The Top Fishing
Chapter 537 - 241: Parasitic Catfish_3

Chapter 537: Chapter 241: Parasitic Catfish_3

"Baom agreed, and now comes the moment to witness a miracle, let’s see how the locals actually fish for piranhas."

Soon, the camera angle shifted, and the main view was given to a slightly cramped Baom, who greeted the camera and casually took out a peacock bass that was belly up and looked the worst from the live fish tank.

After that, he reached behind his back and drew out an unusually sharp handmade short knife, slicing along behind the gill cover and swiftly deboned the flesh from both sides of the spine.

What remained of the fish head and some of the skeleton, Baom hung on a hemp rope.

Then, he took a short stick, about as thick as a thumb, and began to slap and stir the water surface just beneath his feet.

Everyone could understand the handling of the fish flesh since piranhas are carnivorous, but they were puzzled at the slapping of the water surface.

"What kind of Immortal technique is this? Can you really stun the fish by stirring the water with a stick? Piranhas can’t be that foolish, can they?"

"Not going to lie, this uncle’s knife skills are pretty sharp. Swish swish, the fish is processed in a few cuts, and that little knife is really sharp."

"They don’t even need a fish hook? Just a stick and a fish bone can catch fish? Isn’t this too primitive?"

No one had seen such a technique before, causing a stir of discussions. Lin Yang was also seeing this fishing method for the first time and stared without moving, afraid of missing any exciting details.

Baom tapped on the water for a while, and in less than 5 minutes, he stopped, then the next second, he tied the peacock bass carcass with the rope and casually threw it into the water.

The next second, the moment to witness a miracle arrived!

The moment the bony fish hit the water, it instantly stirred up like a boiling pot beneath the surface.

The live broadcast’s camera gave a close-up of the water’s surface, and in the slightly murky river water, one could vaguely see palm-sized piranhas jumping around the fish bones, frantically gnawing.

About three seconds later, Baom lifted the fish bones out of the water.

The viewers were dumbfounded—the fish bones had at least five or six palm-sized piranhas biting onto them. With a slight shake, these fish fell into the boat cabin.

After shaking off the piranhas, he continued the previous action, the next second, the sound of frenzied splashing and feeding came again.

Lifting it up again, there were another four or five!

After repeating a few times, Baom had caught at least a dozen piranhas on the boat. The forty-something indigenous man then took out a short stick and gently tapped each struggling piranha, knocking each one unconscious, and after a few repetitions, all of them stopped jumping.

In a short while, he had managed to gather a bucket of fish, and fresh piranha meat had been secured for lunch!

"Damn, you can fish like this? After seeing this technique, I’m getting goosebumps."

"This... If someone accidentally falls into the water, could they be...?"

"Holy crap, the comment above is terrifying. It should be... okay, right?"

"Isn’t this little piranha the same as the Red Belly Piranha we raise in our country? Damn, it really hurts when they bite."

Seeing the viewers’ discussions in the live room, Lin Yang turned to ask Sun Zhengdao, "The viewers are concerned about two issues. First, what was the deal with slapping the water just now? Second, do these piranhas bite people? If one were to get into the water now, would they be attacked?"

After hearing Lin Yang’s questions, Sun Zheng chuckled and shook his head, "Let’s start with the first one, slapping the water is to use the vibration to attract piranhas. They can find food by sensing these vibrations, such as when an injured animal struggles in the water, or when other fish sense food and compete for it.

As for the second question, it’s not as exaggerated as everyone thinks. Piranhas do attack flesh in the water, or corpses, but in general, we ordinary people without any bleeding wounds will not be attacked. Don’t believe me? Watch this..."

After finishing, Sun Zheng took off his shoes and directly stepped into the water with one foot.

It was exactly as he described; when the fish bones hit the water, the piranhas attacked frantically, but when a live human foot entered the water, there was no movement, and the school of fish avoided it.

After waiting a few seconds, Sun Zheng lifted his foot off the water surface and glanced at it.

"Piranhas are only the lowest on the ecological ladder of the Amazon Rainforest. Large fish and predators will hunt them for food. These visible and tangible creatures aren’t much of a threat to us ordinary people. The real danger lies in some inconspicuous little things."

While speaking, Sun Zheng swiftly captured a tiny, inch-long, worm-like creature from his foot with his fingernails.

"Got lucky here and caught a rare thing, let me show everyone what’s truly deadly. Here, give it a close-up!

This creature is called a Parasitic Catfish. It survives by hosting and sucking blood, and can enter the body through the urethra or anus to parasitize. Every year, far more people die from these little creatures than from piranha attacks."

Hearing about it entering the body, Lin Yang instinctively felt a chill down there. Damn, that’s terrifying!

Quickly, the camera gave a close-up of the tiny Parasitic Catfish. It was just over a centimeter in length, looking similar to an immature Mai Sui fish.

But upon closer inspection, one could see the mouth structure of the Parasitic Catfish was significantly different: the mouth had spike-like protrusions, and twitching of the spikes could be seen when it opened and closed.