Chapter five hundred and sixty seventh night fishing
Brachyplatystomafilamentosum, the full name of this fish is very long, which translates to short-mouthed catfish. If it is pronounced according to Portuguese, it should be called bilalada. As for why it is called Satan Platyfish, Anaya can’t explain clearly. He also comes from
I heard it from the old man's mouth.
According to the introduction on the map, this catfish is a type of long-bearded catfish that is only found in the Amazon basin. It generally lives in the deep water upstream where the river flow is faster and clearer. They come out at night and hide underwater during the day.
They only come out to look for food at night.
It is a purely carnivorous fish, but its diet is relatively wide. It eats almost any meat, whether it is fresh meat or carrion, fish or animal meat. Anyway, it is a meat-free type. Legend has it that they will eat it if they are extremely hungry.
Actively attacks humans and has records of cannibalism.
This is probably why they are called Satan. As for the name duckbill, Hong Tao really can't find any information. From the picture, although their mouths are wide, flat and slightly flat, they are similar to the shape of duckbills.
Far from it, more like a shovel.
According to records, this kind of short-skinned catfish can grow up to more than 3 meters and weigh 200 kilograms. Because their bodies do not have a big belly like Asian catfish, but are more streamlined, and their tail fins are also bifurcated, so
They swim very fast.
This kind of catfish is different from their Asian cousins. Instead of lying in ambush under the water and taking advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack on fish or animals approaching it, it relies on its own speed and its giant mouth to actively attack any creature it encounters, so it is more powerful.
Like a shark in fresh water, except for the big head and long beard, its body shape is indeed more like a shark.
"Should we go further upstream to catch this kind of fish? Is it far?" Hong Tao quickly realized that a river with a gentle flow like the Negro River is definitely not the living area of the Satanic Platypus.
"Let's go to the upper reaches of the Branco River and sail for about 5 hours. You don't need to prepare anything. I will prepare the bait and lures and bring you back the special hooks. Just pay attention to preventing mosquitoes. There you go.
There is no black water, so there are a lot of mosquitoes, and they are very powerful. I will go and prepare now. I will come back before lunch and we will set off after a nap." Ananya stood up as he said this, said hello to the cook, and went to the dock again.
He drove away on his wooden ship.
"This kind of fish looks quite evil! Look at its little eyes, it actually dares to eat people. We will teach it a lesson tonight!" Fatty Bu started to gear up, took out his fishing rod from the corner, and started to fish one foot at a time.
Check the fishing line with a ruler to see if there is any hidden damage.
Ananya did not come back before lunch, but his prediction came true again. The drizzle became lighter after lunch, almost like a layer of water vapor. It is a bit exaggerated to say it is a drizzle, but nano drizzle is more appropriate.
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Due to Anaya's late arrival, Hong Tao and others were a little worried about their afternoon schedule. They didn't eat well and didn't take a nap. They were like ants on a hot pot, spinning around on the water platform of the hotel, each blinking.
Their small eyes tried to see the traces of boats on the river through the water vapor.
At almost 2 o'clock, Ananya finally came back with the boat. It turned out that he did not miss the appointment on purpose, but in order to ensure the afternoon schedule, he went to the ship repair yard to maintain the power system of his boat. Because of the strong winds of the Branco River,
The flow speed is relatively fast. If you go against the current, you must ensure that the power system does not stop.
After a simple lunch, Anaya drove the boat and set off again with Hong Tao and the other three. They first drove a few kilometers downstream along the Negro River, and then entered from a tributary on the left. They started to go up.
Swim upstream.
The color of the water in this river is much more normal than that of the Blackwater River. When the wooden boat first sailed in, I didn’t feel any change in the flow speed. But after walking up a few kilometers, the water became more and more rapid. People appeared on the river from time to time.
The big whirlpool is a bit scary to look at.
According to Anaya, this river flows down from the highlands near Venezuela and Guyana. The terrain there is relatively high, so the river becomes faster as you go upstream, and there are very few submerged rainforests on both sides of the river. In some places
The river bank is still full of gravel, with not a single blade of grass growing on it.
Hong Tao was not very interested in the changes in the river and its banks. At this time, he was concentrating on lying on the bench on the second deck and tying fish hooks. These fish hooks were bought by Ananya from Manaus specifically for fishing here.
of large fish, especially those satanic platyfish.
The fishhook is very rough. It is a half-hand-sized hook made of No. 8 steel wire. The hook tip is simply quenched and has a barb. It is similar to the large sea fishing hooks brought by Hong Tao and the others.
It lags far behind both in terms of steel material and metal processing methods.
However, Ananya said that Hong Tao's hooks were too small. Firstly, they could not hang large pieces of beef bait. Secondly, the hook door was too narrow to allow the hook tip to penetrate the lips of the Satan platyfish, so they could only hang a little bit.
