On Sunday, my father asked me to go fishing with him to Dragon's Den Island.

My father made an appointment with Wei Xiaotang and a fishing friend named Feiyu, saying that they would go to a farm on the island for dinner at noon, and then go to a lure farm on the island to fish in the afternoon when the sun was not so hot.

All three of them have been good fishing friends for many years. They mainly play lure fishing.

Lure fishing first originated in Europe and the United States, and in Asia, it was first arisen by Japan and gradually spread to neighboring countries.

The English word for lure is originally meaning temptation. Legend has it that a fisherman in Finland accidentally dropped a spoon in the lake while washing dishes on his boat. When the big fish in the water saw the shiny spoon slowly falling to the bottom of the water, they mistakenly thought that it was a small fish running away, so they pounced on it. When the fisherman saw this, he thought, "If I put a hook on one end of the spoon and a line on the other, wouldn't I be able to catch the fish?"

Later, the man did catch a lot of trout with a spoon. This is where lure fishing began to take off.

More than ten years ago, in the area of Sampan Island at the mouth of the Pearl River, there were as many anglers as ants, but there were very few people playing Lua. Later, some Japanese came to Sampan Chau to invest and build factories, and a few Japanese employees liked to play Lua. Lure fishing began to emerge in the Sampan Island area.

When my father first started to play lure fishing, one day, he met several old anglers by the river in Sampan Chau. They saw that their father kept throwing the rod and reeling line, and there was no live bait hanging on the hook, just a shiny piece of iron, and they tossed for a long time, and they didn't catch a single fish, so they mocked their father and said that this kind of lure fishing method can only be played abroad, and Chinese fish are not used to it, and you will not catch fish with this fishing method.

Unexpectedly, just over a decade later, lure fishing has sprung up in the Sampan Chau area. More than ten years ago, when there was just a lure fishing ground in Sampan Chau, the owner of the fishing ground charged 50 yuan to play for a day, and then the ticket was mentioned as 100 yuan, or you could play for a day, and then later, it rose to 150 yuan, and now it has risen to about 250 yuan, and it can only fish for four hours.

Hehe, the singer who paid fifty or sixty yuan for a day of play never had to sing anymore.

It can be seen that the Lua team is growing day by day. One of the main reasons for the growing popularity of lure fishing and its promising prospects is that lure fishing is known as "water golf", an elegant sport that optimizes the natural environment on the premise of environmental protection.

In the past ten years, with the continuous development and growth of the Lua team, a new profession has emerged - angler. To be a good angler, there are many conditions that must be met, but two are essential. One is to love fishing and have outstanding fishing skills. He may not be proficient in all kinds of fishing techniques, but he must be proficient in one or two of them, such as table fishing, sea fishing, lure fishing, raft fishing, rock fishing, and so on. The second is to take fishing as a business. Anglers generally specialize in fishing and fishing-related industries, such as fishing tackle shops and fishing products such as making rods and bait, but there is no other main business. Because of this, the title of angler was first a mocking derogatory term for their group. Think about it, if a person fishes by the water all day long, isn't that an idle idler? But the times have developed, what was impossible in the past has become possible now, and what was unseemly in the past has now become glorious and enviable.

With the development of the times, it is not surprising that a variety of professions have emerged.

All anglers, they generally have a common appearance characteristics, that is, whether he is male or female, handsome and dashing, or slender and plump, or fat, thin and tall, their appearance is basically a pair of weathered vicissitudes, and their appearance shows that they are several years older than their actual age. This is mainly due to the fact that they have been fishing in the wind and rain for many years, winding and raining at the water's edge.

