Chapter 101 Steel Bars in the Water
But even though he lost three rows of hooks, Zhang Qinghe was still grinning from ear to ear.
Now there are places to buy fishing lines and hooks, these things are only a few dollars, the focus is on grouper, plus the sea red grouper can sell at least more than 20. Other fish also have dozens of kilograms, even if you sell them to the aquatic station at a low price, you can still earn a few yuan.
It was already 9:30 in the evening when all the hooks were put back.
Zhang Ze went back to fish for grouper and used the remaining eight portions of ordinary baits. He caught a good harvest.
But after more than an hour, the harvest became worse and worse. There were almost no groupers, but there were many snappers.
He knew that the active time of grouper had passed, the price of snapper and other fish was just so-so, and he couldn't catch any rods when fishing, so he simply asked Tong Yuanhang and the others to go fishing for cuttlefish together.
Hairtail is also a nocturnal fish, but compared to grouper and others, they are active for longer periods of time and will actively swim to the surface of the water at night to find food.
This is why anglers in Zhoushan who fish for East China Sea hairtail often go fishing at night. Most fish are easier and more relaxed to catch at night.
Zhang Ze took a circle on the sea and sighed a little. It is easy to find fishing spots for grouper and snapper. Just look for places with reefs, coral reefs or abundant seaweed.
But without a fish finder, it is a bit difficult to find cutlassfish.
Zhang Ze naturally remembered the fishing spots for cuttlefish, and he also knew their general migration routes, but unfortunately they were quite far from here.
It was impossible for him to travel so far just to catch cutlassfish, so he finally came to the nearest small isolated island, ready to try fishing there. If that didn't work, he would use a special bait for cutlassfish to attract it.
After mooring the boat, Zhang Ze came to the stern alone as usual.
This time we used the Tianya fish hook. Although this fish hook can be used to catch other fish, it is mainly designed for hairtail.
The hairtail swims vertically at about 60 degrees in the water. It does not swallow the bait in a parallel direction like other fish, but attacks from bottom to top.
Therefore, Tianya is actually lying sideways in the water, a bit like a fake bait imitating small fish to attract cutlassfish.
As bait, Zhang Ze used the mackerel meat that Zhang Qinghe had cut into long strips. He stabbed the fish meat onto the two sharp spines on the back and then tied it tightly with thin steel wire.
The small hole for tying the fishing line is also in this direction, so Tianya can lie sideways.
After tying it, Zhang Ze put on work gloves, grabbed the fishing line, and threw Tianya and the bait into the water.
He let out the line slowly, and stopped after about ten meters.
After waiting for a while and seeing no sign of fish movement, he let out the line again, this time about five meters.
This is to find the water layer for hairtail. Only after finding the water layer will there be a chance to connect the rod.
Unfortunately, the water layer was changed all the time and no fish took the bait even after the hook was placed at 50 meters. Zhang Ze had no choice but to open the Magic Bait Mall and find the bait specifically for hairtail.
The price of the exclusive bait for hairtail is not high, only fifty points.
When Zhang Ze was about to buy it, he unexpectedly discovered that there was a special bait for Tianya hairtail at the back, and the price was also fifty points.
The difference is that fifty points can only buy one copy, but this copy can be used ten times.
The contents are the same and the effect is also the same. It can increase the chance of catching hairtail by 60% and reduce the chance of catching other fish by 30%.
With this bait, Zhang Ze doesn't need to re-tie the bait every time he catches a fish. One set can be used ten times, which may be more durable than ordinary bait.
The grouper and other fish he caught at night had already earned him more than 220 experience points. He simply exchanged them for two, then reeled in the fishing line and replaced the bait.
After changing the exclusive fishing bait, Zhang Ze threw Tianya into the water again, still let out the line about ten meters, and then waited patiently.
As long as there are schools of cuttlefish within two nautical miles, he will definitely have a catch.
Just as he imagined, on the other side of the small island, a group of cutlassfish had swam to the upper water layer to find food.
