Although Li Yuan can only be regarded as a newcomer in the eel farming industry, he has a strong spirit of research.
During the period of collecting eel seedlings, he collected eel seedlings on the pier during the day, and stayed in the hotel room at night, hiding in the peach pit space to study the living habits of eel seedlings. Anyway, there are rivers and lakes in the space, so it is not a problem to raise a few eel seedlings.
Li Yuan's efforts were not in vain, he really gained some experience. He found that although eel fry are small, they have a strong demand for food. The smell of food can be smelled from far away, and it can be traced by the smell.
And eel's favorite food is slightly rotten and smelly meat. If it is animal offal, these fry prefer it.
After figuring this out, Li Yuan began to consider the possibility of trapping eel seedlings. If you can use bait to lure nearby eel fry together to catch them, it would be a good idea.
Of course, Li Yuan knew that someone must have thought of such a method, but this method obviously failed. So he plans to not only use food to trap eel fry, but also add some other things. The other bait that Li Yuan planned to use was naturally the golden bead.
As the time of owning the peach pit grew longer, Li Yuan also became more and more aware of the role of the golden bead. The magical golden beads can not only strengthen the body, heal diseases and heal injuries, but also speed up the growth of animals and plants, and have better quality.
In addition to these functions, Li Yuan also discovered a secret of Jinzhu, that is, its animal has a strong attraction effect. Perhaps due to the nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, animals with more sensitive senses than humans are particularly interested in Jinzhu. This is especially true with wild animals.
Li Yuan has done similar experiments many times, and they are all tried and tested. This time Li Yuan intends to put the previous experiments into practice, and at the same time use gold beads and food to trap young eels.
After making such a decision, Li Yuan immediately began to make preparations.
Li Yuan first went to buy some plastic buckets. I went to a nearby vegetable market and bought two pairs of pig livers, put them in buckets and put them in a warm hotel room to speed up the rot of the pig livers.
Of course, during this process, Li Yuan did not forget to put the lid on the bucket tightly. Otherwise, after two days, there will be no way to treat people in this room, and the hotel will ask him to lose money.
In addition to preparing food bait. Li Yuan also made several traps with the plastic buckets he bought by himself. He drilled many small holes in the plastic bucket to make it easier for eels to get in and eat the bait, and to prevent other larger fish from entering the trap.
After all, eels are not the only fish in the river that like to eat carrion, and Jin Zhu has a strong attraction to all aquatic life. Therefore, the trap must be able to roughly distinguish the target to be trapped, and it cannot catch all the creatures in the river at once.
Except for the small hole in the barrel. Li Yuan also made a plastic bottle with holes for bait inside, and an easy-to-open and close lid. In this way, there is no need to worry that the bait will be scattered everywhere under the action of the water flow, and it is also convenient to add bait to the bucket.
In fact, it is not difficult for Li Yuan to make these traps. The real difficulty is to find a fishing boat willing to take him to trap eel seedlings.
After all, at this moment, most fishing boats are catching eel seedlings on the river. Although the number of eel fry is very small this year, most people still hold out a glimmer of hope. They all hoped that Yuxun hadn't come yet. Maybe one day there will be a large number of eel seedlings pouring into the mouth of the Yangtze River, just in time to be touched by my own boat, wouldn't it be a problem
After all, Li Yuan explained to the other party before renting the boat that he rented the boat to trap eels, so all the eels that boarded the boat belonged to him. No matter how many eels are caught in the end, it has nothing to do with the boss of the boat. Under this kind of mood, naturally no one is willing to rent a boat to Li Yuan and take him to drift aimlessly on the river.
Li Yuan asked questions on the pier for several days, and the rent increased from 3,000 yuan at the beginning to 5,000 yuan a day. But still no one wanted to rent the boat to him. Most people who make a living on the water have a temper, and most of the boat bosses would rather fight the illusory swarms of eel seedlings than earn the 5,000 yuan that they can actually get.
This situation gave Li Yuan a headache. After all, the eel seedlings were all in the river, and it was impossible for him to trap eel seedlings on the bank. So how to rent a boat has become an increasingly urgent problem for Li Yuan.
For this reason, Li Yuan has already raised the rent to 7,000. It is hard to believe that even such a high price cannot rent a boat. The so-called "under the heavy rewards there must be a brave man", can earn 7,000 yuan a day, which is almost the same as the income of catching eel seedlings in normal years. What's more, this year's situation looks very bad, so when Li Yuan quoted this price, someone finally moved.
His name was Wang Qiaoyang, and he was also the captain of a fishing boat. Unfortunately, Wang Qiaoyang's son and crew member was injured while fishing a few days ago, and he is still recuperating at home, so he can only go to sea alone.
And if you want to catch eel seedlings, there must be at least two people on board. One of them is in charge of the palm rest, and the other keeps an eye on the water surface to catch eel seedlings. So under the current circumstances, even if Wang Qiaoyang goes to sea, he can't catch eel seedlings. Knowing that someone is willing to rent a boat at a price of 7,000 a day, he is of course very willing.
Finally, he rented a fishing boat, which made Li Yuan secretly heave a sigh of relief. Although he is very confident in his method of trapping eel seedlings, if he can only stay on the shore, no matter how good the method is, it will be useless.
Early the next morning, Li Yuan boarded Wang Qiaoyang's fishing boat with the trapping tools. The fishing boats that catch eel seedlings in the Yangtze River Estuary are very small, no more than five or six meters long, with a draft of less than two meters, and the side of the boat is only a few tens of centimeters higher than the water surface.
Although the Yangtze River estuary was relatively calm today, when the boat left the pier, it was still very bumpy up and down. Occasionally there will be a few relatively large waves on the river, even higher than the ship's side.
This is also Li Yuan's first time sailing on such a small boat, sailing on such a vast water surface, it is inevitable that he will be a little nervous at the beginning. However, Li Yuan, whose physique is far superior to ordinary people, quickly adapted to the environment. Not only did he not have the slightest symptom of seasickness, but he was soon ready to start trapping eel seedlings.
Wang Qiaoyang was also quite surprised by this, and had a high opinion of this young man who rented a boat. But even so, Wang Qiaoyang still didn't take Li Yuan's idea of trapping eel seedlings seriously. After so many years, everyone has used the same method to catch eel seedlings. If there is an easier and more efficient way to catch eel seedlings, someone must have done it long ago. Would it be possible to wait for a layman to do it
Just when Wang Qiaoyang thought so, Li Yuan had already started preparations for trapping eel seedlings. (To be continued.)
ps: The second update.
I'm trying to write the third update, but today's condition is not good, Haima will try my best to write, but I can't guarantee it, I'm really sorry.