a T-shape at the back. He washed it in the small puddle next to it and revealed his true appearance. He was really good-looking, thirty centimeters long.
It is about the size of the middle finger, must be one centimeter in diameter, very fat, round, and weighs two or three taels. According to the price Liu Gang quoted, it can be obtained for forty or fifty yuan.
Zhao Dahai took out the plastic bag, put the blood eel in it, rolled it up and put it in the bamboo basket. The blood eel cannot be put in the mesh bag, let alone the bamboo basket directly. Once dried like this, it will not take long for the mucus on the blood eel to dry out.
Dry it to death and put it in an impermeable plastic bag. No need to soak it in water. It can live for a long time if it is kept moist.
Zhao Dahai continued to walk forward with the hoe. Don't be in a hurry when digging for blood eels. The important thing is persistence and slowness. After walking a few meters, he found a blood eel hole. This hole was relatively shallow. It didn't take much effort. Five or six hoe
Just dig it out.
What's going on?
Are there so many blood eels?
It’s been a really long time since anyone dug it?
Or is it another reason?
Zhao Dahai stood with his hand on the hoe, his brows knitted into a knot. In less than half an hour, he dug up seven or eight blood eels. The largest one was three taels and the smallest one was one tael. People who don't know better may think this is not right.
Strange, in fact, it is very strange. At this speed, it is not too difficult to lose seven or eight pounds a day. Not to mention the double price offered by Liu Gang, the normal market price can sell for thousands or eight hundred. p>
Difficult to dig?
Hard work?
Who wouldn’t do it when you can earn so much in a day?
Zhao Dahai felt that he was thinking too much. Why were there so many blood eels? It didn't matter whether no one dug for a long time or the tide was just right. He was not a scientist, so why bother with this? He was just a human being.
Fishermen only dig blood eels to make money. Are there many and big blood eels? Just do it. Dig the most blood eels in the shortest time and make the most money. This is what you want to do now!