"Don't pull, don't pull, it's not a crocodile, it's not a crocodile!" Hong Tao almost pulled Irene down. He quickly held the bar stool with his hands and comforted Irene while holding the fishing rod high to prevent the line from slackening and allowing the fish to escape.
"What kind of fish is this? It has so many teeth?" Irene finally calmed down, picked up the net and squatted at the water's edge to look at the fish, not daring to lower the net.
"This is your specialty in the United States. It's called the alligator gar. Don't look at it. Fish it out quickly, or it will bite off my fishing line." Hong Tao had already lifted most of the fish out of the water.
, waiting for Eileen to get off the net and copy.
"This fish weighs almost 7 pounds. It should be considered very big, right? Put it in the water tank quickly. You can do it. I dare not touch it. It has too many teeth." Irene is not timid.
, but I was a bit confused when I suddenly saw such a big mouth full of teeth. After I found out that it was not a crocodile, I still used a dip net to get it up, and by the way, I also determined the weight of the fish.
"Hey, my wife, you have to be more serious when you read in the future. The competition stipulates that only bass will be considered as a result. No matter how big the fish is, it is useless!" Hong Tao looked at no one on the left and right, stretched out his foot and stepped on it hard.
Then he used a pair of needle-nose pliers to pull the bait out of the fish's mouth. The fish was quite stubborn and had two of its teeth broken off by the pliers, so he reluctantly took it out.
Open your mouth a little.
"Here, let's take a picture first. Regardless of whether it counts as a result or not, just keep it as a souvenir." Hong Tao picked up a towel, wrapped the half-meter-long fish body, lifted it up, put it in front of him, and then stretched out a
Scissorhands.
"It's so ugly. This is an American specialty? Why didn't I know?" Erin grinned and took two photos. Then she got closer and observed the fish carefully.
Alligator gar. It is called Fu Crocodile in Chinese. It is a very ancient fish, native to North America. The appearance of this fish is very strange, like a crocodile with its limbs removed and a fish tail added. Its mouth and
It looks very much like an alligator, and the scales on its body don't look like a fish, but more like a snake.
This is a large predatory fish. The average length of an adult crocodile gar is more than 2 meters. It can weigh more than 300 pounds, making it the largest fish in North America. The one caught by Hong Tao should still be in kindergarten.
.
"Okay, get out of here, you're an unlucky thing, it's wasting my time in vain." After Irene saw it, Hong Tao originally wanted to kick it out with a flying kick. But after thinking about it, he still smiled kindly and said,
He returned the fish to the water with both hands. Not only was Hong Tao kind-hearted, he was afraid that the competition would arrange a hidden camera to film the fishermen. In the United States, which is obsessed with protecting animals, if he kicked this little fish to death, then don't
I want to go back to China and wait to go to jail in the United States.
This alligator gar not only delayed Hong Tao's time, but also bit the artificial bait. Although it was still usable, Hong Tao decided to get a new one. After throwing the artificial bait out again, Hong Tao looked at it.
Looking at my watch, it's exactly 9 o'clock. The game has just been going on for an hour, which is still early from the end time of 5 pm, and there is still enough time for testing.
After throwing a few more rods, the second fish was also hooked. This time it was not an alligator gar, but it was not a real bass either, but a colorful fish with a slightly flat body. Hong Tao also knew this kind of fish, and he was in Canada.
When he was fishing, he caught a fish called bluegill, which is translated as bluegill sunfish. It is distributed in various waters in the United States and Canada.
It was still the old rule, take photos and then release them, and then Hong Tao continued to experiment. He kept trying until after 11 o'clock, but he still didn't catch a single bass. He caught a lot of other fish, except for alligator gar and bluegill sunfish.
In addition, there are North American pike, kingfish, channel catfish, black catfish, and even a carp.
"This is really crazy. Are you saying that fish-scaled water bass are not interested in it? That shouldn't be the case! Sunfish and catfish are both members of the perch family, so they should eat bass if they can eat them!" Hong Tao tossed the pole all morning.
His arms were swollen, and he had searched almost all of the small lake, except for the small forest submerged in the water. The main reason was that he was afraid that his throwing technique was not so accurate, and if he lost a fake bait
Just one is not worth it.
"My dear, let's eat first. It doesn't matter. You have already caught so many fish and I took pictures of them all. Even if they don't calculate your results, I still think you are the champion." Irene saw that Hong Tao was a little anxious.
, hugging Hong Tao's waist from behind, intending to enlighten her husband with sweet words.
"Hey, it's okay, don't worry, victory will belong to us sooner or later. You go prepare lunch first, and I will try there. If it still doesn't work, we will try somewhere else." Hong Tao was a little anxious, mainly because
NB was a bit loud last night.
Eileen went to the back to prepare lunch. Hong Tao controlled the speedboat and slowly approached the small forest. Although he didn't catch a single serious fish this morning, Hong Tao was already very skilled in operating the speedboat. Basically, he wanted to go where he wanted.
Just go as you please, turn when you let me turn, and stop when you let me.