In the past 10 years, a variety of fishing grounds have sprung up in Sampan Chau, which is located on the seashore. According to the type of fish in the fish pond and the type of fishing tackle used, especially the type of fishing rod, the fishing ground is divided into hand rod pond, sea rod pond, luya pond, and so on. If the pond is stocked with predatory fish and non-predatory fish, and various fishing methods can be used, it is called a mixed pond. Fishing ground charges. Some charge higher, and after paying the money, the fish will go to the angler, which is also called a gambling pond. Some fishing grounds charge less, but when you catch a fish, you must release them immediately and cannot take them away. In this type of fishing ground, it is generally stipulated that there can be no hooks with barbs. Once the fish is caught, someone from the fishing ground will come and quickly untie the fish and put it in the pond. This type of fishing is great for beginners. This is to give you practice fishing skills and give you an enjoyable experience. There is also a gambling pond that specializes in sturgeon fishing. The sturgeon stocked in the pond can reach four or five meters long and weigh up to nearly 200 catties. This kind of pond charges very high, generally a group of three, a group to buy a ticket, the price is about 700 yuan. Not only do you need to buy a ticket, but you must also have an accident insurance policy. Because after hundreds of catties of big fish are hooked, a group of three people fight with the big fish together, which is not only exciting, but also dangerous. It is common for people to be dragged into the water or injured by big fish.

Flying Fish is a local, about 45 years old, he is a well-known angler in the local fishing circle. Fly anglers mainly play lure fishing, but also often go out to sea to fish. In the early years, the fly angler went to various fishing grounds every day, and after catching fish, he did not sell them to people who specialized in collecting fish at the fishing grounds, but to restaurants. Because he catches a lot of fish, he makes money every time he goes fishing. He has told his fishing friends many times that he only relies on fishing, and his income is no worse than that of a civil servant.

The fly angler once went to the Qisheng Luya Field in Nanheng Village to fish. He took his brother-in-law with him, but the two of them only had one fishing rod with them in total.

When you go to the fishing grounds, you only buy one ticket.

At that time, the fishing ground stocked a large number of alfsinosino weighing two or three catties. When he arrived at the fishing ground, he was not like others, who only looked up and threw the rod when he saw the water. The fly angler pays special attention to the fish, and he walks around the pond several times like a general before an expedition to inspect the terrain.

He carefully looked at the surface of the water, looked at the structure, and looked for fishing spots. He knew that there were usually obstacles such as stones, grass and trees or ancient shipwrecks under the surface of the water, and the fish that were stocked were generally purchased from other places, and after long-distance transportation, they were put into the fish ponds of the fishing grounds. The Lure people call this kind of place a structure, and it is generally an excellent fishing spot.

After a few laps around the pond, the fly angler finally found an excellent fishing spot, which was in front of a mound at the end of the pond. He called his brother-in-law to the mound with him, and he hung the T-tailed soft bait with a barbed lead-headed hook and began to cast the rod, and soon opened his bow left and right and caught the fish.

Others generally use hooks with inverted hooks, or even use three hooks, and use fish with inverted hooks, and the probability of running fish after hitting the fish is low, which can prevent the fish from running. But why don't fly anglers use inverted hooks? It turned out that his fishing skills were too high, and the fish was extremely fast, and after the fish was loaded, the hook could be unhooked faster without barbs, so that he could have more time to fish, and in addition, the fish caught without an inverted hook had a higher survival rate after being unhooked, and the price of selling to restaurants was higher.

The fly angler shoots his bow left and right, and almost every rod hits the fish. The brother-in-law specially helped him untie the fish and put it in the water to protect and raise it. That time, in less than two hours, the fly angler pulled more than 80 alfonsino more than three catties, three of which weighed more than nine catties. The boss who was watching from the sidelines was so angry that he didn't even light the cigarette in his mouth after striking seven or eight matches in a row. After all, the price of the fish caught this time by the flying fish larvae has already exceeded 1,000 yuan. And the cost of his fishing was only a 150 yuan ticket.

The incident of "two people with one rod, one person fishing, one person unraveling the fish, and pulling more than 80 alfonsino in two hours" caused a sensation in the fishing circle of Sampan Island for a while. Although the rules of the game in the gambling pond are that you can take any fish you catch within the specified time after buying a ticket, the ultimate goal of opening a fishing ground is to make money. If everyone who comes to fish is like a flying fish, then the fishing ground will close down in less than a month. Therefore, the sensational result is that the owners of various fishing grounds colluded to make a special regulation for anglers such as Flying Fish, which undoubtedly included Flying Fish Boy in the blacklist of Luya gambling ponds.

The rule reads: It is strictly forbidden to fish for the sake of fishing, and it is strictly forbidden for people who violate the spirit of Lure to fish. Note: The right to interpret this article belongs to the fishing grounds.

