Chapter 2 Possession of the River

'Where is this?' ’

Tang Hai regained consciousness in a daze.

It's just that the situation is a little strange, what he sees is the blue water and the stars that fluctuate on the water.

'I'm soaking in water? It's already night? How is it possible, humans can't survive if they sink into the water...... Am I dreaming? ’

Tang Hai had never been in this situation, he obviously saw things, but the strange thing was that he couldn't see his body, he wanted to see his hands and feet, no matter how he felt, he didn't feel the position of his hands and feet.

It feels a little like a ghost press, but there is a difference.

Tang Hai felt that his field of vision was too small, and he could only see a radius of a few meters, which was not the best thing, what was the difference between a frog sitting in a well and watching the sky?

Just thinking about it, Tang Hai's vision immediately expanded several times!

You can only look up, except for the water above, there is the sky, and the sky is still irregular! Tang Hai had another thought, and his vision followed his thoughts in all directions.

There was some moss on both sides of the river, and Tang Hai also saw a few lobsters.

Further down, there are aquatic plants and silt at the bottom of the river.

It was already night, and Tang Hai wondered how he could see the things at the bottom of the river.

He's like a kid who has gotten a good toy, and he's trying to see if he can zoom in on his horizons!

His field of vision has expanded to 50 meters!

A carp swims slowly, with a beautiful body, Tang Hai estimated the size of the leaves of the weeds, this carp is estimated to be 10 catties, it is a big guy!

Common carp, silver carp, herring, grass carp, etc., are all called 'Asian carp' in the United States. In the past, there was no such thing in the United States, but later some Americans discovered that these fish love to eat aquatic plants and floating objects, which is helpful for purifying water quality, so they introduced it. The last flood carried the 'Asian carp' from the ponds to the major rivers.

Americans don't eat these fish, mainly because of the many and messy bones and the smell of dirt.

The United States is a country with excessive agricultural productivity, and they don't need to eat these spiny fish, so it is often seen on the news that the American carp is a problem, and it is dozens of catties large. Two years ago, Tang Hai also saw a new thing, the Americans sent troops to shoot and kill fish in order to deal with the 'Asian carp disaster'.

But now, some people have found that it is profitable to catch carp and ship it to China, and then these problems have been solved!

In the same way, it also solves the problem of the overflow of hairy crabs in Germany!

Tang Hai, who has been hungry since childhood, sometimes thinks that if the Chinese population is only one or two hundred million, there must be many spiny fish in the river that ordinary people do not eat.

In addition to the fact that people don't need to eat carp in the United States, there is also a problem of consciousness, and many people do not think that carp should be a food. Tang Hai had been to Japan with Master before, and many Japanese people also did not consider river fish to be food.

Tang Hai zoomed in on his field of view again, this time spreading to a radius of 500 meters, limited to the river.

He felt slightly tired.

This time he saw a lot of fish, and a lot of them were 'Asian carp'!

'Haha, it looks like it's overflowing! Tang Hai suddenly felt a little funny. He is thinking that the Chinese in the United States do not have the idea of 'having more children and more blessings' of the native Chinese, otherwise in 50 years, there will be no need to fight, and the United States will become a province of China.

Tang Hai also saw some turtles and water snakes, it seems that the nutrition of this river is quite abundant?

Zoom in again!

It's about 5,000 meters, 5 kilometers, 10 miles, this should be Tang Hai's limit, he feels a little brain pain! But the strange thing is, where is your head?

Wait, what did you see!

Pike!

The pike is a strange creature that reproduces through in vitro fertilization, and when the female fish lays eggs, it will even go to eat the male and her own eggs because it is hungry.

Dogfish are very united and live in groups of fish, so if you are lucky, you can catch a lot of fry.

Adult pike, on the other hand, need to live separately because they are too aggressive and will fight when they get together. Because of this property, many people in the United States use dogfish as 'betta fish'.

Why was Tang Hai suddenly so excited, because this dogfish was actually 30 kilograms by his mother's eye! This is a fish over 20 years old with a body length of more than one meter!

Tang Hai knew very well that this fish was worth more than $1,000!

Zoom in, zoom in again!

Tang Hai was suddenly startled, he saw his 'corpse'!

"Gollum!" Tang Hai opened his eyes violently, exhaled, and suddenly there was a string of bubbles! He suddenly realized that he had fallen into the water, and hurriedly swam desperately upward, and only when he got out of the water did he think of a question, as if he didn't feel hypoxic at all in the water just now?

Wet ashore, the shrimp pot is still there, Tang Hai looked at the sky, he had indeed been soaked in the water for two or three hours, and the inferior watch in his hand was even soaked in water!

Tang Hai was still a little confused.

If a person soaks in water for too long, it will cause the skin of his fingers to wrinkle, but he has been soaked in water for several hours, and now there is no abnormality on his body at all.

Standing on the shore for a long time, thinking of a certain possibility, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a huge joy filled his heart!

And if this assumption is true? ’

Tang Hai picked up the shrimp pot and ran back to the house, and soon, after drying his hair and changing his clothes, he came out again with a military bag and a long black cloth bag, and a plastic bag in his hand, which contained the American freshwater lobster he had caught before.

Tang Hai has been working in this small river for a year, not to mention that he knows every location very well, but his familiarity with this river has also reached a certain level.

He still remembered the location of the dogfish, and it was not too far from him, about a mile.

Soon, Tang Hai came to the shore where he had just seen the dogfish.

He's going night fishing!

Dogfish is an energetic fish, many fish barely eat in winter, but pike eat all year round and can even maintain an efficient hunt at night! And the dogfish is very edible, and after opening the belly, you can eat the same weight of food as yourself in a day!

