Now many fishing enthusiasts, in order to "catch good fish", spend money to buy fishing tackle, but also more and more willing to invest, thousands of fishing rods are not lacking in people to buy.
However, the real support behind the pleasure of fishing is not the expensive fishing tackle, but the beautiful natural environment and sound river ecosystem.
For example, in the deep mountains of Sichuan, a group of fellow villagers who use the "most primitive" bamboo poles and cotton threads to fish, but experience the purest pleasure of fishing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the tackle is rudimentary, but the catch is plentiful</h1>
Fellow villagers stand in the stream wading and fishing, using a simple bamboo rod cotton line fishing set, but from time to time from time to time lift a fish from the water to come...
"Basically this fish, the flash flood is more, you can catch it without a hook"
Fellows are talking about a "small fish with a bright red tail", they eat hooks fiercely, bite the bait and are lifted, even if there is no hook, they do not let go in mid-air.
This red-tailed fish looks bizarre, what kind of fish is this?
The "red-tailed fish" caught by the villagers is actually a kind of loach, the genus of sub-loach, in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, also known as red-tailed loach, meat roller, loach and so on.
The fishermen of the Jinsha River call it Genyu Roe – a very poetic name, and some even think it is the best fish in the Jinsha River!
The red-tailed loach is a small loach that prefers to live in rivers with sandy bottoms, has high water quality requirements, and prefers to move in clusters.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > mountain streams with good water quality, a large number of such "red-tailed loach" can often be found</h1>
"It has rained recently, and the flash floods have washed down, and this fish has only caught, usually very little."
According to the villagers, every year in this season, the red-tailed loach will follow the flash flood in groups, and appear in the mountain streams downstream.
Their main role in the stream is to catch red-tailed loach – this fish is very "gluttonous" and easy to catch, so it does not require complicated fishing gear.
In a whole mountain stream, there are many fellow villagers with bamboo poles fishing for red-tailed loach
Most people cut a bamboo pole nearby, take two pieces of cotton thread at home, dig some earthworms in the ground as bait, and you can easily catch a lot of these red-tailed loaches.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >in fact, Gensho roe and red-tailed loach are familiar names for the people in the southwest. </h1>
Because this fish used to be all too common!
Not only are there a large number of red-tailed loach populations in the Jinsha River and Jialing River, but also in some mountain streams and ditches under the mountains, and every time after a rainstorm or a flash flood breaks out, there are flocks of red-tailed loach swimming around...
Unfortunately, this kind of caviar (red-tailed loach), since the 1980s, due to the overexploitation of rivers and overfishing, the number has been sharply reduced year after year, and now it is rare.
There used to be a lot of it – infographics
Nowadays, fishermen in the Jinsha River and Nanpan River can occasionally catch a few, and often several fishing boats get together to get half a pound a pound...
Of course, things are scarce and expensive, and the price of Xuan caviar is also soaring, this kind of "ordinary dish" that was once on the table of southwestern people can now be eaten almost only in high-end restaurants, often one or two hundred plates.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > can catch hundreds of fish a day, more than ten pounds, and now most of them "taste fresh"</h1>
"In the zero years, I was lucky enough to catch a hundred fish a day, and I brought it up to a big bunch.... If not now, just try it."
The fellow said that from childhood to adulthood, every spring and summer, I look forward to rain and rising water in the mountains, so that I can go to the river to catch red-tailed loach....
It can be said that this is almost a "habit" developed since childhood, but this fish is becoming less and less because of electric fish and the destruction of downstream river habitats. They don't know when the fish will never be seen again in the river.
The tender and delicious meat of Gensho roe is the "taste of childhood" that many people in the local area remember.
Gens roe stew, genyu roe hot pot or fragrant frying are all tender and fragrant, and are rare treasures in fish fresh.
In addition, there were once a large number of genie roe, so most of the friends who grew up in the southwest region have eaten this delicacy, which is the common "childhood memory" of many people.
In fact, the changes in the ecological environment are often silent, and when you realize it, you find that all aspects of your life have its impact....
I hope that this rare caviar, with the public's increasing attention to ecological protection, will flourish again....