Chapter 180: Top-quality red-billed bream
This time when he went out to sea, Zhang Ze had one more piece of equipment, which was the belly belt that Tong Shuyao specially prepared for him.
He originally wanted to have this thing made at a tailor shop, but after his wife found out, she took over the task and it was just finished last night.
With this, he won’t be afraid of the fishing rod hitting his stomach and causing pain when he catches a big fish in the future.
After starting the Duoyu and warming up the engine, he followed the river into the sea.
Looking at the navigation, Zhang Ze was thinking about where he should go first.
Should I go directly to Dongsha, or visit several nearby fishing spots that I have heard of?
At present, he is still focusing on familiarizing himself with the terrain and road conditions, and rarely uses the automatic driving function when driving the boat.
It takes a lot of time to explore a new sea area. Along the way, he can also record the coordinates of where fish schools appear based on the information displayed on the fish finder.
In a small drawer in the cockpit, there is a notebook, which records the coordinates of many fishing spots he found during his two trips to sea.
The places with abundant or scarce fish are also marked. Some places can be shared with others, but some places with explosive resources are only suitable to be your own secret fishing spots.
Unfortunately, Zhang Ze has not yet discovered such a secret fishing spot. The trench is actually very good, but it is too close to Hailing Island and can easily be discovered by fishermen on the island.
Secondly, Jin Sanbao and his companions also knew about it, so it was not suitable as a secret fishing spot.
After much deliberation, Zhang Ze decided to take a detour and go to the sea off Nan'ao Island.
This is also a good place. There are many fishing spots nearby, and there is also a kind of top-quality fish. He plans to try his luck there.
To get to Nan'ao Island, you have to go half a circle and pass by Hong Kong Island.
However, the Duoyu has enough range, and Zhang Ze doesn't mind taking a detour. Besides, he is going to the sea over there and has no plan to get close to the island.
Hong Kong Island is not big, so it won’t take much time to go around it.
It was already past nine o'clock when the longline bait was hung, but he arrived at the sea area at nearly eleven o'clock.
There are quite a lot of small isolated islands here. When fishing boats pass by the islands, they can basically see the schools of fish through the fish finder, with only some difference.
He is estimated to be about twenty nautical miles away from Nan'ao Island. To the east is Dongsha, which is just a slight detour.
Along the way, he didn't encounter any ship.
After walking around all the isolated islands within sight, Zhang Ze had a general idea of the situation here, so he sailed to the smallest island.
On the surface, this isolated island seems to be the smallest, but the distribution of reefs under the water should be the most extensive, which also leads to the best fish resources here.
Other places only show a little red occasionally, but mostly yellow-green. However, a lot of red appears on the fish finder, indicating that there are either big fish or a lot of fish gathering here.
After determining the fishing spot, Zhang Ze turned off the engine and let the fishing boat continue to glide on the sea for a distance before dropping the anchor.
If the bottom of the water is sandy, you can drop the anchor while the boat is gliding, so that the firmness of the anchor groove will allow the boat to stop earlier.
But isolated islands are basically reef areas. If you drop the anchor first, it will break directly for you to see.
The place he chose was nearly fifty meters deep. The water depth became shallower as it got closer to the isolated island. It was surrounded by many reefs, forming a natural underwater basin.
It was just that Zhang Ze couldn't see the situation at the bottom of the water. If he could, he would find that there were much more aquatic plants and algae here than near other isolated islands, so the fish resources would be more than in other bare places.
Small fish like to hide in water plants, and algae are also food for many small fish.
The big fish will be attracted to the small fish, and a good ecological circle will gradually be formed.
And it's not just fish, there should be plenty of crabs and lobsters here.
So Zhang Ze put the shrimp cage down immediately. It was not easy to put the ground cage in this terrain. Unfortunately, the crab cage he requested was still in production and he had to wait for a while.
There are a lot of swimming crabs recently. Every time I return home, I can see crabs everywhere on the dock, which makes the price very cheap.
However, Zhang Ze has space, so he can catch some and keep them in the space. He can then take them out during the New Year and say they are overwintering crabs. I guess he can cheat quite a few people.
It was almost noon when he put away the shrimp cages, but he was not very hungry yet, so he took out his fishing rod and started fishing.
This time the fishing rod was adjusted directly to the hardest tone, and a slightly larger fish hook was also chosen.
There is no fun in fishing for small fish, he still prefers fishing for big fish.
As long as you find the fish school, the magic bait is always very effective and the efficiency of catching fish is very fast.
As a result, it was a bad start today. The first fish I caught was only a half-pound sea bass.
Zhang Ze would not dislike any fish weighing one pound. I don’t know how he could open his mouth so wide. It was not small enough for him to hang a fish hook, but he still put it into the space as a backup bait.
Then, he caught several small fish in a row, which made him speechless.
Knowing that the fishhook was too small, Zhang Ze replaced it with a bigger one.
Although some fish with big mouths can still be swallowed, at least most fish weighing less than one kilogram can be excluded.
After changing the fish hook, although the tip of the fishing rod was still shaking, no fish were caught for a while.
At this time, seven or eight small fish gathered at the bottom of the water and swam around the bait. Their gathering had successfully attracted the attention of many large fish.
After waiting for about two minutes, the fishing rod inserted in the base suddenly bent down, followed by a tinkling sound.
Zhang Ze, who was distracted, was immediately called back to attention and quickly raised the fishing rod to hook the fish.
As soon as he lifted the fishing rod, he immediately felt a huge pulling force, and finally a big one came.