This is a very large group. If you observe them in the water, you can find countless small steel bars in the water.
When Zhang Ze's exclusive fishing bait fell into the water, more than half of the small steel bars seemed to be under a spell. They no longer cared to continue looking for food and immediately turned around and swam to the other side of the island.
But the cutlassfish doesn’t swim that fast, so it takes some time to reach the other side.
What Zhang Ze lacks the least as a fisherman is patience. That is the kind of patience that allows him to sit from morning to night, and from night to morning, even if he comes up empty-handed.
But Zhang Qinghe didn't have that patience. Since he hadn't been able to catch any fish, he thought he should change his position. He put away the fishing hook and ran to the stern of the boat.
But as soon as he reached the stern, he saw the fishing line in Zhang Ze's hand suddenly shaking, and then he grabbed the fishing line and pulled it hard, making an effect similar to pulling the rod to pierce the fish.
When hairtail is hooked, it is a little different from other fish. One of its reactions is that after biting the prey, it will shake its head continuously. The purpose of pulling the rod is to allow the fishhook under the tentacles to penetrate.
After the fishhook was inserted, Zhang Ze began to pull the line, looking very relaxed.
His current location is at the junction of the nearshore waters and the exclusive economic zone. The East China Sea hairtail here are generally not too big.
After a while, a three-and-a-half-finger-wide Zhoushan hairtail from the East China Sea was pulled out of the water.
Under the light, the erect dorsal fin twists with the body, like silk embroidery fluttering in the wind, which is extremely beautiful.
The bright silver body almost blinded Zhang Qinghe's eyes, and he was very surprised: "So this is what hairtail looks like, why is it so different from what I saw in the market?"
"After the hairtail dies, the silver skin on its body will fall off and lose its luster, so the ones just caught will be different from what you see in the market." Zhang Ze explained briefly.
In fact, the surface of hairtail is formed by a layer of special fat called silver fat.
This is a high-quality fat with extremely high nutritional value. It is very nutritious and has a natural anti-cancer ingredient.
Therefore, people who often eat hairtail fish may not necessarily not get cancer, but the probability will be lower.
Zhang Qinghe seemed to understand what he said, but his main purpose was that there were no fish here and he felt that he could move to another place.
"Aze, I just fished for a long time but didn't catch any fish. Is there not much fish in the water here?"
"At night, the hairtail may escape to the surface. You can sink the bait to a depth of ten meters and see if there is any bite. If there is no bite, change the water layer a few times. If it doesn't work, I will change the location."
"Okay, I'll try again."
Zhang Qinghe was relatively obedient. After hearing what he said, he nodded and went back to continue fishing.
The three brothers Tong Yuanhang actually didn't have much patience left because there were no fish for half a day.
Just when they were about to ask Zhang Ze if they wanted to change places, there was a sudden movement on Tong Junqiang's fishing line, which calmed their gradually restless hearts.
Once the fish have gathered, they will basically not change their position.
Moreover, some of the cutlass fish that were not attracted by the bait swam over because most of their counterparts had left.
Zhang Ze didn't see the specific situation, otherwise he would definitely marvel at the power of this exclusive bait. At this moment, he had already taken down the cutlassfish and put it into the fishing space.
[Successfully caught a hairtail from the East China Sea, weighing 0.43 catties, experience +3. ]
That’s right, although the hairtail is quite long, it is really light.
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Hairtail that is three or four fingers wide should be considered the most delicious size, but usually each one weighs only four to six taels. This one, which weighs a little over four taels, is normal.
After gaining experience points, Zhang Ze threw the cutlassfish into the bamboo basket next to him. The cutlassfish cannot be kept alive after being brought ashore. If he brings back a batch of lively cutlassfish later, even a newbie like Zhang Qinghe will be suspicious.
When there are enough fish, he will take them into the cabin where the fish are stored. There is a batch of ice blocks that he had previously frozen in the cold storage of the aquatic station, which can be used to freeze the hairtail.