Hong Tao stopped the boat 3 or 40 meters away from the grove, then changed to a fishing rod hung with white bait, carefully took a look at the distance, and threw the bait out with a whoosh.
Well, Hong Tao's rod-throwing skills are quite superb. Even if he changed to a lure rod that he was not used to, the lure did not fly around. Basically, it followed Hong Tao's plan and landed in the gap between several branches.
"Fuck! It's still hooked!" Just after retracting a few turns of the line, the fishing line was straightened. Hong Tao thought it was hung on an underwater branch. The anger he had accumulated all morning exploded at this moment.
I didn't have the patience to sail over and untie the lure, so I just twitched the fishing rod diagonally backward, intending to pull the lure off or break the fishing line.
"Well, that's not right!" Just after Hong Tao twitched the fishing rod, he suddenly felt that the feeling of injury was not like a fishhook hanging on a branch. There was obviously something struggling underwater, although it was not biting the bait.
It was running around, but with the feel of many years of fishing, this was definitely a fish!
Since it is a fish, don’t even think about leaving! Hong Tao stood up the fishing rod, stretched his front legs and his hind legs, and with the help of the elasticity of the fishing rod, slowly pulled the fish out of the gap between the branches, and then suddenly and quickly reeled in the line.
This fish was originally hidden among the branches. After biting the bait, it may have felt that the thing in its mouth was not a fish, and wanted to spit it out, but it was caught by the fishhook. But it was very cunning and did not struggle desperately.
It was because he was swimming backwards towards the branch that Hong Tao thought he was hanging on the branch.
No matter how smart a fish is, it is still a fish. When Hong Tao saw that the position where the fish bit the hook was between the branches, he did not forcefully take up the line. He was afraid that the fish would struggle and the fishing line would get tangled in the branches, so he used the elasticity of the fishing rod to apply a little force and pull the line in.
The fish was pulled out from the middle of the branches. When the fish felt the danger, it was already too late. Under the pull of the fishing rod and fishing line, its size and strength were not enough to resist the 160-pound man on the boat. No matter
How it struggled, it was finally pulled to the side of the boat.
The fish didn't behave well beside the boat. It saw that it couldn't go back to the woods, so it plunged straight to the bottom of the boat. If it was allowed to hang on the propeller, it would still have to escape the fish. Of course, Hong Tao would not make such a mistake.
He stretched his arms out as far as possible from the side of the boat, tightened the fishing line as much as possible, and pulled it out from the bottom of the boat without giving the fish in the water too much room to move.
"Hahahahahaha! Little Yankee! You have nowhere to run this time. Come on board the boat obediently. I have been waiting for you for a long time!" When the fish was pulled out from the bottom of the boat, the irregular lines on the fish's back appeared.
The black markings made Hong Tao extremely happy, and in an instant a crow-like laughter spread throughout the entire lake.
"Let me see, what did you catch? Is it a bass? Little Chinaman?" Irene was placing lunch on the stern deck of the boat. She heard the strange roar of the waves and came over, but she did not look into the water.
, but pinched Hong Tao's waist.
"Ouch, yoyo, don't worry, don't worry. It was a slip of the tongue. I won't say it next time. Look, we caught a bass." Hong Tao and Eileen had already agreed not to use their respective countries to make jokes to try to bully people. The United States
The word "lao" is also prohibited, but he said it with a smile when he was happy.
"Is this a largemouth bass? It's not black at all!" Irene asked Hong Tao while holding the net to lift the fish.
"I really can't tell whether it's a large mouth or a small mouth. I don't care. Anyway, large mouth and small mouth will count. Come on, let's make a bet. I said this fish weighs at least 4 pounds. If I win,
I’m going to kiss you.” Hong Tao picked up the fish by its mouth from the net, weighed it with his hands, and started teasing Irene.
"I think it weighs 5 pounds. If I win, I will sail the boat soon!" Eileen did not show any weakness and said her bet.
The final result must be Hong Tao's victory. His eyes and hands have almost caught up with the electronic scale. He can estimate the approximate weight of large fish by looking at it, with an error of less than half a catty. Small fish can be weighed by hand.
There is no need to weigh it. This black sea bass weighed 4 pounds and 8 ounces, which is a little over 2 kilograms in metric terms, which is exactly 4 kilograms. So before eating, Hong Tao ate Irene's tongue.
Lunch was very simple, just hot dogs and Coke. While eating, Hong Tao looked at the fish map distributed by the competition, and basically understood the life of this fish. This is a smallmouth bass, and its body is lighter in color, basically yellowish brown.
, there are vertical stripes on the body. And the back of the largemouth bass
They are darker, with yellowish brown on both sides of the body, and small spots. As for their mouths, Hong Tao really didn’t see any difference from the map. They are not small. Although this freshly caught bass is called
Smallmouth bass, but when its mouth is fully opened, it can fit a child's fist into it.
With the first harvest, Hong Tao felt much more relaxed and less anxious. He simply stuffed the hot dog into his stomach and drank a few more sips of Coke. He continued to pick up the fishing rod and fished it as before.
Throw the artificial bait into the gap between the branches and prepare to try again.
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