Golden Fishing Village

The temperature in summer is high, the water temperature is also high, and the activity of fish is the strongest during the year.

Many people think that summer is the most suitable time for fishing, and the fish conditions are the best compared to other seasons.

In fact, this is a misunderstanding. The fish situation is indeed good in summer. The fish are more active, have a greater feeding habit, and are easy to take the bait. However, the largest number of small miscellaneous fish in rivers and lakes will snatch the bait. For the target fish species, this is not the case. The interference is huge.

Ao Xiaoniu saw Ao Muyang holding a fishing rod in his hand and said, "Uncle Yang, you go fishing for loaches, and I will take people to dig for golden eels."

Ao Muyang asked: "Is this thing easy to dig? Your rich uncle is very rare these days."

Ao Xiaoniu smiled and said: "I won't dig by the lake. I'll go look in the fields first."

Hongyang is located at the intersection of the temperate zone and the subtropical zone. Some farmland is used to grow wheat, and some farmland can be turned into paddy fields to grow rice. The agricultural products are rich in variety.

Rice fields are a good place to look for eels, especially since the rice fields in Longtou Village are right next to the lake. Eels can easily cross the border and enter the paddy fields to survive.

June and July are the breeding seasons for eels. It is already August and most eels have finished giving birth. In this way, fishing for eels does not deplete the lake and has little impact on their populations.

Lu Zhizi was holding a fishing rod and asked curiously: "Going to the rice fields to catch eels? I've heard of this method, but never seen it before. How should I catch it?"

Ao Muyang said: "It's quite simple. Just look for the eel hole. Eels like to dig holes under the rice roots outside the field ridge. This will leave ventilation holes on the field ridge, which are about the size of soybeans. You can find them if you look carefully."

"If there is a hole in the field ridge, will it leak?"

Ao Muyang smiled and said: "You are right to the point. Water leaks do happen, so paddy farmers are most annoyed by eels. In the past, everyone in the village welcomed villagers to touch eels in the fields."

"What now?"

"Now there are fewer eels and gold is more expensive. Everyone regards the eels in their fields as their own property, so of course they won't welcome them."

Seeing that Lu Zhizi was very interested, he continued, "Don't go, let's go fishing for loaches. It's easy to get muddy all over the paddy fields."

Lu Zhizi chuckled and said, "I'm not afraid, just go back and take a shower."

Ao Muyang said: "Xiao Niu and the others will go to the fields with their buttocks naked. How embarrassing will it be for you then?"

Lu Zhizi said nonchalantly: "What's so embarrassing about this? It's not like I've never seen that little boy thing before..."

Ao Muyang's eyes widened in shock, and Lu Zhizi continued: "What expression? I did a vacation internship in a kindergarten and had to help the children go to the toilet. Of course I saw it a lot."

"This, this, this," Ao Muyang was a little embarrassed, so he changed the subject, "Then your internship experience is really rich. You have also interned in a newspaper office and an internship in a hospital. It's amazing."

Lu Zhizi said: "There are eight vacations in college. What would I do if I didn't do an internship? Internships can make money, enhance skills, earn credits, and obtain certain certification qualifications. You can achieve multiple things with one stone. Happy but not doing it?”

Listening to her introduction, Ao Muyang suddenly felt pity for her: "You don't have time to play anymore, do you?"

Lu Zhizi smiled nonchalantly and said: "If you only want to play in the best years of your life, then when will you study? To make yourself stronger? When I get older, I will have a lot of time to play."

"By the way, aren't I just playing now? Let's go, let's go, I'm going to touch the loach!" She didn't want to mention the years when she was in school, so she kept urging Ao Muyang.

"But there are leeches in the rice fields."

"Forget it, then I'll go fishing for loach." Lu Zhizi immediately changed his mind.

The entrance to the village is on the edge of the lake, and the villagers regard it as a garbage dump, with a lot of domestic garbage piled up by the lake.

However, most domestic waste in rural areas is leftover food, which is degradable biological waste. There are very few plastic products and packaging products. There is a lot of garbage near the lake, but it can be degraded over time.

Ao Muyang said: "You can be patient, we will fish for loaches and eels here today."

"Garbage dump?" Lu Zhizi hesitated.

Ao Muyang said: "Well, the food habits of loaches are very mixed. They are not picky about their food. They like to eat detritus of water organisms and plankton. There are a lot of plankton around the garbage dump."

Although there are more loaches and eels closer to the garbage dump lake, there is no need for people to fish here, but it is suitable for cages on the ground.

These ground cages are very similar to the Juehu cages used to catch rock crawlers in Wangjiacun, because the loaches are so small that the mesh is too large to catch them.

Ao Muyang put the livers of chickens and ducks in the cage, then threw them evenly under the water, and waited for the goods to be received.

Loaches and eels like to move most in the mud layer at the bottom of the lake, especially in summer when the water temperature is high. They prefer to stay at the bottom of the lake, so using ground cages at this time can yield good results.

After listening to Ao Muyang's introduction, Lu Zhizi said: "Then you have to put the fishhook at the bottom of the lake, right?"

Ao Muyang shook his head: "No need, there are ground cages at the bottom of the lake to clean up. Our target is the fish in the water flow layer."

Lu Zhizi smiled and said: "Three-dimensional fishing? Three-dimensional integrated attack?"

Ao Muyang understood what she meant, and shook his head again: "It's not that I'm greedy and want to kill them all in all directions, but in the evening, there are a lot of loaches living in the water."

"In addition to midnight, evening is another peak feeding time for loaches. In the evening, when the air pressure is low, some loaches will float up from the bottom of the lake and look for food in the water."

Relatively speaking, loaches and eels are small, so they do not need thick or strong fishing lines. What is needed is a tough fishing line with high sensitivity.

The fishing hook should also be small. The mouths of loaches and eels are very small, so the bait should be easy to eat.

For bait, Ao Muyang chose ground dogfish. Every day, he could harvest a lot of ground dogfish from his peanut field. It would be a waste to throw it away. It would be better to cut it into small strips to catch loaches and eels.

And he decided to use ground dogfish to raise loaches and eels in the future. He would not harvest the peanut field and would use it to raise ground dogfish.

These ground dogfish were mixed with chicken blood. Not long after the hook was put down, the water float on Lu Zhizi's side swam quickly.

She was very excited. She suppressed her voice and came to Ao Muyang and whispered: "Hooked?"

Ao Muyang turned his head, and the tips of their noses almost touched each other. His eyes were facing Lu Zhizi's crystal clear eyes, and he was a little throbbing for a while.

Lu Zhizi also noticed something strange, her cheeks flushed, her nose trembled slightly, and her eyes gradually became misty.

He was about to say something, when the general suddenly came up, stretched out his wet, red tongue, and licked the two people's faces...

"Damn it!" Ao Muyang was disgusted.

Lu Zhizi pulled up the fishing rod with professional ethics first, and then wiped his face.

A fat loach jumped up after falling to the ground, struggling to its heart's content. The general ran over and pressed his claws on its head, almost smashing its head.

Ao Muyang's heart was broken: "General, you are here to make trouble today, right?!"

Lu Zhizi also shouted: "Compensate for my loach, this is the first loach I caught!"

The general shrank his head and ran away again, full of contempt: it's just a rotten fish.