Golden drum fish, also known as money fish, their back is high and raised, the body is flat in the shape of a disc, the body surface is covered with dozens of black round spots, like money, the body color often changes due to changes in the environment, sometimes dark and shallow, especially beautiful. They are caught and cultured in marine fish tanks, which are not inferior to angelfish at all, and are used as feng shui fish. In the brackish water confluence of the estuary of the Han River in Shantou Bay, the dazzling fish of the Golden Drum Fish can often be seen.
They often appear between reef piles under embankments, under docks, next to bridge piers, or at gates where the current is not very turbulent. In South Australia, seamounts and other places, it often appears around fishing cages and marine product breeding areas, and is a widely salty omnivorous fish, and its food is mainly diatoms attached to rocks and mud surfaces. It also feeds on small benthic invertebrates, and around the fishing row, they choose to eat leaking fish and shrimp scraps and seaweed epiphytic to cages. They have small mouths, large digestions and are gluttonous, often nibbling non-stop, nibbling clean seaweed that is easy to grow, and are called "free cleaners" by fishermen.
Fishing for money fish in the sea is a particularly wonderful thing. The feeding habits of golden drum fish are more mixed, and fish and shrimp can also be used as bait, but it is generally best to use seaweed, because fish and shrimp will also attract other fish to feed, and seaweed is the preference of golden drum fish. When fishing, the hook is wrapped with fresh seaweed, and then the hook is hooked, the effect will be very good, and it is evaluated by anglers as a "secret weapon that few people know". Fishing in areas such as embankments, docks, seafood breeding areas, etc., the fishing point is difficult to determine, and the fishing point is more likely to find the fishing point by exploring the fishing method. Fishing on cages, if the cage nori has signs of being eaten, is usually visited by golden drum fish. Most fishing spots are in the slits in the fishing row, in the gap, or on the edge of the bait mixing table and in the shade around the living room.
How to catch golden drum fish
Golden drum likes to eat seaweed, but also eat fishy things, the more suitable fishing method is in the fish steak or marine breeding area, paste the culture of the green mouth, scallops or skewers to do fishing, with hand wire or raft rod can be, fishing water depth in the half water below, fishing bait to seaweed as better, of course, shrimp meat and noodle bait sometimes eat.
The more lazy fishing method is that the love fish steak sticks to the cage or breeding string, lets go of the silk, drops a single hook to hang fresh seaweed (fish steak float on a large handle), the water depth is set at half the water to about one meter down, the foot line should be above the No. 2 charcoal line because the teeth of the golden drum are very strong, and the hook should be smaller such as 0.5 or 0.8 thousand and because the mouth of the golden drum is small.
The golden drum eats food slowly, so wait until it swallows the hook and pulls the line to run in circles. If you use a raft rod to work hard, you must use the softest tail raft rod, when the rod head continues to shake and then jerk violently, in order to hit the fish.
The golden drum comes out in the spring when there is more seagrass, the individual is larger before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, and likes a small group of small groups to forage together, so after catching the golden drum, please use the correct method to generally continuously fish.
Golden drum fishing method
Hang 3-5 or more rods to the bait and install the bell. Then place them vertically on the edge of the cage, with a depth of about 2 meters, and the bait should be as close as possible to the edge of the net. When the golden drum fish is pulled for bait, the rod tip will be constantly lit, and the bell will pause and ring again, which is the case. Don't pay attention to it, and don't lift the fishing rod.
Wait until the fishing line is straightened diagonally or bent downwards. , directly by hand to collect the fish on the line, harvest nine times out of ten. The middle hooked golden drumfish is not very struggling and can easily be lifted out of the water. After the golden drum fish is lifted by hand, it is better to wrap it in a towel and put the mermaid protection when catching to prevent being injured by fish spines.
1. Fish for golden drum fish with fresh seaweed, and tie the algae bait to the hook with your hair.
2, with a small hook, generally use Izu 4-5 hook, the bait can choose shrimp meat (better with honey sauce shrimp meat), or hard meat fish, hanging a small piece of bait to catch the moment of the next meal. Try to fish close to the cage.
