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

Chapter 920: More Practice

Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry to fish. In five or six minutes, Lei Dayou pulled a huge grouper out of the water.

"Yo!"

"This fish is really big. It's more than 100 kilograms. I think it's about 120 kilograms."

Zhao Dahai was a little surprised. It's not like he had never caught such a big grouper before, but he didn't expect to catch such a big one in this place, especially tonight.

Zhong Shizhu had been waiting with a scoop net. When he saw the grouper pulled out of the water, he quickly reached out and grabbed the grouper's head. He pulled it back hard, and the whole grouper was pulled into the scoop net.

"what!"

"Zhong Shizhu Liu Bin."

"Let me show you what technology is!"

Lei Dayou felt relieved when he saw the big grouper had fallen into the scoop net and couldn't escape. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin triumphantly.

"What the hell!"

"Lei Dayou!"

"You're so brave! You said something like this just now when the fish hasn't even entered the net yet!"

Zhong Shizhu cursed.

"Hahahahaha!"

“You’re right!”

"Why didn't you say something like this just now?"

"If you had said something like that just now, your fish would have disappeared somewhere and you would definitely not be able to catch it!"

Liu Bin laughed loudly.

Zhong Shizhu would definitely not let the fish escape on purpose, but as long as Lei Dayou was willing to speak like this just now, he must have been threatened by Zhong Shizhu.

"Hurry! Hurry!"

"Fishing! Fishing!"

Zhong Shizhu put down the scoop net and no longer cared about removing the hooks. Lei Da was alone, so he had to hurry up and fish to see if he could catch another fish.

Liu Bin immediately picked up his rod, hung the octopus on it again and put it back into the sea.

Zhao Dahai smiled and started fishing himself.

Lei Dayou used pliers to remove the big hook hanging on the corner of the grouper's mouth, checked it, and found no problems.

"Yo!"

"I have to say this hook is really good. It doesn't get deformed at all after pulling up such a big fish."

Lei Dayou looked at the hook in his hand. There was really no problem with its quality.

"what!"

"A hook that costs a hundred or eighty dollars!"

"If the quality is not good enough to deal with this grouper weighing more than 100 kilograms but less than 200 kilograms, I will go and cause trouble for Wu Guodong when I get back!"

Zhao Dahai let out the line to about 167 or 168 meters and stopped. He began to pull the rod up and down slightly. When it did not hit the reef on the seabed, he continued to let out a little more line until it hit the reef on the seabed and stopped.

All these hooks for fishing grouper were bought from Wu Guodong, and they are specially made and customized.

Not to mention a grouper weighing more than 100 kilograms, even a big fish weighing 200 to 300 kilograms will not be a problem.

"Hey!"

"Zhao Dahai."

"We have three hooks hanging on the seabed now."

"Wouldn't that mean that more than three hundred or four hundred yuan is gone in an instant?"

"That's the money for the hook, plus the lead and line, that means more than a thousand dollars is gone."

Liu Bin quickly did the math. He, Zhong Shizhu and Lei Dayou had just gotten stuck once, and now a thousand yuan was gone before they even broke the fishing line. If they fished all night and got stuck the next morning, each of them would get stuck more than ten times, and sometimes even twenty or thirty times. The cost was really high.

"Ok!"

"Many people know that you can make a lot of money by fishing for grouper. Sometimes it doesn't matter if you don't catch any fish for three or five days, as long as you can catch a big fish, you can make money."

"The biggest problem with bottom-diving grouper is that they get stuck very often. Sometimes, if you're unlucky, at the end of the day, you'll have to pay thousands of dollars for hooks, lead sinkers, or broken lines that get stuck on the bottom."

"In addition, there are the costs of gas and fishing spots, and even if you buy a speedboat, there are also the costs of depreciation of the speedboat and the costs of maintaining the speedboat, etc."

"The cost is very high, and it's not something that ordinary people can afford."

Zhao Dahai lifted the rod in his hand half a meter high, then suddenly loosened the line. The lead weight hit the reef on the seabed. At this moment, the fishing rod bent sharply.

