It is often said that the yellow eel race ginseng in the small summer is said to have the highest nutritional value of the yellow eel during the small summer festival. Almost all of the yellow eels on the market today are farmed, and live yellow eels are sold all year round. At present, there is still more than a month away from the small summer, and I want to buy a little bit of food and taste it as soon as possible, and the price of yellow eel at this time is moderate. If it is not a small summer, when the price of yellow eel rises to the highest price of the year, the general working class can only sigh at the "ginseng" in the water. In the past, because people did not farm yellow eels, wild yellow eels had to be marketed until the end of May and the beginning of June every year. Eel catchers are generally foreign boat people, and Wuxi people call them "people on the net boat". Most of them are nomadic people, and every spring they come to Wuxi in small boats to make a living from fishing, and the small boats stop at Hebang Harbor. Every year in June and July, when the eel fishing season is peak, the boat people suspend fishing and go all out to catch the eels. There are many ways to catch eels, commonly used are to catch yellow eels, illuminate yellow eels, and release eel cages. Fishing for yellow eels, fishing hooks are divided into soft hooks and hard hooks, villagers fishing eels generally like to use hard hooks, because the hard hooks are easy to operate. Yellow eels like to eat earthworms, and people often use earthworms as bait to insert the whole earthworm from the tip of the hook and slowly string it all on the hook. The characteristics of the yellow eel are to go out of the cave at night to feed and hide in the cave during the day. When going out to fish for eels, you must look for eel holes along the edge of the field, where there are yellow eels in the hole, because they have to go in and out of the daily foraging, and the exit appears smooth. Eel-free openings are generally rough or weed-free. Stick the hook into the eel hole, the impatient yellow eel found food and quickly bit the hook, a large yellow eel caught, so that it is not a problem to go out and catch a few kilograms of yellow eels. Boat people use wire hooks, on a tens of meters long hemp line every 20 centimeters or so to tie a fishing hook, string earthworms, every evening after the sun goes down the mountain began to fish, they along the edge of the field, around each rice field put a circle, after the sunset, the field can see the eel fishing people everywhere. Early the next morning, the boatmen began to collect the hooks with their eel baskets hanging from their waists, and after they were busy all morning, they sent the baskets of fresh yellow eels they caught to the market, and the daily harvest was very rich. Illuminating the yellow eel is also a matter for the villagers to do in their leisure time, and it must be double-handed. Between June and July, the weather is hotter, early at night can not sleep, interested people wear high boots on their feet, holding a flashlight, the eel catching tool is a bamboo clip, the bamboo clip is about 1 meter long, with teeth. In the field, one person used a flashlight to shine into the water, and found that the yellow eel was quickly clamped by another person with an eel clip, almost a hundred shots. It is very interesting to take pictures of the yellow eel, because the yellow eel sometimes lies motionless in the water with its belly facing the sky, and the prey is close to quickly jump up and prey, if it is confused by its illusion of pretending to be dead, it will slip away a little later. The eel cage is also the work of the boat people, the eel cage has two kinds of bamboo weaving and reed weaving, because the reed is cheap, so the boat people generally use it. The eel cage is also placed in the basket every evening after the sun goes down, the cage is placed with earthworms as bait, and the eel cages are placed on the edge of the paddy field or in the white field, and at night the yellow eel swims and forages, and burrows into the cage to become a turtle in an urn. Now that wild yellow eels are almost extinct, it seems to be saying that the past yellow eels are talking about the book of heaven, in fact, as long as you go to the older generation who grew up in the countryside, they may be more knowledgeable about catching yellow eels than me.