Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 182: Grass Carp Fishing

The next morning, Qin Dahe got up early to buy fruit vinegar and took a tricycle by the way.

Unfortunately, there was really no one there. There were only eight people on the bus when he went there. He was lucky if he could collect 20 yuan in total for the round trip.

After thinking about it, he decided not to drive the tricycle for the time being and wait until the spring plowing work was over.

Spring plowing is not just about cotton. A large number of crops and vegetables such as corn, peanuts, soybeans, etc. are also planted at this time. Qin's father is busy with these things in the fields every day, and the farmers have no time to go out on the streets.

In the morning, Qin Dahe bought some fruit vinegar and drove a tricycle to take Erhu and the others to continue raising the nest.

There are no melon vines today, just reed leaves and tender grass, which are eaten by grass carp and carp.

The county road is lined with green grass. Uncle San often comes here to cut grass to feed the fish, but now his health is poor and he can no longer cut grass.

The three of them took sickles and began to cut the grass leaves, and then went to the fishing spot to continue cutting the reeds.

"How many days will it take?" Erhu clapped his hands and straightened up. It was too tiring.

"Three days, let's wait until it's well-rested before fishing. The water temperature at the sluice gate is a bit different. I'll let my kids go fishing these two days and check the water temperature at the same time."

Erhu was a little moved when he heard that, "I'll go too."

"You can go if you want. There's plenty of bait. But I have a busy afternoon."

"That's fine, I can go by myself."

Thinking of the scene of fighting against silver carp and bighead carp last year, Erhu felt full of energy.

Tiedan was not interested. Since he couldn't make any money, he might as well practice welding models at home to improve his skills.

He is really into welding, and the feeling of assembling objects one by one by himself really excites him.

"Let's go to the next fishing spot."

I honked the tricycle and continued heading towards Longwangguai. There were almost no people at the fishing spot here now.

Because the river section inside the levee has not been completely cut off, it is a large, long lake of more than 200 acres.

There are naturally fewer people in this middle area, and you can hardly see any other people except the passing vehicles.

He skillfully tied the nesting materials with ropes, and stuffed them with stones and many foam fragments.

This kind of bait is cheap and attractive enough to grass carp.

"The tricycle is over there at the gate. I let my kid take it away this morning. Do you want me to take you there?"

"Okay, but it's too far and it's inconvenient to ride a bike." Erhu said helplessly.

They are now equipped with platform fishing equipment, and even if they don’t bring platform fishing equipment, they still have a lot of things.

"I'll just stop by and take a look."

Go to Erhu's house to get the fishing rod, and take some bait and leader line, and send him to the sluice gate together.

When we arrived at the fishing spot below, the silly kid was looking at the water intently.

"Baby, what's wrong?"

It was only nine o'clock and the sun could not yet shine through from the other side of the levee, so it was quite comfortable to sit under the shade of the trees.

"Brother." The child shook his head in frustration. "No mouth."

"No problem. Erhu will come over to fish with you."

I picked up the notebook that recorded the water temperature and took a look.

The water temperature in the upper layer is 19 degrees, and the water temperature in the middle layer is still 16 degrees.

In other words, there is still a big difference in water temperature between morning and evening. The fish will bite, but it is not certain when they will bite.

Fishing in this situation will lead to unstable fish bites. Fishing itself is a matter of luck. When encountering this kind of unstable fish bites, it is normal to come up empty-handed. Big fish are not that easy to catch.

Seeing Erhu also casting bait, Hanwaer finally felt a little excited. His elder brother said that the more people fishing for silver carp and bighead carp, the better.

“Is it heavy to lay the nest in the morning?”

"Heavy." Silly Kid said with certainty. "Weighing one and a half pounds."

"A pound and a half of mixed bait?"

"Yes." The child nodded solemnly.

"Add another pound and a half. Damn, I've given you so much bait, don't be frugal." He said speechlessly.

Silver carp and bighead carp baits are the most water-absorbing, and there is not much in one and a half kilograms of wet bait.

Upon hearing this, Erhu hurried to prepare the bait. What Qin Dahe said must be right. He is really good at fishing.

There was no one around today. He watched for a long time, but the two men left without even catching a bite of fish.

He returned home and started to prepare corn. He wanted to prepare two types of corn: fruit acid corn and sweet potato corn, which he would use as temporary nesting material in the summer.

When fishing for grass carp, the bait for the nest can be grass and reeds, because there is no need to gather fish in a short period of time.

But when fishing the next day, you can't be so perfunctory. You must use a small amount of corn to keep the free fish.

Because these fish have been accustomed to the refreshing of food around them during the past few days of breeding, they will keep swimming around quickly. When they see a small amount of corn, they will stop and wait for more food to be refreshed.

Fishing is best at this time, so the corn nest must be replenished.

Yanyan followed him around like a follower, watching him busy with the soaked corn and cornmeal.

"Yan'er, help me light the fire."

"I'll be right there." The little girl was immediately happy when she heard that she could help.

"Brother, why are you lighting the fire?"

"Steam a dozen sweet potatoes, I'll use them."

"Oh."

The little girl immediately took action, and Qin Dahe also started preparing the jars for fermentation.

Fruit acid corn is made by adding soaked corn and fruit vinegar, and then putting a few chewed apples in it to increase bacterial fermentation.

