Fairy Gourd Farm

Chapter 240 Fishing eel fry

Xu Zhiming asked Yang Youqiang to take the helm, and he came to Zhao Lei to teach him the skills of catching eel fry.

After waiting for a while, Zhao Lei finally saw this fish fry known as "soft gold in the sea" for the first time under the guidance of Xu Zhiming.

Eel fry are only inches long, shaped like elongated willow leaves, and almost transparent all over.It is definitely not easy to find eel fry in the turbid river water and catch them intact. Does it cost more than 30 yuan for such a small one?

Now that we know what eel fry look like, the next step is of course fishing.

For Zhao Lei, whose eyesight is much sharper than that of ordinary people and his reaction time is much faster, the job of fishing eel fry seems to be tailor-made for him.

After a while, Zhao Lei had caught five or six eel fry.And Xu Zhiming, who was busy on the other side of the ship, has not caught a single eel so far.

"Another one!" Yang Youqiang, who was driving the boat, shouted excitedly: "Boss Zhao has already caught a dozen or so. What a bumper harvest today!"

Xu Zhiming, an old fisherman with decades of experience, was actually inferior to the newcomer who boarded the boat for the first time, which made Xu Zhiming a little depressed, scratching his head in embarrassment and saying, "It's so strange that I don't have a single eel fry here today. Already!"

Yang Youqiang laughed and said, "Boss Chuan, don't make excuses. Didn't you just say that Boss Zhao was born to eat this bowl of rice? Haha!"

"Little bastard, let's see how I deal with you when I go back!" Xu Zhiming gave Yang Youqiang a dissatisfied look, but he was actually in a good mood.

Taking Zhao Lei out to sea today, no matter what the harvest is, 5000 yuan is a steady profit.And for every eel seedling caught, there is still 20 yuan in the account, which is equivalent to net income.

Not long after the fishing started, Zhao Lei had already caught more than a dozen young eels, which meant that today's harvest should be good, and Xu Zhiming was of course very happy.

However, Xu Zhiming is satisfied, but Zhao Lei is not satisfied with such a small fight.One must know that his goal is [-] eel fry. If one or two hundred eel fry are caught every day, he will have to stay on the island for a month, which is absolutely unacceptable to Zhao Lei.

So after confirming that there are eel fry activities in this water area, Zhao Lei is ready to sacrifice his secret weapon - the bait soaked in spring water.

Zhao Lei put the bait into the drink bottles with holes in advance, and now he took out one of the drink bottles, hung it with a rope and put it into the river water.

Seeing Xu Zhiming on the other side, he couldn't help coming over curiously and asking, "What's in this bottle?"

"It's a bait specially prepared by a classmate of mine." Zhao Lei took out the non-existent classmate again and blamed him: "This kind of bait is very attractive to fish, and it can attract fish in a large area. Attract more eel fry."

Xu Zhiming doubted: "I have fished eel fry in this river for more than ten years, but I have never heard of such a thing..."

"Here we come!" However, before Xu Zhiming could finish his sentence, Zhao Lei had already let out a low snort and put the net in his hand into the water at the same time, picking up a young eel in the blink of an eye.

Just as Zhao Lei put the eel fry into the bucket, the scooping net in his hand immediately flew out like lightning, and another eel fry was caught in the net in a blink of an eye.

At this time, Xu Zhiming also saw that there were indeed several eel fry swimming towards the drink bottle hanging in the water, and he quickly took out his net to catch them.This eel seedling is only 20 yuan, of course, such a good opportunity cannot be easily missed.

In the next period of time, Zhao Lei and Xu Zhiming kept copying the net in their hands.Eel fry kept coming, sometimes two or three in one net, and Xu Zhiming couldn't stop laughing from ear to ear.

Xu Zhiming is a veteran in catching eel fry, while Zhao Lei is faster than him. With the joint efforts of the two, it didn't take long to catch more than 100 eel fry, and this is almost Xu Zhiming's daily harvest.

But at this time, almost all the eel fry nearby were caught by the two, and the number of fry decreased sharply.Some larger fish were also gradually attracted and began to swim near the side of the boat.

Xu Zhiming's rich experience played a role at this time, and he quickly said to Zhao Lei: "There are big fish infesting nearby, and I can't catch eel fry. I have to change places."

So Yang Youqiang sailed away from the original fishing point. After driving a few kilometers, Zhao Lei was the first to find eel fry swimming nearby, so he threw a drink bottle containing bait into the water again, and the fishing swarmed again. Here comes the eel fry.

The whole process was repeated several times until all the bait brought by Zhao Lei was used up, and today's fishing work was over.

Looking at the eel fry in the bucket, Xu Zhiming blushed with excitement.Today can definitely be described as a bumper harvest. The two of them only worked hard for half a day, and they caught at least 1000 eel fry.This was something I didn't even dare to think about before, even in the best years, I couldn't get so much in a day.

"Boss Zhao, there are at least 1000 or [-] eels here!" Xu Zhiming is worthy of being an old fisherman, and he can estimate how many eel fry are in the bucket at a glance.

"There should be." Zhao Lei also recognized the number, and said to Xu Zhiming with a smile: "According to our prior agreement, each item is twenty, I should give you 4000 yuan, right?"

"It's wrong." Xu Zhiming nodded, hesitantly said: "But I didn't expect to catch so many eel seedlings beforehand, and your bait played a huge role. The money...is too much."

Seeing Xu Zhiming's sincerity, Zhao Lei couldn't help laughing and said, "Old Xu, don't be too polite, since you have agreed on the conditions, you must abide by them, and I will transfer the money to you!"

Zhao Lei did what he said, and immediately transferred the money to Xu Zhiming.

Xu Zhiming expressed his thanks repeatedly, then frowned and said, "But how are you going to bring these eel seedlings ashore? If Zhu Junwei finds out, he will have to pay him an extra ten yuan for each eel seedling!"

Zhao Lei sneered and said, "I won't give him a penny! Let's not go to the pier, but directly dock by the river, and I will bring these eel fry ashore."

Xu Zhiming wondered: "I'm afraid it won't work. The river is shallow, and if you go directly to the shore, you will run aground."

Zhao Lei smiled and said, "You don't need to bring the boat directly to the shore, as long as you drive it four or five meters away from the shore, is that okay?"

"That's fine!" Xu Zhiming nodded immediately and said, "I know a place where the water near the shore is quite deep, so I'll take you ashore there!"

More than half an hour later, the fishing boat arrived at the place Xu Zhiming mentioned.

Xu Zhiming drove the boat himself, and slowly moved past the shore.The crewman Yang Youqiang held a bamboo pole and measured the water depth at the bow.This is not a joke, both of them are very nervous.As fishing boats get closer and closer to shore, they may run aground at any time.

(End of this chapter)