The yellow eel is familiar to everyone, this fish is widely distributed on the mainland, whether it is in urban areas or rural waters, but the price has always been high.
When I was in the third grade of primary school, I learned to fish for yellow eels with an old man from a five-guarantee household in the village, this old man usually has no income, and he fished and sold yellow eels in summer for some money, and the yellow eels were very expensive at that time, and I forgot how much it was a pound for too long.
After learning how to fish for yellow eels from the old man, I always took the yellow eel hook (line hook) with me when I went to school, and every time I went to the river after school, I went fishing in the nearby pond for a while before going home.
At that time, the resources were still relatively good, 2-3 taels of yellow eels could not be looked at at all, there were too many about half a catty, even if a large individual on a catty could encounter one in a few days.
However, the family of the yellow eel that was too big was not allowed to fish, and the countryside was still relatively feudal at that time, and there were many legends about the yellow eel, so the too large individual (about 2 catties) was not allowed to be taken home, and even if they were brought home, the father would release them into the river.
Sometimes you will encounter strange yellow eels, such as those with sarcomas on their heads, bulges in the middle of their skulls, etc., which will be released immediately after they are caught.
Because I have listened to the old man of Wubaohu tell various legends of yellow eels since I was a child, I have developed this habit like him, and the yellow eels that look abnormal will not be brought home.
When I swiped the video, I didn't expect a blogger to also encounter this situation, blogger @Guli boutique posted a video on September 19th, titled: "I caught a big yellow eel at night, took it out during the day and took a closer look, and found that this yellow eel had horns"! The image below is a GIF made of a video.
It can be clearly seen in the video that the size of this yellow eel is very large, it must be more than 1 catty, and there are two sarcoma-like protrusions on the head of the yellow eel, like having horns, this kind of yellow eel is still relatively rare, and many netizens replied after the release of this video.
Some netizens replied: "Mochizuki eel can't be eaten, so let it go quickly." Legend has it that this yellow eel cannot be eaten, and there is a risk of poisoning after eating, and it can melt the bones of the whole body of the eater, which is just a legend.
Since ancient times, the yellow eel has the legend of "Moon Eel", which is said to eat carrion, and whenever the moonlight is bright in the wild, it will stick its head out of the water to absorb the essence of the moonlight. In fact, this is just a way for the eel to wait for the prey to approach, and it is just a way to hunt, which cannot be seen in the dark night, and can only be seen in the night when the moonlight is better.
In ancient times, for the common people, the lighting equipment at night was a luxury, and the fuel value of the oil lamp was valuable, even if it was bought, it was unaffordable.
When many people travel at night, they choose a night with better moonlight, and in this case, they will see a giant yellow eel coming out of the water, so as to spread the legend of the moon eel.
Some netizens replied: ""Turning into a dragon robbery"? This is probably its final catastrophe." This netizen's brain is open, and the "Dragon Tribulation" has come out! In the mainland, it is said that "ten years for a python, a hundred years for a dragon, and a thousand years for a dragon", which is used to describe the practice of snakes.
It means that the longer the snake lives, the bigger the body, and when it learns to practice, there is a certain chance of "breaking the cocoon and turning into a dragon", which is just a legend, and no one has ever seen a real snake dragon.
And the yellow eel in the video, the sarcoma on the head is just a deformity, I have encountered it when I fished for yellow eel before, sometimes in the middle of the eel's head, sometimes on both sides of the head, some of the sarcomas are convex and some are pointy.
When fishing for yellow eel, after seeing the sarcoma on the head of the yellow eel, it is generally given up and no longer fishing. Sometimes it is a mistake to catch this kind of yellow eel, and it is released immediately after catching, because it is not easy for the deformed yellow eel to grow up, so it is better to let it live.
Finally: the man catches a giant yellow eel, only to find it with two horns the next day! It's not its "dragon catastrophe", it's just a sarcoma, netizens said that this is estimated to be its last catastrophe, mainly after being caught by humans, it was not released, so the high probability of waiting for it is death, what do you say?