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

After collecting the longline, the bait will be hung again and put down in the same place. This time, the bait will be put out for a longer time and will be collected early tomorrow morning.

I looked at the time and it was almost five o'clock. It was almost time to start the network.

"Last time you came here to catch small fish?" Zhao Anguo was a little impressed after hearing it, so he asked.

"Well, last time I caught more than a thousand kilograms of small striped fish, I hope I have good luck this time too."

Zhao Ping gave up the driving seat to let Ah He control the boat. After thinking for a while, he said to his father again: "Dad, how about you come and collect the net, and Ah Chen and I will untie the fish."

"Ah Chen doesn't know whether he can close it or not. Let him do it. We can work it out quickly."

"That's fine too."

Ah Chen had also collected the net before, so he naturally understood the process. He held the hook in his hand and waited for the boat to reach its position, then quickly extended the hook to hook up the floating ball. Zhao Ping also helped open the winch.

"Hey, it's the little fish again." Zhao Ping was excited.

"Well, yes, there are good fishes." Zhao Anguo held the smoke in his mouth to remove the fish, his movements were more slippery than Zhao Ping's.

But the good times didn't last long. I only hit a few tails in a row with the net head, and there were more after that, but they were relatively sparse. I pulled several handfuls and caught two or three tails, or even one tail. It was not like the last time at all. It's a string of strings.

"Dad, it's a lot less this time."

Zhao Anguo has not seen the grand occasion last time, and the harvest like this is already good. "It's not bad. If this is the case, if all the nets are collected, the gain will be dozens of kilograms, and it will be worth several thousand yuan."

Everyone on the ship except him had a trace of disappointment on their faces. After all, they had eaten and seen it before, and combined with the current situation, they really couldn't get excited.

Not only were there few small fish, but there were also very few fish. After pulling seven nets, only two golden pomfrets and one sea carp were caught.

Zhao Ping glanced at Ah Chen and thought for a moment. Every time he was lucky, it was Ah Qin who pulled the net. This change of hands did have an impact.

"Brother Aping, big squid." Achen shouted.

Zhao Ping also saw it, and there was no change in his expression. The price of squid was not bad, it was estimated at twenty or thirty yuan a pound, but there was nothing to be happy about just this one.

But the next moment he lost his composure, because the ones he pulled up were all squids, and they were getting denser and denser. They were quite big, with an average of two or three kilograms each.

"Dad, squid group." He said happily.

Zhao Anguo frowned slightly and murmured in confusion, "No, this time shouldn't have come yet. The flood season for squid is usually January. It's not even here yet, so why are there so many of them?"

I thought so in my mind, and kept moving. When untying a cuttlefish, it turned out that the other party was dishonest and directly sprayed a mouthful of ink. What a coincidence, it hit him all over, and it was all black from the beginning.

Zhao Ping happened to turn his head and saw it. He wanted to laugh but was afraid of being scolded, so he even trembled.

However, he was not happy for a long time when he was also sprayed all over his body. Ah He jumped on the deck to help, and soon he was also covered in ink.

Ah Chen was not much better. Although he closed the net, there were too many cuttlefish coming up. Many of them started to spray ink as soon as they passed the winch, so he was almost completely covered in ink.

"Dad, it's getting bigger and bigger."

"Well, I just saw one weighing nearly ten kilograms. I'm lucky today." Zhao Anguo couldn't help but smile. If he keeps this kind of fish attitude, he will probably get more than a thousand kilograms.

Cuttlefish are round and very slim, and a small one weighs two to three kilograms.

After working for two hours, I finally collected nearly thirty nets, "Aping, how many are there?"

Zhao Anguo looked at his son who had just come out of the cabin and asked.

"It's more than a thousand kilograms, Dad. It's definitely worth [-] yuan."

Zhao Anguo sighed, and finally understood why his youngest son could bring tens of thousands of dollars home every time. With this kind of luck, it didn't seem to be difficult, it was just a casual matter.

Thinking of my past, alas, I can’t bear to look back.

"Dad, please put the net in the south. A-Qin and I used to put it there."

"Okay, you drive the boat, and I'll set up the Internet cafe."

Ah He and Ah Chen were still picking up fish. The entire deck was covered in ink. They had to rinse it with water after picking it up. With the current temperature and the sea breeze, they could probably dry it in an hour without affecting their sleep at night.

This time they knew they were going to stay overnight, so they not only brought mats, but also two thin quilts. Zhao Ping brought these mainly because he was afraid that his father would not be able to bear it.

Their net had just been put down and returned to its original position, and they were preparing to cook dinner when they saw Lao Luo's boat approaching, "Da Guo, how was the harvest of this net?"

"Dawu, where's yours?"

"It's not bad. I collected a lot of squid. I haven't seen squid in the flood season for more than ten years. I didn't expect to see it today, so early."

"Well, we collected some and came over to drink."

Zhao Anguo also brought a bottle of wine on the boat. The two boats came together, each took out their own dishes and started eating and drinking.

The two also told a few young men about the past squid fishing.

In the [-]s, at the end of each year, it was the flood season for cuttlefish. The so-called flood season was when cuttlefish migrated to lay eggs.

Squid will choose places with floating vegetation and lay their eggs on them. Fishermen take advantage of this feature by cutting many branches and braiding them together to float on the sea.

In about an hour or two, a large number of squid will be attracted. When the fish becomes interested, they will either use trawl nets or cast nets to start fishing. Every day, there will be a harvest of hundreds of kilograms.

"It was cheap at that time, more than 2 cents per catty, which was incredible. If you caught more than a thousand catties a day, you could sell it for more than 200 yuan, which is equivalent to three or four months of a worker's salary." Lao Luo finished. , and let out a long sigh,

It seems that I am reminiscing about those glorious years that are gone forever.

"Well, it seems that after the 90s, squid suddenly stopped migrating, and the flood season disappeared." Zhao Anguo added.

The three small audiences listened attentively. Even Zhao Ping had never experienced these things.

Including Brother Lao Luo and Zhao Ping, the four of them drank two bottles of wine, but Ah He and Ah Chen didn't drink.

Because the work time is about the same in the early morning tomorrow, Lao Luo's boat did not leave after dinner, and the two boats were tied together to rest.

Zhao Ping wanted to tell Lao Luo to get out, but he couldn't say anything. After seeing everyone lying down, he took out a mat and slept on the bow of the boat, getting up from time to time to take a look at the sea.

After a while, Ah He also came, "Brother Ping, is there no movement?"

"No, I guess there won't be any fish tonight."

Ah Chen also came, "Brother A Ping, why don't the three of us arrange a shift and watch each other for a while, just in case there is one."

"No need, the fish are not that easy to touch, everyone should have a good sleep."

Zhao Ping asked the two of them to rest, but he still couldn't sleep. He looked up at the water surface from time to time. After about an hour, he was also very sleepy. Just when he was confused, he seemed to hear something moving on the sea surface.

I stood up and glanced at the sea. I saw blue and white fish floating on the sea, and some of them had been washed up on the beach of the island.

He got excited and quickly got up and ran to the cabin to get the net.

"Brother Aping, what are you..." Achen heard the noise and rubbed his eyes. When he saw clearly that Zhao Ping was holding a throwing net in his hand, he still didn't understand. He stood up suddenly and followed him to the bow of the boat. The scene in front of him also made him confused. He stood frozen on the spot.