Tang Hai saw that the pike was 'foraging' just now, which means that it is still hungry!

Tang Hai's fishing skills are on par with his cooking skills, but river fish generally do not sell at a high price, so he also catches them for himself to eat, rather than fishing them to sell.

U.S. agriculture is so overwhelmed that pork here costs $3 a pound, and before the price hike last year, it was only sold for $2 a pound, and ordinary river fish is not cared for.

Tang Hai had thought about making money from sea fishing before, after all, he had a sea character in his name, and as for river fishing, he had never thought about it. And sea fishing requires too much investment capital, and he has no money.

Arrived at your destination.

Dogfish have a long lifespan, living for 200 years, comparable to sea turtles.

Most of the older creatures have one characteristic, that is, they are cautious. What Tang Hai saw just now is estimated to be 20 years old, and if Tang Hai runs now, he must stay light and not run within 10 meters of the river bank.

There are three major rules that must be followed in order to catch fish.

First, fish according to the time of the fish. Different fish have different living habits, some fish are active in the morning and sleep in the afternoon, and they must not be able to catch this kind of fish in the afternoon.

Second, fish according to the fish diet. For example, pond fishing should use bait that resembles the smell of feed, and river fishing can sometimes use a green grass.

Third, judge that the fish are hungry before placing bait. For example, in the summer, the sultry fish are reluctant to eat, if there is a sudden shower to cool down, the fish will feel hungry, and when it rains, the fish will come up to breathe.

Fish caught in the net in Japan will be damaged, the price will be short, and the price will be far less than the fish caught, so most Japanese fishermen have excellent fishing skills.

Tang Hai closed his eyes and recalled the fishing experience of an old Japanese fisherman that he had exchanged for a dish.

He opened his eyes suddenly!

The pike's favorite food is shrimp!

Although pike also eat other fish, frogs, rats and other creatures, the most loved and delicious meat is definitely shrimp!

Tang Hai caught freshwater shrimp before, the scientific name is crayfish, or crayfish, this kind of shrimp is very delicious, China is relatively rare, the United States is everywhere, but Americans don't like to eat very much, resulting in flooding, originally thought to allocate billions to clean up, but Chinese love to eat......

This lobster tastes worse than Japanese shrimp and Australian shrimp, but since this pike is foraging here, it must love to eat it!

Tang Hai took out a jar from his backpack, and a bottle of wine, which was a sauce-flavored Chinese liquor 'Moutai', but it was not from a regular Moutai factory, but from Moutai Town, and the taste was a little different, but it was no different in terms of fishing. The bottle is about 5 yuan in a Chinese supermarket, but Tang Long paid $8 for it.

Pick the small ones from the lobsters.

Because the larger the lobster, the greater the probability of being infected with parasites, so it is not suitable for fishing.

Pick out 5 of them.

Peel off the shell and remove the legs, the shell is where the heavy metals are stored.

Scooping out the brain and internal organs, this is where parasites may be present, and besides, it also affects the taste.

Five white and tender shrimp meat were put into the bottle, Tang Hai put a small spoonful of brown sugar into it, and then poured in the sauce fragrant wine 'Moutai', and stopped when the bottle was 80% full.

Then he shook slowly, slowly.

After 200 strokes, he took out his fishing artifact! Domestic sea fishing rod can lengthen the rod up to 6.4 meters!

His fishing rod is different from a regular fishing rod in that he has 5 hooks on his line! The effect is about the same as someone else's 3-rod fishing rod!

This fishing rod cost $68 when it was bought, and it didn't cost anything to renovate, and the performance of the domestic brand was about the same as that of $600 per day. It's a good thing, but it's hard to sell it at a price for 'Made in China'.

He cautiously walked to the river and poured all the wine from the jar into the river.

Then come back and hook five shrimps.

Cast and control the length of the line!

The secret to pike fishing is that the bait should not fall too low, which will make the pike think it is dead. And it should be pulled and released slowly and in small increments.

Tang Hai carefully hid himself behind a tree, night fishing is easier to catch fish than during the day, one is that it is cold at night, and the fish is hungry again, and the other is that the fish's eyesight can not see the 'fishing line' at night, and people can just hide a little!

Tang Hai estimated that it might take about 10 minutes for the pike to follow the smell, but he didn't expect that in about 3 minutes, he saw the fish drift and sink!

Tang Hai tightened his grip on the rod and tried the lever!

The other party worked so hard that he almost pulled Tang Hai to a stumbling side! If he encounters this guy in the water, Tang Hai will definitely not be able to kill the other party!

He shakes the fishing rod from side to side, which is 'slipping the fish', the fish's muscle tissue is equivalent to the mammal's 'white muscle', with strong explosiveness and weak staying power, as long as the fish slides for a while, it is easy to pull the hook again.

"It's worthy of a fish that eats meat, and its endurance is much stronger than that of a carp!" Five minutes later, Tang Hai was surprised, that dogfish still had strength?

Another five minutes passed.

Tang Hai slowly turned the shaft to reel in the line, and the whole fishing rod had been bent into a 120-degree angle! Dogfish have thick lips and strong flesh, so you don't need to use a net to catch them, you can just pull the rod to catch them!

The fish's head is out of the water, it's a big one! The flat pike lips are so cute in Tang Hai's eyes!

100 degree angle!

80 degree angle!

60 degree angle!

Ready to reach the limit of your fishing rod!

Luckily, the pike are all out of the water!

A fish more than 1.2 meters long is still struggling!

"Haha!" Tang Hai was in too much of a hurry to go out, so he remembered to wear snake-proof shoes, but he didn't remember to apply mosquito repellent, and now he has two big bags on his face, but he has a bright smile on his face that he hasn't had since he was a child!