Grass carp: also known as pomfret, loach, prairie fish and tortoise. This is a fast-growing and adaptable fish. It is long and oblate, with a yellowish brown back and a silvery white abdomen. No need, small eyes. In the past, grass carp could not lay eggs naturally in ponds and lakes in China, but were raised with natural fry in nets. After successfully solving the artificial propagation technology, it has become one of the four major fish widely cultivated.

Grass carp is strong, and its natural growth can reach more than 100 kg, and it can also reach 20 to 30 kg in domestic ponds. The main food is aquatic and terrestrial plants, especially Gramineae plants, and also eats animal foods such as insects. It often swims in the middle of the water for food, and sometimes swims in the upper layer for food, with a lively temperament. Grass carp is generally light in weight and easy to reach shallow water, but because of its large food intake, it is forced to feed at the bottom in ponds with few aquatic plants.

Grass carp is a herbivorous fish in the upper and middle layers, which grows fast and can reach five or six kilograms in the second winter. Grass carp, which weighs tens of kilograms, is the fastest growing domestic fish and the target of big fish anglers.

Grass carp is strong, but it is not surprising that it is greedy. Although it takes terrestrial grass as its staple food, it also contains insect and animal bait and also eats food bait, so it is easier to be caught. Grass carp fishing still depends mainly on fresh grass and algae bait, such as bamboo shoots, fresh grass leaves, tomatoes, sweet potato leaves and so on. You like to eat live food such as oil gourd, earthworm and grasshopper. Generally, grass carp can fish in semi-floating water, that is, the hook is suspended in the water by large floating, which can be about a foot underwater. In case of windy weather, it can be placed in the downwind and near the corner of the pond weir for harvesting when feeding.

Grass carp not only eats aquatic plants above, but also eats aquatic plants below, so it is common for aquatic plants to shake or underwater plant fragments to float. At this time, it can also be obtained by dropping the hook. Live bait can also be used to catch grass carp at the bottom of the water, such as wild oil gourd and leech in summer, and the effect is very ideal.

Grass carp like to swim in the middle and upper waters, and can also use artificial haystacks as bait to lure aquatic plants. The method is to put a small bundle of fresh grass or vegetable leaves into the water to make them float to lure grass carp to eat, then put the hook on the edge of the haystack and put the line on the haystack, and the hook sinks slightly under the haystack. This method is mostly used by farmers in reservoirs and lakes, and the big hook thick line is good at catching big grass carp. After all, the pulling force of a hand pole to pull grass carp is limited, and it is acceptable to catch a dozen kilograms. If it is bigger, it must be a sea pole.

Grass carp is a domestic economic fish, so it is cost-effective to catch grass carp above one catty, and nothing below one catty can be called an adult fish. Therefore, the price of large-scale grass seedlings or young fish is often several times that of adult fish, such as grass carp or young fish below one catty. I would rather give up my love than let it go at once, which is also the virtue that fishermen should have.