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

Chapter 1004: The nest of valuable fish has been disturbed!

“It may be a matter of time.”

"It's already past four in the morning, and it will be dawn soon."

“There are definitely red spots here and there are a lot of them, but the red spots here are very cautious.”

"If you just knock on the bottom, the red snapper here won't open its mouth and won't bite the hook. You have to take a certain risk. After knocking on the bottom, the lead weight keeps dragging on the seabed, stopping and dragging, stopping, and then it is very likely that it will open its mouth and bite the hook."

Zhao Dahai washed his hands in the live water tank, scooped up a river shrimp, hung it on the hook, and threw it into the sea.

The fish in the sea, whether it is grouper or other fish, are actually constantly changing. Sometimes they bite very fiercely, and sometimes they bite very cautiously. Last night until 3 a.m., I, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Da and several others caught a lot of groupers during this period, and almost every fish we caught was very fierce. But the red grouper I just caught was very cautious. After knocking the bottom, it didn't bite at all. Lei Dayou, Liu Bin, and Zhong Shizhu all knocked the bottom but there was no bite.

There was no movement after I knocked on the bottom just now. I did not pull it away from the seabed, but kept it on the seabed and dragged it gently several times. A fish took the hook, and the bite at this time was very strong.

Zhao Dahai knew that the fish in the sea must have changed. They would not bite as fiercely as the ones he had caught before. It would be impossible to catch them by simply knocking on the bottom, at least not the red grouper here. He had to drag the bottom like he did just now, and it was possible to drag it several times in a row to attract the attention of the grouper in the sea, especially the red grouper, before the fish would take the bait.

"Is it like this?"

"I'll try it now."

As Zhong Shizhu was speaking, he discovered that he knocked on the bottom again and waited for a while but no fish took the bait.

"I'll drag it now! See if there's any movement."

Zhong Shizhu felt a little nervous for some reason. He took a deep breath and then gently dragged the rod in his hand. The amplitude was not particularly large, just about 20 centimeters to the left front of him. After waiting for more than ten seconds without movement, he continued to drag forward. This time he did not drag 20 centimeters, but just a little bit. The loose line suddenly tightened, and the fishing rod bent severely. Suddenly, some monster bit the hook on the seabed and dragged it forward desperately.

Zhong Shizhu was well prepared. He held the rod with both hands and pulled it up hard. His face turned red for a moment, but he quickly pulled the fish up from the bottom of the sea.

Zhong Shizhu was very worried that the hooked fish would get stuck in the reef, so he shook the wheel vigorously to reel in the line.

When Zhao Dahai saw that the bell had been shaking for more than ten times and had not slowed down, he immediately reminded loudly that it was enough and there was no need to go so fast. If it was really erythema, he would die from bloating.

Zhong Shizhu reacted suddenly, loosened his left hand, stopped reeling in the fish, and waited for two or three minutes before continuing to turn the spinning wheel to reel in the fish, but the speed had slowed down at this time.

"Zhao Dahai!"

"This method really works. There was no movement when I pulled the line for the first time, but before I could finish pulling the line for the second time, a fish took the bait, and the bite was really fierce."

Zhong Shizhu was very excited, not only because he caught a fish, and not only because the fish was quite big, weighing about 20 kilograms, but more importantly, the method Zhao Dahai mentioned was very useful. He caught a fish just by trying it out.

Without saying a word, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou immediately pushed the switch of the electric caster to reel in the power.

Zhao Dahai caught a fish. Zhong Shi didn't catch any fish at first, but he caught fish immediately after following the method Zhao Dahai said. This is enough to show that there is nothing wrong with this method. Fishing with the rod on the gun mount and the electric reel is indeed more labor-saving, but there is no way to drag it as Zhao Dahai said. If you want to catch fish, you must change the rod.

Liu Bin and Lei Dayong put away their fishing rods. The hand-cranked spinning reel rods had already been tied with fishing gear. They hung the live shrimps on them and immediately threw them into the sea, letting the line out immediately to a depth of 155 meters.

