After sailing at high speed for more than an hour, passing many areas where villagers were working, we finally found a small archipelago far away from other ships. The straight-line distance from here to the small reef island was about an hour and a half.
She planned to fish at this spot all morning, as long as she could get to the small reef by 5 p.m. and catch the low tide.
After circling the rather large archipelago for 500 meters, Chen Hong found a place with lush seaweed, a few low reefs, gentle terrain, and water depths of over ten meters. She lowered the crab trap into the seabed and used the small squid that she had raised in the space for four or five days as bait.
Then we found a great fishing spot, about 20 meters deep, with a 1500-meter-long, 7-8-meter-deep ditch below. The typhoon brought a lot of food, and a large number of fish were feeding on the seabed.
After selecting a good fishing spot, anchoring the boat, Chen Hong first checked the bottom, adjusted the float, hooked the fish, baited it with live bait, and cast the line.
Chen Hong was already very familiar with this process. While waiting for the fish to bite, she attached the safety rope, inserted the fishing rod into the fishing hole, and used the time to mix the crushed fish paste and the space water in a bucket. She then set it aside for later use.
Before I'd even finished washing my hands, two fishing rods had already caught fish, and the bells at the rod tips were making a pleasant sound.
She looked down at the seabed and saw two fish on the electric winch: a sea bass and a yellow eagle, both weighing between 2 and 3 pounds. She also caught a grouper weighing 7 or 8 pounds on her cast rod. Ignoring the electric winch and letting it automatically reel in the fish, she put on gloves, lifted the cast rod to set the hook, and began battling the grouper.
The newly replaced fishing line is incredibly smooth and strong. The sound of the line cutting through the water on the sea surface is intoxicating, and the water droplets that bounce off the surface in the light are as eye-catching as pearls.
Chen Hong kept interrupting the grouper's attempts to escape, and with her superhuman strength, she pulled the nearly 10-pound grouper out of the water in just five minutes.
The large grouper was almost dead from her rapid pulling and was resignedly floating on the surface of the water to rest. Chen Hong quickly grabbed it and scooped it onto the boat, removed the fishing hook, and threw it into the live water tank.
Re-bait the live bait and cast the line into the sea. The electric winch had already pulled the two sea bass and yellow eagles out of the water. Lock the drag, attach the safety line, insert the casting rod into the fishing hole, and scoop up the two fish with the landing net in your right hand. Cover them with a towel, use the fish gripper to clamp and push, remove the hooks, and throw the fish into the live water tank.
Chen Hong is now a heartless assembly line robot!
The assembly line robot tirelessly scoops, cuts, throws, baits, and reels fish, its movements emotionless and methodical. Occasionally, it scoops a few spoonfuls of bait from the bait bucket to create a feeding area. It's become rare for Chen Hong to feel even a little excited.
Fortunately, at this fishing spot far from the nearshore waters, Chen Hong caught three grouper weighing 2 to 5 pounds, a redtail eagle weighing over 6 pounds, and a bigeye eagle weighing over 10 pounds in the morning, giving him several pleasant surprises.
I finally unlocked a new fish species. It had been seven or eight days since I'd seen any high-value fish. Today I was really lucky and caught three different kinds at once.
The waves are really big, perfect for fishing. After the typhoon, it seems like all the fish in the sea have come out to feed; the fish are biting like crazy.
By mid-morning, Chen Hong had filled half of the pond in her spatial dimension, and the large live water tank on the boat was also full. The aerators were running at full speed; if Chen Hong hadn't already filled the live water tank with water from her spatial dimension, at least half of the densely packed live fish would have been dead.
Chen Hong caught approximately 700 jin of various fish, including 11 large blue dragonfish, 7 large swimming crabs, and 3 large clams.
This was the first time the fish had been caught so densely that Chen Hong poured cold water on the two electric winches twice to cool them down; otherwise, Chen Hong was afraid the electric winches would have been smoking from the heat.
It wasn't until 12:30 pm, when the fish in the water stopped biting, that Chen Hong finally reeled in the fishing line and prepared to have lunch.
I first took out a thermos and teacup from my storage space and brewed myself a cup of fragrant tea. I'll rest for a bit before having lunch. I was so busy this morning that I didn't even have time to drink a sip of water, and I didn't feel hungry when lunchtime arrived.
After finishing her tea and using the restroom, Chen Hong washed her hands and ate lunch: two steamed buns, a tea egg, and a bowl of millet porridge. She rested for a while in the driver's seat before the two electric winches creaked and started fishing again.
Chen Hong glanced at it and was startled. She quickly put on her gloves, got up, and rushed over. In the water, five or six meters below the surface, a shark weighing more than 300 kilograms was caught.
As the shark struggled, the fishing rod bent into an arc, the tip dangling on the water's surface as if it might plunge into the sea at any moment.
He took out a pair of scissors from the space and cut the main line without hesitation. The shark was freed and struggled in the sea, creating waves more than a meter high, which made the fishing boat rock up and down.
Enraged, Chen Hong grabbed her fishing rod and stabbed the shark twice: "I let you go, but you still won't leave. You've wasted my multi-hook rig and leader, and you're still causing trouble for me. Get out of here, get back to the deep sea, or I'll kill you."
The shark, probably hurt from being stabbed before, turned tail and swam away, disappearing from sight without looking back. Having chased the shark away, Chen Hong saw the school of fish that had just gathered in the sea, stirred up by it, scatter in all directions.
The fish wouldn't gather any more for a while, so Chen Hong reeled in the fishing line, set anchor, and slowly approached the shallow water. He observed that the seabed was only about 10 meters deep, and shrimp and crabs were resting among the rocks and seaweed.
Seashells and conches basked in the sun on the clean seabed. Chen Hong looked around and saw no one approaching. She quickly changed into her diving suit, put on her oxygen tank, gloves, and flippers, hung a net bag around her waist, tied the safety rope to the gunwale, sat on the gunwale, leaned back, and dived into the sea.
This was Chen Hong's first time officially diving. Although she was a good swimmer, she had learned to swim by going up mountains and down rivers since she was a child.
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