Chapter 176: Great Strength Makes Miracles Come True
"Oh my god, Aze, you are so lucky. It's a tiger fish. The price of this fish is very high, more expensive than ordinary grouper."
Jin Sanbao, who was next to Zhang Ze, was surprised and envious when he saw that Zhang Ze caught a tiger fish as soon as he arrived.
The production of tiger fish is small but there are many varieties. They are not clearly priced at the fishery station like other fish.
So if you want to know the exact price, you have to ask. The purchase price may fluctuate every once in a while.
Anyway, the price will not be cheap, probably comparable to that of grouper.
In later times, tiger fish would cost several hundred yuan per kilogram, basically more than five hundred yuan per kilogram.
If you are lucky, you may see the price around 300 yuan per pound. In later generations, the price of seafood is unstable and fluctuates at any time.
Maybe it’s two or three hundred today, and it will be four or five hundred in two days.
It was not so bad in that era. The price of seafood could basically remain the same for a period of time and then change with the seasons, unlike in later generations where the price remained the same every day.
With outsiders present, Zhang Ze couldn't put the fish into the space openly, so he could only come to the live water tank and pretend to throw the fish in. In fact, the fish was collected into the space the moment he threw it in, and then released immediately.
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Wow, it's actually over two kilograms. Even one and a half kilograms of this thing are hard to come by, and two kilograms are hard to come by in later generations.
Unfortunately, two kilograms is still a little short of the mark and is not at the level of a king fish.
Zhang Ze planned to keep the fish and cook it with chicken soup when he got home. He would give it to Tong Shuyao and she would give him a chubby and fair baby.
However, he also paid attention to the issue of nutrition. He couldn't feed the baby too big in the belly. If the baby grew to eight or nine kilograms in the belly, it would be fatal during delivery.
Zhang Ze had nothing to worry about with the fish in the live water tank, as the tank had a large space, so it would generally be fine to keep the fish there for two or three days. If that didn't work, he could secretly put the fish in the tank at night to raise them and restore their vitality.
He doesn't like others to free ride on his boat, and he mainly targets big fish.
Because there were people around, it was difficult for him to put the big fish into the space. After all, the fish was too conspicuous.
With a fish finder to find the fishing spot, you can know in which water layer the fish are at the first time, so the harvest will not be too bad.
In just over an hour, Zhang Ze caught seven or eight groupers, including a spotted grouper, but unfortunately they were not very big, only two or three pounds.
There are also quite a few black sea bream, rock sea bream and parrotfish, the largest of which weighs seven or eight kilograms.
Jin Sanbao and the others were also lucky. After the magic bait lost its fish-attracting function, its impact on the people around them was not that great.
It took them more than an hour, and each of them caught about ten fish. As for how much they were worth, that depended on their luck.
"Come on, have a cigarette, then pack up, go back, take a shower and go to bed, then get up early tomorrow to go fishing again." Seeing that it was already past midnight, Zhang Ze took out a cigarette and gave one to everyone, saying.
"The fish are biting so well, and you want us to go back to sleep?" Jin Fan said in shock as he took the cigarette.
Jin Sanbao agreed: "Yes, in just such a short time, we made a lot of money. I didn't expect that it would be so profitable to go offshore."
"We can go fishing tomorrow morning too, the fish will be biting. Besides, staying up late is bad for your health, so be careful not to fail to report to your wife when you get home." Zhang Ze explained.
He is also a fisherman, so he understands what these people think. He went fishing at night because he had no desires after his divorce.
But he is still young, and he doesn’t want to stay up late every day and hurt his body, which would prevent him from loving his wife.
"What a joke, I'm in good health!" Faced with dignity, Chen Xudong, who had been relatively silent, immediately retorted.
"Look at how many children I have, and you'll know if I can do it!" Jin Fan smiled.
Jin Sanbao: "I have many children too."
Zhang Ze smiled and shook his head: "Okay then! You guys continue fishing, and go back to sleep whenever you want. Be sure to take a shower before going to bed, and don't make my room stink."
After finishing a cigarette, he packed up his fishing gear and went back to take a shower and sleep.
Zhang Ze didn't know what time Jin Sanbao and the others went to bed, but when he got up at six in the morning and passed by their room, he heard loud snoring from inside.
He didn't ask anyone to get up. He made himself a simple breakfast and then went to the deck.
When he came outside, he found that the temperature in the morning was very pleasant and he didn't feel hot at all.
When I was fishing last night, I could feel that the climate here is very comfortable. It will probably be hot for a while at noon. No wonder this place is called a good place for retirement.
The temperature is comfortable and the scenery is beautiful. Duoyu is near Hailing Island and you can directly see the entire picture of the northeast side of Hailing Island.
Hailing Island is basically undeveloped now and still looks like a relatively primitive island.
But the water here is very clear. Although it is not as clear as the glass sea in the Xisha Islands, it is also very beautiful.
