Chapter 189 Extreme joy leads to sorrow
After collecting three soft fish in a row, another stingray came up. It was not very big. Ye Yaodong grabbed its nose without any morals, pulled it up roughly, and threw it on the boat for his father to tidy up.
You're so ugly and so small, don't expect him to be gentle to you.
After loading 5 hooks in a row, the hook was empty again. The fish meat on them was still hanging there, so there may be no fish to bite.
This time when he went out to sea, he hung a variety of baits, some with shrimp bait, and some with various types of fish pieces, because they were all pulled up from the ground cage, and different types of small fish were cut up and used as bait.
, whoever is willing takes the bait.
Ye Yaodong continued to reel in the thread and open the blind box. As soon as he pulled it, he knew that it was another big fish. It felt so good to receive the goods, so happy~
"Oh haha~ The mackerel weighs 5 pounds!"
This kind of longline fishing is more interesting than trawling and ground cages. The products are shipped on branch lines, and there are no small fish. The trawl and ground cages can pull up a bunch of fish at once. Although it is also very exciting, it lacks a little feeling.
Father Ye was having a great time picking and bleeding things at the back. Unexpectedly, longline fishing was quite useful. Every fish was quite big. He put the good quality fish into one basket and the poorer fish in another basket.
In a basket.
Ye Yaodong also had a great time loading the goods. The quality of the fish from the offshore is higher than that from the coast, and there are more big fish. It may also be that the bait they use is relatively large.
In this era, the ocean has not been overfished. Except for a few species that are originally rare, most resources are still very abundant. A few decades later, there are still many second-level protected animals and first-level protected animals.
Ye Yaodong collected and hung bait at the same time, and it had already been two hours since he had collected a thousand rows of hooks. If he was not tired, he could go back and collect it all over again.
It’s just that he was inexperienced this time, and he brought too little bait. 1,000 hooks require 1,000 baits. All the dozens of kilograms of small fish caught yesterday were used to make up the numbers, but there was not enough bait. After baiting the second time,
The basin and bucket were already empty.
After packing up the goods, Father Ye also saw that there was no bait, and murmured: "This bait is used up a bit quickly? When I cut it in the morning, I still had a big basin and several kilograms of shrimps."
"No, there were only three to five hundred hooks I tried to put out before. Yesterday I deliberately kept all the small fish and shrimps instead of drying them, but there were not enough."
"Go back in the evening and ask your eldest and second brothers to keep all the small fish and shrimps. You can pay some money to collect them. Otherwise, if the bait is not enough, what will happen?"
"I'm still out late today. If I go out at night tomorrow, even doubling the bait won't be enough. If I go to the pier to collect fish and shrimps, I can get a lot of money. Small fish and shrimps can't be sold for much, and most people don't.
I want to keep it back to eat, but I don’t want to sell it.”
My heart aches when I think about Father Ye. I originally thought that longline fishing would be so efficient, that it could be loaded with goods one after another, and that it would only catch big fish, not small fish. It would be too powerful.
Looking at it now, it costs a lot of money to buy just the bait, diesel fuel, and wages. If the couple goes to sea, they can save a wage.
Looking at it this way, unless the fish caught are abundant and good, it may not be comparable to trawling.
The trawl has everything.
Ye Yaodong also felt that the bait was a bit wasted. The number of worthless small fish and shrimps pulled up in the ground cage was not enough to support his longline fishing. If the fish could be sold at a high price, they definitely could not be used as bait.
"I'll tell my eldest and second brothers when I get back in the evening. I'll take over all the fish and shrimps they can't sell at a reasonable price."
The bait has been hung up, and after the second wave is finished, they will have to reel in the line and return. They are not in a hurry this time, they have enough time, and plan to leave it longer. It is only 2 p.m. now.
Father Ye planned to lie down and squint, while Ye Yaodong took a look at what he had just harvested.
I caught a bucket full of soft silk, and it was so packed that it looked like it weighed more than ten kilograms.
As for fish, the yellow-striped amberjack weighing over 20 kilograms is the largest, and there are also many other big fish, the most common of which are mackerel, two weighing more than ten kilograms, and two flounder and perch weighing more than three kilograms.
There are many varieties of black sea bream, red sea bream, sea wolf, etc., but the weights vary.
A lot of the bait didn't move, and a lot of fish ran away with empty hooks, but the harvest from a rope was also considerable. Ye Yaodong visually estimated that these were already worth dozens of dollars.
I've only collected it once. If I go out at night and collect it a few more times, I won't be old or young that day. If I don't have enough bait, it's worth buying some.
At about three o'clock, Ye Yaodong woke up Ye's father, who was sleeping and snoring, and planned to continue to close the line. After that, he would return home for dinner.
The sea area here is far away, not along the coast. Ye Yaodong plans to collect the fishing lines at the same time as he harvests, so it is not suitable to leave it overnight.
After catching three Spanish mackerel in a row, a cuttlefish came up. Ye Yaodong was afraid that its ink would spray on his face. When he was unhooking, he stretched his arms to get it, and then turned his face to the side, only to see a trawl.
The fishing boat was slowly heading in their direction.
He didn't take it seriously. It was common for him to encounter fishing boats that were operating. You were doing your thing and I was doing mine without disturbing each other.
But the sea around the fishing boat was sparkling, which immediately attracted his attention. Then a big fish rushed towards the sea in front of him from far to near, sometimes faster and sometimes slower, sometimes to the left, sometimes towards the sea.
right.
He forgot to reel in the line for a moment and looked towards the iron boat trawling the net. The fishing boat also reacted quickly and turned around to chase the big fish, trying to drag it into the net.
