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

Chapter 916: The Great Use of Small Lead Pendants

"Lei Dayou!"

"How many hooks did you use?"

Liu Bin took a look at the radar and saw that the rod mounted on the gun mount was bent very badly, so there must be more than two fish caught.

"Hey!"

"I was wondering how the sea bream would bite on the seabed in my first cast, so I used a five-hook string."

"I didn't expect the croakers to be biting so hard at this time of day. It looks like at least four of them have taken the bait."

Lei Dayong felt a little embarrassed.

The last time we came here to fish for croaker, we used two hooks most of the time.

This time I came here thinking that it was afternoon time, not evening or early morning, so there might be fish, but the fish were not biting.

The chance of catching fish with a five-piece string hook is a little higher. I originally thought that it would be good enough to catch one or two fish, but now, in less than five minutes, at least four croakers have taken the bait.

Lei Dayou pushed the switch, the electric reel began to rotate, and the hooked fishing rod was pulled up, and the bend became more obvious.

"Yo!"

"No way?"

"Does that mean we have to use five hooks?"

Zhao Dahai glanced at Lei Dayou and looked a little surprised.

Whether it is open sea fishing, inland sea fishing or deep sea fishing, string hooks are often used, but the more hooks on the string hook, the better.

If there are too many hooks, they will easily get tangled together at the bottom of the sea. Once they are tangled together, it will take a lot of time to sort them out. Another problem is that if there are too many hooks, it will take more time to hang bait.

If the fish is smaller, you must use a string hook with more hooks. But now the croakers we are fishing for are all over 20 to 30 kilograms. Under normal circumstances, two strings of hooks are used. Even three strings of hooks are a bit too many, not to mention five strings of hooks.

But Lei Da used five hooks and the effect was very good.

"Yo!"

"Not bad!"

"The croakers here today seem to be a little bigger, or fatter, than the ones we caught last time we came here!"

Lei Dayou looked at the croakers he had pulled out of the water and counted them. There were at least four and five of them, each weighing about thirty-five or thirty-six kilograms.

Lei Dayou picked up the fish one by one with a scoop net, carried them to the deck, removed the hooks, and pushed them into the live water tank.

"A fish is biting!"

……

"what!"

"At this time this afternoon, the bite of the croaker here is really fierce!"

……

Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin had just put their string of hooks into the water layer of 150 meters when a fish took the bait in less than a minute.

Zhao Dahai stared at Lei Dayou's five hooks for a long time, thought about it, and came up with an idea.

Zhao Dahai looked at his rod and saw that there were already two fish taking the bait. He pushed the switch of the electric reel and pushed it all the way to the bottom to quickly reel in the hooks.

"what?"

"Zhao Dahai."

"Why do you collect so quickly?"

Zhong Shizhu was very surprised. He and Liu Bin reeled in the line earlier than Zhao Dahai, but the fish had not been pulled out of the water yet.

Croaker is different from black porgy. If the croaker pulls too fast, the belly of the fish will spit out from its mouth. Now, the bellies of the two croakers weighing more than 30 kilograms or almost 40 kilograms on the sea in front of Zhao Dahai have all been spit out.

"Uncle Shizhu!"

"You will change to a string of five hooks later."

"Add a small lead weight to the bottom of the hook. It doesn't need to be too heavy. Fifty grams is enough!"

As Zhao Dahai spoke, he picked up the fish, took off the hook, and immediately changed the hook.

Lei Dayou had five string hooks and caught five fish, which was much more efficient than the fish caught by Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin with two string hooks.

Five hooks do have their shortcomings, but when there are a lot of fish on the seabed and the bite is very fierce, five hooks can catch more fish.

Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin immediately changed the hooks to five strings of hooks. It was a bit strange why they had to add a 50-gram lead sinker at the bottom of the string of hooks. The fishing rig had a lead sinker, but it was placed above the string of hooks and weighed 200 grams. Zhao Dahai's words clearly meant to use two lead sinkers.

Zhao Dahai quickly changed the fishing gear, hung a big live shrimp on each hook, put it into the sea, let out the line, and sank to the bottom of the sea as quickly as possible.