"what!"

"That's right!"

"It is indeed a red spot!"

"This is definitely the nest of the red spots."

"Hurry up."

"Hurry up and fish. We need to catch more red snappers. Don't waste opportunities like this. Don't waste this fishing spot."

Zhong Shizhu looked at the fish pulled out of the water and waved his fist excitedly. What Zhao Shi said not long ago was really right. Fishing for red grouper and fishing for other groupers are really completely different feelings. He feels very excited every time he catches one.

Liu Bin and Lei Dayou couldn't stand this and increased the speed of paying out the line. They stopped at 155 meters, but they didn't wait too long, just two or three seconds. Immediately, the line turned red and hit the bottom. After waiting for more than ten seconds, no fish took the hook. So they held the rod and dragged it gently. The range of dragging was not too large, just less than 20 centimeters and the movement was very small, and the strength was very weak. After waiting for a while, there was no fish bite, so they continued to drag it forward.

"what!"

"coming!"

Lei Dayou took a deep breath, his eyes widened, he held the rod tightly with both hands, and pulled it up hard to stab the fish.

"Get up! Get up!"

"It looks like less than 10 pounds. I don't know if it's a red grouper. If it's another grouper, it's a bit of a waste!"

Lei Dayou shook his head. A grouper weighing more than ten kilograms is not big. It doesn't take much effort to pull it off the seabed. The rest is to control the speed of reeling in the fish. If it is an ordinary grouper, such as sesame stick oily grouper or even blue grouper, a grouper weighing more than ten kilograms really can't be sold for much money, at least it's not a surprise. Only red grouper of this size can be sold for more money.

"Ugh!"

"Zhao Dahai."

"What's going on? How come you, Zhong Shizhu and the others, have been fishing for a while, but you don't even care about a grouper weighing more than 10 kilograms?"

"When they go out to sea to fish, they are so happy to catch a grouper of 7-8 kg, let alone a grouper of 10-10 catties. Now they are disgusted."

Shi Guangming shook his head as he watched Lei Dayou reeling in the fish.

"what!"

"Uncle Shi!"

"What can we do about it? This Qingfa weighs more than ten kilograms and was pulled up from the bottom of the sea more than a hundred meters deep. It will take a long time to recover."

"Let's put it another way. If you are fishing for Shanghai black porgy with a string hook, how can you sell three or five black porgy for less than a grouper weighing 10 or even 7 or 8 kilograms?"

"A dozen large groupers are indeed big fish for other people, but for me, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and other people who go fishing in the sea, it is really not a big fish. Sometimes I even feel that catching such a fish may not make much money."

Lei Dayou smiled. He was very happy to have caught such a fish when he, Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin went fishing. But now he didn't really care about it. There was nothing he could do. He and Zhao Dahai had caught too many fish.

"coming!"

"Not big, not big!"

"Less than 20 kilograms, probably around 15 or 16 kilograms!"

Liu Bin suddenly raised his hand and raised the rod. Then he immediately turned the spinning wheel to reel in the fish. He stopped five or six meters below the seabed and waited for a while to make sure the fish was hooked and firmly attached before slowly continuing to pull the fish up.

"Is it from the red spots?"

"The one on my hook should be the red spot. It is motionless now!" Lei Dayou glanced at the rod in Liu Bin's hand.

"Correct!"

“It should be red!”

Liu Bin nodded. The size of the fish on the hook seemed to be slightly larger than Lei Dayou's, but not that big. It was now about ten meters away from the seabed. There was no strong pulling force and it was almost motionless. This kind of situation is generally a red spot.

"Zhao Dahai."

"The two fish you pulled up are ordinary groupers, not even blue groupers, but cheaper sesame or oily groupers. If they are not big, would you just change the place to fish?"

Shi Guangming turned his head to look at Zhao Dahai next to him, and then he realized that he had caught another fish and was reeling it in.

"what!"

"Grandpa Shi."

