Chapter 390 Caogou
While talking, a large area of water appeared on the right side of the plowing road where the walking tractor was running. There were many thin bamboo forests on both sides of the water, and there were several small streams that flowed when it rained. Facing this water surface, the environment is very beautiful.
“We’re here.” Yang He said, “I came to make nests at several water inlets yesterday.”
“This place is nice.” Zhou Zhi expressed that he was very satisfied with this place: “ Even if there are no fish, it would be nice to sit by the water. In the past I’ve never heard of this place.”
“You don’t know?” Yang He was a little surprised: “This is a water conservancy project built by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau for our township. There is a dam and an irrigation station below. It’s connected to the water from the small reservoir upstream.”
With the vigorous development of rural production and construction, rural water use has become a bottleneck restricting development. When my father was worrying about how to help Baimi Township, Zhou Zhi came up with an idea. Pay attention to the previous small water conservancy projects and convert some that can To recover, the investment is small, the results are quick, and you get twice the result with half the effort.
It seems that Dad has listened. A dam and an irrigation station are used as an extension project of the small hydropower reservoir upstream. Utilizing this section of the river to store water can provide the maximum amount of agricultural water along the way. protection.
“There are a lot of fish here that were released from the upstream reservoir.” Yang He said, “It’s far away from the two villages, and no one usually comes here.”
“That’s right. We haven’t had time to buy a fishing boat, and not everyone has a walking tractor.” Zhou Zhi couldn’t wait any longer. Ready to show off his skills: "Let's get started! Are you using sweet potatoes for your nest?"
Zhou Zhi's bait is specially formulated by himself, using a commonly used formula for Taiwanese fishing in later generations, which is not available on the market now, except Shrimp powder is also added with snowflake powder to reduce the specific gravity of bait and wire drawing powder for wire drawing.
It sounds very high-end, but in fact snow powder is puffed potato starch, and wire drawing powder is the gluten washed out of flour.
The puffed potato starch was made by Zhou Zhi, who went to the market to sell "rice tubes" for help. The drawing flour is made by drying the gluten and grinding it into flour, which is purely handmade.
With these two things, you can prescribe qualified Taiwan fishing bait, and then use chicken opening feed rich in vitamin B as the basic bait, and the rest are additives.
After a year of water storage, the river here is already covered with dense peanut grass. Under the grass is the fish’s favorite place to stay. There is plenty of food and obstacles to avoid.
There are only a few water inlets where there is bright water, which is suitable for Taiwan fishing.
Zhou Zhi took out a small rake from the fishing gear bag, with an iron ring on the handle and a long rope, and gave it to Yang He: "Take this to pull out the weed nest, and then you teach the Marshal how to play Passepartout." Doudou Piao, I’m going to go on a killing spree here today!”
Yang He threw the rake back and said, "Give me the pole and line. I'll make a grass nest downstream where the peanut grass seals the river. I'm afraid I won't be able to open it for a long time when I wait for you to come."
The water here is calm, and in some areas where the water is not deep, aquatic plants will grow all over the river. Fish covet the abundant food such as shrimps and insects under the grass, and like to stay in those places. However, because the aquatic plants are too dense, it sometimes leads to hypoxia.
If you dig out some grass holes in such places, it will not only make it easier to get down the pole, but also create local oxygen-rich areas, which will attract fish to swim in these places and the activity will also increase.
Fang Wenyu and Zhang Lu are both novices. Doudou drifting through the line and running lead single hooks and hanging earthworms to fish in grass holes is the most suitable fishing method for them.
Zhou Zhi’s fishing method is different from theirs. He uses a much more sensitive thin-tail vertical floating platform fishing. By continuously pulling the bait and throwing the rod, he can quickly form a three-dimensional bait atomization area at the fishing point, and the fish will soon gather, and There will be more and more people gathering.
Yang He was right. It seems that this area has not been damaged by poisonous electric fish. There is no earth-paper factory or sugar factory under the upstream hydropower station. The river is not polluted, so we only went down three poles. , fish began to report.
The Kaigan fish is a small "green shoot", a small cock-mouthed fish that has very high requirements for water quality.
Being able to catch such a fish made Zhou Zhi feel relieved about the water quality of this section of the river.
Because the water quality in places with a lot of peanuts and grass is generally too fertile. Now it seems that this is not a problem of water quality, but caused by the newly rising water surface submerging and rotting the previous weeds on the shore.
The green tips are just a signal for the fish to open their mouths, and the next step is the continuous process of catching fish, which forms a connecting rod for Zhou Zhi. Zhou Zhi couldn't see what was going on downstream, but from the shouts of Fang Wenyu and Zhang Lu, we should know that the fish conditions in those fish nests should be good.
Fishing for Doudou earthworms is also better than Taiwan fishing, that is, the individuals that catch fish are generally larger.
Sure enough, not long after, Yang He came over from the downstream carrying a large bucket: "How is it?"
"The big one hasn't come yet, but the small one has arrived." While speaking, Zhou Zhi shook the pole: "This one is fine!"
Yang He came to Zhou Zhi's side and squatted down, throwing the crucian carp and carp in the bucket into the fish guard: "It's better to use this thing of yours."
Today's fishing industry has not yet become popular among the people. Project, many things that are familiar to later generations, such as long cylindrical fish guards, fishing platforms, fishing chairs, bait trays, etc., have not yet appeared in Jiachuan.
Either Zhou Zhi bought these things from the provincial capital, or he simply made them in Jiachuan.
The fish guard can hold more than 100 kilograms at a time. Fish farming is much better than fish baskets and buckets. Therefore, after Yang He has been fishing for a while, he will move the fish to Zhou Zhi.
Zhou Zhi’s fish is considered a large one for the first time. It is a crucian carp that is longer than the soles of its feet. In the mouths of fishermen, it is called “big plate crucian carp”.
Now it was time to copy the net. Zhou Zhi dexterously stretched out the net and copied the large crucian carp that had slipped close to the net into the net. He raised the net pole with a hook of his foot and twitched his left hand to reach it in front of him.
At the same time, the right hand has already placed the fishing rod on the rod holder, quickly grabbed the fish and set the hook, then put the big crucian carp into the fish guard mouth, grabbed it on the towel here, and then baited and lowered the hook.
The whole set of movements was smooth and smooth. The float turned over and stood up, shook twice, and then accelerated and sank.
Zhou Zhi shook the pole: "Hey, this one is not small!"
"It's connected..." Yang He looked at it in amazement: "Hey, it's still two tails!"
Taiwan fishing uses double hooks. It is also common to use double hooks after a school of fish is lured to grab the bait.
One of the fish in the double hook is also a large crucian carp, and there is a small crucian carp of about two ounces on the side.
Yang He picked up the net and prepared to help Zhou Zhi catch fish. Fang Wenyu’s call came from the downstream: "Monk, come here quickly, the one from Zhongda is here! Hurry up, I can’t hold it back!"
"Put the pole up!" Zhou Zhi and Yang He shouted at the same time , after calling Yang He, he said to Zhou Zhi: "Could it be that the bottom is stuck?"
Zhou Zhi took the copy net from Yang He's hand and said with a smile: "Go and have a look, just in case it's not the bottom." Even if you run away, Marshal Fang will tell you to catch a big fish next time.”
Yang He sighed: "Today I basically have to serve people's lives..."
Zhou Zhi continued to connect the big and small crucian carp. After a while, Fang Wenyu came over carrying the big bucket that Yang He just carried. Outside the big bucket With a section of its tail hanging down, the catfish weighed at least seven kilograms.
“Fuck me!” Zhou Zhi was shocked: “Did you catch it?”
(End of this chapter)