Chapter 162 The Last Fishing Time in the East China Sea
Zhang Ze took them into the cab, counted the money, and found that it was indeed 2,500 yuan, so he put it into the small rest room.
Then he negotiated the price of the fishing boat with Zhang Qinghe and others, and decided to sell it to them for two thousand five hundred when he was not going out to sea.
A new ship with a useful life of only four or five months is much cheaper than Zhang Ze's, but if it is less expensive, it will just be a second-hand ship.
Even if the new ship has not been moved, it has to be sold at a lower price. Five hundred less is acceptable to both parties.
After the Zhang Qinghe brothers left, Zhang Ze purchased a batch of small squids and started a fishing boat to go out to sea.
More than two thousand pieces of ordinary fishing bait were directly exchanged at sea, plus the more than one thousand pieces originally in the fishing bait space, which just made up a total of four thousand pieces.
These baits will be hung on longlines, and the batch of baits purchased will be used for baiting.
He then went to Lumen Island to move all the longlines onto the boat. He now had four longlines, two for shallow water fishing and two for deep water fishing, which was why he had prepared a total of 4,000 baits.
After getting the longline, he didn't leave in a hurry. He took out five dollars and asked the fisherman and his family who were weaving the net to come over and help hang the bait.
Five dollars for a piece of bait is certainly a high price, but having the whole family come to help can save a lot of time, and Zhang Ze doesn't mind it because of his high income.
It takes nearly three hours to hang bait on two longlines each time, and six hours on four longlines. Wouldn't it be nice to have that much time to fish? That is, the magic bait can imitate the appearance of real bait, otherwise Zhang Ze would not dare to do so.
"Fuck, when did you prepare so many baits?" Zhang Qinghe, Tong Yuanhang and others also came over to get the longlines. They were a little surprised when they saw the full amount of baits here at Zhang Ze.
"I had prepared it before you came to the dock, and put it in the fish hold!" Zhang Ze lied.
A few people nodded in understanding, then asked about the price of having the fishermen help with baiting, but they did not ask anyone to help them with baiting.
There were three people on Tong Yuanhang's boat. They only prepared three longlines and of course they didn't need help from others.
Although Zhang Qinghe and his team consisted of two people and had prepared four long ropes, they wanted to save money wherever possible and were unwilling to spend the money.
But they haven’t calculated how many fish they can catch by saving five dollars in time, and whether the value of the fish they sell will be much higher than the five dollars?
The fisherman's family consists of eight people including their children. Their youngest child is only eight years old, but his speed in hanging baits is almost as fast as that of adults.
Seeing that they were working diligently and efficiently, Zhang Ze went to the cab and got some White Rabbit snacks for the children.
Seeing the candy he handed over, the older children seemed frightened and quickly stepped back.
The younger children swallowed their saliva, wanting to eat but not daring to take it.
Finally, he forced some candies into the children's hands: "It's just a few candies, let the children have a taste."
When the children’s parents heard him say this, they quickly pulled their children aside to thank him.
They had six children in total, the oldest was fifteen years old and the youngest was eight years old. They were all tanned by the sun, even darker than him who went out to sea every day.
This family is also a relatively poor family on the island, and they are reliable people. Zhang Ze also customized and repaired the longline from their family on the recommendation of Tong Yuanhang.
It took less than an hour and a half to hook all four longlines with bait, which was much more efficient than before.
Everything was ready. The cable was reeled in, the whistle was blown, and the fishing boat slowly left the Lumen Island Wharf and headed for the Nanping Islands fishing ground.
This is the only place close to the grouper fish. You can also catch a lot of swimming crabs and lobsters by setting up shrimp cages and ground traps.
It was already noon when he arrived at the fishing spot, so he stopped the boat and dropped anchor.
Now putting out longlines and shrimp cages can maximize the utilization of time, but Zhang Ze has already spent five dollars to save a lot of time, so he naturally doesn't care about this.
Besides, the afternoon is not a good time to put out longlines. We have to stay overnight anyway, and we can’t put out longlines again after they are collected, so we might as well wait until night.
Zhang Ze specially added a little romance to his lunch today. He cut a piece of beef rib steak from the market, which is commonly known as Tomahawk steak in later generations.
It was a buffalo. I heard that it had a disabled leg and couldn't work, so the old farmer slaughtered it with tears in his eyes and sold it for money. It was just a coincidence that he was able to buy it this time.
So he bought a lot, and kept the rest in ice in the fish hold. When he got back, he would make some Western food for his family to taste.
Zhang Ze tried it himself first, and found that it was a little difficult to operate the round pan with his cooking skills. The surface of the steak was a little overcooked, but it was acceptable.
