Five hundred and sixty-two chapters catch the bait
"Hey, don't tell me. Yesterday I slept in a hammock and my back and legs hurt. Now I feel much more comfortable and light." Fatty Bu had just chewed a few times when he started to react. I don't know why.
The psychological effect was because it was the first time he had come into contact with this thing, so his reaction was relatively strong. After chewing it for a long time, Hong Tao seemed to feel that his arm, which had been slightly strained due to excessive fishing effort two days ago, no longer hurt so much, and he felt nothing else.
"Does chewing this here not count as taking drugs?" Hong Tao still felt uneasy.
"I'm afraid it would be a bit troublesome to chew it in front of the police, but we have been eating these things since our ancestors, and no one cares about it. These coca leaves are not grown here, but are bought from places further upstream. You may not have been there.
Bolivia, where coca leaves have been made into drinks and sold in stores. Have you ever drank Coca-Cola?" After Anaya finished chewing the coca leaves, she obviously talked a lot.
"Drink!" Hong Tao probably guessed what he was going to say.
"There are coca leaves in it, and it's not as pure as this. What they used is the residue after coca leaves are extracted." Anaya definitely revealed the secret of Coca-Cola, and she didn't know where he heard it from.
Come.
After a while, Sturgeon also walked in with a large otter carved from mahogany. He bought it from the old carver for 6 reals. According to him, the price of this piece of wood was more than
The old Indian man's skills are much better.
While everyone was chewing coca leaves and chatting, another villager walked in outside the door. He first said a few words to the village chief, then said hello to Hong Tao and the others in English, and then walked out.
"He is the only child in this village who has gone to school. I told the village chief that you wanted to go fishing for elephant fish. The village chief specially arranged for him to be our guide. He went to prepare first and we went to the river to wait.
Him." Anaya explained the subsequent arrangements to Hong Tao and the others, and then stood up first to say goodbye to the village chief.
Hong Tao and the others also followed Anaya's example and saluted the enthusiastic village chief, and then walked out of the hut. In order to thank the village chief for his hospitality, Hong Tao and the other three took the chocolates and snacks they carried in their backpacks.
The bright flashlights were distributed to the Indian children outside the house.
However, their gifts were not wasted. After getting permission from the village chief, Sturgeon carried a camera and took pictures of the village inside and out. He even let the old man who carved mahogany wood show off his craftsmanship. He took a few minutes to show off his skills.
Within a few minutes, I used a small carving knife to carve a small piece of wood into a sturgeon-style head. Although it looked rough, every detail was very expressive.
"The wood is good wood, but the carvings are a bit shabby, and it's a waste!" Fatty Bu bought the fist-sized statue for 10 reals. He said he would put it in the bathroom to ward off evil spirits.
When I returned to the small dock again, the Indian who had attended school was already waiting there. His name was Guaru, and he also learned English in a mission school. I don’t know if it was due to the living environment or the race.
.He looks like he is in his 30s, but he is actually just 24 years old and not married yet. He is growing up a bit too quickly.
Guaru himself had a canoe that could carry 2 or 3 people. Everyone agreed that it was more suitable for Fatty Bu to share a boat with him, while Anaya paddled another canoe carrying Hong Tao and Sturgeon to follow their boat.
back.
According to Gu Aru's introduction, the main food of elephant fish is various small fish in the water, and their favorite food is a kind of black piranha. Therefore, if you want to catch elephant fish, you must first catch a few of these black piranhas.
Piranhas were used as bait. There were not many black piranhas, and they were not as easy to catch as white piranhas. So he first took everyone to the nearby woods that were flooded with water and smoke to try their luck and see if they could catch them.
To this black piranha.
The local Indians don't like fishing. They are more interested in fishing with harpoons. Guaru is no exception. He has two harpoons more than one meter long in his canoe. This harpoon is similar to the
The harpoon used by Ananya was different. This was the first time Hong Tao had seen it. Their head was not a forked sharp steel fork, but a barbed needle-like object as long as a finger.
This needle-like object is not firmly fixed on the wooden stick behind the harpoon, but is movable. It is just stuck in a slot in front of the wooden stick, with a rope attached to the back. After Gu Alu's brief explanation,
Hong Tao immediately understood its principle.
It is not a harpoon in the ordinary sense, but like a whaling harpoon fired from a whaling ship. When the harpoon is inserted into a big fish, the needle on the head of the harpoon will fall off the harpoon, and then
The barbs are stuck tightly in the body of the fish. The owner of the harpoon will tie the rope behind the needle to the canoe, and then use the weight of the hull to slide the fish through the paddle, and finally pull the fish away.
Big fish caught.