Zhao Dahai raised his hand to raise the rod and stab the fish, then he held it with both hands and lifted it up with force. The rod was very hard and the line was very thick, so he was not worried at all about the fish escaping or the line breaking.

Zhao Dahai turned the spinning wheel hard to reel in the line.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou shook their heads. The fish that was hooked was not too big, but it must be at least 50 kilograms. A fish like this, especially when it was just hooked, would instinctively drill towards the bottom of the sea, and the pulling force was very strong. The three of them did not have the ability like Zhao Dahai to pull it away from the bottom of the sea. It was not that they did not want to pull it, but they really did not have the strength to do so. They could only carry it for the time being.

"Liu Bin, Lei Dayou, did you notice that Zhao Dahai's tapping distance was quite long? It was not like what he just told us. He pulled the rod up and down about ten centimeters and gently tapped the rocks on the seabed."

While watching Zhao Dahai reeling in the fish, Zhong Shizhu recalled that Zhao Dahai's knocking of the stone just now was very loud, unlike himself, Lei Dayou and Liu Bin who just knocked lightly.

"Correct!"

"Zhao Dahai's strength is quite strong, almost as strong as releasing the line to hit the bottom."

Lei Dayou thought about it and nodded vigorously. The impact of Zhao Dahai's hitting the bottom before catching the fish was indeed quite big.

"It's no use for us to just tap the rocks gently. It looks like only a lot of force can catch fish, but won't it be easy for them to get stuck in this way?"

Liu Bin didn't know what was going on. The biggest purpose or effect of bottom fishing for grouper is to hit the bottom of the sea with the lead pendant, making a sound, stirring up the mud and dust on the bottom of the sea, and attracting the surrounding fish.

At the beginning, Zhong Shizhu, Lei Dayou and I knocked on the rocks a few times and fish took the bait. However, the second time, there was no movement for such a long time. On the contrary, Zhao Dahai knocked hard and fish took the bait immediately. This movement was bigger than that of the others and could attract more attention of the surrounding fish.

"How about we give it a try?"

Zhong Shizhu was eager to try out the same large-scale bottom knock as Zhao Dahai had done.

"what!"

"Uncle Shizhu."

“This isn’t difficult at all!”

"But you have to pay attention to how far you lift the rod when you pull it up, and you have to accurately control the distance when you release the line."

"When the lead weight just hits the stone and there is no time for it to continue to slide down, you have to control the line so that it does not continue to slide down."

"This way, the force of the knock is greater, the noise is louder, and it is more likely to attract fish to bite the hook."

"If you do this at the same time, it's just as easy to get stuck as if you were just gently pulling it up."

Zhao Dahai quickly pulled it up to about fifty meters.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou understood what Zhao Dahai did.

"Zhong Shizhu." "Can you do it?"

Lei Dayou thought about it carefully and felt that he was not very sure.

Zhao Dahai's method is actually very simple, and you can understand what it means as soon as you hear it, but it is not easy to do it. The most important thing is to lift the rod, pull the lead weight away from the seabed, and let the line down to hit the bottom at a distance of about one meter. You must control it very accurately. When you pull it up to one meter and hit it down, it must be one meter or a few centimeters more than one meter.

This is something that cannot be measured with a ruler. You must have a good enough feeling in your hands and know when to hold down the spool and stop releasing the line to hit the bottom.

If it is too early, the lead weight will not hit the rocks on the seabed. If it is too late, it will easily get stuck on the bottom.

Lei Dayou knew very well that just because Zhao Dahai could do it didn't mean that he, Zhong Shizhu, and Liu Bin could do it.

Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin thought about it and shook their heads.

"What should we do?"

Lei Da didn't know what to do for a moment. If he wasn't sure, then he could only watch Zhao Dahai fishing.

"what!"

"Uncle Dayou!"

"Why should we be so cautious?"

"How can you go fishing at sea, especially bottom fishing for grouper, without getting stuck?"

"If it gets hung up, there is a certain possibility of losing the hook or the lead sinker or even the line."

"But what's the problem? We've already caught so many fish here and earned so much money. Are we unwilling to spend this little bit of money?"

