Chapter 88 Fishing for Grouper on Wuming Island
This time, Liang Ziqiang not only brought the same set of tools he brought last time when fishing in the sea, but also brought a fishing rod.
He had thought about it already. The goods he sent to Du Ziteng last time included quite a few chicken claw snails and three-headed abalone, but only one brown-banded grouper.
Judging from Manager Du's tone, Yuehai Restaurant obviously needs various types of grouper, and the demand is even greater than that of chicken claw snails.
Last time, he didn't bring any fishing gear, and the grouper hid in the cracks of the reef and couldn't be caught, so he didn't get much. This time he tried using a fishing rod, maybe the income from the grouper could bring him a big extra surprise!
Seeing him walking out with a fishing rod, a bucket and a lot of strange tools, Chen Xiangbei walked over and glanced at him: "Come back earlier. After I finished my housework today, I started learning how to weave a net with Mom. By the time you come back, maybe I'll have learned it!"
"Weaving a web is not as easy as you think!"
"Don't underestimate me, I learn things very quickly!"
In front of him, Chen Xiangbei acted a little tough.
She told him to go out to sea without worry, but a figure followed him to the side of the path:
"Where's the peace knot I gave you? Did you wear it?"
"No, but it's on the new ship!"
Not long after he brought it back, he hung the peace knot in the cabin of the new ship.
Hearing this, she seemed satisfied and asked again: "Did you bring enough food?"
"I brought it, I brought some water, steamed buns, and the steamed shrimp dumplings you made. Why are you more nagging than my mom?"
"Are you annoyed? Then you will be annoyed every day in the future. I just love nagging!"
"That's great. I really like hearing that!"
"Okay, okay, drive slowly. We're lucky today. Maybe we can even find a few clams on the island!"
Chen Xiangbei currently believes that the highest level of good fortune is picking up a Ji Hebei. After all, she doesn’t understand much else.
Listening to his lovely wife's words, Liang Ziqiang almost laughed: "Do you think Ji clams are flower clams? You can pick them up whenever you want, and you pick up several at a time? Wife, I find that you are not only beautiful, but also have beautiful dreams!"
"Make fun of me again! I'll beat you up when I get home tonight!"
"Okay, okay. Don't we fight each other every night? The kind where we fight each other..."
"You! Shameless..."
By the time Chen Xiangbei came to her senses, Liang Ziqiang had already walked away laughing.
Chen Xiangbei watched him for a while before going back into the house.
When they arrived at the small pier by the sea, Lin Baixian was waiting for him there with a set of things in hand.
In fact, it was Lin Baixian who took the initiative to find him last night for this trip. Lin Baixian also estimated that Yuehai Restaurant was out of stock, and was anxious to go to Wuming Island to grab some goods.
Father Lin did not go out to sea today, not because he needed to rest, but for a very simple reason - he was drunk again.
It is well known in the village that Lin's father is fond of drinking and gets drunk easily.
He couldn't go out to sea when he was drunk, Lin Baixian couldn't fish by himself, and his younger brother was still too young, so the only thing they could do today was to go to the island to fish for seafood.
The two of them each drove a new boat to go fishing. Liang Ziqiang felt that it was a bit of a waste of diesel and considered whether they should share a boat. But then he thought again that driving two boats would be equivalent to having an extra spare boat, which provided an additional insurance, so he didn't say anything.
After untying the ropes and driving their respective boats away from the small pier, the two of them worked in unison and headed south first, towards the direction of Chengpan Island.
After sailing some distance from the shore and seeing no other fishing boats nearby, the two men turned east and headed straight for the nameless island.
After driving for a while, the silhouette of the nameless island appeared in front of us.
"Bank No. 2, here we go again!"
Liang Ziqiang sighed as he approached the shore.
"What Bank No. 2?" Lin Baixian was confused.
"This island doesn't have a name either. We can't just keep calling it the Nameless Island, right? It's fine now, but if we find a few more nameless islands with seafood in the future, what will we do? We'll have to call it a mess. Bank No. 2 is more convenient and easier to remember!"
