Back To the Small Fishing Village In 1982

  Chapter 67 Fishing eels

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he turned his head and was about to go home, but he was stopped by Ah Zheng, "What's the hurry! Can we not see the hole when the water level rises? It's a small novel. He went to the rice field yesterday to check the drainage, and saw a lot of seedling fields on the bank of the ditch. A newly dug eel hole. It is estimated that the rice fields were flooded, and it was looking for another hole. He thought that everyone must be busy cleaning up after the typhoon, so he waited until the sun was not so bright before calling us."

   "It's almost the same, have you brought the hook and the earthworm?"

   "I have brought it, so what do you need to say?"

   "Then wait for me, I'm going to change a pair of rain boots and get a bucket."

  Haven’t fished eels for decades, he’s also quite interested, and he’s just a countryman’s hobby.

  After coming out, he looked at Xiao Xiao curiously again, "Are there a lot of fish in your rice fields yesterday?"

"It's okay. There are crucian carp, carp, and grass carp. The grass carp is quite big, and the other fish are very small. I don't know where they came from. Do you want it? If you want it, you can go to my house to get it. I don't know why my dad took it home?"

  Everyone shook their heads. At this time, the seaside people don’t like to eat freshwater fish very much. They think the smell of earth is too strong!

  Only Ye Yaodong said bluntly: "If you don't want me, I will go to your house later to get grass carp and crucian carp. I don't want carp."

  He doesn’t like to eat carp, he likes to eat braised crucian carp and crucian carp tofu soup, braised grass carp is also good.

  Yesterday, his elder brother and second brother went to the field to check and they didn’t say they caught some fish. They probably thought it was too small, and they were used to eating sea fish and they didn’t like freshwater fish.

   A group of people walked slowly to the road, and then walked towards Dongqiao Village. The fields of the people in their village were all at the handover position with Dongshan Village.

  It’s only early July and the rice planting hasn’t started yet. The fields are empty, and the late rice will not start to be planted until mid-to-late July.

  Walking in the dirty field, Ye Yaodong looked at the mud on his feet, luckily he was wearing rain boots.

  In fact, May is the best time to catch eels. At that time, the climate warms and the water temperature rises. Rice eels emerge from the mud holes where they survived the winter and gather in relatively spacious shallow waters such as fields, ponds, and ditches to find bait for fattening. At this time, the appetite is strong and it is the best season for fishing.

  Xiaoxiao put down the bucket, "Take the fishing rod and earthworms by yourself. There are empty bottles in the bucket. Pour some earthworms in each, and share it with each other."

  Their fishing rods are very simple, and they are made by themselves. A small wooden stick is tied with a line and a fishhook. Although it is very simple, it can still be used many times.

  Ye Yaodong took the small wooden sticks in their bucket, and the pot containing earthworms, and put earthworms on the hook at the end of the bamboo sticks. The earthworms passed through the hooks without showing the hook tip, and everyone else put them on and started looking for them.

   "They acted separately."

   "Old rules, see who catches the most in the competition, and the one who catches the least drinks and washes the dishes next time!"

   Oh, so there is this rule, he almost forgot.

  In water, rice field eels usually dig holes in soft mud or live in natural mud or stone caves, so when fishing rice field eels, you must first find rice field eel holes.

However, not all eels have ventilation holes, because not only eels but also earthworms live in the soil. The holes between them can be borrowed from neighbors for ventilation, and eating at night may not always be in one Place out of the hole.

   Sometimes it is blocked by a piece of grass, or the water is not clear enough, and there are many small floating lotus.

  But there must be eel holes on the mud bank. At this time, you have to rely on your fingers to find them. Use your index finger or **** to insert all your fingers at an angle of 30 degrees to 45 degrees on the bank between 5 and 10 cm away from the water.

It feels like the inside is suddenly empty, and you can see water when you remove your fingers. There is a lot of space inside. You can dig it out and fish, which means you have found the eel’s nest. Sometimes there will be bubbles on it. If there are bubbles, then this is the legendary guard. Once the hole is opened, it is the rice field eel hole in Baowo.

   There are also holes that can be recognized by the naked eye, and they can be seen if you look carefully within an area within 8 cm above the waterline.

Ye Yaodong had just walked a few steps when he saw round and smooth holes around the mud bank under his feet, about as thick as his thumb, and was about to put them into the holes when he heard Xiao Xiao yell, "I caught a fish!" !"

   "Oh? It's quite big, it looks like it weighs half a catty!"

  Awei also said happily: "I caught one too! It seems a little small."

   "I caught it too!"

When everyone had something to gain, Ye Yaodong was not in a hurry, he fished for a while with the tip of the hook pointing down at the mouth of the cave, and clearly saw the water in and out of the cave, and heard the sound of "popping" .

   Hooked!

  An extra-large eel with a size of about seven taels was fished out by him, which looked very thick.

  At this time, wild eels are generally only two or three in size, and it is rare to see 4 double eels. This one is really huge.

  Decades later, with the pollution and damage to the environment caused by people's production and life, there are fewer and fewer wild eels in the rural fields, and such big ones are generally farmed.

   Luckily, he caught such a big one in the first fishing. Ye Yaodong was instantly full of enthusiasm, put it in the bucket, continued to bait, and changed to another hole.

  At this time, there are many eels in the field, which are easy to catch without much effort, and many holes on the banks of the ditches are newly dug, and some of them have traces left by eels foraging, which are easy to distinguish.

  After only two fish were caught, Ye Yaodong saw two brood eel holes (spawning eels), because there was foam at the mouth of the holes.

  He didn’t put bait in this kind of fishing, because the eel seeds in the hole after the eel was caught, or the newly hatched eels would all die after a while.

  Sustainable development!

  Why must there be no heirs?

   In the future, there will be fewer and fewer wild eels!

  He moved his position slowly, and there were more and more eels in the bucket, some big and some small. The biggest one was his first catch, and there were two or three taels of small ones.

  After using up the earthworms in the jar, he straightened his back and stretched himself, and the sun was about to set.

   Shouted to a few friends who were squatting or standing not far away: "Hey, the sun is setting, let's call it a day and go home for dinner!"

   "The last two earthworms, let me catch them!"

   Ah Guang yelled and continued to squat down, and the others went out regardless of whether they had finished fishing or not.

   "How much did you catch?"

   "15!"

   "16!"

   "13!"

   "Oh~ you wash the dishes! I have 18!"

   "Really or not, let me see...it seems to be more than us, if I knew it, I would have taken two more earthworms!" Ah Zheng sighed.

   "Don't worry, Ah Guang is still alive." Ah Zheng yelled at Ah Guang who was standing up in the distance, "Ah Guang, how many fish have you caught?"

   "These two caught 16!"

   "Okay, I'll do the dishes next time."

   I would like to bet and admit defeat!

   "Hurry up, hurry home and eat, I'm starving, just take it back and put it in the pot for stewing."

   This bucket also weighed 5-6 catties. Ye Yaodong counted the heads silently in his heart. There are 17 people in the family, which is just enough for one person, and there is still one more left.

  (end of this chapter)