From then on, he was expressly forbidden to enter the fishing grounds, or even if he was allowed to enter, he was never allowed to open his rod to fish. I really have to do fishing, so I pay 1,000 yuan to the owner of the fishing ground.

At first, it didn't matter if the flying fish didn't go to the fishing grounds, after all, in addition to the paid fishing grounds, there were also vast waters for casual fishing. Besides, paying to go fishing at a paid fishing ground is undoubtedly more interesting than carrying a shotgun to the zoo to hunt? That being said, though, after a long time, he felt itchy in his hands. Later, whenever he had free time, he often went to the fishing grounds to have a look. Even if you can't fish with your own rod. He went to the fishing ground, watched the people fishing, and showed them what bait they used and how to operate the rod. Even if he breathes in the fishy smell from the surface of the water by the fishing grounds, he feels very close and comfortable.

At lunchtime, we went to a farm farm on the island.

The angler Feiyu picked up a bottle of foreign wine and asked us with a smile how about drinking.

My father and Wei Xiaotang both laughed and said, "Let's drive, and we will go fishing in the afternoon."

"Then I can only wronged you to drink tea." After putting the foreign wine aside, the flying fish boy called the waiter to come to his side, and without even reading the recipe, he casually sang seven or eight dish names, and ordered the dish after dividing it by one. The dishes they heard and ordered were all more expensive seafood, what grouper, what dragon li, what moray eel, all of them were quite expensive.

We all know that the angler is determined to be the east. The two looked at his position and thought to themselves, the angler may be a local tyrant. Both of them are well aware that in the development and construction of Sampan Island in recent years, many villagers have become rich overnight because of land acquisition and demolition, and they are so poor that they only have money.

Besides, on the fisherman's territory, why not eat him for a few hundred yuan.

Although the environment of the farm is not as good as that of the big restaurant, the food is served quickly, and after two cups of tea, the dishes are ready.

Flying Fish is very talkative. While persuading the dishes and tea, he smiled and talked about his so-called life experience.

Flying Fish said that his ancestors had lived in the conch village of Sampan Chau for generations. Judging from the genealogy, there has not been an official in the eighteen generations of the ancestors. His eldest brother, who is an elementary school teacher, is the only person in their family's history who has called "eating official food". Others, either ploughing the fields, ploughing the ponds, or going out to sea to fish or fish. Speaking of which, some friends may not understand what "ploughing pond" is. Originally, in the Pearl River estuary, fish farming or fish ponds and other such aquaculture were all called "ponds". In their view, the cultivation of aquatic products should be cultivated with care, just like cultivating the fields. Those who cultivate the ponds have to learn special techniques and invest capital in the provision of irrigation facilities. Feed on time and in the right amount every day. Therefore, the output value is naturally very high. It's not like contracting a fish pond in the mainland, but after you see God's face being rough and operated. Therefore, the people in the area of Sampan Chau do not talk about cultivating aquatic products in the fish pond, but generally say that they "cultivate the pond".

Feiyu said that the eighteen ancestors were all mud legs, and the ancestors were poor and difficult! I remember when I was in elementary school, my family was overspending every year, and if I didn't have meat to eat, my stomach was never full. The brothers barely had any clothes to go out of. In those days, ploughing the fields and ponds or fishing and fishing, if you can barely fill your stomach, you have already burned high incense.

But who would have thought that in the past few years, the situation has completely changed dramatically. Thanks Times! The times have created local tyrants!

It turned out that Conch Village was renovated last year. After the developer's renovation, the dirty and messy village will have a new look. There are also supporting office buildings, commercial houses and other properties for rent in the village. Flying Fish Boys, who have been cultivating the fields and ponds for generations, have two dilapidated residential buildings in the village. Each building is more than 900 square meters, and the two buildings add up to nearly 2,000 square meters. In the case of land acquisition and demolition, the developer compensates the villagers on a one-to-one basis. In this way, the two broken houses of Flying Fish Boy will get 2,500 square meters of existing houses to make up for it. If each new house is calculated as 100 square meters, his family can get 25 new commercial houses. If it is based on the current market of 30,000 yuan per square meter of the lowest property price in Sampan Chau, he can sell nearly 80 million yuan! Of course, it is not necessary to sell them all, and it is not bad to keep them for rent and be a charter company. In addition, it took three years from the time I moved out of the village to the time I moved back. The developer will give a subsidy of 20 yuan per square meter of the demolition area, so that the villagers can use this money to rent a house. In this way, he has a rental subsidy of more than 30,000 yuan per month. This money is issued once a year, for three consecutive years.

