Catch the sea: start with a sand shovel and take over the entire beach

Throughout the morning, they were busy setting up fishing gear. After setting up the sticky nets, they went around to the cave island, put down the longline, and then turned back to put the ground cage on Xiangu Island.

By the time everything was finished, it was already almost one o'clock in the afternoon.

"Fortunately, we don't need to collect the ground cage every day. Otherwise, the three of us would be busy, but the boat would be too busy."

The boat stopped at the island, Zhao Qin was cooking, Zhao Ping said while arranging the tools on the boat.

"Brother Ping, this is not a solution. We will collect the floor cages and put them back the day after tomorrow, and we have to work until midnight." Ahe also frowned.

But in this situation, the harvest is still successful, and they are reluctant to give up any work tool. This is the real contradiction between the three.

"It takes time to clean up the sticky net," Zhao Ping said again.

"We will see the situation today. If it is really troublesome to stick to the net, we will call someone else to observe it in the next two days. If it doesn't work, we will stop the longline fishing."

The rice is ready. Today's meal is simple. I brought some leftover stewed vegetables from yesterday, plus the packaged bone soup.

After the meal, the three of them didn't rest for long. At about two o'clock, Zhao Qin said: "Let's go, let's collect the longline first."

After he finished speaking, he remembered to take a look at today's luck score. It was okay. There was 52 points. If it had been put aside two months ago, this luck score would have been considered good. But looking at it now, I can only say that it is not bad or not. .

Of course, many fish have been unlocked now, and the amount of harvest is not controlled by the real-time luck value.

"Okay, let's leave more time to collect the sticky net. After all, this is the first time for the three of us to operate." Zhao Ping nodded in agreement and started to crank the machine towards the longline fishing point.

When we arrived at the Cave Island, it was Zhao Qin who started to pull the line first. As a result, all the first three hooks were lost.

"Brother, it seems that longline fishing really has nothing to do."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the line in Zhao Qin's hand shaking crazily and still letting the line out. Ah He was pleasantly surprised again, "Brother, it must be a big fish."

"Well, I'm quite strong. I don't know what it is."

"What kind of fish is Aqin?"

"Brother, it feels a bit like an eel, and the thread is still spinning."

The retraction and retraction were deadlocked for half a minute, and then Zhao Qin used his strength to retract the line. The next moment, a large eel surfaced from the water, its mouth wide open, and it was still rolling desperately.

Fortunately it wasn't a red eel, otherwise the hook in this basket would have been untied.

"I'll go, this is the first time I've seen such a big white eel." Ah He exclaimed.

Zhao Ping also leaned over and looked at the sea and said happily: "My dear, it's almost as thick as my calf. It must be more than ten kilograms."

Zhao Qin looked a bit scary, especially the rows of long thorn-like teeth that opened his mouth. He doubted that this guy could bite someone's arm directly off.

"Ah He, don't move, I'll do it." Zhao Ping was afraid that Ah He would be bitten again, so he jumped off the bridge and picked up a hook. With quick eyes and hands, he directly hooked the eel's head downwards, "Ah Qin, use a knife to cut the rope. , cut it longer and don’t get too close.”

Although Zhao Qin felt sorry for Hook, he had no other choice at this time.

As soon as the line was cut, Zhao Ping threw the eel into the living cabin and closed the hatch cover, fearing that the eel would suddenly come out again.

"Brother Ping, how much does it weigh?"

"More than ten kilograms, maybe 20 kilograms." Zhao Ping said with joy in his tone.

This eel must be more expensive than those of normal size. If it can reach [-] or [-] pounds, then this eel will cost more than a thousand yuan.

Perhaps it was because of this eel that the next few hooks were empty, and then another yellow snapper was caught. This fish is also good. Although it is cheap, it tastes great.

Now it only costs more than 20 yuan per pound, but in more than ten years it will be over [-] yuan.

