Chapter 276: Harvest
The harvest of winter fishing will have different results depending on the waters, the different fish species, the fishing techniques and the structure of the fishing nets. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Wang Chuan knew these truths, so when a bunch of people rushed to the destination lake, in order to avoid the disappointment of everyone's first net, Wang Chuan said first, the first net was just to test the water.
For Wang Chuan's way of doing things by trying everything first, everyone is almost used to it. Anyway, what Elder Chuan said and how he came, everyone actually didn't know what the result would be.
They, like winter bears, don't even know how to put such a long net under the ice.
In Winter Bear's opinion, even if the River tribe had iron tools, it was really not something that could be done in a day or two to knock out such a wide ice surface. But he knew that the River Tribe had always been magical, so he just watched from the sidelines and didn't ask questions.
The lake is one or two kilometers wide, and there is a side near the Yeyuan River that meets the river.
Wang Chuan chose an area closer to the lake, and selected the location of the ice by inserting tree branch markers, so that the tribesmen could chisel through the ice. The ice surface is dozens of centimeters thick, and it took more than an hour to pierce it.
Children and women came basically just to watch. But since the first ice cave opened, they had something to do.
When the surface of the lake freezes, there is a lack of oxygen at the bottom of the water, and the fish will swim near the ice holes, and some will even jump out on their own.
Children and women gathered around the holes in the ice, screaming at the sight of fish jumping out of the lake, and even the eaglets chased the fish like penguins behind them.
In fact, these fish don't have to chase much, they will freeze to death after a few jumps on the ice, and then become a hard ice fish.
The pot was on the accompanying sled, and the perilla leaves and salt were all brought, and Wang Chuan asked them to set up the pot on the shore and use these fish to make a hot pot to eat first.
So the women and their children made a fire on the shore. Hee-hee-ha began to cook and eat, and for them, the project of having a picnic was not in vain.
The more the ice eyes hit, the more and more fish came out. For the rest of the tribe, basically having these fish is considered a harvest, if Elder Chuan is willing to let them go to the net now, it will not be in vain today.
Winter Bear had seen Wang Chuan digging ice in the river to fish before, and he was not surprised by this. As he watched, he was still telling the old man what he had seen before. The old man nodded while watching, but he still didn't understand why Wang Chuan didn't go to the net after digging up the ice eye.
If he digs up the ice eye and goes to the net, Wang Chuan will not prepare a big net. He wants to catch a lot, so naturally he doesn't care about such a little fish in the ice eye. Still carrying out their own plans step by step.
The tribe prepared a purse seine net, not a large net suitable for pulling. Fortunately, the water is not deep, only a few meters. The large net is tied to a bamboo tube as a buoy, and a small pebble is tied to the bottom as a pendant, and the interception area should not be small.
The net made of fine hemp rope was certainly not as strong as the composite material of later generations, so Wang Chuan tied a piece of hemp rope as thick as a child's arm to the entire net to prevent the net from being torn off.
The ice cave is released in a fan shape, about more than ten meters each. After all the ice caves were dug, Wang Chuan asked people to lower the net from the ice cave in the middle of the arc, and use a pole more than ten meters long to pull the net from under the ice to separate the two sides. The ice eye in the back makes people respond, and in this way, the net tens or hundreds of meters long is opened like this, which makes the winter bear extremely admirable.
After the net is opened, the net is pulled closer to the center of the circle in the same way. Theoretically, after such a round, the fish in the ice eye range will be trapped in the net.
In order to facilitate the netting, the ice cave where the net was raised was dug relatively large, and the baby elephant and the baby rhinoceros were tied with the reins on their backs and tied to the rope on the large net. Wang Chuan made people look at the ice eyes, and walked slowly forward with the baby elephant and the little rhinoceros. In later generations, there was a record of hundreds of thousands of catties of fish in winter, but the shape of this net and the depth of the lake were limited, and Wang Chuan knew that there would not be so many fish in this net, and there might not even be any fish.
But the soaked hemp rope net will still be a lot heavier, Wang Chuan didn't dare to just let people pull, in case there were still some fish in the net, maybe people would be pulled into the lake.
The net was pulled out for more than ten meters, and it was all clean, and there was not a single fish. But more than ten meters later, the first fish on the net burst out of the lake, and the fish behind appeared in strings.
After pulling out the fish, the women and children had no intention of burning the fire and shaking the meat, and gathered around one by one to watch. Kitty simply jumped onto the net, pecked this, pecked that, and almost tripped over the net in the back, but fortunately, he quickly picked it up.
The old man also asked the winter bear to pull him to the net, and when he saw the live fish being pulled out of the lake, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's a knowledge, you can still fish like this in winter." ”
Ling started counting from the first fish out of the water, but after calculating it, he gave up. There are more and more fish coming out of the water, and I can't count it.
Dozens of meters long nets were all pulled ashore, and a layer of white-bellied fish was also spread on the ice. Wang Chuan untied the reins on the back of the little elephant and rhinoceros, and came back to take a look, there were not many fish, and it was estimated that it was only three or four thousand catties. With these fish, this trip is not for nothing. But Wang Chuan felt that it was a bit too little to work so many people to get such a little fish.
Wang Chuan saw that there were very few fish such as herring fish that like to feed on the bottom of the water, and saw that the pendant was not heavy enough or the net was not wide enough, and it did not touch the low lake.
Wang Chuan asked everyone to untie the fish in the net as soon as possible. Then roll up the net and put it back in the water before it freezes.
The work of dismantling fish is suitable for women and children, and the people who come from the Taijiang River can also make do, if they let those big old people rough dissolve fish, they will directly tear the fishing nets.
The second net Wang Chuan chose a slightly shallow place by the lake. This net Wang Chuan chose to pull the net from the center of the lake outward, so that the net is pulled from the deep water to the shallow water, which is easier to reach the bottom, so that the fish should be more difficult to go.
The results showed that Wang Chuan's idea was correct. There were no fish in front of the net, but when it reached more than ten meters, the fish wrapped in the net kept bouncing on the net. In the end, the baby elephant and the little rhinoceros were stunned and did not pull up, it turned out that the middle part of the net was wrapped in a large bag of fish, and the net was almost broken.
When the tribesmen saw this, they didn't care whether they would tear the net or not, and they grabbed the net and pulled it out, and twenty or thirty people joined forces, plus the baby elephant and the little rhinoceros, and finally pulled the big bag of fish out of the water.
As soon as the net was shot, the fish spread out on the ice, and the appearance of thousands of fish struggling on the ice almost startled the tribesmen.
Wang Chuan turned around and estimated that there should be 10,000 catties of fish in this net, so he nodded with satisfaction.
The old man was stunned and looked at the fish all over the ground, and only after a long time did he sigh with emotion: "The dragon blesses you." ”