One of the fun things about fishing is frying fish with dynamite

When I was young, no matter the spring, summer, autumn or winter, there would always be a dish of stewed river fish on my family's dinner table. The biggest hobby of the uncle's life is fishing, the second uncle and the uncle are also a fishing enthusiast, the father is idle at home when he has nothing to do, and sometimes under the repeated mobilization and supervision of the uncle and the second uncle, he will also participate in the ranks of fishing. They fish in many ways, the most spectacular of which is the fish fried with dynamite.

The first job of the fried fish is to make an explosive pack, the production of the explosive pack is to buy part of the black powder and some small stones into the soda bottle together, at the same time insert one end of the explosive pack fuse into the inside of the detonator, and then put the end of the detonator into the bottle, the other end of the fuse leads to the outside of the bottle, the length of the fuse is determined by the distance of the igniter from the water surface, after which the bottle must be sealed tightly, and the water must not be allowed to penetrate into the bottle. Otherwise the explosive bottle will become a squib due to moisture. The work of making explosive packages is particularly dangerous, and other families have had many accidents in which people have broken their hands and arms and even suffered casualties. It was an extremely meticulous and dangerous task, and the explosive packs used for each fish frying were made by the old-fashioned second uncle of the fish in the wilderness.

In addition to making explosive packs, the second job of fried fish is to have superb explosive technology and high insight, and among my relatives, the person who will take the head of the fish is none other than the second brother-in-law.

The third task is to carry out specific fish frying work, when the fish head leads a group of relatives and friends to the scene of the fish, most of whom are in the downstream to prepare the home to catch the fish, asking for a fish copy or a wicker basket, etc., taking off their clothes in advance and standing in the downstream river, waiting for the fish to be fried and floating from upstream to be responsible for the task of fishing. There must also be one or two more capable people to surround the head of the fish to assist him in his work, the fish head to choose the location of the frying fish is generally at the bend of the river to erect a steep cliff on the head, when the fish head once found that there are a large number of fish swimming in the water, it will estimate the time required to detonate the fuse of the explosive package immediately from a high place, throw it into the water without error, and sometimes throw two or three explosive packs in a row. The explosive force of the explosive package falling into the water will lift the river water up a high column of water, after such a baptism, the unlucky fish will be blown to death, and the air bags in the belly of the fish will also be broken, at this time, the fainted fish will float on the surface of the river, drifting downstream with the river, and the people downstream can pick up the copy to put the fish into the net pocket, which is the spoils of the fried fish. This method of frying fish may be very fruitful, sometimes in the same place in the morning in a row put ten cannons and eight cannons, the resulting fish have to be pulled home with an ox cart, pulling the fish ox cart on the box board with straw straw woven curtain fence, in the fence with fresh fish, put on the old cattle can be transported to the home.

The fish that come from summer are often eaten, and on the same day, the fish is cleaned and salted with large grains of salt, and it is put into a large vat and becomes a salted fish in the winter. Or skewer long skewers are hung on a high lantern pole to cool off to form dried fish, which is left to be taken out in the off-season for use in the winter greens.

Almost everyone in our family is willing to eat fish, but cousins and cousins are afraid to eat fish, because they are afraid of being pricked by the fish bones, and adults sometimes remove the fish bones and force them to eat, and they are reluctant to eat only a few bites. My sister and I are both strong and fragrant, so we grow fat and old, while my cousins and cousins eat and pick fat and pick thin, so they are thin and dry.

At that time, wherever there was water in the river, there would be many fish, but I don't know why, and it seems that few people went to fish and eat at that time. In addition, that year there is a lot of rain, spring and summer will often send big water, once the water, the low terrain of the bud rice field in the ditch will gush a lot of fat fat big catfish, then as long as the use of dung basket or ordinary basket will catch the big catfish, some people are afraid of catfish no scales is not to eat catfish, but my family loves to eat this fish, so every time the water rises, we will catch a lot of catfish, can not eat it in the winter pickled sauerkraut vat put on the water to raise, at any time you can eat fresh live catfish.

Frying fish with black powder is a very dangerous job, and Grandpa is particularly opposed to fishing in this way. But the second brother-in-law's biggest hobby is to catch fish in all kinds of ways, in fact, he does not like to eat fish very much, he is also like other fish handles, catching fish is not only to eat, but a pastime a game and an entertainment. Every time he catches a fish, he is not happy to eat the delicious taste of the fish, but when he catches the fish jumping around, it is a kind of fun, from which he will enjoy spiritual pleasure, as for the satisfaction of the taste buds and smell, it should belong to the second place in them.