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Chapter 195 Sardine Storm

Ye Yaodong drove the boat towards the sea in the distance. When he first set off, there were various headlights flashing on the sea, but when he went a little further away, there were fewer of them, and all the boats headed to the sea area they were familiar with.

Father Ye also took advantage of the slack in the boat to start chopping and hanging bait, all kinds of small fish, small shrimps, and small tubes. Just now, Ah Cai gave him 5 dead small moray eels as baits. They were all chopped off by Father Ye and hung up.

The boat has been sailing for more than an hour, and the bait has not been hung yet. There are too many hooks, and it takes time to cut and hang again.

Ye Yaodong deliberately changed to a new fishing spot today, away from the sea area where he worked yesterday.

He focused on the front and controlled the driving direction. In order to avoid being unable to see clearly in the dark and causing the hull to hit the rocks, his headlights shone on the left and right from time to time on the sea level.

At this moment, he saw a large number of seabirds appeared in his field of vision on the sea in front of him, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, and the entire long coastline was almost full of seabirds. It felt like there were countless seabirds.

All fishermen know that there are often schools of fish where a large number of seabirds gather. Before the sea in front of them appears in sight, there are so many seabirds flying in the air continuously. The fish schools in the sea are definitely not small.

He stared at the sea with wide eyes in surprise, and accelerated his horsepower, only to see more and more seabirds appearing in his field of vision.

The coastline was getting closer and closer, and he could clearly see the sea surface in the distance barely illuminated by the headlight, with countless white foams turning up, and the seabirds on the sea surface swooping down to the sea surface one after another.

He quickly slowed down the boat again, let it run slowly, and then observed carefully to confirm that there were indeed a lot of fish churning in the sea, and his heart was beating wildly.

"Father, put down what you're doing first and come over to have a look."

Father Ye has been lowering his head to cut fish and hang bait, he didn't pay attention to the sea surface, just felt that the speed of the boat slowed down just now, and thought that the third child was going to set a hook here.

Hearing his prudent call at this moment, I thought something happened, so I hurried over.

"What's the matter? What's the matter...is it..." Father Ye put down the work in hand, just raised his head and stood up when he saw a large number of white seabirds gathered on the sea in the distance, especially conspicuous in the dark night .

His voice suddenly stopped, and he hurried to the bow of the ship, using his headlight to carefully shine into the distance.

I saw a large number of seabirds gathering in the sky ahead, and the water splashed violently on the sea surface, and not just one area, but the entire continuous coastline was rolling with splashes, and the area was not small.

Father Ye said in surprise: "There is a school of fish under the sea ahead, so there are so many seabirds gathered in mid-air. Looking at the distribution of seabirds, the school of fish should be several kilometers long. I don't know what happened under the sea? This school of fish is not Small."

"I just saw a large group of seabirds appearing on the coastline from a distance, and I was shocked, so I slowed down and called you."

"Look a little closer!"

Ye Yaodong nodded excitedly.

With such a large school of fish, distributed along such a long coastline, why don’t you have to follow it and cast a net for nothing today?
Don't know what kind of fish it is?
He cranked up the horsepower again.

After getting closer, the sea surface is even more spectacular!

"It turned out to be a school of sardines!"

"They are migrating from north to south!" Ye Yaodong confirmed with just one glance.

Sardines migrate collectively in autumn and winter every year. If they are encountered by fishing boats at sea, it is no less than winning the jackpot!

They really hit the jackpot today.

Father Ye was a little excited. The scale of the sardine migration was astonishingly large, and he couldn't see it carefully in the dark, but it was a few kilometers long and 1 kilometer wide, so he didn't know the situation on the bottom of the sea.

"Dongzi, come a little closer."

"it is good."

Ye Yaodong had a big smile on his face. The sardine school is known as "the largest fish school on earth". He knows that every time a sardine school migrates, the data is no less than billions.

Today, the fishing boats operating in this sea area are going to make a fortune.

The boat continued to move forward, and the waves rolled more and more, and the hull of the boat also heaved and swayed violently, all because of the fish.

Ye Yaodong stopped after walking about the same distance, and said excitedly, "It's a storm of sardines! There is a school of sardines that can't be seen!"

Father Ye looked at the school of fish in front of him with bright eyes, without blinking, and said with saliva, "Fill, fish hard."

"You're on a horse, it's a good thing I borrowed a hand to throw the net yesterday, otherwise I would slap my thigh and cry to death!"

"The baits for longline fishing are almost all hanging, and we can't waste it. I will release the longline later, and you can cast the net. Such a large school of sardines is migrating, and there must be big fish hunting for them."

"There must be big fish, but they don't bite the hook. These sardines are ready-made live bait. Let's put the hook to catch the small fish that can't eat sardines."

"Well, that's right."

Ye Yaodong quickly ran to the cabin to throw the net with his hand, tidying up while walking, the rickety hull did not affect his efficiency at all.

Sardines are offshore warm-water fish with phototaxis, and a large number of sardines gather at the position illuminated by the headlights.

