According to the Jones brothers, the cold wave that came a few days ago was a normal situation, but not a normal situation.

In Montana, basically the first cold wave will come in late October every year, so this cold wave is basically a normal situation. However, the intensity of this cold wave is too high, it is almost a strong cold wave that occurs once in a few decades, so this cold wave is not considered a normal situation.

But it is still less than November after all. In the old Chinese saying, it is not yet really cold now. Therefore, four days after the cold wave passed, the temperature here gradually began to rise.

But even if the temperature rises again, the highest temperature here is still below zero degrees, and the temperature at night is still at minus fifteen or sixteen degrees, so the surface of the Missouri River is frozen very strong.

Yang Jing stood on the shore and was not in a hurry to go to the ice. He didn't understand the situation on the ice. If he rashly went up, if the ice layer was not frozen thick enough, then the one who was unlucky would be his own.

But this is not difficult for Yang Jing. How to judge the thickness of the ice layer? He had already learned how to play with his uncle when he was a child. It was very simple, that was to find a stone weighing one pound, and then throw it high. When the stone fell on the ice, he could tell whether the ice layer could hold people by listening to the sound.

If the sound of a stone falling on the ice is a duller sound, it means that the ice layer is either not frozen or the ice layer is thinner, which is usually unbearable.

But if the sound is very crisp and has a long echo, then there is absolutely no problem for people on such an ice layer.

After the stone fell on the ice, it made a series of crisp echoes while smashing a small white dot on the ice. It was obvious that at least the ice layer on this section of the river had been completely frozen into a whole piece, otherwise the ice would not have made such a crisp echo.

In fact, there is another way to judge the intensity of the ice layer, which is to look at the color of the ice layer.

Generally speaking, the bluer the ice layer, the higher the intensity and lighter the color, the lower the intensity of the ice layer.

Another method is that when the temperature drops rapidly, the river or lake surface freezes rapidly and then cools down for several consecutive days, the intensity of the ice layer formed is the greatest. As time goes by, if the temperature does not continue to decrease, the intensity of the ice layer will become lower and lower.

The ice layer on the river where Yang Jing is now is covered with a layer of frozen snow, forming the so-called "snow ice", but by listening to the sound, Yang Jing can clearly tell that there is absolutely no problem for the people on the ice layer here.

Sure enough, when he stepped onto the ice layer, he stepped on the ice layer under his feet slightly, and the feeling that the soles of his feet were as if he was stepping on the concrete ground.

Then, after using your boots to wipe off the snow on the surface of the ice, the slightly blue ice layer below immediately exposed.

The color of the ice immediately made Yang Jing walk straight to the middle of the river with confidence, and then he found a place to stop the cart.

He took the steel drill from the car and Yang Jing used all his strength to pound it down. Although Yang Jing did not use the feeding skills, Yang Jing's own strength was still quite strong, but when the steel drill was pounded, he only made a small white nest on the ice surface, which made his hands hurt.

"Damn! This ice layer is really strong!" Yang Jing murmured with satisfaction, lifted the steel chisel high, and then started to feed back skills. The next moment, the steel chisel was inserted into the ice layer fiercely.

After repeating this two or three times, Yang Jing felt a sudden light in his hand and knew that he had smashed through the ice layer.

According to this operation, I did it N consecutive times on the ice layer. A circle of ice eyes formed a circle with a diameter of about one meter. Then Yang Jing picked up the sledgehammer and smashed it hard in the center of the circle. After only two strokes, a piece of ice with a diameter of about one meter was smashed down.

He picked up the hook and dragged the ice directly to the ice surface. Only then did Yang Jing realize that the thickness of the ice layer here actually exceeded ten centimeters.

According to the thickness and strength of this ice layer, such a thick ice layer is fine, not to mention people, even a snowmobile!

What surprised Yang Jing was that as soon as he dragged the ice onto the ice layer, water splashed up in the ice hole, and a big fish more than half a meter long jumped out of the ice hole...

"Damn! This fish is fierce enough!" Yang Jing cursed with a smile. Although he often followed his uncle to fish through ice when he was a child, he had never seen a fish that jumped out of the ice hole directly.

The fish definitely did this because of lack of oxygen, but I'm afraid the fish would never have imagined that it would directly determine its life and death with just a jump.

The fish was struggling desperately on the ice with a full of heat, obviously trying to struggle back to the water again. But who made the jump just now too windy. What a sexy thing? You said that a fish, why did you have to jump so far like a kangaroo? You can't go back now, right?

What surprised Yang Jing was that this was a perfect big carp!

"Can all these Asian carp actually invade here?" Yang Jing shook his head secretly. He knew that Asian carp had invaded the Great Lakes before, but he really didn't expect that Asian carp could actually flow upstream along the Missouri River and directly invade the upper reaches of the Missouri River. You know, there are several large hydropower stations along the way. How did these Asian carp come here over the dam of the hydropower station?

"Tsk tsk, this carp has become a sperm!" Yang Jing muttered, and picked up the net and caught the gradually unmoving carp.

"Little guy, you can't die now. If you die, the meat will not be delicious." Yang Jing thought to the carp, and smashed a steel nail on the ice surface, then tied the nylon rope of the net to the steel nail, and then put the net to the carp directly into the ice hole.

Sure enough, the Asian carp was full of vitality. As soon as it got into the water, the energy that was about to die just now disappeared and began to sway in the water. Unfortunately, there was a net bag outside, so no matter how it sucked, it could not escape the palm of the Tathagata Buddha.

After a long time of struggle, it seemed that I had exhausted all my energy. Maybe I understood my destiny. The big carp stopped tossing and gradually calmed down in the ice hole.

In fact, if you really want to break the ice and fish, you cannot throw the net containing the fish into the ice hole, otherwise the fish under the water will not dare to come over.

But Yang Jing doesn't care about that much at all. Fishing through ice is a kind of entertainment, and it is also a way to relive childhood memories. Whether you can catch fish is second.

The most important thing is that the big carp that jumped up weighs seven or eight pounds, and even if it is made of a sweet and sour carp, it is enough for three or four people to eat.

So, Yang Jing took out his stool and fishing rod, and started to hang the bait slowly, preparing to fish.

As a result, Yang Jing once again underestimated the ferociousness of freshwater fish or Asian carp in these American rivers.

Americans themselves are not interested in freshwater fish, and almost no one eats freshwater fish. Otherwise, an Asian carp would not have caused trouble to the entire North America. If it were placed in my foodie empire, just a little Asian carp would give you food in minutes and it would be flooded. Go to hell!

This is the difference between the United States and China.
Chapter completed!