little fisherman catching the sea

Chapter 38 Catching Squid ([-])

Usually Zhang Miao still has a relatively fixed schedule. During the time at home, he is not a night owl in the true sense.

But this time is different, Zhang Miao needs to stay up late.

After swiping his phone and looking up some information, Zhang Miao continued to stay awake, waiting for the moment when the moon was dark and the wind was high.

Zhang Liye pushed open the room, he seemed to have just woken up, "Aren't you asleep?"

"I haven't slept, I've been excited." Zhang Miao got up quickly, and said with a smile, "Go wash up first, we're leaving, right?"

Zhang Liye nodded. Naturally, he went out to catch squid at night.In order to stay up late, he went to rest after dinner.

It is still young people who are in good physical condition and have a certain amount of capital to stay up late.

Zhang Miao quickly put on her clothes. Since she was going to sea at night, she still needed to protect herself from the cold. It was the most correct way to wear thicker and warmer clothes.

Put on the headlamp, Zhang Miao is ready.It was the first time that Zhang Miao went out to sea to catch squid at night, and Zhang Miao still had some small expectations.

Since it is going out to sea to catch squid at night, there is naturally a lot of work that needs to be prepared, and the importance of pickup trucks is also reflected at this time.

Putting the last bag of luggage into the back bucket, Zhang Miao said, "Fortunately, we bought a pickup truck, which can be dragged to the beach at one time."

"If you have a car, you have a car. If you don't have a car, you don't have a car." Zhang Liye laughed, also very happy. "It's really troublesome when you don't have a car. Moving back and forth is like ants moving house."

The father and son set off smoothly, and set off the car at the small simple pier. Zhang Liye walked ahead carrying the bamboo pole, and Zhang Miao followed suit.

The bamboo poles were erected at the bow and stern of the boat, and then began to tie the wires and hang the light bulbs.After all, this is not a professional squid fishing boat, and a lot of equipment needs to be temporarily 'modified'.

The father and son also moved the battery onto the boat, and everything was ready.

"It's a big investment this time!" Zhang Miao, who was sweating all over, adjusted the lamp, feeling satisfied but also sighing, "If we don't catch five or six hundred today, the two of us will lose a lot."

Zhang Liye was more pragmatic and corrected the target number, "Five or six hundred is a bit much, and if you earn more than 300, you won't lose money."

Zhang Miao refused, and emphasized, "Oil money, electricity bills, and depreciation of the equipment, this time the sea trip is more than one hundred and fifty! Add in our labor costs, if you can't earn five or six hundred, what can we do!"

"Stop talking nonsense." Zhang Liye pointed to the boat and said, "Let's go, sit down."

In recent years, it has been difficult to harvest squid in the offshore, mainly because of overfishing in previous years.

The small sampan slowly sailed out of the pier, heading towards the depths of the dark sea.Slowly, except for a few lights on the land that can be seen when looking back, there is only darkness left.

Small fishing boats are sailing at a speed of four knots, and the speed of one knot is 1.852 kilometers per hour.

This speed is naturally not fast, not to mention compared with cars, even in ships, this speed is relatively slow.But there is no way, the power of the small fishing boat is average, and it also needs to save fuel, so it must be economical and seaworthy.

The boat traveled for almost an hour, and it couldn't continue to run any longer. If it ran any longer, it would exceed the sailing area.

The sea conditions are not bad, although there are some waves, but the small sampan can resist such small waves.

During this period of time, Zhang Miao has always been in a state of closing his eyes and resting his mind.You have to save some electricity, whether it is the headlights or the electricity in the battery, you need to save it, and you can't afford to consume too much.

Zhang Liye felt that it was almost the same, and turned on the lights on the fishing boat.

Four high-power fishing lights were turned on, becoming the only bright spot in this dark sea.

Zhang Liye laughed, a little smug, "Four hundred watts! But it's normal for those large ocean-going squid fishing boats to have one or two hundred bulbs, and the power of their trapping lights is one thousand or two thousand!"

It can only be said that there are professional fishing methods. If funds are short and equipment is not advanced enough, then a simpler approach should be adopted.

Zhang Liye continued, "Come on, help me cast the net down."