Zhang Ze also found a small sandy beach at this location. He didn't want to fish at the moment, so he simply drove the boat over, dropped the anchor nearby, inflated the rubber boat, and came to the beach in the rubber boat.
This small beach is clean, golden in color and without any garbage.
After pulling the rubber boat onto the beach, Zhang Ze looked around and found that there were no fish washed up.
However, small shells and conches can be seen at a glance, and there are quite a lot of them.
But these things were too small and Zhang Ze was not interested at all.
If you want to have a plate for yourself, it will probably take you a long time to figure it out.
Fortunately, there were few people going to the sea in that era, unlike in later generations, when as soon as the tide went out, there would be no place without people.
After a casual stroll, Zhang Ze soon discovered a cat's eye snail as big as a fist in the crevice of the rocks near the beach.
There are quite a lot of cat's eye snails, but those as big as a fist are rare.
Zhang Ze picked up the cat's eye snail and squeezed it hard with his hand. The water could not be stopped at all and sprayed out directly, soaking a large area of the dry beach below.
You know what, this thing is great for relieving stress.
I used to watch others make it, and today I tried it myself and it really felt good.
With an idea in mind, he put the cat's eye snail into the space and continued searching.
Soon, he found another coconut snail in a shallow pit.
This coconut snail is not small. When I shake it in my hand, it feels like it weighs about seven or eight pounds.
"It's impossible to just pick up a dragon ball!"
Zhang Ze smiled and put the coconut snail into the space.
It takes 50,000 of these things to possibly get a conch pearl. It's ridiculous to get one by picking up just a few.
However, coconut snails have a lot of meat, so it’s delicious to slice them and stir-fry them.
If you want to drink some wine at sea in the future, you can take it out and have it with wine.
After searching for a while, he only found some cat's eye snails and two coconut snails. The rest were things that did not interest him.
Apart from some rampant stone crabs, he didn't see any other species such as swimming crabs and blue crabs.
Therefore, Zhang Ze quickly finished his sea-hunting and returned to the boat.
This beach is still a little small, and there is basically nothing there. If you want to go to the beach, you have to go to a bigger beach.
After just a short stroll on the beach, it was already eight o'clock in the morning. Time passed so quickly.
Several people in the room were still snoring loudly. No one knew what time they had fished last night, but there were quite a few fish in the fish hold. Zhang Ze took the opportunity to collect them all into the space, allowing the fish to regain their vitality.
The interior of the live water tank is divided into eight small areas, which was a special request he made when he bought the boat to prevent fish from eating each other.
Now everyone's fish can be divided clearly so they won't get confused.
There are also some fish in the cold storage compartment. Jin Sanbao and his companions must have thought that they would not survive, so they brought them here and chilled them.
The work of longlining and baiting had to be done in the afternoon, so Zhang Ze continued fishing in the morning.
But before that, he had to put down the trap.
Since there is a beach here, it is more suitable for this.
He had ground traps and cages specifically for catching lobsters on his boat, but he didn't use them last night, mainly because he was too unfamiliar with the area and couldn't figure out the terrain at night.
For example, in coral areas, you can place shrimp cages but it is not suitable to place ground cages.
The beach area has a relatively flat underwater terrain, which is suitable for placing ground traps.
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There were three traps on the boat. Zhang Ze went to the cold storage cabin to take out the bait he had bought earlier and put it in to attract shrimps and crabs. Then he carried the three traps to the rubber boat and lowered them one by one near the beach.
The ground trap has a large float so there is no need to worry about it being washed away by the waves and lost.
After placing the three ground traps, Zhang Ze returned to the boat, took out five shrimp cages, stuffed some bait in them, and also took the rubber boat to the reef area next to the beach to place the shrimp cages.
You can pick up some small stones there to increase the weight of the shrimp cage, so that when the shrimp cage reaches the bottom of the water, the opening will always face upwards, and the lobsters will not want to come out once they go in.
After finishing his work, he tied the rubber boat to the stern of Duoyu and went into the cockpit to check the fish finder.
Seeing that there were still the same number of fish under the boat and that they didn't look much less than last night, he didn't need to drive the boat to find a new fishing spot and could just pick up the fishing rod and start fishing.
There are many fish resting early in the morning, but some fish are starting to become active.
Not long after Zhang Ze put down his rod, he caught a yellowfin fish, and then several in a row.
Perhaps he caught this small school of fish in one go, as he caught four more bass later.
The fish were not big, the yellowfin croaker was about one or two kilograms, and the sea bass were also two or three kilograms. Because Jin Sanbao and the others were sleeping, Zhang Ze directly put them into the space. He was too lazy to run back and forth between the live water tank and the side of the ship.
All the fish caught early in the morning were small, which made him a little unmotivated.
But the next moment, Zhang Ze realized his own thoughts and shook his head and laughed.
It's expanded, absolutely expanded.
Having experienced the days when anglers had to buy photo-taking tools when they caught small fish to show that they had caught big fish, he now often loses interest in fish weighing two or three pounds, which is not desirable.