3, the hook is hung with algae bait, golden drums, red dot madness! Worth a try. Also, fishermen friends told a trick, in the season of catching red dots, hang a bright light cannon (about 60W) on the fishing row, red dot clusters, and you can catch dozens of pounds in one night!
4, use flour to catch golden drum fish, harvest a lot. Mix the flour directly with water and roll it into the size of a corn kernel for fishing.
Precautions for fishing golden drum fish
1, golden drum fish like in high temperature weather or in the water temperature of 20-26 degrees. There are also oyster steaks, boat steaks, fish steaks, such as going to the Gale River, especially if there is a row to collect oysters, it is said that there are more.
2, fishing golden drum with small No. 4 or No. 3 hook, too big golden drum most snacks do not go in, too small often catch small fish or wind fish. 0.2-0.25 thin line, golden drum fish like to eat fresh shrimp meat, but also listen to the various brother masters on the fish steak said that feeding fish feed can also be, as well as moss can also be. (You can go to dial a little and hang it up to try)
3, the method of fishing hooks should pay attention to, this is very critical, it is recommended that the sub-line of the hook is better to use carbon fiber, so that the line will not be rolled up because of the hook. There must be more hooks, and I personally tie 15 hooks. In this way, the fish are easier to find bait in the waves, which is convenient for the fish to feed.
4, golden drum fish eat basically a bite must be in the middle, the pull is small. If there are more hooks, even if you are in the middle of the fish, you can wait a little longer, which is convenient for a few more.
5, golden drum fishing on the shore is recommended to be raised in the water, so that it is convenient for the fish to go home or live, the meat is relatively fresh, the fish on the shore is recommended not to directly unload the hook, better is to cut the line.
6, the golden drum fish must be careful to remove the hook, must not be stabbed, that can be more painful than the mud, in fact, the golden drum fish and fishing mud is the same.
7, fishing golden drums can often be on the mud fierce fish, fishing methods are the same.
8, fishing golden drums and other fish as far as possible to tie row hooks, 10-15 are more moderate, too long hanging bait trouble. Too few, the chance of fish being medium is low.
9. The fishing time of the golden drum is the period when the tide rises and recedes, that is, the angle of fishing.
The mouth of the golden drum fish is very small, the fish signal is very weak, and it is necessary to have a highly sensitive raft rod to identify the signal. When fishing, the fishing rod is hung with bait, the bell is installed, and then placed vertically at the fishing point, with a depth of about two meters. Golden drum fish will not be dragged away immediately after eating bait, see the rod tip does not stop moving, the bell rings when it stops, do not rush to pull the fishing rod. Be patient until the fishing line is straightened diagonally or bent down at the tip of the rod before retracting the line. At this time, it will be ten to nine. The hooked golden drum fish does not struggle much and can easily be lifted out of the water, but the dorsal fin is poisonous and glandular, and after lifting, it is necessary to avoid being punctured by fish spines. After unloading the hook, it is best to keep it in the water, and when it is brought home, the fish will still be alive, and the meat is relatively fresh.
How to eat golden drum fish is delicious
Golden drum fish meat is tender, rich in protein and amino acids, is a kind of aquatic edible fish with high nutritional value, which can nourish the body, alleviate physical weakness, prevent high blood pressure and high blood lipids, and delay aging. In Chaoshan Province, the most suitable way for people to eat is steaming. Remove the ingress and scales, rinse with water, place on a plate, sprinkle with shredded ginger and green onion, and steam in a pot for 20 minutes.
Then put the oil in the frying pan, heat it, add the steamed fish soy sauce and a small amount of soy sauce and sugar, quickly heat up to make the sauce, and when the steamed fish is taken out, directly pour the hot oil on it. Golden drum fish soup is also very good, don't look at the skin of the golden drum fish and peeled fish is similar, but it is melted in the mouth, and the scales are very small, the taste is very good, very light and refreshing.