As soon as he arranged the hand-throwing net, he used the light of the headlamp to cast it towards the sea in the distance. The hand-throwing net was stretched to the maximum in his hand, and a large number of fish were caught at once, and he didn't need it. Stay and pull up directly.

The heavy fishing net made the muscles in his arms bulge, and the veins on his temples were bulging. Father Ye also hurriedly helped to pull it together.

The weight of this net is at least 200 catties, and it is even more difficult to pull it in the water. At this moment, Ye Yaodong thought that it would be great if there was a small net lifting machine?Then the efficiency will be high.

This sardine is cheap, the price is about 9 cents to 1 cent, it is not big, it is about 14 to 25 centimeters long, it is very flat, and it is light in weight. The amount is large!

At this moment, billions of sardines are caught casually in the sea, so it is called a big prize!

It took the father and son a lot of effort to pull the net of sardines onto the boat, and they threw them directly on the deck.

Ye Yaodong unfastened the opening of the net, and a large number of slender and flat silver fish poured out of the net, covering half of the deck.

"many!"

"Keep going!"

The father and son were so happy that they didn't want to stop. It was a rare opportunity. If you pull a net, you will get dozens of dollars more. There is no suspense at all. There is no better way to make money than today.

Ye Yaodong continued to cast the net, and once he missed his head, he even caught two seabirds that rushed down to prey in the net.

He continued to drag with Father Ye indifferently, and when a large number of sardines were pulled ashore, the two seabirds were also crushed to death.

After everything fell on the deck, he realized that the two big birds didn't look right.

The light in front was not good and he couldn’t see clearly. When casting the net, his attention was always on the sardines in the sea. When he leaned forward, he realized that these two horses were gannets!
"Fuck! Dad!" He directly threw the gannet in his hand towards Father Ye.

This gannet is not small, with a body length of 150-160 cm and a weight of about 10-12 kg.

"Gannet?" Father Ye also recognized it.

They call it Gannet in dialect, but its scientific name is Spot-billed Pelican. It looks like a seagull, big and beautiful. Color, with an orange-yellow skin sac under the mouth.

Ye Yaodong thought it was a seagull at first, but he didn't expect it to be a gannet!

He said happily: "Good thing! I'll cast a few more nets and net a few more by the way."

This seabird is now flooded, all over the sea, usually flying in mid-air is not easy to catch, and they are also vigilant.At this moment, a large number of them are flying in mid-air to hunt for prey, a rare opportunity.

Father Ye's old face was also full of joy, fortunately he brought a fishing net today.

Ye Yaodong aimed his headlamp at the spot where he was going to throw the net, and while he was sorting out the throwing net, a large number of sardines gathered on the sea illuminated by the lights again.

He tried to throw the net as high as possible and stretch it to the maximum. This time, he caught three greedy gannets and dragged them ashore together with the sardines.

Borrowing its phototaxis, with his unremitting efforts, more and more sardines on the deck are visible to the naked eye, and the number of gannets is also increasing intermittently.

Human strength is limited, and the strength in the hands of continuously pulling hundreds of catties of fishing nets will also be exhausted.

After pulling the six or seven nets, the father and son had no strength left, and their hands were so sore.

At this time, the sky was also glowing with rays of light, and the two of them leaned against the ship's side tiredly, and decided to stop for a while.If this is a net that has been cast by the fish for a day, they will not be able to lift their arms for a few days.

The father and son kept swinging their arms and looking at the sea in the distance, both of them were reluctant to take their eyes off and sit down to rest.

Because the sky is bright, they can clearly see that besides some lucky boats that encountered sardines are desperately fishing on the sea, there are also many large fishes chasing sardines for predation.

It was dark before and visibility was limited. Their attention was all on the sardines in front of them. Occasionally, the headlights would shine on large fish, but they could not see clearly after dawn.

There are a large number of various sharks gathered on the sea in the distance. Whales, dolphins, seals, marlins, saury, tuna, sailfish, swordfish, etc. are all rare deep-sea large fish. It's everywhere, emerging from time to time, all chasing and preying on sardines.

All kinds of seabirds also gather on the sea surface, and there is no end in sight.

Ye Yaodong exclaimed again and again, "Damn it, it's really a famous scene, worthy of being called a sardine storm!"

Father Ye's eyes were not good enough, it was the first time he saw such a spectacular scene so clearly.

"Dongzi, I'll go sail the boat. We'll chase after the fish. You can release the hook by the way. Don't waste this great opportunity."

"Although there are many big fish, they are too late to eat sardines. Our bait is probably not very attractive."

"Try it, don't waste it, you can earn money if you can catch one or two."

"Okay, those top-quality big fish are not easy to catch, and the smaller ones are probably not a problem. If you catch them, you will get money."

　Maybe, maybe, maybe there's another chapter in the night...

　　As for the time, it depends on how long I grind...

　　It is recommended not to wait, maybe a pigeon will be released? ? ?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)