Go back to the past to be the fishing king

Chapter 3 Start-up Capital
Not far from the south of the village is the upper reaches of the Wenhe River, and it is just before May Day in spring, which is a good time to catch wild crucian carp.

No start-up capital?Earn by fishing yourself!

After making up his mind, Zhang Yang greeted his mother, then rode his bicycle out of the village and headed straight to the town.

In the town, there is Liu Laosan Wholesale of Tobacco, Alcohol, Sugar and Tea. Apart from selling tobacco, alcohol and sundries, he also sells simple fishing gear.

Usually fishing friends like to buy some cheap consumables such as bait and hooks, and they all like to come here. It wasn't until Zhang Yang's fishing tackle shop opened in his previous life that Zhang Laosan's fishing tackle business gradually declined.

Riding a bicycle to the place in his memory, Zhang Yang parked the car at a conspicuous place at the door, pushed the door open and walked in.

"Boss, get two sets of 1.5-meter seven-star drifters (note ① at the bottom of the chapter) for the main line group, one pair of size 1.0, one pair of size [-], and an extra pack of skyhooks (note ② at the bottom of the chapter)! I want the size [-]." Izu hook type!" Zhang Yang said clearly what he needed.

"Two yuan for one meter of hand-tied main thread, five yuan for a pair of finished main thread, which one do you want? Three yuan for a pack of hooks in the sky! Is this a grass hole for seven-star drifting? Don't make a nest of wine rice and hook earthworms? "

Liu Laosan also knows how to fish, and he is familiar with the quotation, and then wants to sell other products of his own.

Zhang Yang only has a total of 13.5 "huge sums" in his hands, so he has no spare money to buy randomly, he shook his head: "The finished thread set is fine, I don't need anything else, I'm ready!"

Needless to say, this third one is really dark, the finished Seven Star Drift main line set only costs a little over one yuan, and it sells for five yuan a pair later, with a gross profit of more than [-]%!
After buying fishing line and hooks, Zhang Yang turned around and rushed back!

When I returned to the small bamboo forest at the head of the village, I took a sickle from the back seat of the bicycle, saw a bamboo of moderate thickness and cut it off from the bottom, carried it away and left.

When I got home, I cleaned up the two branches and forks, and a simple fishing rod was ready.

Zhang Yang found an idle plastic fertilizer bucket at home, and used a shovel to dig a bunch of earthworms from the shade behind the house and put them in a snack box.

Before leaving, Zhang Yang scooped up half a catty of corn dregs in a tea bowl, put them in a plastic bag, and secretly poured the old man's high-quality koji wine into a half bowl to stuff himself, just to make a nest and lure fish.

It was almost three o'clock when Zhang Yang arrived at the bank of the Wen River in the south of the village.

In this season, the trees have just sprouted new leaves, and the waterside has just grown aquatic plants.

Zhang Yang put his simple fishing group back together, tied the big line to the tip of the bamboo pole,

Three times, five times and two times, tied the skyhook, and Zhang Yang threw the fishing group into the water towards the position in front of a piece of aquatic plants he was optimistic about.

Fishing without grass is pure nonsense. In spring, the buds of aquatic plants have just emerged, and crucian carp shakes seeds of aquatic plants close to the shore to look for food. It is most suitable to choose such fishing spots.

After choosing the fishing spot, Zhang Yang adjusted the position of the foam star float back and forth to find out the water depth. The grass head is about 1.3 meters. Fishing crucian carp this season, the shallow water heats up quickly, which is just right.

After choosing the fishing spot and finding out the depth of the water, Zhang Yang took out the corn slag from his trouser pocket, wrapped it in the mud from the shore, and threw it into the fishing spot.

This behavior is called making nests in fishing (Note ③ at the bottom of the chapter). No matter wild fishing, lakes or black pits, or even sea fishing, making nests to lure fish is a common technique used by fishermen.

It's just that the fly in the ointment is that Zhang Yang has no money to buy commercial materials, so he can only use the ready-made corn dregs at home and add a little koji wine to make do.

Ordinary raw corn ballast crucian carp also eats it, and adding some white wine to suffocate it for a while can also have a certain effect of luring fish, which is better than nothing!
After making the nest, Zhang Yang hung a whole live earthworm on the skyhook, swung his wrist, and casually threw the hook into the fishing spot.

The fishing rod made of fresh bamboo is a bit heavy, and it feels a little bad in the hand, but Zhang Yang has no money for the time being, so he can only make do with it.

About 15 minutes after the nest was laid, the float began to move, and the three foam beans floating on the water showed a slight pull-down movement.

Zhang Yang glanced at it, but was not in a hurry to lift the pole.

Although most people just use fishing as a pastime, it is actually a very profound and comprehensive knowledge. It is easy to learn superficially, but very difficult to master.

For example, the same subtle movement of floating, in the eyes of fishing masters, compared with ordinary fishermen, the information they get is completely different.

Through observation, Zhang Yang judged that there were already fish in the den, but the amount of fish was relatively small and the size was small. The small fish attacked the whole earthworm, but they couldn't swallow it, so there was a trembling little movement Floating.

At this time, the hit rate of lifting the pole was very low, so Zhang Yang was not in a hurry to lift the pole.

After a few more minutes, the small movements of trying to eat bait became less. Suddenly, one whole floating bean was pulled down, and then the three underwater beans quickly pushed up.

