Chapter 3 Fat Mandarin Fish
I went out carrying a bucket full of loaches. I was lucky tonight as the moonlight was bright enough that I couldn't see my hand in front of me.
To go fishing, you need to find a very good fishing spot.
Zhang Ze used a stick tied with nylon thread to hit the grass from time to time to prevent snakes from hiding in it and launching an unsportsmanlike attack.
Soon, he arrived at the northeast side of the village.
This place is located upstream and has many cracks between water plants and rocks. It is a habitat that fish prefer, so the chance of catching fish is naturally better than in an open area.
After finding a good fishing spot, Zhang Ze directly picked up the loaches and threw them into the water to make a nest.
Part of the live loach will run away, and this running part will cause fluctuations in the water flow, which can just attract various predatory fish to come and eat, so it is worth wasting some of it.
In fact, Zhang Ze also has a way to prevent loaches from running away. He just needs to soak them in white wine for more than ten minutes in advance, and the drunk loaches will stay where they are and not run away.
But for his family, using white wine to soak loaches and make nests is obviously a luxury.
Now the fields are full of loaches. They are not worth much if you catch a handful of them, and you won’t feel bad if they run away. There is no need to say more about how to choose.
Afterwards, Zhang Ze put on a pair of worn-out gloves from home, which even had a big hole in it.
But loaches were too slippery, and it was not easy to cut his hands when pulling the nylon line with gloves, so he just used it.
Grab a loach and pierce the fishhook through its back. This will ensure that the loach remains active for a short period of time and will not die so quickly.
Then he picked up a small stone and tied it to the nylon line to use as a lead sinker. After tying it, he threw the hook bait to the location where he had just made the nest.
The coquettish swimming posture of loaches in the water has long attracted the attention of some predators. In later generations, even if loaches make nests, they have to wait for fish to appear.
But what time is it now? It is an era when all kinds of water resources are extremely abundant, and this time is exactly the time when fish come out to find food.
Just then, the small stone sank into the water with the loach. After only a short while, a strong pulling force was felt on the nylon rope on Zhang Ze's index finger.
"Oh my god, so fierce?"
A strong force was felt and the nylon line instantly stretched straight. It was obvious that the fish in the water was eating very hard and it was a ruthless fish.
The fish swam back and forth in the water, and the nylon line swayed back and forth following the fish.
After feeling it for a while, Zhang Ze had an idea in his mind.
The fish was a decent size, but he thought he could just pull it back.
So he grabbed the nylon line with both hands and began to pull it back. After just a short while, the fish was pulled to the surface of the water, flapping its tail and struggling, making a splashing sound.
Another ten seconds passed and the fish was pulled to the shore. He clamped the fish's mouth tightly with the pliers he used to hold the fishhook today and lifted it up.
If you are targeting big fish, then it is very necessary to have something like a fish controller.
If you lift it up directly with the rope, the fish may get off the hook as soon as it flicks its tail.
I have suffered many losses before. I watched the fish break free from the hook and ran away, which caused me to lose sleep. These are all lessons learned through blood and tears.
The fish was not very big, estimated to be between one and a half and two kilograms.
But something seemed wrong. Zhang Ze took a closer look in the moonlight and was shocked when he saw the appearance of the fish clearly.
The fish's head was very pointed, with stripes on its body, and the fins on its back were thick and pointed. It turned out to be a mandarin fish.
Are there mandarin fish in this river? Zhang Ze is not sure. He used to work as a farmer and never fished.
Later, I left my hometown to work hard and gradually fell in love with fishing. I never came back.
I didn't expect that when I came fishing today, I would give 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, peach blossoms flow in the water and mandarin fish are fat.
The meat of mandarin fish is delicious and has no small bones. It does not require much oil when steamed and has no fishy smell.
If the fish is fat, you can taste some oil in it, which is what people of this era need most and is loved by everyone.
my country has already started researching artificial breeding techniques for this famous fish in the 1970s.
However, it was not until the mid-1980s that pilot projects of mandarin fish farming were started in the south.
In this day and age, everything is wild and natural, and there are no protected animals. It is really friendly to a fisherman like him.
Mandarin fish like to hide in cracks between rocks and in water plants. Today, there are many water plants and cracks between rocks at this location, which is indeed their favorite habitat. It is not surprising to catch one.
Motivation is here! Originally, Zhang Ze wanted to catch some grass carp and sell them on the black market, then buy some seasonings and go home to make a grilled fish dish for his family.
Now that we have mandarin fish, it is naturally a better choice.
If grass carp can be sold for 50 or 60 cents per pound, then the retail price of mandarin fish should be around 80 cents to one dollar.
Zhang Ze knew the prices of most freshwater fish and seafood of this era, but he was not very clear about the prices of mandarin fish.
He still needs to go to the market to inquire about the specific price.
With a thought in his mind, the mandarin fish in his hand suddenly disappeared and appeared in the fishing space.
At the same time, the fishing space in the mind also gave a message.
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[Successfully caught a mandarin fish weighing 1.83 catties, 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 there was such a function. This would make it much more convenient for him to sell fish in the future.
Moreover, one fish can bring seven experience points, so it only takes a dozen fishing spaces to upgrade, and it seems that upgrading is not very difficult.
Then Zhang Ze didn't waste any time and quickly hung up the loach and continued fishing.
This time the hook was taken even faster, and it was another mandarin fish weighing more than two kilograms. It was obvious that he had arrived at the mandarin fish's nest.
For the next hour, he basically caught a mandarin fish every five or six minutes, and didn't catch any other fish.
The mandarin fish is very ferocious, and other fishes dare not come to snatch food from it.
Of course, ferocious fish like black carp dare to snatch food, but there is a nest of mandarin fish in this water area, so even the black carp has to be timid.
In this hour, there were already eleven mandarin fish weighing between two and five kilograms swimming in the narrow space of Zhang Ze's fishing space. It was estimated that they weighed more than twenty-five kilograms.
In fact, one cubic meter of space is quite acceptable. The largest fish box Zhang Ze has ever bought is 120 liters.
105cm long, 47.5cm high and 44cm wide.
Normally, it can hold about 100 kilograms of fish including the ice.
One cubic meter is one thousand liters, which theoretically can hold about one thousand kilograms of fish.
However, these units cannot be converted and there are certain errors.
Only special fishing spaces can be used to raise fish, otherwise the fish will probably die from lack of oxygen.
The current experience value has reached 77, and you can upgrade it with four more mandarin fish.
It's still early, there's no reason for Zhang Ze to go back.
I hung the loach on the hook again and threw it into the water, but this time I waited for a long time but no fish took the bait.
He had already noticed when he was fishing just now that the time interval between each hook was getting longer and longer.
It seems that the loaches have been almost eaten and the effect of making nests has been lost.
So he took off his gloves and continued to scoop up loaches to make nests, then he washed his hands, put on gloves and continued fishing.
This time, after waiting for a short while, suddenly, a huge pulling force was felt and Zhang Ze was not paying attention, and the nylon line almost slipped out of his hand.
Fortunately, the nylon line was tied to a wooden stick, and he grabbed the stick in time to prevent the fish from escaping.
(End of this chapter)
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