fishing system

Chapter 140 After thinking for a long time, I gave up on naming!

On Lake Victoria, on a nearby island, next to a simple hut, with a few tree stumps as chairs, an old black man is smoking a cigarette with great interest, telling Yang Zi and the others about his decades of fishing career .

In Africa, although the fishing methods of the residents are simple, there are many kinds.

In rare cases, like catching African lungfish in the dry season, you have to dig in dry land with a hoe.

In the Lake Victoria area, because of the rich fishery resources here, the means of fishing are naturally richer.

The common ones are boat fishing, net fishing, purse seine, and leading fish to block the lake.

Among them, boat fishing and net fishing are basically similar to domestic fishing methods, but the equipment is extremely simple, so the efficiency is also very low.Local fishermen basically rely on their familiarity with the distribution of fish schools to try their luck.

The two methods of purse seine and attracting fish to block the lake are more interesting.

Purse seine is somewhat similar to domestic reservoir lakes or fish ponds. It also uses large fishing nets to spread in the depths of the waters, and then moves closer to the shore to catch fish along the way.

It is the results obtained by the seine here, which is really unflattering. It often uses more than ten people's manpower and material resources, spends most of the day, and finally is exhausted, but only a few decent fish can be caught.

If you are unlucky and encounter something hanging on the net, you have to send someone to dive to the bottom of the lake tens of meters deep to remove the net.

The reasons for this are, firstly, that the lake area is too large and the fish are not very concentrated, and secondly, it has something to do with over-fishing.

As for the last fish blocking the lake, it was translated by Tan Ziqing according to the literal meaning.

The bottom of Lake Victoria is extremely flat. Although the area ranks second in the world among freshwater lakes, the deepest water level is only about [-] meters. Compared with Lake Baikal, which everyone visited last time, it is not even a fraction of it.

Such a gentle terrain has resulted in many small puddles on the shore of the lake.

The depth of these pools is only one or two meters, and the area is about the same as domestic fish ponds. When the food in the lake is scarce, many fish like to swim in at night to look for food.

Taking advantage of this, local residents have invented a simple and effective method of fishing.

They place the bait in puddles, cover it with a cage to make it difficult to swallow, and then wait a few days.

When the fish in the lake got the news and swarmed in at night, the locals saw that the time was right, they would take the opportunity to cut off their way of coming with fishing nets, and then completely block the entrance and exit.

Next, it was time for harvest. The residents who participated in baiting and blocking the nets began to drag their families into the water collectively, using a kind of sieve to catch fish in the water puddles.

This method, in fact, has many videos on domestic websites. As long as there are no accidents, people who participate in fishing can often return with a full load. It is a practical fishing method in the local area.

Of course, in addition to the common methods mentioned above, there are also many other weird fishing methods, but compared with the domestic methods of releasing medicine and electric fishing, the methods are much softer.

After discussing with the old man for more than an hour, Yang Zi felt that he had gained a lot.

The other party not only introduced the fishing methods here, but also explained the details of various fish distribution, hunting habits, active time points, etc., very generously.

Of course, this is mainly due to Yang Zi's gifts.

A few cigarettes and two sets of fishing rods that looked pretty good made the black old man smile, and his mouth never closed.

Cigarettes are the next best thing. The locals also make simple flue-cured tobacco, which at most tastes a bit worse.

But those two fishing rods were put away by the other party as if they were treasures. The main reason was the price of fishing gear here, which made people feel a little speechless.

Yang Zi and the others arrived in Uganda for a few days, and when it was raining and bored, they also went to a nearby fishing tackle shop to inquire.

They visited several related stores with the purpose of inquiring about the local fish conditions and learning about the special baits here, but they were disappointed.

The local people's perception of fishing is not interested at all, it is completely for filling their stomachs.

Under this custom, it is basically impossible to expect them to buy expensive commodity fishing tackle for fishing.

Those who are willing to buy fishing gear here, except for a large number of tourists, are foreigners who immigrated here.

This makes local fishing tackle stores not only expensive, but also very rare in variety, and only some cheap commonly used fishing tackles are available for people to choose.

A street stall that sells for 40 yuan in China, with the "Made in Chana" logo printed on it, the other party actually asked for 20 shillings, which is more than 300 yuan when converted into RMB.

Such an outrageous price and quality are simply deceiving people!Yang Zi originally planned to buy something to get close, but was shocked by the price and turned around and left.

The fishing tackle he gave this black old man was a prize-level fishing rod provided by the fishing tackle manufacturer when he participated in the fishing competition. No matter in terms of quality or appearance, it was the best. No wonder the other party couldn't put it down.

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Saying goodbye to the old local fisherman, Yang Zi began to have a solid understanding of this fishing plan.

He glanced at the sky and saw that it was almost noon, so he asked De Ge to drive the speedboat to a nearby inlet. While eating simple dry food, he used his mobile phone to search for information on local Nile perch.

As one of the largest freshwater fish species in the world, the Nile perch once flooded when it was introduced into Lake Victoria, which caused a catastrophe to the ecological chain in the lake. In just a few years, hundreds of original ecological fish species in the lake area disappeared. There are so many kinds.

Until later, the local people took advantage of their ferocious predatory nature to catch them with fishing nets and ropes, causing their numbers to plummet, and they were once on the verge of extinction.

Until now, under the intervention of the governments of the three countries in the lake area, many relevant laws and regulations have been promulgated, this time to curb its ever-decreasing number.

Such ups and downs of "Yusheng" also fully verified the proverb of 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi.

Because of the sudden drop in the number, Yang Zi now wants to catch this kind of big fish, although the difficulty is not as high as that of the sturgeon, but if the weight limit is counted, it is really not that easy.

In order to increase the chances, he planned to catch some small fish in the bay here, first as bait, and then as an extra meal for the evening.

In the past few days, except for occasionally going to the barbecue restaurant last time to satisfy their hunger, they usually eat light meals in the hotel.

Although there are more varieties than in Lake Baikal, the taste is not much better, especially the sanitary condition is not good, so Qiaoqiao has been complaining for several days.

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Facing the breeze, Wood drove the speedboat and stopped in a calm lake bay.

There are several mountains around here. When it rained heavily a few days ago, a lot of dead branches and rotten leaves washed down from the mountains, as well as some unlucky insects, so there should be more fish coming here for food in the next few days.

Combined with the advice of the old fisherman, Yang Zi searched around the nearby fishing spots and quickly identified this water area.

He took out a lightweight boat fishing rod, and instead of using fake bait, he directly tied a set of string hooks, hooked up the earthworms, and threw the fishing group into the lake.

There are so many freshwater fish species in Lake Victoria, even if there are ethnic scavengers like Nile perch living here, it still does not damage its title of the largest freshwater fishery.

In addition to the common tilapia and catfish, various branches such as dace and carp can basically be found here.

Yang Zi doesn't choose the species, so the bait he uses is relatively simple. Since tilapias are the most here, it's fine to use their favorite earthworms for fishing.

　Well!It's too late, so write so much!
　　The number of words in recent updates has always been relatively small, and everyone has not saved up to read (-^〇^-). . .

　　
　
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