American Ranch

Chapter 734 Fat Fish (35)

Qin Yi punted the boat to the shore, picked up all the fishing gear, and rowed to the middle of the river again.

At this time, the girls have already divided the tools.

The three of Susa had to take care of the children and were too busy, so they just took the fishing rod and gathered at the bow of the boat to fish.

It is said to be fishing, but it is just for entertainment. The fishing line is set very short, the bait is loaded, and it is thrown into the water. The fishing rod is placed on the boat board and stepped on with your feet. A fishing mentality!
The three of Sara were assigned to the fishing net, and they played more enthusiastically: holding the fishing net with both hands, fishing back and forth in the river water, which made the water muddy, but there was some harvest immediately!
A few big river mussels, a small bowl of snails, and a handful of other crayfish (la) mantis, grass shrimp, etc. Although they didn't catch any fish, they laughed happily and were very proud!

Angel hurried up with the small bucket, urged the aunts to pull the net back to the boat, and happily began to pick up the harvest.

The girls were a little afraid of the dark, hard-shelled crayfish, but Angel was not afraid, she grabbed it and threw it into a small bucket, and even boasted to Qin Yi that she had caught a small crab.
Well, in her mind, all aquatic creatures with big pincers are crabs!

But Qin Yi coaxed her and threw away the crickets and water turtles.

I also heard that cricket cricket can be made tofu with cricket cricket, but I have never heard of anyone who has such a strong taste that even eats water turtles!
Eating fish and shrimp now is just for freshness and to recall childhood, but there is no need to bring home all the edible and inedible.

Autumn is also the fishing season for snails. After growing for a summer, the meat is the most plump, so it is natural to keep it.

The mussels and grass shrimps are also plump, especially the mussels, each of which weighs half a catty, and the meat is quite plump. It is an excellent choice for soup or braised at night.

All the girls, big and small, were drooling at Qin Yi's words, and they got even more excited!

The three of Ke Luo watched for a while, and they also got harvests one after another. They were all small fish the size of a palm, and they released them.

This kind of half-sized fish is the most troublesome, with many spines and no taste.

The fishhook has no barbs, and it can basically survive after being released. If it grows for two years, it will be a delicacy on other people's tables.

On the contrary, the three little guys stretched out their small hands when they saw the white striped fish, and Rachel even teased: "No matter how big or small the family is, they are all foodies!"

Qin Yi and the others laughed, this is true, look at the people on the boat, they are all busy with food!
Amanda and Diana are more female and male. They stand on both sides of the middle of the boat. The long-handled fishing net covers a three-meter range around them, and they catch more fish. After a few rounds, the mussels and snails are loaded. Half a bucket!

Not only were they proud, Angel was also happy, and the laughter never stopped.

Sara held a short-handled fishing net, which could only be stirred back and forth near the bottom of the boat, but the harvest was not small. One of the nets even caught half a bowl of grass shrimp. Qin Yi was also deeply surprised, and bluntly said that she copied the grass shrimp. Wow!

Qin Yi wanted to cast a net to catch fish, but the girls were joking and fishing, stirring up the water, even if there were big fish, they would have been scared away!
The most vivid example is the three of Rachel. Except for the three small fish in the first shot, no fish were hooked in the next few minutes. During this period, Ke Luo lifted the rod in surprise, but only pulled up a water plant.
Qin Yi had no choice but to stand at the stern and continue rowing. After drifting for more than ten meters, he told the girls not to rush to catch fish. He grabbed the fishing net and cast it out first.

It’s the kind of old fishing with nets. The skirts of the nets with plumbs are arranged in advance and neatly pleated. Then the left hand holds the rope tightly and the right hand holds the plumb net. With a vigorous half-body spin, the fishing net faces the river. The face is thrown out!

Whoa!
The fishing net was opened and fell into the water in a long and narrow oblate shape. The girls applauded one after another, excited and looking forward to it.

Qin Yi was a little ashamed, he had only seen others throwing fish like this when he was a child, and it was the first time for him to do it himself.

