Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1003 Fishing requires carefulness
"what!"

"Could it be that there is a nest of red spots under the speedboat?"

Liu Bin took the scoop net and scooped up the red grouper he had caught. After checking that there was no catch, he took off the hook and put it in the live water tank. He found that the red grouper immediately shook its head and tail and dived under another grouper. Fortunately, Zhao Dahai reminded him just now, otherwise this red grouper would have been 100% inflated if it was pulled up. His speed was not slow just now.

Zhao Dahai thought about it and felt that this might really be the case.

Things cluster together.

Not only humans are like this, fish are like this as well.

Both Liu Bin and I caught some red snapper here, and they were all quite big. There must be more red snappers nearby.

"Switch to big live shrimp!"

"Next, let's go fishing right here!"

"Let's see if we can catch other red snappers. If nothing unexpected happens, we should be able to catch a few."

Zhao Dahai shouted loudly to Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou to change the bait immediately. They had been fishing for grouper for several hours, using either octopus or crab, which are very good for catching other groupers, but if they wanted to catch red grouper, they still had to use live shrimp.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou immediately replaced them with live shrimps.

"Are there really a lot of red spots here? If this is the case, then I'd have to make a lot of money."

Shi Guangming was a little nervous and kept smoking the hookah he was holding in the water.

"what!"

"What on earth do you do? You've been out to sea all your life. What kind of scenes have you not seen? Even if there are a lot of red spots here, so what? Even if you catch them one after another, so what?"

Zhao Shi was very calm.

Red grouper is definitely more valuable and more sought-after, but as long as it is grouper, it is a good thing and you can make a lot of money from it. There is no need to worry about what the grouper looks like.

"Pooh!"

"You old man just saw that Zhao Dahai caught a red grouper and immediately used a scoop net. When you saw a blue grouper or other grouper weighing 100 to 80 kilograms, you didn't even bother to look at them."

"Aren't you panicking when you say this now?"

Shi Guangming looked at Zhao Shi with great contempt.

"what!"

"I don't even know if there are any red spots in the sea. And, even if there are, they haven't been caught yet, have they?"

"The fish in the sea are not our fish. They only count if we catch them and pull them onto the speedboat."

"You don't understand this, do you?"

Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming kept bickering with each other.

"The depth of the sea water here is about 160 meters now."

"The trench here is a bit wider, and we can fish on both sides of our speedboat."

"Let the line out to 155 meters."

"You can decide the time to knock on the bottom yourself."

While letting out the line, Zhao Dahai stared at the fish finder screen of his speedboat, reminding Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou of the current depth of the water and the conditions of the seabed. Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou are no longer like last year when they just went fishing with him. They already have rich fishing experience. He only needs to tell them where to fish and how to fish next, and they can basically decide for themselves.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou let out the line to 155 meters.

"Liu Bin, you're the first, Lei Dayou, you're the second, and I'll be the last one to knock on the bottom."

Zhong Shizhu shouted loudly to remind Liu Bin and Lei Dayou to knock on the bottom at different times, so that if there were fish on the seabed, they would be easier to catch.

"Knock on the bottom!"

……

"Knock on the bottom!"

……

Liu Bin and Lei Dayou were staggered with about two minutes between them. They let out the line one after the other to hit the bottom. After hitting the bottom, they pulled it away from the seabed. After waiting for a while and seeing that no fish took the hook, they lifted the rod.

"what?"

"No fish?"

……

"Nothing happened."

……

Liu Bin and Lei Da looked at the pole mounted on the gun mount in front of them with a little surprise. There was no movement for a long time.

"Humph!"

"Is there any need to rush? Not getting stuck at this moment means there is a chance to wait and see if there are any fish taking the bait."

Zhao Shi was squatting on the deck next to him smoking a water pipe. When he heard what Liu Bin and Lei Dayou said, he felt a little bit amused. It was only two or three minutes, not even five minutes, and he thought that a fish would definitely take the bait.

"what!"

"Correct!"

"How can you say that there will be fish biting the hook?"