When Zhang Yang saw the movement of pulling first and then floating, he knew that the crucian carp had eaten to death, so he flicked his wrist and lifted the rod to stab the fish!
There was a heavy touch from the tip of the pole, and the first crucian carp was not small in size!
Feeling the strength of the underwater fish, Zhang Yang raised the pole and used the waist strength of the bamboo pole to push the fish out of the water.

A four-two big crucian carp raised the pole over his head excitedly, and directly flew the fish up.

He took off the hook and glanced at the position where the fishhook hung on the mouth. The middle of the fish's mouth was neither deep nor shallow, and a whole earthworm was still on the fishhook and had not been swallowed.

It is not uncommon for wild big crucian carp like this to be caught in Wenhe from time to time.

In the next two years, due to the reduction of water release upstream, and the destruction of electricians and net workers in nearby villages after the water level dropped, it will be difficult to find this thing.

The first fish was crucian carp, which was a good sign. Satisfied, Zhang Yang put the fish in the bucket and filled it with water, and continued fishing.

Once the first fish opened its mouth, the fish began to catch one after another. The fish had already discovered the corn crumbs mixed in the soil in the dens, and gradually began to gather.

Number two, number three, number four!
The more Zhang Yang fished, the smoother he got, and he caught several crucian carp in a row.

The fly in the ointment is that the following crucian carp are much smaller in size, only in their early [-]s.

Wild crucian carp can't all be the same size, Zhang Yang doesn't care, and continues to fish patiently.

After catching five fish in a row, the den became deserted. Zhang Yang rehung a fresh earthworm and threw the pole into the water. He waited patiently for a few minutes to float, but there was no movement!
wipe!It's hard to say that there are only five fish in the nest?
Zhang Yang murmured to himself, but kept his eyes on the float in the water without moving.

Just when he thought there were no fish in the den, the buoy suddenly made a powerful pause, and a star float on the water surface was pulled into the water again.

This time there was no follow-up top drift action, but the three star drifts on the water surface were all pulled into the water.

It's black and white!
Ordinary wild crucian carp eats bait with their buttocks pouted and their heads bowed in the water. After eating it, they will raise their heads and swim away.

This bait-eating posture is reflected in the floating action, that is, pulling down, and then raising the head and floating will send the floating.

It is rare to directly pull the black float like this now, and it mostly appears on carp or other relatively large fish.

Floating black means eating dead fish, which is a kind of floating action that fishermen must catch.

How could Zhang Yang let go of this opportunity? With a flick of his wrist, he raised the rod to stab the fish!
The underwater force was indeed much heavier than the big crucian carp that got off to a good start. The big fish couldn't get out of the water instantly, and the bamboo pole in Zhang Yang's hand was bent into a bow.

The No. 1 single-hook line, Zhang Yang is quite at ease in his heart. The water is cold in spring, and the activity of the fish is not strong. Even a big carp weighing three to five catties has a chance to catch it.

After two rounds of stalemate slipping back and forth, the fish came out of the water. When he saw this fish for the first time, Zhang Yang was overjoyed!

crucian carp!A big crucian carp!

He was at least a catty tall, and his body was plump and chubby, almost as long as a mineral water bottle.

To use fashionable words to describe it, big crucian carp plus!

Such a large wild crucian carp is a rare item, much rarer than a three to five catty carp. Zhang Yang carefully pulled the fish to the water's edge, and after confirming that the hook was straight, he lifted the fish to the shore with every inch.

When the fish was in his hand, Zhang Yang had a clearer judgment on this big crucian carp, at least one and a half catties, female, with a bulging stomach, should be full of fish roe!

"Come on, buddy, I'm short of money to save my life, so I can only wrong you!" Zhang Yang hesitated for two seconds before putting the fish into the bucket.

The dens stopped talking just now, which should be caused by this wild big crucian carp entering the nest. Small fish are afraid of big fish. After the big crucian carp was caught, the fish mouth in the den soon became active again.

In the next two hours, Zhang Yang caught more than 30 crucian carp, including seven or eight large crucian carp, plus a grandpa's large crucian carp. The total harvest weight was about ten catties.

The corn pellets from the dens had been eaten up, and the fish mouths were thinning out. Zhang Yang glanced at his phone, it was already five o'clock.

Catch the night market, should be in time!
Thinking of this, Zhang Yang simply put away the fishing line and rod, hung the bucket of fish on the handlebar, and rode away.

Notes ①Seven-star float: In the traditional fishing method, four to six colorful floating foam beans are used as floats on the nylon fishing line. By adjusting the upper and lower positions of the float on the fishing line, the water depth of the fishing position is determined. Live bait such as earthworms is suitable for fishing with long poles and short lines to tie grass holes.

Note ② Skyhook: A special fishhook used in domestic traditional fishing. A drop of lead or tin is welded on the hook handle as the hook weight. Because of gravity, the fishhook will become a hook with the handle on the bottom after entering the water. The state with the tip facing upwards, hence the name, is often used as the traditional fishing method of seven-star drifting.

Note ③ Nest making: By putting the food that fish like to eat to the fishing point, a certain range of nearby fish schools are attracted to gather around the fishing point to form a fish nest for fishermen to fish. This behavior is called nest making.

(End of this chapter)