In the final analysis, this technique is really not very good. Any elderly man in the village can throw a beautiful round shape with a large coverage and naturally catch more fish!
But the girls are seeing this fishing method for the first time, so they don't know much about it, they just find it fresh and fun for a while.

When the fishing net entered the water, the fish immediately splashed away, splashing white water, which made the girls applaud.

Angel even yelled "Dad is amazing", clapped her little hands, her little face was flushed, and she was already looking forward to the sweet and sour fish at night!

Seeing the fish entering the net, Qin Yi also heaved a sigh of relief, enjoying the admiration of his wife and children while secretly rejoicing.

Fortunately, the water quality has improved now, and the material conditions are not lacking, and the fishing effort is not strong, so there are more fish in the river. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will return empty-handed!
After waiting for a while, Qin Yi slowly pulled the net until the net sank to the bottom. When the net was out of the water for half a meter, he pulled it slowly while shaking the net vigorously up and down.

Doing this not only shakes the fish to the bottom of the fishing net, but also makes the fishing net fit closely to each other. Anyway, it is all to entangle the fish entering the net more tightly.

The girls were not interested in catching fish anymore when they encountered fresher items. They just stood beside Qin Yi and waited, hoping to catch a few big fish.

Angel even carried the bucket of fish, giggling, just waiting to help Dad catch fish!
Little by little, the fishing net was finally pulled up, and the fish was brought into a big lump of mud from the river bottom, weighing dozens of catties.

But this weight is nothing to Qin Yi, so he rinsed it in the river water a few times to wash away the sludge, and then pulled the fishing net onto the boat.

The big fish with green backs and white bellies are already clearly visible, the largest one is as long as a foot, and the rest are mostly palm-sized. There are also several river mussels, and the number of snails is the largest.

The girls gathered in a pile, and when Qin Yi tore open the fishing net, they rushed to pick up fish, but those crickets, water turtles and so on were really scary, and the girls jumped!

As a result, Angel, who had been foolishly holding the big fish, stood up to fight the injustice, swept them all into the river with a small net bag, and cleaned the boat board!

The big fish remained, and there was a yellow river carp about [-] centimeters long, which was very fat, which surprised Qin Yi very much. He announced on the spot that he would cook sweet and sour carp for the evening, which made the girls laugh and salivate for a while.

The palm-sized fish were thrown back into the river, and all the finger-sized fish remained.

Wrapped in batter and deep-fried at night, whether it is soup or eaten directly, it is a great dish!

However, the situation of fish flooding in my hometown is different from that on the ranch. If I catch small fish today, I have to buy some fry another day to release them.

It doesn't matter what other people do. With this condition, he is not afraid to spend a few small money to make the river in his hometown more alive.

In this way, Qin Yi rowed a boat to change places, cast a net of fish first, and the family had a good time around, and then divided up their work, fishing nets, fishing rods, and picking up fish. It took more than half an hour to change a few places, and there was a big difference. reward.

The mussels and snails are mostly filled into half a bucket, and grass shrimps are mostly concentrated on the banks of shallow water. The center of the river is relatively small, and the harvest is not much. There is only half a bowl, but it is enough to eat.

The small fish caught half the bucket, and only seven or eight big fish were left behind, and the rest were released, including a big catfish!

Qin Yi thinks that thing looks ugly, so he doesn't mind eating it.

It is worth mentioning that even a large eel was caught. The steel pipe is thick and the body surface is yellowed. It must have grown for many years!

When he was a child, he only caught a small rice field eel as thick as a chopstick with his bare hands. It was the second time he saw such a big eel. The first time he saw it was when he was seven or eight years old, in a small tributary river on his own land.

This thing looks similar to a snake. To be honest, Qin Yi was also a little scared, let alone the girls, booing, all shrunk their heads and hid far away!
However, this thing nourishes qi, nourishes blood, nourishes liver and kidney, and has extremely high nutritional value, so it is natural to keep it!

(End of this chapter)