Skin and flesh will fall off if you struggle. Hong Tao carefully analyzed this kind of
Regarding the structure of the fish’s lips, I thought Anaya’s words made sense, so I decided to change the fishhook. Although their quality was not very good, they were not durable and the material was sufficient. The hooks were large and stupid has the advantage of being stupid, that is, they are strong and strong.
Yeah, No. 8 steel wire! It's almost as thick as chopsticks.
The fishhook Anaya bought was very generous, but it was nothing compared to the bait and lures he brought back. There were three large plastic buckets neatly placed on the deck of the first floor of the boat. These are
Anaya specially bought the bait and lures from Manaus.
When we first got on the boat, Sturgeon was quite curious and opened the lid of one of the buckets. As a result, he almost vomited out his lunch. It was red and smelly and contained a large bucket of rotten meat and offal. He didn’t know what was going on under the sun.
It has been in the sun for several days, and the smell can be carried 2 miles against the wind.
This is the bait Ananya was talking about. There are two buckets in total, both of which are slaughtered garbage from the slaughterhouse. The other bucket contains more than half a bucket of meat, some with bones, and it looks like beef.
It was chopped into pieces that were about a pound in size. This was bait, it was also beef, it was considered scraps from the slaughterhouse.
According to Anaya's introduction, to catch this kind of Satan duckbill, it is best to find a relatively steep river bank after dark, with a water depth of more than 5 meters, and then throw a large piece of meat on the hook into the water.
A few dozen meters upstream, slowly pour the smelly water into the water.
Because these Satan duckbills are nocturnal for a long time, their eyes are basically just decorations and they have no vision. However, their sense of smell is very sensitive, and the beards on their mouths and the lateral lines of their bodies are also very developed, so they can smell food from very far away.
Smell can also be used like bats, using whiskers and lateral lines to detect movement in the surrounding waters.
The smelly water is their favorite. With this smell, the Satan platyfish from several kilometers downstream will be attracted, and those big pieces of meat are their delicious meal. As for whether they can catch the big ones.
Fish, as the old saying goes, depends on character, or luck.
Although this kind of Satan duckbill looks like a devil and eats disgusting food, its meat is very fragrant and is a local delicacy, so it has always been the target of fishing by local people. Due to excessive hunting, now
The number of large-sized Satan's duckbills is running out, while the flesh of small-sized Satan's duckbills is poisonous and not suitable for consumption.
Boating against the current is really slow. Sometimes when you look at a tree or a stone on the shore, even after smoking a cigarette, their positions have hardly changed. This is also during the dry season. Ananya said that if you rush
During the rainy season, the river could no longer go upstream. At that time, not only was the river stronger than it is now, but also whole big trees washed down by the flood would float down from the upper reaches. No matter what kind of boat was hit by those big trees, it would be damaged.
It is a fate that sinks to the bottom.
When it got completely dark, Ananya's boat finally found a suitable fishing spot in the middle reaches of the river. This was a bend in the river, with a high bank on the right, and there were some large and small fishing spots on it.
On the left side of the black cave is a river beach with a relatively slow flow of water. The river beach is full of stones and there are few plants. It is relatively safe. No animals will suddenly come out of the woods and hurt people.
Ananya said that those black holes on the river bank are the caves that the Satanic platyfish drill in during the high water season. It seems that this is their favorite environment, and the river bend on the left is just suitable for parking boats, so let's try it here.
After parking the boat, the deck of the boat became an excellent fishing platform. In order to avoid tangled lines, Hong Tao and the other three decided to reduce one fishing rod and use two fishing rods, one at the bow and one at the stern, to make them as large as possible
The distance between fishing rods.
However, this is not as simple as throwing a pole on the shore to fish at a fixed point. Not to mention the landmarks on the other side cannot be seen on a dark day, and the bait weighing one pound cannot be thrown that far. It must be sent to the fishing spot by speedboat.
.In addition to the task of delivering hooks by boat, there is also a very strong
The job was to throw those smelly baits. Hong Tao, Fatty Bu, and Sturgeon stared at it for a long time. No one wanted to get in close contact with the smelly bait. Fortunately, Ananya was not very resistant to this job.
He volunteered to take on the job.
Half an hour later, Anaya threw half a bucket of smelly sewer and drove back in the speedboat. Before the others got on the boat, the smell wafted over and made him stink.
In addition to the smell, there is another thing that makes people angry here, and that is mosquitoes. The mosquitoes here are very similar to the small bites in the old forests of Northeast China. They are not big and bite very hard. After being bitten by them, not only
It was itchy and painful. Although everyone put a lot of anti-insect ointment on the exposed skin, there were still a few sneak attacks on the hands, neck and face, which made it very uncomfortable.
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