Chapter 116: The eel's nest is disturbed
Zhang Zhenghong roughly knew the various purchase prices of the aquatic station. He calculated Zhang Ze's harvest this time and found that the yellow croaker could be sold for more than 160 yuan, and the remaining miscellaneous fish could also be sold for 20 to 30 yuan.
The price of grouper was exaggerated because it was expensive. And there were many sea groupers among them, so he found that Zhang Ze could make more than 400 yuan overall.
Of course, he already knew that his cousin sold grouper at a higher price, and he would buy it from them, so he would make more money this way.
Such an outrageous income almost scared them, but after they realized it, they all looked extremely excited.
Even if they didn't earn as much as Zhang Ze, it would be incredible if everyone could get a hundred from that trip to the sea.
Only then did they understand why their cousin asked them and others to rent a house and bring their wives and children over, because they could indeed afford the daily expenses in Wenshui City.
Then they started to reel in the second longline, but after reeling it in, question marks popped up in their heads.
Empty hook, empty hook, empty hook, empty hook again , how come the catch is so poor? It's completely different from Zhang Ze who catches fish from time to time? Zhang Qinghe's smile froze because of Zhang Ze's good catch, why is his catch so few? 'Perhaps, the catch is all in the second half?'
He thought so, but it didn't happen.
Only over a hundred fish were caught with a thousand hooks, including over 150 kilograms of large yellow croaker, over 30 kilograms of miscellaneous fish, and just over 100 kilograms of grouper.
Overall, it is slightly better than the previous hook arrangement, but the huge difference still makes Zhang Qinghe a little frustrated, and he even loses interest in working.
Now that it was gradually getting dark, Zhang Ze hurried to pull up the remaining two longlines.
The number of fish caught by each longline was about the same as Zhang Qinghe's, and the three cousins shared it.
After a busy day, it was completely dark.
Zhang Ze went to cook dinner, and after eating everyone came to the deck to start tidying up the longlines.
After it was pulled up, it was a bit messy and needed to be reorganized. This is the disadvantage of each person having only one longline, so when we took the fish just now, we had to clip the fishhook out, which was extremely time-consuming. Fortunately, there were many people and it was quick to organize.
Last time he used grouper bait, he did catch quite a lot, but it wasn't the ideal catch for him.
This is mainly because we use too few magic baits and too many longline hooks.
So this time he exchanged fifty ordinary fishing baits, and the catch would definitely be more, but he still needed to compare the overall income.
After exchanging the fishing bait, I scooped up a few handfuls of squid bait and mixed in fifty portions of ordinary fishing bait.
Anyway, the two look the same, and no one else can tell except him.
This time, Zhang Ze changed his position to lower the longline, and after placing the longline, he continued to help Zhang Qinghe hang the bait.
But after the bait was hung, he said he would find a good feng shui spot before fishing, and then he made a big circle and came to a location two miles away.
Zhang Ze raised his eyebrows. He had originally thought of asking them to go to farther sea areas to release longlines so as to avoid being affected by the magical bait.
But there was no suitable reason, and this time Zhang Qinghe accidentally left the range of the magical bait.
So he simply let his cousins choose their own positions for the two longlines at the back.
All four longlines were lowered. It was already 11 o'clock in the evening and Zhang Ze was numb.
It was troublesome to organize so many longlines and to hang the bait, so it was too time-consuming and he didn't even have time to fish.
Now four hours have passed since the first longline was laid, and it is time to reel it in again.
Driving the boat back, Zhang Qinghe hooked the buoy back and said with a smile: "There is really no time to rest when doing this longline, but the harvest is indeed much better than fishing!"
Zhang Ze sighed: "That is, you are all on my boat. When you each have your own boat, I will be more free."
"Hehe, then I still have to work hard. I'm still a long way short of the money to buy a boat." Zhang Qinghe said with a smile as he tied the longline to the open winch.
He now has only about 400 yuan in savings after renting a house and adding some expenses, which is indeed far from enough to buy a boat.
Zhang Ze’s current savings are only 2,700 yuan. He earned 2,000 yuan last time, but he has also spent a lot in the past few days.
He looked at Zhang Qinghe and felt that this guy was actually ready to start his career.
Or maybe just lend him money to buy a boat, and let the cousins go to his boat and let him teach? Now they are all on a boat, which seriously delays Zhang Ze from making money. It is mainly because he wastes too much time and seriously affects his experience points.
The live water tank is so small that it is crowded even for grouper let alone other fish, so these fish can only be caught fresh in the freezer.
The dead fish cannot be stored in the space, they are all experience points!
He often asked Zhang Zhenghong to help him collect the fish, and he would put the fish in a box next to him. When no one was paying attention, he would instantly put the fish into the space and then take it out immediately.
But there are still some fish that cannot be collected under other people's noses. Although not many are missed, the accumulated loss of experience points is considerable.
The longline was gradually pulled up, and Zhang Ze grabbed the sub-line that was exposed above the water and pulled it back quickly. The weight in his hand told him that the first sub-line was the same as the last time, and it was a good start.
"Fuck, is it a snake?" Zhang Qinghe was shocked when he saw the twisting and entangled bodies.
