Super Orchard

Chapter 228 Ice Fishing
After playing with the ice cart for a while, the cell phone in Shen Yangguang's pocket suddenly rang, stopped the ice cart, took out the cell phone and pressed the connect button, and Zheng Hao spoke Mandarin with a taste of ice.

"What are you doing, Sunshine?"

"I'm skating here at Xiaohe in the east of the village, do you want to come and play together?"

"I'll forget it. Those ice trucks are still falling apart. I'm thinking about asking you to go fishing together. Are you interested?"

Shen Yangguang suddenly remembered that when he was a child, whenever winter came, besides skating in this small river, he would also fish and play. It takes a lot of effort, but fishing in winter is actually easier than in summer, and it can even be said to be picking fish!
Thinking of this, Shen Yangguang quickly nodded in agreement, and after returning the ice cart to the previous child, he drove home to pack up all the fishing props.

Fishing in a frozen river is completely different from fishing in a fish pond in a greenhouse. In addition to fishing nets and rods, tools such as hammers and chisels are also required.

Shen Yangguang took his own fishing rod, and quickly rushed to Zheng Hao's house. The two joined forces, searched the house, and finally found all kinds of tools, and then drove to the river again.

The river near the cement road in the village is not an ideal place for ice fishing because children often come to skate. This is not because the children are too noisy so that the fish will not take the bait, but because they are worried about digging out ice one by one. When there is a hole, children are easy to fall into it, and then there will be big problems.

The car drove north until it reached the entrance of the northernmost valley, and came to the north of Huang Weicheng's strawberry shed. The two stopped and came to the river with various tools.

After turning around on the ice, the two found a more satisfactory position, located in the area a little to the side of the center of the river, took out various tools and started to work.

The first step of ice fishing is to cut a hole of a suitable size on the ice. Because the temperature in Jinquan Village is too cold, the ice layer is basically less than half a meter deep, so this work is the most time-consuming and labor-intensive step. .

Shen Yangguang picked up a steel chisel and marked out an area about one meter long and half a meter wide on the ice, then placed the chisel on the drawn line, and hit the chisel with a hammer to start digging ice.

Zheng Hao also squatted opposite to Shen Yangguang. Like Shen Yangguang, he took a hammer and a chisel and started digging ice. The tools used are different, and the speed of chiseling is much slower than that of digging.

The two chiseled together for a long time, their arms were numb, and dense beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads, so they stopped to rest for a while.

Zheng Hao breathed out his hot breath and said: "It's not even when I was a child, I remember that time, I could dig a big ice hole in a few minutes by myself, without panting, now I'm tired after digging for a while Half dead."

Shen Yangguang's current physical fitness is much better than when he was a child, but he is still a little tired. He said: "I think it's mainly because when we were young, we regarded digging ice holes as entertainment. Of course, we didn't feel tired. Now we regard this as the preparation work before fishing." , When it comes to work, of course I'm tired."

"I saw a small video yesterday. Someone used that kind of electric drill to drill directly on the ice, and a hole the size of a washbasin could be dug out in one minute. It's really convenient. Why don't we buy one too? Or just cut the ice with a chainsaw like everyone else?"

Shen Yangguang smiled and said: "Do you know where they sell it? When you find a place to sell it, and then run over to buy it, you don't know how many days have passed. Besides, it's no big deal to dig holes in the ice like that and catch fish." The sense of accomplishment is meaningless at all.”

After a short rest, the two of them started to work again. They dug out most of the ice cave from morning to noon. After a simple lunch, they continued to work. The bottom of the ice sheet sees the river below.

Seeing this scene, it meant that digging the ice pit was at the last juncture. Shen Yangguang and Zheng Hao put a set of tools aside, picked up a wooden stick and pounded it directly to the bottom of the ice pit.

As the remaining thin ice layer at the bottom was crushed, a stream of river water spewed out like a fountain, which could be more than half a meter high. The ice starts to freeze from the upper layer and slowly descends, so as the ice layer becomes thicker and thicker, the pressure of the river water in the lower part will also increase. After the gap is dug out, the river water will be under strong pressure. gushes out.

In addition to the river water and ice balls, there are also small silvery white fish in the sprayed river water, jumping out of the water wagging their heads and wagging their tails, and flopping non-stop when they land on the ice.

However, these small fish that jumped out by themselves were not big, at most ten centimeters long, and most of them were about the size of a finger. After tossing on the ice for a while, they were frozen into ice fish because of the low temperature, and could no longer move. Then you can go straight to the fish.

Put the larger fish into the fishing net and keep the rest, Shen Yangguang threw them into the ice hole again. Although these small fish are frozen, they just enter a state of suspended animation, and wait until they return to the water. When the environment returns to above zero, these small fish will come back to life, as if nothing happened before.

The next step was the official fishing. Shen Yangguang and Zheng Hao put the hook into the ice hole. After a while, fish began to bite the hook.

During the cold winter months, algae and microorganisms in the water will be greatly reduced, and fish and shrimp will also lack food, so they will be easily attracted by bait.

It is also very simple to catch the fish, because the temperature of the river water is around zero degrees, the vitality and reaction ability of the fish and shrimp are greatly reduced, and the hunger is unbearable, so after biting the hook, it is more likely to hang directly on the hook , unlike in summer, when there is a disturbance, they will flee in all directions.

Seeing the fish float suddenly sinking into the water, Shen Yangguang knew that a big fish had taken the bait, so he got up and lifted the fishing rod high, and lifted it out of the water at a constant speed, and saw a [-] cm long fish hanging on the hook superior.

Throw the fish on the ice next to it. After taking off the hook, you don’t need to worry about it. After jumping around for a while, the fish will freeze and completely lose its vitality in this natural refrigerator. .

Immediately afterwards, Zheng Hao also caught a big fish, and put it directly side by side with the fish that Shen Yangguang caught earlier, and then continued to fish. In this situation, it was like catching a "stupid" fish.

(End of this chapter)