Sand chicken or idiot, hahaha, the name of this fish is really interesting, although the name is interesting, but it is not so interesting to catch it, because the water quality requirements of the waters it lives in are quite high, and the polluted waters can be said to be completely invisible to them, and they are so proud.
Proud and proud, but the reason for the difficulty of fishing is certainly not only the high requirements for water quality, but also because it likes to move in places with stone gaps, so if you want to catch it, you must first overcome the difficulties caused by the hanging bottom of the stone, because when we are fishing, the bottom is very troublesome and very embarrassing, the trouble is to be ready to replace the sub-line at any time, the embarrassment is that I often go fishing for this fish without so many spare sub-lines.
Sand pond fish
I remember a few years ago, I accidentally got this fish species, through many ways to ask fishing friends, I learned its name, when my first reaction was that this fish was called "fool"? The angler laughed at the time, after saying its name three times in a row, I still didn't know what it was called, at this time the angler helplessly took out his mobile phone and typed out the two words "sand chicken", after figuring out its name, I learned its scientific name through the Internet query - Shatang Fish.
Whether it is a "sand chicken" or a sand pond fish, we want to go fishing for it, then we must first understand its habits, what water it likes to be in, what it likes to eat, etc. These understandings are some of the knowledge that fishing it needs to know.
The reason why it is called sand chicken, I guess it is that it is very fond of sand and stones
In fact, Shatang snakehead not only tastes very delicious, but it can also be viewed as an ornamental fish, although it is very ugly, but it has a certain degree of interaction, because before I was breeding it, it will obviously express a strong cognition, I will also swim with the hand when moving, but if you want to breed it as an ornamental fish, then it needs to be raised alone, because it is gluttonous and extremely fierce, which will lead to other fish species becoming its delicacy.
Shatang fish head and body is very thick, it is not like the general fish species belong to the flat type, this fish at a glance to know, it is an aggressive and ferocious fish species, it undoubtedly likes to eat small fish and shrimp.
And its own camouflage color, and the stone is no different, if not carefully distinguished, it is easy to ignore its existence, this camouflage color is also its weapon to catch the shrimp under the small fish, it hides at the stone, if found small fish and shrimp passing, then the speed of its attack, with our naked eye is difficult to see.
It prefers to live in the bottom layer of ditches and lakes with aquatic grasses, rubble, stone gaps, and sediment, and its main food is small fish and shrimp, because small fish and shrimp usually live near the shore.
Although it is small, but its guts are very large, I caught this fish species before, as an ornamental fish for a period of time, while breeding it, I also stocked a part of the small goldfish, but I did not know at first that it is a carnivorous fish species, so in the end it was inhumane, these small goldfish, without exception, all became the delicacy in its mouth.
Sand pond fish head is also called bamboo shoot shell fish
From the habit we have learned that the sand pond fish like to live in the nearshore with stones, then our fishing rod choice can be basically determined, because it likes to be in the near shore, then we fishing rod to choose a shorter rod, using the method of table fishing can effectively fish it.
We can use short poles in the selection of poles, but in the matching of equipment, we must also consider whether the rods used can match our main line floating, etc., so let's talk about the specific combination of equipment.
Fishing rod, we choose 2.7 meters -3.6 meters of table fishing rod, tonality to choose a softer rod, because the sand pond fish like to live in a place with stones, all we choose a softer rod, can effectively reduce the occurrence of our hanging bottom broken rod situation.
The main line we do not choose too fine, this fish as a ferocious carnivorous fish species, it struggles quite strongly, so we are now 0.8-1.0 of the main line. Sub-line We can choose 0.8-0.6 sub-line, sub-line as thin as possible, because if the bottom of the situation occurs, we must first protect the pole and the main line.
Floating on the float we should match the shallow water short tail float, because the water near the shore will be relatively shallow, with the deep water float will cause the drift too long, in the drift we will reduce unnecessary trouble.
Hook we can choose to match the hook with 0.8-0.6 sub-line, too thin sub-line we can not choose too large hook, I suggest that you use the 3-5 size of the arm hook can be, if you are afraid of the sleeve hook easy to break, we can also choose a relatively strong Izu.
Water anglers
Also through habit, we also learned that it likes to eat small fish and shrimp, so small fish and shrimp are the best food for us to catch it.
As bait we can use small fish and shrimp.
When we choose to use small fish, we should put the hook on the back of the small fish, because this method can effectively avoid the death of the small fish immediately, carnivorous fish species we still try to use live bait to fish, because the active bait has the best attraction.
If small shrimp are chosen for fishing, then our hook should be hung on the shell of the shrimp near the head, and its shell has a part of the hard bulge, which is the perfect hook position, where the hook can keep the shrimp active for a long time.
What kind of bait should we use to make nests when we are nesting?
In fact, we can choose to use meat bait to nest, such as: earthworms, red worms, mussel meat, shrimp meat, snail meat, maggots, etc., these are the perfect bait for nesting, but we can't hit too much at one time when we are nesting, although it is gluttonous and fierce, but its size is here, it is impossible to have a very large amount of food, the nest material hits too much, it will return to the stone cracks when it is full, at this time, it is very difficult to catch it.
This minced shrimp meat is a good nesting material and is very easy to obtain.
Sand pond fish is a very interesting fish species, it hides in the cracks of the stone often stick out of its head, observe the angler who fishes it, but its personality is very lively, the same courage is also very large, as long as we understand it and choose the right equipment, then fishing it will be very easy, because it is very gluttonous, as long as the food sent to the mouth, it will never refuse, so when we fish it, as long as we solve the problem of hanging the bottom of the stone, we can effectively and a large number of fishing.
Write at the end: As fishing enthusiasts, we should learn our lessons and change our thinking. We should be able to fish for the sake of fishing, proper release for our next fishing, can have a better harvest! Of course, it would be best if we could clean up the trash we generated while fishing and take it away! Here, as an angler, I advocate that the majority of anglers should love the waterside environment! Thank you!
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