"The biggest problem with a five-hook string is that it can easily get tangled when it reaches the seafloor if the tide is a little stronger."

"A small lead weight is added at the bottom to straighten the entire hook. Another thing is that the hook is not too tight and can swing with the flow of the tide."

Zhao Dahai has rich experience in fishing and is very clear about the weaknesses of long string hooks.

The sea water on the seabed is not motionless. Sometimes the sea water on the seabed flows much faster than the water surface.

Even if the speed of seawater circulation on the seabed is similar to that on the sea surface, or even a little slower, the string hooks often sway and float left and right, up and down, or even irregularly when the seawater flows, making them very easy to get tangled.

Adding a lead sinker can slightly straighten the line, so that the string of hooks will not easily get tangled. Another thing is that the lead sinker is not too heavy, so the string of hooks can swing left and right with the tide and flow, attracting the attention of fish on the seabed.

There weren't that many fish, and if they weren't biting hard, there would be no point in doing this. But now, there were not only a lot of croakers 150 meters below the speedboat, but they were biting hard. This was a very cost-effective way to do it.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou understood what was going on as soon as they heard it.

Lei Dayou had let out the line halfway, but immediately reeled it in and added a small lead weight before letting it go again.

"what!"

"That's right!"

“This really works!”

"I've got four big bites. I have to wait a little longer until the fifth big bite before I can reel in the fish!"

……

"A string of five fish, even if it's four fish, this trip up and down would weigh 150 to 160 kilograms or even 200 kilograms of fish!"

……

“This is really amazing fishing!”…

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and He Lei Dayou soon discovered that Zhao Dahai's idea was very good and effective. They fished five or six times in half an hour, and not once were the hooks tangled together. The least they caught was three fish, and most of the time they caught four or five fish.

Zhao Dahai smiled at the extremely excited Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou, and quickened his movements. The fish in the sea were biting like crazy at this time, which was really rare, so he had to seize the time to catch more fish.

"Zhao Dahai!"

"The speedboat saw how many fish we caught!"

Zhong Shizhu had been concentrating on fishing for more than an hour. He took advantage of the brief moment when the electric winch was turning to pull the fish out of the water to light a cigarette and took a deep puff. At the same time, he looked up at the speedboat about fifty or sixty meters away. There were people on the speedboat, pointing at him and his people. He could not hear what they were saying, but he must have seen him and Zhao Dahai and their men pulling up large croakers weighing thirty or forty kilograms from the sea one after another, and he was getting a little restless.

"Hey!"

"Do you think the people on that speedboat will come over here to fish?"

Liu Bin was a little worried.

It’s not that there are no techniques for sea fishing, but for many people, being able to find a spot with fish is far more important than fishing techniques.

There were three of us, including himself, Zhong Shizhu and Lei Da. Fishing didn't require any technical skills. The key was that Zhao Dahai found that there were more fish at this spot, and they were biting like crazy.

No matter who is on Zhao Dahai's speedboat, as long as they know how to fish, they can catch these fish.

The speedboat on the opposite side saw that they had caught so many fish here. Even if they didn't come here to fish for a while, they would remember this spot firmly and would definitely stand at this spot when they came here next time.

Zhong Shizhu and Lei Dayou looked at each other, and suddenly they were sobered up as if a basin of cold water had been poured on their heads. This spot was discovered by the people on the speedboat opposite. They thought they had taken advantage of this place and didn't need to worry about leaking the fishing spot.

After Liu Bin said this, he realized that even at the same fishing spot, the fish caught at different points would be different. The fact that he and his people had caught so many fish, while the speedboat on the opposite side had not caught many fish, was the best proof.

"What the hell!"

"Liu Bin!"

"Why didn't you remind us earlier?"

Zhong Shizhu was a little furious. He had been fishing with Zhao Dahai for a while, and he knew very well that the fishing spot was very important for deep-sea fishing. It was directly related to whether or not you could catch fish. Different locations at the same fishing spot were even more important. Different fishing boats at the same fishing spot could catch a lot of fish, while others could not catch many fish. In the final analysis, those who caught more fish often occupied the best locations.