"Is your sea snake so thick?" Zhang Ze rolled his eyes and picked up the eel in front of him, which was still alive and had its mouth open with sharp teeth showing.
Considering that the longline was troublesome to use and it would probably be early morning by the time he put it away, he simply used scissors to cut the leader and left the hook in the eel's mouth.
"Aze, what kind of conger eel is this?" Zhang Zhenghong tried to catch the eel, but was frightened by the way it bit his hand fiercely.
With the help of the light on the boat, Zhang Ze squatted down and looked at it carefully: "This should be a conger eel."
He couldn't tell exactly what kind of conger eel it was, but he recognized its species based on some of its characteristics.
The eel was very ferocious, so Zhang Ze caught it with a scoop net and put it in a large bamboo basket.
While no one was paying attention, he reached out and grabbed it, instantly putting the conger eel into the space and then releasing it immediately.
[Successfully caught a gray conger eel, weighing 3.79 catties, experience +4. ]
It turned out to be a gray conger eel, and the color on its body is indeed not that dark.
Then the second hook came, empty, and the third hook, another gray conger eel.
Then there were almost no other fish, not many groupers, and most of the ones that came up were conger eels.
Zhang Qinghe was so amused that he almost died: "Aze, you have disturbed the eel's lair!"
Many marine creatures move together in groups, and ordinary fishing baits do not target groupers, so it is not surprising that they attract a group of conger eels.
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Zhang Ze glanced at him and said leisurely, "At least I have eels. I hope you can have more fish later, so that nine out of ten hooks are empty when you pull them up."
"Pfft, pfft, what nonsense!" Zhang Qinghe was immediately anxious. It didn't matter if there were fewer fish, but what would happen if nine out of ten were empty? But to be honest, he felt that longline fishing was much more interesting than fishing and rafting, because no one knew what the next fish would be.
After collecting a batch of conger eels, an uninvited guest was pulled up.
"Fuck, what a big turtle!" Zhang Zhenghong had been successfully led astray by Zhang Qinghe, and the word "fuck" came out of his mouth.
"This is a sea turtle, right? It seems to be just a little smaller than the sea turtle in the great white shark's mouth last time." Zhang Qinghe was envious. How much would such a big piece of meat be worth?
This time he took the initiative to pick up the big turtle that had been hooked. When he felt the weight in his hand, he was shocked: "It must be more than 50 kilograms!"
"Leave it to me!" Zhang Ze was silent just now, but he was actually struggling between his inner thoughts and his desires.
Sea turtles are no longer protected species and can be sold for money, but as a fisherman, he was somewhat reluctant to sell or eat sea turtles.
Maybe it was a bit sentimental, but in the end he decided to release the turtle.
Taking the turtle from Zhang Qinghe, he first used pliers to remove the fishhook, then walked to the front deck holding it.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Aren't you afraid that all the fish will be eaten if you put it in the live water tank?" Zhang Qinghe thought he was going to put the sea turtle in the live water tank and hurriedly tried to stop him.
"I'll take it and release it, you guys continue." Zhang Ze replied.
"Are you crazy?" The others were all stunned. They didn't expect him to throw money.
"Turtle meat is not tasty, no one wants it." Zhang Ze has never eaten turtles, but that doesn't stop him from fooling people. "Look, are the turtles in the fields tasty?"
Zhang Qinghe and the others shook their heads. Who would like to eat turtles? They realized with just this metaphor that it was no wonder Zhang Ze wanted to release the turtles. They probably had a strong fishy smell, so they all lost interest in the turtles.
Zhang Ze came to the front deck and saw that they didn't follow, so he let the turtle go.
Dahuang was full of curiosity and walked over quickly to remember the smell of the turtle, but the turtle in front of him suddenly disappeared.
"???" Da Huang tilted his head, with several question marks popping up on his forehead. Where is the turtle? Where is a turtle as big as me?
“Woof woof woof~”
Dahuang barked a few times towards the place where the turtle disappeared, and then circled a few times around the turtle's previous position, with confusion written all over the dog's face.
Zhang Ze looked at it with amusement, then focused his attention on the space.
[Successfully caught a leatherback turtle, weighing 52.15 catties, experience +30. ]
It turned out to be a leatherback turtle. No wonder it looked so familiar. It is the largest species of turtle in the world.
They can generally grow to two meters in length and weigh an average of two hundred kilograms.
Obviously, the one caught was still a half-grown child! After gaining experience points, Zhang Ze came to the side of the boat, and with a thought, a sea turtle appeared on the water.
The leatherback turtle was very confused. It only remembered that it had inexplicably appeared in a small space just now, and before it was familiar with the place, it appeared in the sea in the blink of an eye.
Just now, when Greedy was hooked by the mouth, he was in despair, but now he is suddenly safe again.
It didn't know what was going on, but that didn't stop it from escaping from there at a very fast speed. It swore never to be greedy again.
After the leatherback turtle disappeared, Zhang Ze returned to the stern and continued working.
Looking at the conger eels being caught one after another, he suspected that he might be able to harvest more than a thousand kilograms today.
(End of this chapter)
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