According to the Jones brothers, the cold spell that came a few days ago was both routine and unusual.In Montana, the first cold spell arrives in late October every year, so this cold spell is basically the norm.But the intensity of this cold wave is too great, almost a strong cold wave once in decades, so this cold wave is not a regular situation.But after all, it's not yet November, and in the old Chinese saying, it's not really cold yet.So, after four days of cold spell, the temperature here is gradually starting to rise.But even if the temperature rises again, the maximum temperature here is still below freezing, and the temperature at night is still minus 15 or 6 degrees, so the surface of the Missouri River is very solid.Yang Jing stood on the shore and didn't rush to the ice, he didn't know the situation on the ice, if he dared to go up, if the ice was not thick enough, then he would be unlucky.But this can't help Yang Jing, how to judge the thickness of the ice, he has learned it as early as when he was a child playing with his uncle.It's very simple, that is, find a stone weighing more than a pound, and then throw it high, and wait for the stone to fall on the ice, and listen to the sound to judge whether the ice can hold people.If the sound of a stone falling on the ice is a dull sound, it means that the ice is either not frozen solid, or the ice is relatively thin and usually cannot bear people.But if the sound is very crisp and has a long echo, then such a person on the ice is absolutely fine.After the stone landed on the ice, it smashed a small white dot on the ice surface, and at the same time, it also made a series of crisp echoes, obviously, at least the ice on this section of the river had been completely frozen into a single piece, otherwise the ice would not have made such a crisp echo sound.In fact, there is another way to judge the strength of the ice, and that is to look at the color of the ice.Generally speaking, the bluer the ice, the stronger it is, and the lighter the color, the lower the intensity.Another way is to form the strongest ice layer, usually when the temperature drops rapidly, the river or lake freezes rapidly, and then the cold temperature is low for several days.And over time, if the temperature does not continue to drop, then the intensity of the ice will become lower and lower.On the surface of the river where Yang Jing is now, the ice is covered with a layer of frozen snow, forming the so-called "snow ice", but by listening to the voice, Yang Jing can clearly judge that the people on the ice here are absolutely fine.Sure enough, when he stepped on the ice, he stepped on the ice under his feet slightly, and as a result, the feeling of stepping on the soles of his feet was as if he was stepping on concrete floor.Then I used my boots to wipe the snow off the surface of the ice, revealing the slightly blue ice below.The color of the ice immediately reassured Yang Jing and boldly walked all the way to the middle of the river, and then stopped the cart at a random place.After taking the steel drill from the car, Yang Jing slammed it down with all his strength.Although Yang Jing didn't have the ability to feed back, Yang Jing's own strength was still not small, but when this steel drill was smashed, it only made a small white nest on the ice, and it shook his hand painfully."
Damn!
This ice is really strong!
”Yang Jing muttered with satisfaction, raised the steel drill, and then ran the feeding skill, and the next moment, the steel drill was fiercely inserted into the ice.After repeating this two or three times, Yang Jing only felt a sudden lightness in his hand, and he knew that he had smashed through the ice.According to this operation, he did n consecutive times on the ice, and a circle of ice eyes formed a circle with a diameter of about one meter, and then Yang Jing picked up a sledgehammer and smashed it into the center of the circle, and in just two strokes, an ice block with a diameter of about one meter was smashed down.Picking up the hook and dragging the ice cube directly onto the ice, Yang Jing found that the thickness of the ice here was more than ten centimeters.According to the thickness and strength of this ice, not to mention people with such a thick layer of ice, even the last snowmobile is no problem!
To Yang Jing's surprise, as soon as he dragged the ice onto the ice, there was a splash in the ice cave, and a big fish more than half a meter long jumped out of the ice hole at once, "Damn!"
This fish is fierce enough!
”Yang Jing laughed and scolded, although he often followed his uncle to break the ice and fish when he was a child, he had never seen a fish that jumped out of the ice cave by itself.The fish definitely did it because of the lack of oxygen, but I'm afraid that the fish couldn't have imagined that it would jump like this, and it would directly decide its life and death.The fish struggled desperately on the ice with all the heat, apparently trying to get back into the water again.But who made it too coquettish in that jump just now, why do you have to learn to jump so far with a kangaroo when you say a fish?
You can't go back now, can you?
And to Yang Jing's surprise, this turned out to be an out-and-out big carp!"
Could it be that all these Asian carp have invaded here?"
Yang Jing also shook his head secretly.He had only known that Asian carp had invaded the Great Lakes region, but he really didn't expect that Asian carp would be able to swim up the Missouri River and directly invade the upper reaches of the Missouri River.You know, there are several large hydropower stations along the way, how did these Asian carp get here over the dams of the hydroelectric dams?"
Tsk, this carp has become fine!"
Yang Jing muttered as he picked up the net and scooped up the carp that was gradually moving away."
Little one, you can't die now, if you do, this meat won't taste good."
Yang Jing smashed a steel nail on the ice while thinking about the carp, then tied the nylon rope of the net copy to the steel nail, and then put the net copy containing the carp directly into the ice cave.Sure enough, the Asian carp was full of vitality, and as soon as it got out of the water, the energy that was about to die just now disappeared immediately and began to flutter in the water.It's a pity that there is a net pocket outside, and no matter how it flutters, it can't escape from the palm of this Buddha.After tossing for a long time, it seemed that all the physical strength was tossed, and maybe he understood his fate, the big carp stopped tossing, and the ice cave gradually regained its calm.In fact, if you really want to break the ice and fish, you can't throw the net containing the fish into the ice hole, otherwise the fish under the water will not dare to come over.But Yang Jing didn't care so much at all.Ice-breaking fishing itself is a pastime, and it is also a reliving childhood memory, whether you can catch a fish or not is secondary.The most important thing is that this big carp that jumped up by himself weighs seven or eight pounds, even if it is a sweet and sour carp, it is enough for three or four people to eat.Therefore, Yang Jing took out Mazha and fishing rod, and began to hang the bait slowly, ready to fish.As a result, Yang Jing once again underestimated the ferocity of the freshwater fish in these rivers in the United States, or the Asian carp.Americans themselves are not interested in freshwater fish, and almost no one eats freshwater fish, otherwise an Asian carp would not have tossed the whole of North America with a grass chicken.If you put it in my big foodie empire, just order Asian carp, you will eat it clean in minutes, and it will be flooded, to hell with it!
This is the difference between the United States and China.Now it is almost impossible to catch a wild big carp in Huaxia.But here, in the upper reaches of the Missouri River, Yang Jing hadn't put the hook into the ice cave yet, when he saw a wave on the water surface of the ice cave, and then a big carp more than half a meter long jumped out of the ice hole