Chongqing has a peculiar landform, and in the streams in the mountains and forests, there are also many strange and strange fish.
And among some elderly fishing people, there is a peculiar "little yellow dragon" that especially makes them relish.....
Most of this strange fish lives in streams and mountain streams in the mountains, with a golden body, two pairs of whiskers, one long and one short, plus a "huge" flat head, a "mighty" fin tail fin, it does look like a "little yellow dragon" swimming in the water...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > occur with flash floods</h1>
According to anglers in Chongqing, this kind of fish is usually rare, and it is only easier to catch in the rainy season every year.
Especially when the torrential rains have passed and the flash floods have broken out, this "little yellow dragon" appears in groups in the streams and rivers under the mountain.
There are experienced local compatriots, in the slow bend under the rapids of the stream, using earthworms, pork liver and chicken liver and other bait, sometimes can catch dozens of fish at a time...
In the Sichuan-Chongqing area, this fish is also known as stone beard, stone slats, stone flat head and so on.
Nocturnal activity and foraging are more active
The stone slats that appear in these flash floods are golden in color, wild and fresh, look very wild and fresh, coupled with their large heads and long whiskers, they do have a bit of a "little yellow dragon" appearance.....
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > stone slats "yellow spicy ding"? </h1>
Many people who see the stone slats for the first time often think that it is a kind of "yellow spicy ding".
—— In China, yellow spicy ding is a common name, generally refers to the body shape is "triangular", the body side and the back are three spikes on the scaleless small and medium-sized fish species, mainly a variety of anchovy family and quasi-anchovy fish species.
(Stone slats on the left, yellow spicy ding on the right)
However, the slate is actually a fish species of another discipline, the scientific name is the large-finned turtle, which belongs to the relatively rare genus of turtles.
Turtle fish are less distributed in China's rivers, and most of them are relatively rare and rare fish species, such as the stone beard (big fin turtle) close relative - the spotted turtle, which is known as the "freshwater famous" sesame sword.
(Sesame sword, very close to the kinship of the stone slats)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >why do the stone-bearded fish mainly live in the mountains around Sichuan and Chongqing? </h1>
In fact, this is related to the life habits of stone beard - compared to crucian carp, carp and other common wild fish, stone beard is a "slow-moving" benthic fish species, the main way of foraging is to eat moss on the bottom of the stone, algae, as well as a variety of sedimentary detritus, arthropods and so on.
Only in the mountain streams and streams with large water potential differences and large rock structures at the bottom of the water, the water quality environment is more in line with the survival needs of shi beard.
In fact, one or two decades ago, the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze river and the Pearl River actually had a large number of stone beards inhabiting.
However, because of sand panning, waterway operation and indiscriminate fishing, the number of stone beards in these waters has been very few, and fishing enthusiasts on both sides of the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers should be deeply touched by this.
Nowadays, the Yangtze River is completely banned from fishing, not only commercial fishing is prohibited, but even many individual fishing behaviors are regulated and regulated, in this situation, the stone beard population in the Yangtze River has a chance to flourish again?
Theory should be yes, but the stone beard is more demanding on the ecological environment, and the specific how to do it can only be tested by time.