"According to you, Fox Bay Island is the No. 1 bank? Yes, there are still many chicken claw snails and red crabs left on Fox Bay Island. Let's go and get some when we have time."
"We have to go, we definitely have to go! Let's grab this first this time, this is a big bank, Fox Bay Island is just a small bank!"
While the two were chatting, they had already stopped the boat, dropped anchor, and tied the ropes.
As we walked towards the reef, we planned:
"That day, Manager Du said that it's okay to have a little more snails than last time, just not too much more. So this time, we can each collect more than 20 kilograms of snails."
"Don't buy too many big scallops. They're not worth much at three yuan a pound."
"Many people eat three-headed abalone, so it's no problem to get more."
"I didn't get much grouper last time, so I'll definitely get more this time. Brown band is great, but if you're a bit more demanding, blue band is also acceptable!"
Seeing that the tide in the reef area had not yet receded completely, the two decided to fish for grouper first.
When fishing for grouper, many baits can work, such as fresh shrimp, crab, oyster meat, horseshoe crab paste, lean pork, fish maw, chicken intestines, fresh squid, and earthworms.
Liang Ziqiang used the small shrimps from the fish he brought back from the sea a few days ago as bait. Lin Baixian didn't have any shrimps, so he dug some earthworms and brought them over.
The cracks in the reefs are often the hiding places for various groupers, so the two men specifically sent their fishing hooks to those places.
All that's left is to sit on a relatively flat place on the reef and wait for the fish to bite.
Sitting there doing nothing, Liang Ziqiang asked: "Your new boat has been in operation for about ten days, right? How's the catch? Should be good, right?"
Lin Baixian said:
"On average, we catch about 200 kilograms of fish, mainly pomfret, sea bass, sea bream, and goby. We sell them for 70 to 80 yuan each time."
Liang Ziqiang listened and thought it was not bad. After all, there were not many fishermen as lucky as him, and not everyone could encounter a large school of fish. Lin Baixian could still make money by catching 70 or 80 yuan per trip, minus the cost of diesel and machine wear and tear.
“I regret buying the boat now!”
"What's wrong?" Liang Ziqiang asked in surprise.
"The key is that we haven't been out to sea many times. My dad is either drunk or has a headache, how can I do it alone? I used to think my second uncle was lazy, but now our boat is only used for three days of fishing and four days of drying the nets. It's not as good as my second uncle's boat! Sometimes I think my dad and my second uncle should be brothers, it's amazing!"
"Well! I can't get drunk every day. It's better to have a boat than to have no boat at all!"
Every family has its own problems, so Liang Ziqiang couldn't say much.
After he said a few words, Liang Ziqiang's fishing rod moved.
He did not lift the rod out of the water immediately, but waited patiently for a while.
When grouper bites the hook, it holds it in its mouth first and then swallows it. At this time, it does not hold it tightly, and the hook will be lost if it is immediately lifted out of the water.
After holding the prey for a while, it will swallow the hook and drag the "prey" with great force, trying to return to the deeper part of the crevice.
At this time, if you use more force to pull the line, the grouper will be hooked firmly.
Sure enough, the fishing rod soon shook again, and the float sank into the water. Liang Ziqiang decisively started fishing.
I got a grouper weighing about two kilograms. The only pity is that it is the most common type of grouper - blue grouper.
Following him, Lin Baixian waited for a while and also caught a bluefish.
It seems that the most common species here is the blue spot. Indeed, among the more than 100 species of grouper, the blue spot is relatively common.
After waiting for a while, Liang Ziqiang's fishing rod began to shake violently again.
"What kind of grouper could it be this time? It seems to react differently from the usual grouper?"
Liang Ziqiang waited for a while, then picked up the fishing rod with extremely fast speed.
"Oh my god!" He was so surprised that he couldn't help but scream.
He thought it was some relatively special grouper.
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