I remember when I was a child, every year in the late spring and early summer, there was a lot of water, there were a lot of small scaled fish in the river, when I was young, I always thought that the fine scale fish was poisonous, because it had a little black marking on its back, and my mother told me that everything that looks good is more dangerous!
The fine scaled fish is named for its small scales, and our hometown in Tonghe County calls it the fine scales (scaly hair). In our hometown, when inviting guests to give gifts, if you carry a few fine scales, it is very grade and sincere. One is because it is very rare and expensive, and the other is because its meat is very delicious.
The smallest of these fish is less than a centimeter, which is really cute and easy to catch, when the river water is particularly clear, drinkable and refreshing. The river is not deep, clear to the bottom, fine river sand, pure beach, swaying willows on the river, all make me very nostalgic.
Every time I fished for bait, I used a large earthworm, one hand holding a rod, the other hand aiming the lead pendant at the water surface in the gap to throw a hook, only to see the lead fall in the water was washed away, slowly stopped moving, the hook on the sub-line with the bait floated up and swung under the water, and the fish came to swallow the hook.
When the fish is in the middle of the fish, the rod tip shakes violently, the fishing line suddenly collapses, then the angler should react quickly, fast, steady, moderate force, lift the rod, the fish will be carried out of the river, with water droplets like blooming flowers trembling, the fish on the body of the golden thread in the sun, shining. It was a wonderful scene, and it felt very refreshing.
These fish tend to be in flocks, and when lucky, you can catch more than a dozen at a time. If you don't see a fish for about 10 minutes, you can change to another fishing position. The clearer the water, the farther the person must stand, otherwise the fish will not eat bait when they see the person. There are many ways to catch fine scaled fish, in addition to fishing with a fishing rod, there are lower line, pull hook, lower spin net, lower hanging. But fishing is a joy that no form can replace.
In the 1970s and 1980s, there were still a lot of fine scaled fish, and some people once caught a tail weighing more than 8 kilograms, and it was very common to weigh four or five kilograms. Later, due to people's over-capture, it was on the verge of extinction.
The biggest temptation of the fine scaled fish to people is his deliciousness, according to the old man who ate the fine scale fish, as soon as the fine scale fish was introduced, the whole body felt that there was a kind of pleasure that could only be understood and could not be described in words. Someone once asked, how about the flower thorns in the Yalu River? Answer, the flower spiny can not be compared with the fine scale fish.