Liu Bin felt a little embarrassed. He wanted to catch the red snapper so much. It was normal that no fish took the hook in just a few minutes. Sometimes he had to wait for ten minutes, and sometimes even twenty or thirty minutes before a fish would take the hook.

"The bell stone pillar."

"What's the matter with you? Why are you silent?"

Lei Dayou looked at the pole on the gun mount in front of him for a while. There was no movement at all. He suddenly remembered that Zhong Shizhu had not spoken for a while. He turned his head and saw that Zhong Shizhu was not using the pole on the gun mount, but a hand-cranked spinning wheel.

"what?"

"The bell stone pillar."

"What's going on? When did you change the rod?"

Lei Dayou was very puzzled. When he first came here to fish, he and the others were just like Zhao Dahai, using rods with hand-cranked spinning reels, which were easier to control. However, after fishing for a long time, they really couldn't match Zhao Dahai's physical strength. So they had changed to rods with electric reels on the gun mount two or three hours ago.

"Yo!"

"No way?"

"Zhong Shizhu, you are so mean! Why didn't you tell Lei Dayou and me when you changed things?"

Liu Bin looked back and saw that Zhong Shizhu was holding a pole with a hand-cranked spinning wheel in his hand, and was gently pulling it up and down.

"what!"

"I'm saying, can you two think faster?" "Don't even think about catching a grouper weighing 100 to 80 kilograms! Even if it's a grouper weighing 60 to 70 kilograms, we don't have enough energy to fish for such a long time. But Zhao Dahai just said that this place is very likely to catch red grouper."

"Red snapper won't be very big, so I thought about changing to a different rod, which will make it easier to control and maybe easier to catch fish."

As Zhong Shizhu spoke, he lifted the pole in his hand up and down with different amplitudes.

"Uncle Shizhu!"

"Your idea is correct. That's right. When it comes to fishing, there must be various movements, or various techniques. If one rod can't catch fish, then you must change to another rod or another method."

Zhao Dahai saw that Zhong Shizhu didn't need to be reminded by himself and changed to a hand-held spinning rod. He agreed with this approach very much. Fishing requires concentration and a quick mind. No matter what situation you encounter, you have to try to think of a solution as soon as possible.

The rod with an electric winch placed on a gun mount can definitely be used, and it can indeed catch fish, but the biggest advantage is that it saves effort. However, precisely because the rod is fixed, it cannot be controlled well.

If the fish in the sea are biting fiercely, it is very easy to fish with a rod mounted on a gun stand, and there will be no impact. However, if the fish in the sea are not biting fiercely or are more cautious, it is not easy to use a rod mounted on a gun stand to fish, and sometimes you can't even catch any fish.

Zhong Shizhu thought of this and changed his approach, which was definitely a smart move.

"what?"

"Should we change the rod?"

……

"Don't worry! Let's wait and see if Zhong Shizhu can catch any fish! If he does, we'll definitely change it. If not, let's wait and see."

……

Whether Liu Bin and Lei Da changed the rods immediately, whether it was a hand-cranked spinning reel rod or an electric reel rod, was important to be able to catch fish.

If the two of them had thought of changing the rods at the beginning, they would have done so long ago. Since no one thought of changing, and now only Zhong Shizhu has changed the rod, let's see if Zhong Shizhu can catch any fish.

Zhao Dahai let out the line to 155 meters, waited for a moment, and then immediately let out the line to hit the bottom.

However, he did not reel in the line immediately but waited for two or three minutes and found that there was no movement.

Zhao Dahai dragged it gently and found that it was not stuck on the bottom. He simply did not reel the line in or pull it away from the seabed but dragged it for a while and waited for a while.

"coming!"

"big!"

"Thirty pounds can't get away!"

Zhao Dahai gently tugged five or six times, and a fish took the bait. He held the rod with both hands and pulled it up hard to stab the fish, then quickly shook the spinning wheel to reel it in. His hook was now on the seabed, and the fish that took the bait were 100% groupers or other bottom-dwelling fish. Once they were hooked, they would madly drill into the reef cave. He had to move quickly and forcefully, and he had to pull it away from the seabed as soon as possible.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou were all startled and immediately turned to look at Zhao Dahai.

Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming stood up directly, walked to the left and right sides of Zhao Dahai, and looked down at the surface of the sea.

"I can't run away!"

Zhao Dahai held the rod in his right hand and held the hooked fish tightly. He turned the spinning wheel vigorously with his left hand and turned it more than ten times in one breath. The hooked fish was pulled seven or eight meters away from the seabed.

"Don't move! This fish is 100% a red spot!"

Zhao Dahai slowed down.

When fishing for fish like grouper, the most worrying thing is the moment when the fish bites the hook and dives desperately into the sea. As long as you pull it away from the seabed, the fish basically cannot escape.

"Zhao Dahai."

“Is this one really red spot?”

Shi Guangming held the hookah in his right hand and supported the side of the speedboat with his left hand, his eyes widening.

"Correct!"

"correct."

"This is definitely a red spot, and its size is not much different from the one just now."

Zhao Dahai carefully controlled the speed of reeling in the fish. If the fish was a blue grouper or other grouper, this would not be necessary. However, if it was a red grouper, he definitely had to be careful.

"Does it really mean that you have to use a handheld rod to catch the red snapper here?"

"Zhao Dahai caught two fish, and both were red spots."

Lei Dayou couldn't help but slap the back of his head as he watched Zhao Dahai shaking the wheel non-stop to reel in the fish. Zhao Dahai had caught two rather large red snappers in just less than twenty minutes.

"That's not necessarily the case."

"Didn't I just catch a red snapper? It's a little smaller, but a red snapper is a red snapper. Didn't I use the same rod on the gun mount?"

"correct!"

"Isn't Zhong Shizhu using the same hand-held pole now? But isn't there any fish biting his hook now?"

Liu Bin pointed at Zhong Shizhu with his backhand.

Lei Dayou looked at the bell stone pillar and there was indeed no movement at all.

"What's going on? Why is it that Zhao Dahai and I both use handheld rods, but I don't get enough bites when Zhao Dahai catches fish?"

Zhong Shizhu watched Zhao Dahai reeling in the fish. Both of them used the same rod and live shrimps. He didn't know why Zhao Dahai caught the fish while he didn't get any fish to take the bait.

Zhao Dahai carefully controlled the speed of reeling in the line. After a few minutes, the hooked fish was pulled out of the water. It was a dark red fish weighing 30 or even 40 kilograms.
Shi Guangming reached out and picked up the scoop net next to him and scooped up the fish.

"what!"

"This fish is a little bigger than the previous one, and its color is more beautiful. Needless to say, the price I can sell it for will definitely be higher."

Shi Wenming used both hands to pull the big red snapper out of the scoop net and onto the speedboat.

Zhao Dahai didn't have time to talk, he immediately took off the hook with pliers and carefully checked the red spot he had just caught. He consciously controlled the speed of reeling in the line without any bloating.

"what!"

“This one was fished really well, with just the right amount of control.”

Zhao Dahai grabbed the red-spotted fish's tail and gently pushed it forward, and it fell into the live water tank.

"Zhao Dahai."

"What's going on? Why is it that you caught a fish while Zhong Shizhu has not made any movement even though you also used a hand-cranked pole?"

Liu Bin watched Zhao Dahai deal with the red spot he caught, and couldn't wait to point at Zhong Shizhu, and then immediately asked what was going on. He knew that there must be something different, otherwise such a thing would not have happened. Zhao Dahai might have found a method to catch the red spot here.

Zhong Shizhu pricked up his ears and stared at Zhao Dahai with wide eyes. He wanted to know what was going on more than Liu Bin and Lei Dayou.

"There's no difference, isn't it? It's the same hand-cranked spinning rod. And I just saw Zhao Dahai and Zhong Shizhu, both gently pulling the rod up and down."

Shi Guangming thought about it carefully and didn't feel that there was any difference between Zhao Dahai's movements when he was fishing just now and Zhong Shizhu's. Zhao Dahai was able to catch fish while Zhong Shizhu couldn't. It was more of luck, there was really no other reason. There were too many differences.

(End of this chapter)