"Some things about fishing are innate, but a lot of it can only be developed through practice."

"hurry up!"

"Won't you get it right if you try a few more times and practice more? So what if you fail the first time? You can't just stop practicing, right?"

Zhao Dahai continued to reel in the fish while urging Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou to learn how to fish. Let alone other things, the groupers caught by these people here are worth tens of thousands of dollars, and how much more money can be made by hanging them on the bottom.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou all laughed.

"Row!"

“This has to be tried!”

……

"Come on, come on!"

……

"Who knows, we may be able to control it very precisely!"

“Even if your skills aren’t great, you might get lucky and hit a rock without getting stuck on the bottom, and catch a fish!”

……

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou relaxed at once, and immediately imitated what Zhao Dahai had done just now, raising the rod to about one meter high and suddenly letting out the line to hit the bottom.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou discovered in a blink of an eye that this matter was really not simple at all. They saw Zhao Dahai could do it very easily, but they were dumbfounded when it was their turn. They all failed at the first try.

Zhao Dahai was not surprised at all. This kind of thing is easy to say but very difficult to do. It is not something that ordinary people can do, especially when they do not have enough experience. It is almost impossible to do it. But this does not mean that it is completely impossible. Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Da will have a chance if they try a few more times.

He pulled the fish out of the water by reeling in the line. Lei Dayou took the scoop net, scooped up the fish, and carried it onto the deck.

"go!"

"We have to move to another place!"

Zhao Dahai called out to Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou and they immediately wrapped the line around the sheep's horns. Now there were six rods with six hooks hanging on the seabed. Five fish had been caught in this place. Lu Dayou even caught a grouper weighing nearly 120 kilograms. There would be no other groupers slightly larger within a range of ten or even twenty meters. They cut the line hanging on the bottom and changed places to continue fishing.

Zhao Dahai took off the fishhook and checked it carefully, finding no problems.

Zhao Dahai saw that the cables of Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Da were all entangled in the sheep's horns, so he put away the top flow machine, accelerated and slowly moved forward, using the power of the engine and the gravity of the speedboat to cut the lines.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou immediately collected the lines on the six rods and re-tied the fishing gear.

"One hundred and sixty-five meters of water depth!"

……

“Exactly the same method!”

……

Zhao Dahai saw that Diamond Pillar, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou were ready. They were not too far from where they had caught the fish just now, only about thirty meters away. The situation on the seabed was almost exactly the same, except that the depth of the sea water was different.

This time, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou did not use electric winches or the pole on the gun mount. They directly used hand-cranked spinning wheels. With the experience just now, this time it went very smoothly.

"what!"

“Fishing!”

……

"Not big, not big!"

"About thirty kilograms!"

……

"what?"

"What's going on? Why is this one so small? It only weighs about 10 or 15 kilograms. Could it be red spots?"

……

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou caught fish one after another.

"middle!"

"Yo!"

"This one is bigger!"

"Eighty or ninety kilograms, you can't escape!"

Zhao Dahai shouted loudly and lifted the line up with both hands. Then he quickly turned the spinning wheel to reel in a few turns of the line, and lifted it up with both hands again. In a few seconds, the hooked grouper had left the seabed.

"Is it the 80-kg or 90-kg one? That one is good, then?"

Zhong Shizhu held a cigarette in his mouth, took out a lighter, lit it and took a deep puff. He, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou each caught two groupers that were not too big, including blue grouper and cheaper oily grouper. After cleaning up, they stopped fishing and waited for Zhao Dahai to knock on the bottom for the last time. Sure enough, they really did catch another fish, and it was a big one.

"Come!"

"Uncle Shizhu."

"Try again, practice a little more, and see if you can get to the bottom!"

While Zhao Dahai was reeling in the fish, he shouted loudly to Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou to practice again and again.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and He Lei nodded immediately, picked up the rod, pulled it up to a distance of about one meter, let out the line to hit the bottom, and when they estimated that the lead weight was about to hit the reef, they controlled the line with their hands. However, this time the three of them failed again. They did not control the time well and got hung on the reef again.

(End of this chapter)