A jar contained fifteen pounds of whole corn, fifteen pounds of cornmeal, a whole bottle of fruit vinegar, two pounds of chewed apples, and a small amount of white sugar.

His mouth was sore from chewing these apples. Yanyan came over after she finished lighting the fire and ate two apples with him, throwing the cores in. "Can this be used for fishing?"

"Yeah, fermented corn is great for catching grass carp." He chuckled and started pouring in cornmeal and gluten.

After fermentation, you can catch them in clumps and throw them into the river to make nests.

The corn with added fruit acid is fragrant. Stir it evenly with your hands and then cover it with other ingredients.

However, an air vent must be left as a large amount of waste gas will be produced during the fermentation process.

After fermentation, if it is not used within a short period of time, drain the water and refrigerate.

Or you can sterilize it at high temperature and then vacuum seal it, but this requires additional equipment. After thinking about it, I have to give up and just soak it when I need to use it.

Sweet potato corn is even simpler. Steam the sweet potatoes and soaked corn, then crush the sweet potatoes with a shovel.

Add another packet of yeast powder. Since Qin's mother likes to make buns occasionally, this is definitely not a shortage in the family.

Mix together and add some corn flour, stir evenly, put it into the jar and press it down, use chopsticks to poke the air holes one by one, and cover it with a lid.

Whether it is sweet potato corn or fruit acid corn, it can be used after three days of fermentation, but the effect will be better the longer it is fermented, so he soaked it a lot more.

If you go carp fishing, sweet potato corn with some brown sugar syrup will work better, but don't add it now that carp is not valuable.

It was eleven o'clock when we finished cooking the two big jars. There was still a fire in the stove, so we used it to steam the rice.

But she ate one of the steamed sweet potatoes just now, and now she is groaning while touching her stomach.

"Brother, I won't be able to eat later."

"I don't believe it." He curled his lips. "You'll definitely be hungry again later."

"Brother still understands me, haha." The little girl happily hugged his neck and kissed him.

"Big greedy girl, go see if the kids catch any bighead carp tonight. If they do, bring some home and steam the fish head for us."

"Yeah, add more chili, the fish head is very fragrant."

Thinking of the chopped pepper fish head, both of us gluttons were tempted. It is indeed delicious.

"I'll go and take a look in the afternoon. My parents don't eat spicy food anyway, so we'll steam it in the afternoon." He didn't want to wait any longer when it came to the chopped pepper fish head.

"Okay." The little girl's eyes lit up. It would be too torturous to wait until night.

On the other side, the fishing spot at Dazha.

Erhu was playing with the fish, and the silly kid was looking at him with envy.

The whole morning, just this one mouth.

"Ce, it's not big." Although Erhu was very excited when he caught the fish, he knew after fishing once that the fish was only six or seven pounds at most.

"That's good as long as there is something." The kid smiled innocently and watched Erhu pull the fish to the side. He quickly cast the rod again.

There are bubbles in the water, so there must be fish. We can't waste time now.

After a while, Erhu pulled up a silver carp weighing more than eight kilograms.

"Kid, why is this fish so weak?" He thought it weighed only six or seven pounds.

“The water temperature is low and the fish are not active.”

"Ce, Dahe also said so, that we should store energy in the early spring and become active only when the water temperature is high in summer and early autumn." Erhu thought of the knowledge Qin Dahe usually told them, and he suddenly realized it.

After putting the fish in the basket, he started fishing again.

After a while, both of them caught fish at the same time, because they were fishing in the same bait, so of course the bait exploded.

The fish started to be swished around, and finally a smile appeared on the child's face.

The fish on Erhu's side were still not big, and the No. 18 line he brought today came up in a few minutes.

The silly kid was putting in a lot of effort and was struggling all the time.

"Kid, you have such a big thing." This time it was Erhu's turn to be envious.

"No, the thread is too thin." said the silly kid depressedly.

Because he knew that the fish were not biting well today, he brought a 5+3 line set and a -meter glass rod. However, after he caught a fish, he became nervous.

The big fish suddenly rushed towards Erhu, and he could only follow it with the rod horizontally. Erhu quickly made way.

The fish swam for seven or eight minutes before it finally came ashore.

"Damn, another big silver carp. This one must be ten kilograms, right?" The second fish he just caught was also a silver carp.

"Yes." The silly kid started to feel happy after catching a big fish.

But it’s already past eleven o’clock and I’m a little hungry.

"Erhu, do you want to eat?"

Both of them were a little conflicted. They had waited for a whole morning and finally got their meal, but they were hungry if they didn't eat.

"Let's fish for a while, then we can ride our bikes directly to town to eat."

"it is good."

The two of them sat down again. When it was almost one o'clock, Qin Dahe drove over and saw the two idiots sticking their chests close to each other, still staring at the float with their eyes wide open.

There were small movements on the float, which showed fish were gathering, but the appetite was not strong.

"How much did you two catch?"

The silly kid turned around and looked at Qin Dahe, saying weakly: "Brother, I'm hungry!"

"Damn, you two haven't eaten yet?"

Erhu nodded immediately, his stomach burning with hunger.

"Damn it, I'll go buy you some food." He didn't even bother to see how many fish the two of them had caught. People in rural areas eat very early in the morning, and they've been hungry for at least six or seven hours. Don't let them starve.

　Monthly ticket wow, leader

　　
　
(End of this chapter)