Catfish, in the cognition of most anglers, is where the water is fat, where the mud is more, the catfish will hide there; because catfish is a carnivorous fish species that inhabits the bottom layer, and the vision is very poor, so usually foraging relies on smell and touch, because the catfish is a hot water fish, so the higher the temperature, the fatter the water quality, the more active the plankton and microorganisms in the water, so the more active the small-sized fish, so in order to eat in large quantities, catfish also like to inhabit, swim, forage in such an environment, over time, it gives people an illusion, Catfish do not like clean water quality, in fact, this is not the case at all, just because the catfish recipe is relatively wide, adaptable, relatively speaking, the water quality of the putrefaction, food is relatively the most, that's all.
There is such a fish, also known as catfish in the folk, and the appearance and catfish are also very similar, but this fish only survives in the clean mountain spring water, cold water river, the water quality is bad, it will die in large quantities, and the meat is very fat, in the chef's world, the deliciousness of this fish meat, can be ranked in the top ten, this fish, is the mountain catfish, but strictly speaking, this is actually just a kind of sturgeon that looks like catfish, more precisely, it is a river sturgeon, in life, not to mention the anglers, even many chefs, the eyes are almost, It's hard to tell the difference between catfish and mountain catfish, so what exactly is mountain catfish?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > mountain catfish is a very distinctive cold-water fish</h1>
Mountain catfish, scientific name is called Jiang sturgeon, commonly known as mountain catfish, mountain sturgeon, belongs to a very rare cold-water fish, the current stock in Europe and North America is larger, a small number of survival in Asia, in china, wild catfish mainly distributed in Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Ussuri River, Songhua River, Mudanjiang, Nen River, Erguna River, Inner Mongolia Hailar River, Hulun Pond and other areas; mountain catfish not only looks similar to catfish, habits are almost the same as catfish, but also benthic carnivorous fish, mainly to river bream to small white salmon, crucian, catfish, catfish, courgfish, mandarin fish, Fish such as perch pond bream and lamprey eel feed on all kinds of fish, and also eat all kinds of fish eggs and juvenile fish, as well as the same species of juvenile fish and eggs, sometimes eating a small number of aquatic insect larvae, benthic animals and frogs; the biggest difference between the only difference with catfish is that the mountain catfish eat more in winter than in summer, and almost no food in summer, and the reason why it is named mountain catfish is because when this mountain catfish was first discovered, it was mainly in mountain streams;
In winter, mountain catfish inhabit grassy, sandy river bends, adult mountain catfish like to inhabit the colder deep water, and juvenile fish more inhabit the warmer shallow water, and so in the summer, mountain catfish swim in groups to mountain streams, especially in shady waters, if the summer temperature is too high, mountain catfish will even enter the summer sleep state, until the autumn temperature drops, again rejuvenated, from the mountain stream to the deep water, and anglers are often fishing in the summer, will catch this fish in mountain streams, streams, so it is named mountain catfish The biggest difference between mountain catfish and catfish is three details:
1, mountain catfish body size is not large, mountain catfish growth cycle is relatively long, Guinness World Records recorded that the current longest mountain catfish up to meters, weight 25 kg, but most of the wild mountain catfish, the general length is about 30 ~ 35 cm, the weight is often about 4 to 5 pounds; and leather catfish, Egyptian pond catfish and other catfish, adult fish weight is far more than the size of ordinary mountain catfish.
2, mountain catfish only live in very clean waters; mountain catfish on the water quality requirements, almost harsh, if the water quality fertilizer, PH value is too high, too low, will lead to blockage, resulting in large-scale death, so artificial breeding of mountain catfish although has been feasible, but the yield is not high, so the mountain catfish is still a high-priced fish species;
3, mountain catfish like cold and anorexia; mountain catfish like low temperature, a summer into the summer sleep; and catfish is slightly lower water temperature on the mouth, the higher the temperature, the better the fish mouth, which is also the biggest feature of anglers to distinguish between mountain catfish and ordinary catfish.