"And what about your children?" Wei Xiaotang drank tea and asked enviously.

"I got married at an early age and my two sons are married. They also have a house in the village, and the compensation is quite a lot. Speaking of this, Flying Fish Boy said with emotion, hey, my ancestors, no one would have dreamed that by my generation, when I was in my forties, I would suddenly wash my feet and go to the field overnight...... In the second half of my life, except for continuing to take care of the fishing shop, being a charter public collector and collecting rent, and fishing the rivers and lakes of the motherland, I don't need to talk about anything else.

Feiyuzi saw that his father and Wei Xiaotang were both very good-looking, and confirmed that they were both public officials in the district. In addition, I also met through a friend's introduction. Therefore, the three of them sat together to eat and chat, and he did not have any precautions in his heart. But then again, the most important reason why they were able to meet each other like this is that all three of them are anglers. This is exactly what it is:

is also a waterside fisherman, why should they have met before.

Later, the conversation turned to fishing. While eating, the three of them exchanged their fishing experiences or lessons with each other, and were interested in telling some unforgettable stories of their fishing encounters.

Flying Fish said: In the future, when you go out fishing, you should pay special attention. I see both of you have your necks empty. That's not right. I suggest you go out fishing and bring something special with you.

Speaking of which. He stood up and unbuttoned his shirt with his hands. An animal tooth about three inches long and as big as a finger hangs around the neck. The root of the tooth is milky white, and the rest of the tooth is orange. The teeth were made of silver and grinned tiger heads were tightly inserted. The tiger's head has a small hole that is threaded with a coffee-colored rope to make a hanging chain.

"Look, what kind of tooth is this?" Flying Fish untied it and handed it to his father.

"Dogtooth?"

"Wolf fangs?"

Of course, father and Wei Xiaotang knew that dog teeth, especially wolf teeth, could ward off evil spirits. Some anglers, especially those who often go to unfamiliar waters, have dog or wolf teeth around their necks.

"It's not a dog's tooth, it's not a wolf's tooth. This is a tiger tooth that is hundreds of times more powerful than dog teeth and wolf teeth! ”

"Tiger Teeth?" Both were a little surprised.

When father and Wei Xiaotang saw the silver tiger head, they didn't think of the tiger teeth. But they thought, the tiger is the country's top protected animal! Where can you get this flying fish boy? This is strictly forbidden to be bought or sold. Could it be that you dare to pick your teeth? If the tiger doesn't eat you, if you are caught, you are guilty of beheading.

"Where did you get it? The tiger is a national protected animal. ”

"Let me tell you. This is really a tiger tooth, and it is the tiger tooth in the upper jaw, which is the longest and hardest tooth in the tiger's mouth. Tiger claws and tiger teeth are all talismans, sharp weapons to ward off evil, the tiger's fangs are more powerful, can turn evil into good fortune, and be auspicious in distress. ”

"Tigers are national protected animals!"

"I got it for me with a fishing friend from Leizhou, Zhanjiang. He bought it from someone on the high seas. I think since it's the high seas. What is the seller, Vietnam, the Philippines, India, Bangladesh are all possible. Anyway, he told me that it was a tiger tooth, and I think nine times out of ten it was an Indian tiger or a Bengal tiger. In other words, it is definitely the tiger's teeth. ”

"Yes, yes, it's really a good thing to ward off evil spirits." When the two heard that it was a real tiger tooth, they were amazed.

"When I go out fishing, I take this object with me. Don't say it, in our Sampan Chau area, there are some waters where there are indeed unclean things at the bottom. ”

Speaking of this, his father and Wei Xiaotang all looked at him in surprise. Both of them thought, we've been fishing in this area for more than ten years, but we haven't encountered anything unclean.

After taking a sip of tea, the flying fish boy said colorfully: "I was playing Lua near the archway of the Sampan Island Bridge the year before last, and was suddenly attacked by a female ghost. ”

"Female ghost attacks the chest?!" The two exclaimed in unison.