After collecting the hooks in the first basket, a total of nine fish were caught. The proportion of empty hooks was much larger than before. Fortunately, the fish in this basket were of high quality.

Either they are good fish like Chunzi and Youpan, or they are big.

So even though the tail number is small, even if the big conger eel is removed, there is still nearly 20 kilograms left. With this harvest, it is estimated that none of the three people are willing to put down the longline.

Then collect the second basket. This basket is the fish caught by the fifth hook. Although the front fish is empty, when the first fish is collected, everyone knows that the hook of this basket is also stable. One fish weighs seven or eight kilograms. Tiger Spot was pulled up.

When the three of them thought that this basket of hooks would be better than the first one, they only caught two fish from the next dozens of hooks, one black snapper and one male fish, which together were estimated to be worth fifty yuan.

"Aqin, let me collect the remaining two baskets. You can rest for a while."

Looking at this situation, Zhao Ping still suggested changing his hands.

"Okay, brother, come on."

Zhao Qin couldn't help but light a cigarette when he sat on the bridge. Taohai is like this. The more rewarding you are, the faster you feel the time flies. You are not tired. The less rewarding you are, the more you feel uncomfortable everywhere.

The third basket Zhao Ping collected was also a systematic hook. The variety and quantity of fish caught were relatively more, but they were all worthless seafood. Even though he collected nearly thirty kilograms of fish, the average price was only a dozen yuan. One pound.

"Haha, it's actually not bad. A basket of hooks costs several hundred yuan." Zhao Ping said with a smile.

"Well, it's alright."

"Brother Ping, this basket has saved at least our cost for today."

What can the three of them say, they can only comfort themselves. Of course, if compared with those who specially put longline fishing hooks, the harvest in this basket is indeed not bad.

The last basket was changed to Ahe. The hooks were not systematic and the harvest was predictable. Only two fish were caught in one basket of hooks. Fortunately, there was also a midday fish weighing nearly four kilograms.

"Well, it seems I have the worst luck today." Ah He sneered.

"It's a matter of placement." Zhao Ping tapped him on the shoulder, then simply sorted out the collected baskets and stacked them together. There were 25 nets coming up next, so the space on the deck must be larger.

"Brother, it's almost done. Shall we go collect the sticky net?"

Zhao Qin didn't wear a watch anymore, but there was a big one hanging on the boat. Zhao Ping took a look and it was exactly four o'clock. However, considering that the three people on the boat except himself were all novices, he still nodded in agreement, "Take it."

It was not far away, and it took about twenty minutes to drive the boat. When we arrived at the place, Zhao Ping opened the winch. After installing this thing, it finally came in use.

"I will close the net, Ah Qin will control the speed of the boat, Ah He, stand opposite me, and be a little behind to untie the fish."

After the work was divided and the boat arrived, Zhao Ping fished out the floating ball with a hook, hung it on the winch, and started to close the net with the help of the power of the machine.

Because the net on the bottom of the sea sinks relatively deep and is sometimes caused by currents, it would be tiring to death if you had to pull it up by hand.

Finally, the net started to come up, and fish was caught at the end of the net. Three fish were actually caught in a row, all of which were big sea bream, with an average weight of about two kilograms each.

"Jiajiyu, a good sign." Zhao Ping shouted loudly, and the noise on the boat became even louder when the winch started.

Once the net entered the windlass, it was pulled up at a constant speed. This was very difficult for Ah He. He had never learned how to untie fish. The sticky net was made of three layers. It took a long time to untie a single fish.

Seeing this, Zhao Qin had no choice but to jump on the deck to help, but the result was the same: not a single fish was untied for a while.

"That's not how you understand it. Why are you all so stupid?"

Zhao Ping had no choice but to take the net off the winch and hang it on a hook tied to the boat. Then he turned around and taught the two how to untie the fish.

"Remove the net layer by layer and dig down from the head of the fish. This will cause the least damage to the fish..."