After tossing the huge grass carp onto the truck, Li Long scanned the reservoir bed, where little water remained, searching for his next target.
Although the temperature was low, nobody's enthusiasm for catching fish had cooled. Everyone busied themselves in the murky water and mud, smiling, without even bothering to wipe away the mud splashed across their faces.
One after another, they carried big fish ashore, then rushed toward the next one.
After going down onto the reservoir bed, Li Long headed in a different direction. He spotted a pool less than five meters across where something was making quite a commotion. The water was so churned up that he could not see what was in it, but now and then a golden tail as big as a palm-leaf fan broke the surface.
Li Long hurried over and stirred his scoop net through the pool. Before the net reached the bottom, a huge red common carp shot out of the water and landed at the edge, fully exposed. He had just lifted his net to pin it down when its fins and tail flicked rapidly a few times, sending it back into the pool.
After putting his big common carp ashore, Tao Daqiang had actually set his sights on this pool too. But seeing Li Long already there, he smiled and moved elsewhere.
Li Long immediately took an interest in this common carp over a meter long. The more lively it was, the better the fish.
Though the pool was small, it was deep, and the many fish struggling desperately inside had muddied the water so much that he could not make out their positions.
Li Long simply stopped looking and stirred his net straight through the water. Several silver carp weighing less than a kilogram were the first to