I sprinkled some homemade salt and black pepper, then boiled the cauliflower and noodles in water and fried an egg, and managed to make a steak meal that looked like something out of nothing.
There is no knife and fork, so I just chew on the bones.
After taking a bite, Zhang Ze nodded with satisfaction. His cooking skills were a bit poor but the beef was good. The man didn't fool him and was indeed not an old cow.
After dinner, Zhang Ze took out the shrimp cages and ground traps and stuffed some small squids bought at the dock into them as bait.
Both the shrimp pot and the ground trap come with a long rope and a float, so you can just throw them over the side of the boat.
Of course, it is also necessary to detect the water depth, and these things must be placed on the bottom of the water to be most effective.
After putting the cage away, it’s not too late to put it away around midnight.
The weather in late May is quite hot, and today the temperature reached 28 degrees.
Plus, it was calm today, so there was no sea breeze.
Considering that fish will have no appetite due to hot weather, even if the chance of catching ordinary bait increases by 30%, the effect will not be good.
He simply went back to the cab, turned on the small electric fan on the boat and took a cool rest.
At this time, Zhang Ze especially missed the later generations. At that time, most of the larger ships had air conditioning, so you could take a good nap.
In fact, even though the weather is hot, if you can find a shaded place on the sea, you can feel very cool even in the hot weather with a little sea breeze.
But the sun was now high in the sky, so Zhang Ze could only hide in the cab.
After sleeping for a while, it was around four o'clock in the afternoon and the sun had already moved to the west.
When I walked out of the cabin, the temperature had dropped a lot.
After looking at several isolated islands nearby, Zhang Ze drove the boat to the shadow on the side of the nearest island. Basically, all the fish near the islands would hide in this place as they are also afraid of heat.
Then he took out the small squids, cut them into small pieces and threw some into the nest. Then he took out the fishing rod, tied the hook and fishing line, exchanged them for ten portions of ordinary bait and started fishing.
There is still a certain difference between making a nest and not making a nest. When there is no nest, using ordinary bait depends on whether you can find the gathering place of the fish.
The speed of catching fish is sometimes fast and sometimes slow, it is hard to tell and it is difficult to connect the rods.
After the nest is set, fish gather in large numbers, and the effect of ordinary bait is basically enough to catch fish.
Just a dozen seconds after the bait was put in, the fishing rod started to move.
Zhang Ze raised his fishing rod and stabbed the fish. As he lifted it, a colorful chicken fish broke out of the water.
"We didn't get off to a good start today!"
Zhang Ze felt a little regretful after seeing the fish. Flowerhead fish are generally very small and can usually be caught with fishing nets and longlines.
However, those caught with longline fishing are slightly larger and can be sold, while those caught with fishing nets are very small and are simply treated as miscellaneous fish.
This one weighs only about half a pound, so you can steam it in the evening.
Then I continued fishing until dinner time.
He caught a lot of fish, but his luck was only average or even poor compared to his usual catches.
The two big golden drum fish weighed more than one kilogram each.
We caught three sea bass weighing three or four pounds, two red snappers weighing five or six pounds, a lot of yellowfin sea bream and black sea bream, and even a few peppered sea bream.
As for grouper, he only caught a blue grouper weighing a little over three pounds.
This is also the reason why, although there were a lot of fish, he felt his luck was a bit bad, because there were too few groupers.
However, he did make back the five dollars he spent on the bait, which made him feel that it was a good idea to pay someone to help him.
After putting away the fishing rod, Zhang Ze prepared to cook dinner. However, in addition to a spotted fish for dinner, he also planned to go check out the harvest in the shrimp cage and have a lobster to eat in the evening.
We first sailed over and pulled up the trap. Unexpectedly, we found a big surprise right after we pulled it up. In addition to some swimming crabs, there were also some very large prawns, which looked to weigh about ten pounds.
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Not only that, he also saw several lobsters mixed in with the swimming crabs.
So he quickly put away the trap and poured everything inside onto the deck, and immediately he saw a huge flower dragon.
Zhang Ze hurried over to put the lobster into the space, and then when he saw the weight, he couldn't stop grinning. It was a big flower dragon weighing 8.7 jin.
Unfortunately, a lobster this big is still not considered a king lobster. The flower dragon can grow to more than ten kilograms.
There are a total of six lobsters here, and they are all flower lobsters, which makes Zhang Ze excited.
Because lobsters have a very strong sense of territory, and since there are so many of them, the harvest will probably not be bad.
So he quickly put all the seafood on the deck into the space, otherwise the prawns would die and he would not be able to put them in.
Then he immediately pulled up the remaining shrimp cages that were thrown into the water one by one.
