Brachyplatystomafilamentosum, the full name of this fish is very long, which translates to the silk striped short flat-mouthed catfish, if it is pronounced according to Portuguese, it should be called Billarada, as for what is called Satan platypus, Anaya can't say clearly, he also heard it from the old man's mouth.

According to the map, this catfish is a type of long-whiskered catfish, which is only produced in the Amazon basin, and generally lives in the deep water of the upper reaches where the river flow is faster and clearer. They lie dormant at night, hiding in underwater burrows during the day and only coming out at night to feed.

It is a purely carnivorous fish, but the recipe is relatively extensive, almost just meat, whether it is fresh meat or rotten meat, fish meat or animal meat, anyway, it is no meat and no happy type. Legend has it that they will attack humans even when they are hungry, and have a history of cannibalism, which is probably why they are called Satan. As for the name of the duck's beak, Hong Tao really can't find any information, from the picture it seems that although their beak is wide and flat, a little flat, but it is far from the shape of the duck's beak, more like a shovel.

It has been recorded that this silk short flatmouth catfish can grow up to more than 3 meters and weigh 200 kilograms, and because their bodies do not have a big belly like Asian catfish, but tend to be more streamlined, and their tail fin is also forked, they swim very fast.

This catfish is different from their Asian cousins, instead of lying in ambush at the bottom of the water to sneak up on fish or animals that come close to them, it relies on its own speed and that giant mouth to actively attack all the creatures it encounters, so it is more like a shark in freshwater, except for the big head and long beard, its size is indeed more like a shark.

"We're going to go further upstream to catch this fish, right? Far from it? Hong Tao quickly realized that in a river like the Negro River, where the water flows gently, it is certainly not the living area of the Satan platypus.

"Let's go up the Bronco, let's drive for about five hours, you don't have to prepare anything, I'll go and prepare the bait and bait, and bring you a special hook by the way. You can pay attention to mosquito prevention, there is no black water there, so there are a lot of mosquitoes, and they are also very powerful, I will go to prepare now, come back before lunch, and we will set off after a nap. Anaya stood up as she spoke, greeted the cook, and went to the docks to drive away on his wooden steamer.

"This fish looks wicked! Look at this little eye, you still dare to eat people. We're going to teach it a lesson in the evening! The fat man began to rub his hands, and then took out his fishing rod from the corner of the wall, and began to check the fishing line for any hidden wounds, foot by foot.

Anaya didn't come back before lunch, but his prophecy was fulfilled again, and the light rain became lighter after lunch, almost like a layer of water vapor in the air, and it was a bit of an exaggeration to say that it was a cow drizzle, and a nano drizzle was more appropriate.

Due to Anaya's lateness, Hong Tao and several people were a little worried about the afternoon trip. I didn't eat well, I didn't sleep in the afternoon, like ants on a hot pot, spinning around on the water platform of the hotel. Each blinked their little eyes, trying to see through the vapor to see the trail of the boat on the river.

When it was almost 2 o'clock, Anaya finally returned in the boat, and it turned out that he did not mean to miss the appointment. Instead, in order to ensure the afternoon trip, I went to the shipyard to maintain the power system of my boat, because the Broncou River flows rapidly. If you go against the current, you have to make sure that the powertrain doesn't strike.

After a brief lunch, Anaya set off again in a boat carrying Hong Tao and the three of them, first along the Negro River for a few kilometers downstream, and then through a tributary on the left, they began to swim upstream.

The color of the river is much more normal than that of the Heishui River, and the wooden boat did not feel any change in the flow speed when it first entered, but after going up a few kilometers, the river became more and more urgent, and there were large whirlpools on the river surface from time to time, which made people a little frightened.

According to Anaya, the river flows down from the highlands near Venezuela and Guyana, where the terrain is relatively high, so the river becomes more rapid the further upstream, and there are few flooded rainforests on both sides of the river, and in some places there are still rocky banks and no grass.

Hong Tao was not interested in the changes in the river and its banks, and he was now concentrating on tying fish hooks to the benches on the second deck. The hooks were specially purchased by Anaya from Manaus and were specifically used to catch the larger fish here, especially the satanic platypus.

The hook is crudely made, a half-palm-sized hook made after the No. 8 steel wire has been treated, and the hook tip has been simply quenched to create a barb. Compared with the large sea fishing hooks brought by Hong Tao, both in terms of steel material and metal treatment, they are much behind.

