Mandarin fish are mandarin fish, not cinnamon. People in many places are accustomed to calling "osmanthus fish", "osmanthus fish" and "seasonal flower fish". That's just the customary name of the place, or another name. In terms of taxonomy, they belong to the order Perch, but they are more qualified to be called "perch" than largemouth bass. Among the 9 surviving mandarin species, the most representative and most frequently brought to the table is the mandarin fish, also known as the warp-billed mandarin or common mandarin, while some other smaller mandarin species are sometimes raised as ornamental fish rather than eaten because of their small size and small numbers.
Like most other perch, mandarin fish are carnivorous fish, they are accustomed to moving in the bottom waters, ambushing passing small fish and shrimp crabs in a way that waits for rabbits, and large individual mandarin fish undoubtedly play the role of high-level predators in China's freshwater ecosystem. However, although none of the members of the genus are fuel-efficient lamps, their ferocity, predatory ability, and growth rate are basically weak in the face of invasive largemouth bass, so when the two are in the same water, the former's status may be suppressed.
In my opinion, mandarin fish is a middle and upper class fish in fresh water, and the taste of that meat is very good. Mandarin fish weighing one or two pounds is the most expensive on the market. Fishermen will most likely take the price of this weight of fish. On a few pounds of mandarin fish, the price will be slightly lower. In our restaurants here, the common dish is steamed mandarin fish. Of course, the restaurant owner will write on the menu: "Steamed cinnamon fish". Where did they have the effort to write that complex "mandarin" word? Maybe he can't write it yet. Pounds of heavy mandarin fish, with green, red, green onions, ginger, peppers, basket a steam, is good-looking. That scent... It can only be tasted, not spoken.
Although "peach blossom flowing mandarin fish fat", in fact, the best time for wild mandarin fishing is autumn, but if you want to catch big guys, my experience is still more opportunities when peach blossoms. However, wild mandarin fish produce their seeds in April and May, and it is not bearable to catch them ashore at this time.
My method of catching mandarin fish is also very simple, in the waters where mandarin fish are infested, with a hand rod string hook hanging live shrimp fishing, is the method of fishing this fish. Each hook is about 20 cm apart, and the brain line is about 15 cm long. You can use 4 to 5 No. 11 hooks, and the hook line is made of nylon wire. Each hook is fitted with a lead pendant. The lead pendant of the bottom hook is a little larger. The fishing line should be appropriately long, and the line should be tethered to the seven stars floating. Throw the hook line into the water in the distance, then move the rod so that the hook bait line as a whole moves slowly to the left or right. Note that the seven-star float only plays the role of mastering the depth of the hook bait in the water. Whether the fish eat the hook depends on the feel. This method can be fished all year round, and the harvest is very fruitful in winter.
The method of hooking is the same as the hook method of fishing other carnivorous fish; when using live loach as bait, because the loach epidermis is thick and strong, it is only necessary to pass the hook through a layer of epidermis on the back to expose the hook tip; the small fish as bait is generally hooked from the belly of the fish side to the ridge, the hook tip is best not to be exposed; the hook is hooked with shrimp, and live shrimp are also used, and the green shrimp with an individual length of 4 to 6 cm is selected, and the hook is passed from the back of the shrimp close to the hard shell, and the hook tip is exposed without exposing the hook tip. Put the rod into the fishing spot, watch the rod slightly signal fishing (mandarin fish swallow very "fierce"), such injured fish, but also to meet the habit of eating live bait fish first eat sick fish, the chance of being hooked will be great.
Nowadays most people no longer use this method to fish mandarin fish, but choose Luya fishing, Lua fishing is characterized by the initiative to find fish to fish, throw the fake bait to the place where the mandarin fish may inhabit, do fan search, all by feel, if the mandarin fish bites the bait, it will swallow it and go, then the signal reflected in the rod line is that the tip of the rod suddenly sinks downwards, the feel has a strong sense of drag, then the rod can hit the fish. Mandarin fish have little impulse, and mandarin fish with less than a kilogram can be lifted directly. As soon as the fish's body is out of the water, its dorsal and fins immediately open, but do not struggle. At this time, do not catch it with your hands, you should put the fish on the ground, cover it with a towel, and grab the hook from the belly with your hand.