He pulled them all up and placed them on the deck, but because of the sighting of sea snakes, he did not approach rashly.
After waiting for a while and not seeing the little cutie sticking his head out of the shrimp cage, Zhang Ze picked up a bamboo pole and knocked down the shrimp cages one by one.
Seeing that only some lobsters crawled out, he knew there were no sea snakes this time.
Just as he thought, the shrimp cage was full of flower dragons. He collected all of them in the space and caught thirteen flower dragons in one afternoon.
It weighs a little over 47 kilograms, and according to the price of a flower dragon, its overall value is over one hundred.
This catch was much more reliable than his usual netting. Zhang Ze stuffed some bait back in, put the stones that had rolled out back in place, and threw the shrimp cage and ground cage back.
I gained this kind of harvest in the afternoon, and who knows, I might gain even more in the evening.
So in the evening, Zhang Ze took out a three-pound flower dragon, two very fat swimming crabs, and ten large prawns as long as a palm and walked into the kitchen.
It's another day with too much purine. After dinner, it's already late, and it's a good time to cast the longline.
Zhang Ze walked into the cockpit and started the fishing boat, maintaining a low speed in the open sea, then went to the stern and began to release the longline.
One is placed near the island, and the other is placed in a more open location.
After putting two of them down, Zhang Ze thought about it and decided to put the remaining two down as well.
If you collect them all at night, you won’t have to get up so early the next day, and you won’t have to go back the next night.
However, he placed the two longlines on the other side of the island to avoid overlapping the effects of ordinary baits.
After putting down the longline, Zhang Ze moved out a deck chair and looked at the night view, feeling relaxed and contented.
This week, he has upgraded his space to nearly twenty-two levels, and it is estimated that it will be upgraded to twenty-two by tonight.
Secondly, the sea snakes caught last time are also currently in the space. He originally planned to use part of it to make wine, give part of it to others, and sell the rest, but he was suddenly interrupted by what happened in Nanguan.
Zhang Ze's original plan was to wait until Tong Shuyao gave birth to the child, and then consider moving to Nanfang when the child was older.
But now the plan has changed, and Sea Snake has other plans.
As we all know, the diet of people in Nanfang is quite outrageous, and all kinds of dark ingredients appear on the market.
The sea snake wine would probably be very popular there, so he simply waited until he got there before selling it.
After resting for a while and feeling less bloated, Zhang Ze got up and continued fishing.
He had just let out the longline, and the fishing boat was closer to the isolated island. He was too lazy to continue adjusting the position and just started fishing.
The probability of catching grouper at this location is quite high. Apparently, it is their active time, and Zhang Ze also hopes to have a good catch.
However, he didn't know that a group of fish with explosive fighting power came from the bottom of the water. They were not inferior to groupers in size or attack power, and when they formed a certain scale, they directly scared away other scattered fish.
Just then, a grouper weighing three or four pounds was attracted by the bait and swam over. The next moment, a purple-red fish that was more than twice its size knocked it away and bit the bait.
The fishing rod suddenly bent sharply. Zhang Ze's eyes lit up. A big fish had come. He quickly raised the rod and stabbed the fish.
The fish at the bottom of the water knew it had been tricked and immediately began to struggle violently, running around in the water. The fishing line also swung back and forth, leaving Zhang Ze with no choice but to hold up the fishing rod and wrestle with the fish.
But he was very excited. The thrill of catching a big fish was really addictive and he never got tired of it.
Judging from the pulling force, Zhang Ze guessed that the fish weighed about ten pounds.
After a while, when the fish was tired, he quickly reeled in the line and quickly pulled the fish to the surface from a depth of more than 40 meters.
Under the light, Zhang Ze saw the purple-red figure on the water surface, and suddenly realized that it was a red friend fish.
After getting closer, I immediately caught the fish with a scoop net while it wasn't paying attention, and then pulled it up.
It was about sixty to seventy centimeters long, and after being put into the space, it was about the same as he estimated, just over ten kilograms.
It's also good if you don't catch any red grouper. Although the price is much cheaper, the base weight is still there, and if you catch more, the profit is still very substantial.
It was a good start for the evening, and Zhang Ze quickly put up the bait and continued fishing.
As a result, the bait was intercepted before it sank to the bottom of the water at a depth of more than ten meters, and Zhang Ze, who was holding the fishing rod, was pulled directly against the side of the boat.
"What the hell, what did you catch?"
Zhang Ze's muscles suddenly tensed up, and he used his burst of strength to quickly insert the fishing rod into the base.
With the support of the base and the side of the boat, he only needed to hold the fishing rod to prevent the fish from washing its gills, and he felt much more relaxed.
(End of this chapter)
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