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Chapter 564 - 564 551 Indigenous Fishing Method

564: Chapter 551: Indigenous Fishing Method 564: Chapter 551: Indigenous Fishing Method Yue Feng’s broken branch was fresh, about as thick as the chopsticks we normally use for eating.

Due to frequent rainfall and ample sunlight in the rainforest, trees grow relatively quickly and have less dense, tender branches, which are not too tough.

Even so, the piranha’s bite was frightening enough.

If it had bitten a child’s delicate finger, it might not have been much stronger.

“Wow!

Isn’t that terrifying?”

“Such a small one has such a strong bite force?”

“If it bites your finger, does it directly break the bone!”

“I used to keep the Red Belly Water Tiger.

Just throw a few fish into the tank, and they’ll be knocked out effortlessly.

The only thing that dared to challenge it was the ‘Three Spaces’ Brother Feng caught earlier, those creatures are fierce, it’s hard to tell who bullies whom!

Besides that, even the tough-skinned scavengers are left with numerous scars!”

“+1 to the above, adding that the silver dollar fish is normally not attacked by the red belly water tiger either!

These creatures have a similar appearance and like to blend in with the water tiger group to mooch off food!”

Yue Feng saw that the live stream viewers were still discussing the water tiger’s behavior, and he continued to share the information he had researched online beforehand while the live stream was on.

“In the Amazon Basin, piranhas are one of the smallest but most dangerous species!

There are dozens of subtypes that vary greatly!

Most of them feed on plants, seeds, and underwater debris, but some species are particularly brutal!

Like the Red-bellied Piranha we just caught!

It is one of the most ferocious among the piranha species!

Before coming to the Amazon, I had looked up incidents of piranha attacks.

A few years ago, a bus with over thirty passengers lost control and plunged into water, and only one person survived, with over ten passengers’ bodies disfigured by piranha attacks!

The most severe case was of someone whose entire right side was almost completely stripped to the bones!

Every dry season, some upstream tributaries might dry up, forming various-sized lakes.

As the water level drops, piranhas converge due to reduced food availability.

Once a critical threshold is crossed, these starved fish frenziedly attack any living creature they can find!

Every year, there are incidents of native children falling into the river and being attacked or even killed by piranhas!”

Zhou Jie, also on the same boat, found Yue Feng’s educational talk to the live stream viewers quite convincing and chimed in at the right moment.

“No need for legends, we have a real case right here today!

Hey, Fabio, show my fellow countrymen your right hand!”

After speaking in Mandarin, Zhou Jie repeated it to Fabio in Portuguese.

The silent captain nodded and calmly stretched out his right hand, exposing it under the drone’s camera.

It was clearly visible that the tip of Fabio’s ring finger was missing, the cut very neat.

“Tell us what happened to your finger, my old pal!”

Fabio nodded and said, “It was bitten off by a black Piranha!

That fish was at least seven or eight pounds, maybe even bigger!

By the time I realized what happened, a section of my finger was completely bitten off, and at that moment, I didn’t even feel the pain!”

Zhou Jie translated his words, explaining that ‘Piranha’ is the local term for these fishes.

Now everyone feared piranhas even more!

“Damn, hearing the locals talk about it, I suddenly don’t envy Yue Feng!

This isn’t just fishing, there’s even a risk of disability!

What if they snap off a finger in one bite, that would make eating a lot less enjoyable!”

“Piranhas can grow to eight pounds?

That’s a bit of a stretch, right?

With that size, in groups, they’d eat anything they can get!”

“I think it’s very plausible, in the Amazon some species of piranhas can grow to more than twenty pounds!”

Yue Feng, “The brother upstairs is right, we saw piranhas weighing more than twenty pounds at the fish market!

But don’t worry too much about us!

There are definitely risks, but it’s not as bad as everyone thinks!”

Foreign anglers come here to experience the abundant fish, and this tourism-like industry is already very mature.

Every experienced guide knows how to avoid risks, we just need to pay a little attention as instructed and we can stay safe!

Alright, I’ve said a lot, let’s rest a bit and continue fishing for a while!

Red-bellied piranhas school together, so there definitely are schools around.

Let’s try to catch a few more, they say these taste quite good!”

Yue Feng then took out a lighter portable Lure Rod from the Rod Bag, and tied a neat little vib lure, fishing by the boat’s side.

This method was a bit like Stabbing Toad in Taiwan Fishing, fishing closer to the boat by lifting and dropping the rod to make the lure move and attract the fish to strike.

Given the expected presence of schools, there should have been a quick response.

However, after trying for a long while, Yue Feng couldn’t catch a single fish.

This was awkward as he had just boasted about the presence of the school.

After changing positions, Yue Feng controlled the lure’s motion a bit slower and, after some adjustments, finally caught a fish!

The piranha’s strike on the lure wasn’t very forceful, lifting a half-pound fish was way easier than Fly Kicking carp, just had to be careful about their teeth when removing the hook, and it was all good!

“I told you there was a school around us, and we caught one!

I was pulling the lure up too quickly earlier, might have scared the fish!

Now that I’ve found the right technique, let’s get into battle mode!”

Yue Feng proudly showed everyone the piranha he had caught and then threw it into the live fish box to continue fishing.

After that, he caught a few more intermittently, but it wasn’t as easy as expected.

Yue Feng wasn’t sure what the problem was and adjusted his fishing strategy several times, but the effects were not significant.

Seeing Yue Feng’s intent, Fabio said something to Zhou Jie, who relayed it to Yue Feng, “Fabio says your method of fishing is low in efficiency.

If you want to catch fish faster, he can teach you the local native fishing technique!”

Upon hearing this, Yue Feng got excited.

It was his first time fishing for these unfamiliar species; not knowing wasn’t a disgrace, and now having a local willing to teach him, Yue Feng was all too eager.

“Absolutely!

If it works well, I’ll treat him to a drink tonight!”

Alcohol is quite expensive locally.

Once Zhou Jie relayed Yue Feng’s words, Fabio immediately became much more enthusiastic.

He nonchalantly picked up a wood stick, less than two meters long and as thick as a thumb, from a corner of the cabin.

Tied to it was a modest fishing line, and at the bottom, a shiny large Ishiyama hook of around size fifteen.