"We caught a lot of groupers here today, most of them are quite large. There are also some places we haven't fished before. If we catch ordinary groupers instead of red groupers at this spot, the size will be around 35, 78 jins. If it's just over 10 jins, we must go to another place."

Zhao Dahai didn't need to think about this. The fish he caught were relatively small, and he had been fishing all night. He went out to sea and didn't sleep all night. He must have just wanted to make money and wanted to make more money. But catching fish was not his main purpose. The main purpose was to make as much money as possible. If he didn't have the opportunity to catch bigger fish, he would have to throw away the smaller ones. But he had already caught a lot of big fish tonight. If he couldn't catch any at this point, he would have to move the speedboat. Sometimes, moving the speedboat only 10 meters would create a completely different world.

"Ugh!"

"Other people who go fishing offshore must be very depressed if they see you like this or hear you do this."

Shi Guangming really didn't know what to say.

"Yo!"

"It is really a red spot, not very big, only about ten pounds."

……

"what!"

"Mine is a little bigger than yours."

……

"coming!"

"Mine is coming again!"

"No way?"

"Seven or eight pounds, right? A little too small! But as long as it's just red spots, it's still a good deal."

……

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou were talking to each other non-stop.

"Zhao Dahai!"

"This method must be very easy to get stuck, right?"

Shi Guangming watched Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou catch fish non-stop and was very worried that one of them would get caught on the seabed.

"Correct!"

"It is definitely very easy to get stuck in this way. If the lead weight is dragged on the seabed and the hook is attached, no one knows when it will get stuck in the cracks of the rocks, or when the hook will get stuck on the seabed."

"But there's no need to ignore this matter! Even if it's really stuck, forget it, just pull it off. We go fishing in the open sea, especially in a place like this, more than a hundred meters deep, and in a place like an artificial island reef, it is definitely possible to get stuck at any time."

Zhao Dahai held the rod in one hand, controlling the fish that was pulled out of the water to the side of the speedboat, and with the other hand he took the scoop net to scoop up the fish. Shi Wenming was right, this method of fishing would definitely make it very easy to get stuck on the bottom, more likely than knocking on the bottom.

But it doesn't matter. Deep sea fishing is like this. If you are not stuck on the bottom, you are on the way to the bottom. There will always be a time when you are stuck on the bottom, and most of the time you are stuck on the bottom.

If you can catch a fish, it doesn't matter if you fail ten or even twenty times, it is very cost-effective. Sometimes you don't even catch a single fish in the whole day because you keep failing to catch any fish.

Zhao Dahai has long been accustomed to it. This is part of how people like him make money.

Zhao Dahai drove the speedboat to fish at various points within an area with a diameter of less than 20 meters. If he caught fish, he would continue to cast the rod. If he didn't catch any fish, he would immediately move the speedboat. He fished for three hours until the sky turned pale and he stopped only when there were no more fish.

"Drink a sip of water, smoke a cigarette, and take a break."

Zhao Dahai shouted at Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou.

"what!"

"We caught a lot of groupers here, right? Most of them were red groupers. There must be at least 27 or 28 of them, if not 30."

Lei Dayou drank half a bottle of water in one breath, then immediately took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit one, and took a few puffs impatiently. He had been fishing for several hours without having time to smoke or drink water. Now that he stopped, he was not only very thirsty, but also couldn't control his urge to smoke.

"Correct!"

"There should be about thirty fish, big and small, among which there should be about twenty-five or six red spots, some of which are bigger and some are smaller."

Zhao Shi kept staring at the fish he caught, especially those caught in the past few hours, most of which were red spot fish, and he was counting them in his mind.

"Hey!"

“It’s still more cost-effective to fish for red grouper.”

Zhong Shizhu drank a bottle of water in one breath, unscrewed another bottle and drank half of it, and poured the remaining half directly on his face. He was very tired after fishing all night, and this made him feel refreshed all of a sudden.

"Correct!"

"correct."

“It’s true that fishing for red grouper is more profitable.”

Liu Bin nodded without thinking, as he and his group had caught quite a few red snappers in the past few hours.

(End of this chapter)