After adjusting his mentality, Zhang Ze happily started fishing for the more active fish in the morning. It is unrealistic to catch fish every day. These fish are the mainstream!
There is a small trench under the boat, and there are many reefs nearby, which makes the rocky fish in the sea like to stay here.
For example, stone nine king, grouper, stone sea bream and so on.
They were originally resting, but due to the constant stimulation of Zhang Ze's ordinary bait, most of them have awakened.
However, at this moment, the sudden movement from the water not far away caught Zhang Ze's attention.
The movement came from far away and then came near. He didn't even need to take the boat to observe, as he saw a group of golden pomfret chasing the shrimps.
The golden pomfret is pretty good. Although the price is not high, the ones seen here are not small. A little bit adds up to a considerable number. As long as Zhang Ze speeds up fishing, he will catch the golden pomfret much faster than bottom fishing.
Zhang Ze quickly turned the fishing rod and reeled in the line, pulling up the bait at the bottom for floating fishing.
As soon as the fishing line was received on the upper surface of the water, there was a movement from the fishing rod.
A greedy golden pomfret took the first bite of the hook. It was attracted by the ordinary bait that had been transformed into the shape of a shrimp. The shrimp on the hook was more attractive to it than the shrimps swimming nearby.
But a sharp pain on its lips made it realize that something was wrong. It opened its mouth and tried to get rid of the foreign object in its mouth, but Zhang Ze stabbed the fish in time, and the golden pomfret was doomed.
Feeling that it was not heavy, he lifted the fishing rod and reeled in the fishing line very quickly. In just a dozen seconds, a golden pomfret weighing about one and a half kilograms flew out of the water.
Zhang Ze stretched out his hand and touched the fish, which was taken into the space. Then he quickly put on the bait and continued to throw it into the water.
The density of golden pomfret is quite high, but because they only appear on the water surface occasionally and dive into the water, they are difficult to catch with a cast net.
Relying on the magical bait and the quality of the fishing rod, Zhang Ze directly started the flying fishing mode.
The golden pomfret caught on the hook basically weighs between one and five kilograms, and there are not many that are particularly small.
Golden pomfret weighing less than three catties will basically fly out of the water in the end, but those weighing five catties can be tossed around with a little effort.
Unfortunately, the school of golden pomfret moved with the school of small shrimps. Zhang Ze only fished for more than an hour before the school of fish left.
There was no point in chasing after him, so he looked at the time and it was already past ten o'clock.
The sun has risen high in the sky, and the temperature on the sea surface is rising rapidly, and the heat can be clearly felt.
Seeing that there were fifty-three golden pomfret in the space, weighing a total of 163 kilograms, Zhang Ze temporarily put away his fishing rod, planning to take a rest and then make lunch.
He came to the door of the room where Jin Sanbao and the others slept again. This time, he could no longer hear any obvious snoring, so he opened the door and walked in.
The room wasn't stuffy with the air conditioner on, and there was no noticeable odor, which made Zhang Ze nodded in satisfaction. It was obvious that the few people had listened to what he said last night and took a shower before going to bed.
The men in the fishing village are not particular about details. Although they take a bath frequently due to the climate, some of them will go straight to bed and sleep when they are tired.
Although Zhang Ze is not a mysophobe, he is also disgusted by this. Fortunately, the few friends he makes are not such people.
Coming to the bedside, he saw Jin Sanbao sleeping soundly on his stomach, so he kicked him on the butt: "Abao, hurry up, Lao Chen next door is having an affair with the widow Jin in the village, wake up quickly, or you won't be able to see it if you're too late."
"Where is it? Where is it?" Before Jin Sanbao could respond, Chen Xudong next to him sat up suddenly.
Seeing his reaction, Zhang Ze almost died. He didn't expect that Chen Xudong, who was usually relatively silent, would be the most introverted one.
"In your dream!"
"In a dream?" Chen Xudong's brain was obviously not working very fast. He stayed there for most of the day. When he realized the environment he was in and the unpleasant look on Zhang Ze's face, his originally dark face turned a little rosy.
He smiled awkwardly and asked, "What time is it?"
"It's almost half past ten. What time did you go to bed last night? Are you still not getting enough sleep?" Zhang Ze kicked the unresponsive Jin Sanbao and the motionless Jin Fan, and said speechlessly.
"The fish were biting well yesterday, so we came back after it got a little light to take a shower and sleep."
"It's so late, then you guys should continue to sleep! You can get ready when you wake up at noon."
Hearing that they had just gone to bed in the morning, Zhang Ze stopped disturbing them and let them continue sleeping while he went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.
However, lunch was just ready when Jin Sanbao and his friends came over yawning.
Chen Xudong learned that it was almost noon, so he forcibly woke up the other two after Zhang Ze left.
He had to help hang up the longline bait in the afternoon, so he couldn't bear to continue sleeping.
(End of this chapter)
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