After casting the fishing net smoothly, Zhang Liye began to get busy preparing fishing needles, which was a very busy job.

Generally speaking, when squid is caught, there will be nets, and fixed nets and bottom drag nets are more common.Another way, of course, is fishing. Now many squid fishing boats also have automatic squid fishing machines.

It is also a way to use lights to attract squid.

Large squid fishing boats have their professional fishing methods, which can be regarded as specialization in the technique industry, which is more efficient.But for fishermen who fish for squid in the offshore, they don't need to be so 'professional', they have to use all eighteen kinds of weapons.

Zhang Miao doesn't think there is any problem with this method at all, as long as it can increase the catch, this is the most important thing.

The fishing lights are relatively bright, if there are squid in this sea area, they are likely to be 'attracted'.

Standing on the fishing boat, Zhang Miao can also display his abilities and skills at this time. Now he can observe the sea surface more, and try his best to see clearly what's going on under the sea surface.

Zhang Liye lit a cigarette and looked around the sea, wanting to see if there were any valuable targets.

"The fishing in the past few years was too powerful, and now it is too hard to find some fish." After more than ten minutes, Zhang Liye said with emotion, "Now fishing is always the air force again and again."

Zhang Miao understood, "In our village and the village next door, the weather is often good enough to go to sea, and the fishing boats are always on the shore."

Zhang Liye naturally understood the situation better, "Isn't it! If the weather is good, you may not be able to go to sea, and the gas money for a trip will definitely be spent, and you may not be able to get it back."

The fishing ban is close to half a year, and there is no way to go to sea in rainy days or strong winds.

In many cases, fishing boats are docked at the pier, and small sampans are directly tilted on the tidal flats. It is really not fishermen who "fish for three days and dry their nets for two days", and often have no way to go fishing.

The father and son were also chatting, continuing to wait patiently.

Slowly, there seems to be some movement. No matter how dark the sea is, there is such a bright light, which can still attract the attention of some marine life.

The squid did not appear, but the sardines appeared, which made Zhang Miao unable to bear the desire to swear.

Sardines are actually phototaxis marine organisms, and many small fishes have such characteristics.

Holding a fishing net, Zhang Miao continued to observe. It seemed that there were still more sardines, and the school of fish was slowly expanding. Zhang Miao really didn't know what to say.

Obviously, the commercial value of these sardines is limited. For these marine creatures, Zhang Miao thinks that their biggest role is to be some bait. He is not here to catch sardines.

Suddenly Zhang Liye moved into action, quickly stretched the fishing net into the sea, and quickly picked it up.

"Long mouth fish." Seeing Zhang Miao looking over, Zhang Liye said with a smile, "It's kind of useful."

Zhang Miao nodded. This is needlefish. The meat quality is acceptable, and it is considered a relatively popular seafood, although the price is not too expensive.Talk is better than nothing.

Just continue to wait patiently. Zhang Miao is still looking forward to this trip to the sea to catch squid, looking forward to some satisfactory harvest.

The requirements are not high, and it is enough to catch a squid of about [-] catties.If it's thirty pounds, that's acceptable.Anything less would be unacceptable.

The scale of the sardine school was rapidly expanding, which made Zhang Miao feel complicated, and really didn't know what to say.

Just think that these sardines can attract more fish. After all, they are food for many fish, and this is a relatively late existence in the biological chain.

There was no movement for 10 minutes, and it seemed that there was no movement for 10 minutes.

At this time, there is nothing to say, we can only continue to wait patiently, we can only keep praying for the time to turn around, and look forward to the good show to come.

Zhang Miao hardly did anything, and there was really no need to do anything now, he was just trying to see what was going on under the surface of the sea, which was what he was good at.

Sardines showed up, which was nothing.Soon, Zhang Miao saw another fish, which seemed to be relatively large in size.

Silver Hanfish, which are regarded as difficult brothers and sisters with sardines, appeared, often forming small groups.This is also a kind of fish with strong phototaxis, and it also does not have much commercial value.

Watching the rapidly expanding silver han fish start to circle and swim on the sea surface on a small scale, Zhang Miao couldn't help complaining.

The fish you want to catch are not seen, and the fish you don't want to see are in groups!
(End of this chapter)