How to catch Monopterus albus

Eel fishing is not much better than ordinary fishing. Eels mostly live in the mud near the water, where there are many aquatic plants. Fishing eels requires a special tool, which the locals call milli. It is a cage made of bamboo sticks, with mouths at both ends, so it can only enter but not exit. Take earthworm as bait, tie it with nylon rope, and put one end inside the scorpion. After dark, the fisherman will carry dozens of pennies on his back, walk to the ditch, poke away weeds, put the pennies horizontally in the water, and then cover them with weeds, so that they are not easy to be found. Plant a dime every 5 meters. After the seeds are divided, you can go home and sleep.

At dawn, I'll start fishing again and collect cents. In one night, I can move to a bucket of eels. Nine times out of ten, the collected millipedes have eels, and the eels stay in the millipedes, covered with earthworms and not struggling.

This bucket of eels, some of which are the thickness of thumb and some of which are the thickness of little finger, are foaming in the water, with a green back and a yellow belly, which is very beautiful.

The eel with thick thumb can stew soup, make eel noodles, remove internal organs, cut into sections and stew in a pot, which is extremely delicious.

The eel with thick fingers is still in its infancy. This kind of eel is fresh and tender, and is suitable for making board eel. As the name implies, eels are all coiled together. I have read a novel before, saying that I want to cook a plate of eel. As soon as I opened the pot, I saw an eel bow its head and die, in order to protect the baby in my stomach. I think this is wrong. People misunderstand that eating a plate of eel requires eating a thick thumb. This is really cruel. The author has never eaten a plate of eel since. In fact, the real eel is a young eel only the thickness of the little finger. Pour the live eel into the pot and cover the pot. The eels struggled in the hot pot and finally formed a circle. Then stir-fry with pepper and salt. When it comes out of the pot, it smells delicious.

Eating a plate of eel is also very particular, and you can't eat it whole. Although people who are not very particular also like to eat like this, it is not good-looking after all. Hold the tail with chopsticks, hold the head with the other hand, straighten the eel, bite the neck with your teeth, pull it to the tail smoothly, and then pick out the internal organs on your stomach. The belly meat is particularly tender and elastic, the back meat is fragrant, and the pepper tastes into the meat. After eating one, my mouth is full of fragrance, and I can't help but come back and eat ten in a row to be satisfied.