There wasn't much ice, but it was definitely enough for two people to catch as many hairtails as they could. Unless the fishing net caught more than a thousand kilograms of hairtails, he would have to go back directly.
The Tianya bait, which had been used once, was basically intact, and Zhang Ze threw it into the water again.
When the line sank to about ten meters, the fishing line suddenly shook slightly, but the taut fishing line became much looser.
Zhang Ze reacted quickly and immediately pulled the fishing line to stab the fish.
This is another situation after the cutlassfish is hooked. Other fish will run downwards or far away after biting the hook, but the cutlassfish will swim diagonally upwards after biting its prey, so you need to pull the rod when the fishing line shakes and becomes loose.
The second one is still about three fingers wide, only slightly smaller than the previous one. It is estimated that most of the cutlassfish in this school are of this size.
Next, Zhang Ze entered the linkage mode. There were too many cutlass fish, and what they caught was just a drop in the ocean.
So I didn't run to the surface, otherwise it would have been more fun to use a casting net.
But half of Zhang Ze’s purpose is to upgrade the space, so he will not use a fishing net if he can fish.
Zhang Qinghe and Tong Yuanhang were also very busy. They were very happy to catch fish as soon as they cast the hook. This was the joy of fishermen.
Sometimes when you pull one up, there's another one on the tail, which gives you double the happiness.
But there are also some hairtails whose tails have been eaten. These incomplete hairtails have to be put away separately, either eaten by the fish themselves or sold at a low price.
After Zhang Ze used up the first batch of special bait for hairtail fish, he did not continue to use the second batch. Hairtail fish bite the hook so fiercely, there is no need for special bait.
Time passed unknowingly, and his spatial experience points had been increasing steadily. Not only did he quickly make up for the 100 experience points he spent on buying bait, but he also exceeded it by more than 500. In other words, Zhang Ze had already caught more than 200 cutlassfish.
I looked at the bamboo basket and it was almost overflowing. But it only weighed a little over 100 jin, not too heavy.
Zhang Ze put away the fishing hook and put it aside, then grabbed the bamboo basket and dragged it directly to the front deck.
Zhang Qinghe looked back when he heard the noise and immediately gasped: "You are fishing too fast!"
Zhang Ze took a look at his bamboo basket and found it was about two-thirds full, which was actually not a small amount.
"I might be lucky. Sometimes I'll catch two or three hairtails when I lift it up."
"Three? Then you are really lucky. I have two at most, and only a few times." Zhang Qinghe suddenly realized, no wonder he had so many more than himself.
"By the way, why does a cutlassfish bite the tail of another cutlassfish?"
"I don't know either!" Zhang Ze shook his head and opened the small door of the fishing cabin to put the hairtail in.
Seeing this, Zhang Qinghe quickly collected the fishhook and came over to help, and lifted the fish in together, while laughing and saying, "I thought you knew everything!"
"How can I understand everything?" Zhang Ze said casually.
In fact, of course he knew that cuttlefish eat their own kind, but there were so many questions from this newbie fisherman that he really didn't want to answer them.
After bringing the bamboo basket in, Zhang Ze opened the old quilt, revealing twelve foam boxes of approximately 100 liters each.
Eight of them were empty and four were filled with crushed ice.
Zhang Ze opened a foam box and found that the ice inside had hardly melted.
Then he put some ice on the bottom of the empty box and put the hairtail in it.
Put some hairtail and some ice cubes in the box until it is full, then close the lid and put one more in.
It took nearly two boxes to hold one hundred kilograms of fish. Obviously, under normal circumstances, the six boxes he was allocated could only hold about three hundred kilograms of hairtail.
But it is not a small amount. The number of hairtail caught by fishing cannot definitely be compared with that caught by nets.
After finishing, Zhang Ze carried the bamboo basket back to the stern and said to Zhang Qinghe: "When your basket is full, remember to come and ask me for help."
"Then I'll definitely call you. It's hard for me to do it alone." Zhang Qinghe replied with a smile.
(End of this chapter)
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