Seeing that he was looking into the distance, Father Ye also looked over, but there was nothing special. There was only one fishing boat working, but he drove a little faster. The normal trawling speed is 3 to 5 knots per hour.
"What are you looking at? Hurry up and retract the line and go home."
"I just saw a big fish, and this boat seems to be chasing the big fish now."
"What does it have to do with us?"
"The boat is coming towards us."
He saw the boat getting closer and closer to his direction, and Father Ye also looked over.
I don't know if a big fish has been caught, but the boat actually slowed down and was diagonally in front of them, just a few meters away from them. Then I saw them collecting the net gear.
Father Ye patted his shoulder, "What's there to see? I'll take your goods."
"Oh." He was actually curious and wanted to know if they had caught that big fish and what kind of fish it was. Looking at the movement on the sea at that time, the fish seemed to be quite big, and he felt a little itchy in his heart.
When he just turned his head, he heard a sudden exclamation coming from the boat. It was so close that it was difficult for him not to hear it.
But he couldn't see it, so he had to give up temporarily and continue to close the line regardless of the movement over there.
He was pleasantly surprised when he started to pull the line with difficulty, and the waves on the water surface splashed on his face. He slowly and carefully dragged the fish to avoid being run away, until the fish's body emerged from the water!
"Bomb fish? No, it's tuna, dad, come on, grab the net and come over! It's tuna!" Ye Yaodong shouted to his dad excitedly.
This one definitely looks over a meter long. This is the biggest catch today. It is much more valuable than the yellow-striped amberjack that escaped before. We can’t let it escape now.
After he pulled the fish to the surface, he didn't dare to drag it hard and waited for his father to come over with a fishing net to catch it.
He slowly pulled it, tug-of-war with it, and the water splashed violently. He and Ye's father were all wet from the water splashing on their faces and bodies. When they were pulled to the side of the ship, Ye's father used his hands to
Use a fishing net to catch it.
But this fish was very big. Father Ye didn't check for a moment and let it flip out. Fortunately, the fishhook caught it and prevented it from running away.
Father Ye took a good look again, holding the handle of the hand-pulled net with both hands, he pulled it up with all his strength and threw it to the deck.
Only then did the two of them see clearly that it was an albacore tuna, and their faces suddenly burst into smiles.
“It’s albacore!”
The fish has a torpedo-shaped appearance and smooth skin. He recognized its species at a glance because its first dorsal fin is dark yellow, its second dorsal fin is light yellow, its back has a dark blue metallic sheen, and its edges and belly are silvery white.
This kind of albacore tuna is widely distributed in various domestic waters and waters around the world.
There are many kinds of tuna, including green tuna, albacore tuna, bluefin tuna, big eye tuna, blackfin tuna, etc. Of course the best one is bluefin tuna, but albacore tuna is not bad either.
This one is about 1.2 meters long, and for its size, it is absolutely superb.
After the albacore was thrown to the deck, it bounced a few times and swung its tail. Ye Yaodong planned to bleed it while it was still alive, and then asked his father to reel in the line.
He wanted to cook such a top-quality tuna himself. This was the first time he had come across such a superb tuna in his life.
At this time, the ship in front also sailed towards them and approached their ship.
"Hey, you also caught a tuna?" A short, thin and dark middle-aged man leaned against the side of the boat and stretched his neck to look at the albacore tuna on their boat.
Ye Yaodong was curious about what kind of fish they had just caught online, and he smiled and said, "Uncle, I just saw a big fish on the sea. Did you catch it?"
The short, thin and dark middle-aged man smiled proudly and said, "Yes, the one I just caught is bigger than you and more valuable than this albacore of yours. It is a yellowfin tuna."
Father Ye said with envy: "Really? We are so lucky, we have seen it before."
"It was chasing a school of anchovies. We happened to drag the net to the front and found part of its body emerging from the water, so we chased it. Unexpectedly, we actually caught it."
"It's a school of anchovies. No wonder, I said that fish looked like it was hunting for prey." Ye Yaodong felt a little regretful. The yellowfin tuna was also very good.
"Luckily, we saw it as soon as our boat came over, and caught it immediately. You guys are not good at it. You actually used this kind of longline fishing. If we were trawling in this area, I would have caught it in your net.
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Ye Yaodong shrugged, "Albacore tuna is pretty good too, not much different."
A middle-aged woman on the boat, probably his wife, also spoke out at this time, "Who said it, it's much worse, okay? The yellowfin tuna is much better than yours, let's show them."
"Let me show you, we just finished bleeding." The short, thin, dark middle-aged man was really happy, and proudly pulled out the yellowfin tuna, held it in his hands and showed it to them, proudly, "Look
Come on, this head, these golden fins, aren’t they beautiful?”
Ye Yaodong also saw it, and it was indeed a little bigger than them.
The woman also said proudly: "Is it better than yours? It's so big. It's so rare for this fish to appear offshore..."
Before he could finish his words, suddenly a wave rolled over and the boat shook. The middle-aged man's body also swayed, and he couldn't hold it steady in his hands. His pupils shrank in shock.
"Ahhhh~"
"Ah~ fish...my fish..."
That yellowfin tuna actually fell directly into the sea...
The middle-aged man reacted quickly and immediately leaned half of his body out of the side of the boat, trying to catch the fish. He only touched the tail of the fish, and the yellowfin tuna sank immediately.
The woman also rushed to the side of the ship excitedly, leaned out half of her body, stretched out her arms, but only touched a handful of sea water.
"Ahhhh~ My tuna..."
Chapter completed!