However, Anaya said that Hong Tao's hook was too small, first, to hang a large piece of beef bait, and second, the hook door was too narrow to allow the tip of the hook to penetrate the lips of the Satan platypus, and could only hang a little flesh, which would fall off when he struggled. Hong Tao carefully analyzed the lip structure of this fish, and felt that Anaya was very reasonable, so he decided to change the hooks, although their quality is not very good, but they can't stand the use of enough material, the hook is big, and the advantage of being stupid is stupid, that is, it is dead and strong, No. 8 steel wire! It's almost as thick as chopsticks.

The hooks Anaya bought were extravagant, but nothing compared to the bait and bait he brought back. On the deck of the first floor of the ship, there are three large plastic buckets, which are the baits and baits that Anaya specially bought from Manaus.

When he first got on the boat, the sturgeon was curious, and opened the lid of one of the buckets, only to almost vomit out his lunch. There was a large bucket of rotten meat and water in it, and I didn't know that the road had been drying in the sun for a few days, and the smell could be transmitted 2 miles against the wind.

This is the bait that Anaya is talking about, there are two buckets, all of which are slaughter waste from the slaughterhouse, and the other bucket contains more than half a bucket of meat, some with bones, which look like beef, all chopped into more than a pound. This is the bait, and it is also beef, which is the scraps in the slaughterhouse.

According to Anaya's introduction, to catch this satanic platypus, the best way to catch this satanic platypus is to find a relatively steep river bank after dark, with a depth of more than 5 meters, and then throw the hook into the water with a large piece of meat, and slowly throw those stinky and baked into the water at a place of dozens of meters upstream.

These satanic platypus fish are nocturnal due to their long-term diurnal appearance, and their eyes are basically decorations, and they have little visual power. However, it has a very sensitive sense of smell, and the beard on its mouth and the lateral line of its body are also very developed, so it can smell food from a long distance, and it can also use its whiskers and lateral lines to detect movement in the surrounding waters, just like bats.

And the stinky water is their favorite, with this taste, Satan platypus a few kilometers downstream will be attracted to it, and then those large pieces of meat are their meal, as for whether you can catch a large fish, that is still the old saying, it depends on character, or luck.

This satanic duckbill fish looks like a demon and eats disgusting food, but its meat is fragrant and a local delicacy, so it has always been caught by the locals. Due to the over-hunting, there are now not many large Satan duckbills, while the small ones are poisonous and unsuitable for consumption.

It's really slow to sail against the current, and sometimes you look at a tree or a rock on the shore and you've smoked a cigarette and their position barely changes. This is also during the dry season, and Anaya said that if the rainy season is in time, the river will not be able to swim upstream, and not only will the river be more rapid than it is now, but the whole big tree will float down from the upper reaches of the river, and no matter what kind of boat, if it is hit by those big trees, it will be a sinking death.

When it was completely dark, Anaya's boat finally found a suitable fishing spot in the middle of the river, which was a bend in the river, with a high bank on the right and some large and small black holes on it, and a slower river beach on the left, full of stones and few plants, relatively safe, and no animals would suddenly come out of the woods to hurt people.

Anaya said that the black holes on the riverbank are the burrows of the satanic platypus during the high waters, and it seems that this should be their favorite environment, and the bay on the left is just right for boats, so try it here.

After the boat was parked, the deck of the boat became an excellent fishing platform, in order to avoid entanglement, Hong Tao and the three decided to reduce one fishing rod, and use two to fish, one at the bow and one at the stern, to try to increase the distance between the fishing rods.

However, this is not as simple as casting a rod on the shore to catch a fixed point, not to mention the markers on the opposite shore in the dark sky, and the kind of bait that weighs more than a pound cannot be thrown so far, and it must be sent to the fishing spot by speedboat. In addition to the work of sending the hook with the boat, there is also a very solid job, that is, throwing those stinky bait, Hong Tao and the fat man cloth and the sturgeon stared at each other for a long time, no one wanted to go into close contact with those stinky water, fortunately Anaya was not very resistant to this job, he volunteered to take this job.

Half an hour later, Anaya threw half a bucket of stinky water and returned in a speedboat, but before the others could get on the boat, the smell wafted over, and his whole body stinked.

In addition to the smell, there is another thing that makes people feel very angry here, and that is mosquitoes. The mosquitoes here are very similar to the small bites in the old forests in the northeast of China, they are not big and bite very hard. After being bitten by them, it was not only itchy, but also very painful, although everyone applied a lot of insect anti-insect ointment on their bare skin, but their hands, neck and face, they were still attacked a few times, which was very uncomfortable. (To be continued......)

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