The speedboat on the opposite side caught much fewer fish than their group. The key point was that the spot found by Zhao Dahai was much better than that of the speedboat on the opposite side.

Zhong Shizhu regretted very much that he had not thought of this matter earlier. He waited for the speedboat on the opposite side to leave before coming here to fish. This way, the fishing time would be shorter but the location could be kept from being leaked.

"Isn't this what I didn't expect?"

Liu Bin smiled bitterly and shook his head. If he had thought of it earlier, he would have said it earlier.

"what!"

"Uncle Shizhu!"

"You worry too much!"

"Our speedboat is parked here now, only about 50 to 60 meters away from that speedboat."

"I don't know when that speedboat discovered that this place can be used to fish for croaker. I estimate that it has come here countless times. These are the two times we know about and have seen."

“I will come here to fish often in the future.”

"At such a close distance, the speedboat may find at any time that there are more croakers at the spot where we are fishing now, and they are larger and bite more fiercely."

"It doesn't really make any difference whether we fish here or not."

"At least the difference isn't too big."

"Another thing you must not forget is that when we were here last time, we already knew that this spot is not too big. In other words, there won't be too many croakers here."

"We have to fish now if we can. We can't delay. We have to catch as much as we can."

Zhao Dahai was not worried at all that the speedboat on the opposite side would see his people pulling up strings of croakers in this place.

Liu Lei, Zhong Shizhu and Lei Dayou had already thought about what they were worried about. If it was really a fishing spot that only they knew, it would be impossible for them to do so. They would have to wait until dark before coming here to fish.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou now understood why Zhao Dahai didn't care about this matter at all. It was not that he didn't think about it, but that there was no need to worry about it.

"what!"

"Zhao Dahai."

"We talked about this last time. There's no telling how many croakers there are at this fishing spot. We might catch them all in a few trips!"

"In that case, we really have to hurry up and fish as much as we can. There's no need to worry too much."

Zhong Shizhu then remembered that Zhao Dahai had said last time that he didn't know how many fish there were at this fishing spot. He should hurry up and catch more fish, as there might not be many fish after a few trips.

"That's right!"

"The fish we catch and the fish we pull onto the speedboat are our fish!"

"Why should I think so much?"

Liu Bin didn't think any more and hurried to go fishing.

Dong Kaiming gritted his teeth and stared at a speedboat that was much larger than himself and was about fifty or sixty meters away.

Zhao Dahai!
Zhao Dahai from Langtou Village!
As soon as Dong Kaiming saw the speedboat appear, he knew who was coming.

In the nearby sea, few people who fish, catch fish, or buy fish, shrimps, and crabs are unaware of Zhao Dahai's name, and few fail to recognize his speedboat.

"Dry!"

"How did Zhao Dahai come here to fish? How did he know this place?"

Ma Zhizhen, with a cigarette in his mouth, looked at the people on Zhao Dahai's speedboat opposite, who were pulling up bunches of croakers from the sea.

It would be fine to fish here, but the people on Zhao Dahai's speedboat not only have more people than on his own speedboat, but the fish they catch are also bigger and they catch them faster.

"Humph!"

"The last time I found this fishing spot, Zhao Dahai's speedboat had already come when I was fishing here. However, it only appeared from a distance and then left. I thought that they didn't find my fishing spot, but now it seems that not only did they find it, but they also caught fish here 100% of the time last time."

Dong Kaiming was very depressed.

A few days ago, I found a fishing spot here and caught a lot of fish. I had noticed the appearance of Zhao Dahai's speedboat, but at that time Zhao Dahai just showed up and left.

I originally thought that Zhao Dahai didn't notice my fishing spot, but now I see Zhao Dahai's speedboat appear here, and he is fishing frantically about fifty or sixty meters away from me. This is enough to prove that Zhao Dahai had noticed that I had found this fishing spot a few days ago.

Dong Kaiming was extremely depressed.

(End of this chapter)