Moreover, this kind of harpoon is a tool used by Indians specifically to catch large fish such as elephant fish. They do not use such troublesome methods to catch ordinary individual fish, and usually use fishing nets to catch them.
The process of catching fishing bait went smoothly. Gu Aru took everyone to a forest submerged by the river, then placed the fishing net he brought between several tree trunks, and rowed the boat deeper into the forest.
After dozens of meters, he turned around and rowed back, and at the same time asked Fatty Bu to hit the hull of the boat with the oar, making a thumping sound.
The water here is not deep, and on the surface there is no movement of fish in the water. However, when Fatty Bu knocked on the hull of the boat, the water leading to the main river became lively, and large groups of small fish were frightened.
They were scrambling to escape into the river, and as a result, some of them were caught in the fishing nets set by Gu Aru, while some of them alerted the larger fish to struggle desperately on the nets, disrupting the fishing nets.
The harvest from this net was quite abundant. There were almost more than 20 small fish of various kinds, but most of them were miscellaneous fish like piranhas and bagu. There were only 3 black piranhas that were really needed.
. But it doesn’t matter. There are shallow waters like this flooded forest everywhere. As long as you change a few more places, you can collect a bucket of black piranhas without much effort.
They say they are called black piranhas, or black piranhas, but in fact they bear such a hated name for nothing. They do not eat meat at all, but feed on the bark of tree trunks that are submerged in water.
, the reason why they are called black piranhas is entirely because their mouths are full of triangular sharp teeth, which look more ferocious than real piranhas.
Because this kind of fish feeds on tree bark for a long time, it has the smell of bark in its body. Hong Tao doesn't know exactly what the bark smells like. Anyway, Ananya said that no one eats this kind of fish, and they are smelly.
Humans don’t like to eat black piranhas, but elephant fish regard them as a delicious meal. However, it is not easy for elephant fish to eat black piranhas, because this kind of fish basically lives in the woods submerged by rivers, like the elephant fish.
It is difficult for large fish to enter those areas, so once they find traces of black piranhas in the river, they will definitely come up and take a bite without saying anything.
Now that we have suitable bait, we still can't catch the elephant fish smoothly. The reason is very simple. It makes Hong Tao gnash his teeth when he says it. Because there are too many fish in the river, the bait is just put down before the elephant fish can wait.
When I found it, it was eaten by other fish, so I had to find a way.
Guaru's method was very simple. He tied a large piece of elephant fish meat that he brought with him with a rope, and then sank it into the water. He would lift it a few times from time to time. Whenever he found something like a piranha biting the piece of meat, he would
Just row the boat away and try it as you go. When will this happen?
If the piece of meat sinks and there are no or very few fish to bite it, then you can throw the black piranha and the fishhook down, because elephant fish do not eat the flesh of their own kind, and in waters where elephant fish are present, other small fish
They were all scared away, and there were no fish to bite the meat.
"Okay, let's set the hook!" After trying several places, Gu Alu suddenly lifted up the chewed piece of meat, and then issued an attack order to Hong Tao and the others who were about to move.
"Plop, plop..." Before Gu Alu's voice could even finish, Hong Tao and the other three had already thrown the bait down.
The hooking method of this black piranha is also very unique. The hook passes through the tail of the fish. According to Guaru, this can slow down the swimming speed of the black piranha and maintain their activity. The most important thing is
Fish tails have the richest blood vessels. As long as they swim underwater, fish blood with a strange smell will flow out from the wounds. Even if the fish are hundreds of meters away, they can taste this favorite smell and then do it without any hesitation.
Hesitantly came over to enjoy his meal.
However, this was the first time that Hong Tao hung a live fish weighing more than 1 kilogram as bait. After he threw the bait down, the fish pulled the fishing line under the water and kept swimming towards the river. It was so powerful that Hong Tao
I had to forcefully reel in the line many times to pull it back to prevent the fishing line from getting wrapped around foreign objects underwater.
I don’t know what kind of gift Fatty Bu went to the god before he went abroad. His luck was incredible. He was the first to catch any serious fish. The big beetle also fell directly onto his belly. This time it was not the same.
The exception is Hong Tao and
When the sturgeon was stirring up the live bait in the water, Fatty Bu's fishing rod was directly pulled into a bow shape. Not only was the fishing rod bent, but the entire canoe was pulled as well, as if it was attached
The propeller rushed towards the middle of the river.
"Silly x!" Hong Tao and Sturgeon looked at each other, then commented in unison on Fatty Bu's good luck, and then continued to stare at their fishing rods without raising their heads.
Although they were really envious and jealous in their hearts, it wasn't that Hong Tao and Sturgeon didn't want to help Fatty catch the fish, but they were no longer in the same canoe, so they had no choice but to help (to be continued...)
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