As for the difference in appearance, in fact, do not carefully observe, just visual observation, in fact, it is not very obvious, what beard difference, the difference in length, etc., in fact, is not very good observation, often we are through the fishing season, the water temperature of the fishing point, and the water quality of the fishing point, these more obvious feature points, to judge whether we caught the mountain catfish or ordinary catfish, then, how should we fish for mountain catfish?
In the right season, the right waters, the right fishing spots, finding the mountain catfish is the most important
Mountain catfish is a carnivorous fish, and all carnivorous fish generally have the following characteristics:
And we want to catch mountain catfish, just in the right season, the right fishing point, prepare the right bait, as for how to fish, but it is not difficult, so these are suitable, to meet what characteristics?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the colder the temperature season, the more suitable it is for catfishing</h1>
The reason why it is repeatedly emphasized that mountain catfish is a cold-water fish is because the low temperature adaptability of mountain catfish is extremely strong, and it is most active at about 4 to 6 degrees, and the water temperature exceeds 16 to 22 degrees, then enters the summer sleep, every November to March of the second year, when the water temperature is infinitely close to 0 degrees, the adult mountain catfish enters the pendulum period, so the best season for fishing for mountain catfish is from October to June of the second year, and in the mountainous areas, in the shady waters, as long as the water temperature does not exceed 6 to 8 degrees, you can fish.
The location of the catfish in the colony is often distributed according to the area where the food is located
Mountain catfish do not eat vegetarian bait, so where the water is rocky, grass bottom, stone cracks in the water, and the shore of about 4 to 5 meters of steep shore, almost all have mountain catfish colony, this is because this kind of underwater terrain, very suitable for small size fish habitat, and mountain catfish mainly feed on these small sized fish, and, the location of this interval, the water depth is often between 2.5 and 3 meters, and this water depth for mountain catfish, the water temperature is the most suitable, the dissolved oxygen is the most abundant.
Bait is mainly offal and small fish, frogs
Fishing mountain catfish, but there is no meticulous attention, more commonly used, is fresh offal bait, cut into meat filling on the line, and then mixed with the mud under the water, you can also use a very fishy commodity bait into a loose cannon bait, the purpose of this is not to gather catfish, but to use fishy bait to attract small miscellaneous fish into the nest to grab food, as long as the density of small trash fish reaches a certain number, it will naturally attract mountain catfish into the nest; fishing bait, it is best to use fresh live fish, frogs as fishing bait, no floating is also OK, as long as there is a mountain catfish bite hook , will inevitably bend the rod slightly, the mouth is still very fierce.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > things to note:</h1>
1, mountain catfish is a group of perchfish, that is to say, either do not make a nest, to make a nest is a group of mountain catfish into the nest, so the speed of the nest may have to wait for a while, the nest is best to play a few more nests, so that the small miscellaneous fish in the water can be gathered more concentrated, the speed of the nest will be faster, if you have not kept the nest for a long time, there is no need to worry, after all, the mountain catfish in the carnivorous fish, is notoriously timid, continue to nest in the original den, attract small trash fish into the nest.
2, the size of the mountain catfish is small, but after all, it is to eat meat to grow up, the struggle after the hook is very strong, make a comparison, the wild 3 to 5 pounds of grass carp, carp in the hook of the struggle, may not be as good as the wild mountain catfish 1 pound size of the struggle, so the line group can be compared to the wild fishing 5 pounds of grass fish line group.
3, the nest of the nest, should not be too far offshore, too far for the small trash fish, the water level is relatively deep, may be a larger size of the small trash fish do not dare to go to the deep water to feed, and because when fishing for catfish, often the water temperature is relatively low, and then choose the farther offshore location, for small trash fish, it is too cold, completely can not gather fish;
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary:</h1>
Mountain catfish because of a long-term life in cold water, coupled with meat-based, so the meat is compact, tender, especially its liver accounts for about 6 to 9% of the body weight, no spinal spines, the protein content of fish meat is as high as 15%, but also a very suitable fish for supplementation, so it has a high edible value; in the chef's world, the meat of mountain catfish is delicious, in the top ten in freshwater fish, and mandarin fish, pomfret, etc. almost on par, because of its special habits, but also favored by anglers, if there are resources around the anglers, Must not be missed.
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