TIL that this cartoonish piranha catching technique actually works
TIL that this cartoonish piranha catching technique actually works
Tho I must admit that I would never get that close to the surface with my bare hands while doing this.
Ok Now you have a bucket of piranhas. ?
It's a great threat
also it's food
Step 1: Collect a bucket of piranhas
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit
Not just a bucket of piranha but a bucket full of piranha and margarita mix. You just add water and ice.
Good source of nutrition đ€€
Piranhas are one of those things I thought I'd need to worry about when I was young.ike quick sand and properly identifying if something is good or fool's gold.
Don't forget how to put yourself out if you spontaneously combust, and acid rain.
acid rain was legit, then the world's governments actually did something about it and it became not a thing. Much like the hole in the o-zone (at least until Elon's vanity satellites start failing at a high enough rate to decimate the o-zone) and how we could mitigate climate change if there was political will
I too played too much Tomb Raider
Mine was wilderness survival, which I think would still be a thing if cell phones weren't as advanced as they are with GPS navigation, emergency dialing and location.
I know it still happens and is still a very needed skill specially for those who live out in low populated areas, but I genuinely thought that being lost or stranded in the woods was a super common thing. Like needing to start a fire, finding water and hunting to catch food was definitely an experience I would one day have to go through even though I grew up in a large city and didn't have a reason to go off the grid often aside from occasional shore fishing.
Ok, so why would anyone want to catch a piranha? Are they tasty or something?
They look like they are 90% gristle and hatred.
The Ann Coulter of fishes.
They taste like fish. I'm not joking.
You must be joking.
So much so that they're illegal to fish in parts of the Amazon because they've been nearly fished out of existence
The one that I tasted was the red piranha, the same as in the video. The taste is... okay, not delectable but not awful; it's simply a bit too strong. It goes great on soups/stews though.
I can't tell from the video if the water is just muddy or if it's actually, y'know, gross. Is it safe to eat the fish from that river?
Also, I'd always heard they didn't do that unless they were starving. Which makes me think not much is surviving in that water, making me think it might not be safe to eat the fish :/
Though, I imagine if you're desperate for protein, such things are secondary concerns at best
Brazilian here. Perfectly safe (color-wise; of course it can be polluted as hell despite its color, just like any other river).
Our ground/mud has a different color. Some areas on the south even have a red soil (very fertile, but makes everything about ground level look dirty very quickly): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_soil
There's great variety of water colors even in the same area, just search for images "meeting of the waters Manaus":
Just jumping in to say that red soils are not very fertile. They are nutrient-poor in the necessary macro-nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus) and have a very poor ability to retain water. They are very rocky - little organic matter content - which limits both water retention and cationic exchange capacity (affecting N+ and K+ bioavailability), and tend to be acidic.
Cultivation is possible, but it requires large amounts of fertilizers and soil conditioning agents (liming to raise pH and add calcium, addition of organic matter). In effect, recreating an artificial soil that is closer in nutrient availability to the black soils present in the world's most fertile regions (which today are also heavily fertilized).
For a satellite view
Water can be like this when it rains a day or a couple hours before. Every river become like this when it rains. It is perfectly fine to eat fish from this river.
the issue today is thinking that mud is the definition of dirt, that river is probably 100 times cleaner than any tank/pond/lake used to farm fish, also i swan in pont that were way muddier, with piranhas too, sometimes
Wait until you find out how they catch catfish
How do they catch catfish?
Two main methods, the first is with a fishing pile like normal. The second is to get down into the water and feel up under the bank. If you wiggle your fingers a catfish will latch on, and you can just pull it out by hooking your fingers into the gills.
You reach into holes in river/lake beds hoping one tries to eat your hand
Can confirm what the others said
Hereâs a short video of people doing it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=31m1XKJLonw
Lo, I never had any that big
What about barefoot! Those Brazilians are crazy lol
As long as you're not bleeding or anything, you could safely jump in the water and swim with them!
how they don't bite each other in the middle of that caos
They probably do
So you end up with chowder pretty much.
There's a few videos online of piranhas absolutely stripping animal carcases. Shits gnarly.
Damn, and I thought I was smart for making stock from bones