By feeling it, Zhang Ze roughly knew the size of the fish at the bottom of the water. It was at least ten kilograms, but should not exceed twenty kilograms.
The drum kept making a buzzing sound until he put his hand on the crank, which stopped the fishing line from releasing.
The fish at the bottom of the water are very strong and keep swimming towards the deep water, but fortunately their speed is not that fast.
Zhang Ze took down the fishing rod and placed it against his stomach. This not only made it easier to exert force, but also allowed him to pull the fish up faster.
Although the effect of the physical halo only lasted for two days, he could clearly feel that his physical condition was better than before and he was full of strength.
There's no need to fish at this moment. Just one word: do it!
He kept lifting the rod and reeling in the line, and each time he lifted the rod he was able to pull back a large portion of the fish.
The fish only ran more than 30 meters, but it kept exerting force during the period. Sometimes Zhang Ze was forced to stop reeling in the line and pull it first.
But it still only took five or six minutes for this big fish weighing more than ten kilograms to appear on the water surface.
Zhang Ze looked closely and found it was a sturgeon.
The body of this sturgeon is blue-gray-brown and its belly is grayish-white. He recognized at a glance that it was a precious and rare red-billed sturgeon, second only to the yellow croaker.
Seeing that it was this fish, Zhang Ze became more motivated and spun the fishing rod very quickly.
The reason why he came here was to see if he could catch a red-billed sturgeon. Unexpectedly, the first big fish he caught was a...
Soon, he pulled the fish to the side of the boat, and then he started walking towards the stern entrance.
It is not as convenient to use a scoop net to scoop fish or set a hook as to store it directly at the stern, and it is not easy for the fish to escape.
[Successfully caught a redmouthed bream, weighing 16.55 catties, experience +20. ]
The experience value is ten times lower than that of ordinary sturgeon, which also indirectly illustrates the preciousness and rarity of the fish.
At present, Zhang Ze has a rough understanding of how to gain experience points. Basically, the higher the price and the smaller the quantity of fish, the higher the experience value will be.
A sixteen-pound red-billed sturgeon is already very good, but the king fish is estimated to be at least seventy or eighty pounds, which is far from enough.
However, by catching such a red-billed sturgeon, I estimate that I have made back the cost of this trip to the sea. I think it should be no problem to sell it for around 500 or 600 yuan.
Although its economic value is far less than that of yellow croaker, it is more expensive than most groupers, and its fish belly is quite popular in the market.
That is to say, the quantity is still acceptable now, but in the future, the best red-billed sturgeon fish meat alone can be sold for six or seven hundred yuan per kilogram, and the fish belly can be sold directly for hundreds of thousands.
Catching this fish was easy for him, but the hot weather still made him sweat profusely.
Zhang Ze put away his fishing rod, went to the cabin to get a towel to wipe the sweat off his face, and then went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.
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The weather is good today, but the sun is too strong, so it is not a good time for fishing in the afternoon.
Zhang Ze also didn't like fishing under the sun, so after lunch he lay down on the sofa in the living room and took a nap.
Originally it would have been best to travel in the afternoon, but after catching a redmouth guppy he changed his mind and decided to stay here and fish at night.
Hanging on the longline is a magical bait, so he doesn't need to worry about the bait going bad.
When he woke up, it was only three o'clock in the afternoon, but Zhang Ze really couldn't sleep.
Looking at the sun in the sky, he seemed a little helpless. It was really hard to live without a mobile phone in this era.
In later generations, fishing boats were all equipped with wireless networks. Even if he was not fishing, he could quickly pass the time by playing with his phone and then go fishing at night.
Now, let alone smartphones, even Tetris consoles and Subor are still years away.
Fortunately, he was not without preparation. There were chess, mahjong and cards on the boat.
Playing alone, Zhang Ze had to choose cards, took out two decks and started playing solitaire.
At this time, an old-looking iron boat was slowly approaching from a distance.
The ship seemed to have discovered him as well. The ship that was originally heading this way actually changed its direction slightly and looked like it was going to make a half circle.
Zhang Ze happened to be standing by the window. It was fine if the ship was sailing normally, but the sudden change of direction attracted his attention and curiosity.
So he went to get the telescope and observed the fishing boats in the distance.
Two people were standing outside the cockpit of the fishing boat, smoking. The sun was blocked by the eaves above the corridor, and it was indeed much more comfortable to stay outside.
But because of this, Zhang Ze was able to see the person opposite him clearly through the telescope.
When he saw one of the faces that looked slightly familiar, he was surprised. How could it feel familiar when he clearly didn't know the person?
But after thinking about it, he still couldn't remember who the other person was.
However, one thing caught Zhang Ze's attention. The two people outside were dressed casually and did not look like fishermen at all.
Which fisherman wears a flowered shirt when fishing? "Smuggling? Stowaway?" These two words immediately flashed through Zhang Ze's mind.
But I also felt that something was wrong. Don’t smuggling and illegal immigration happen at night? It was unrealistic to do it in broad daylight as the target would be too obvious.
And if it really was one of these two types, then the two people shouldn't be smoking outside so blatantly.
I guess he wasn't avoiding him on purpose, but the route just happened to turn a corner.
Soon, the fishing boat disappeared from Zhang Ze's sight, and he put down the telescope.
He shook his head. No matter what the situation was, it had nothing to do with him.
After playing cards for a while, Zhang Ze prepared dinner as it was almost time. After eating, he came out to collect the shrimp cages.
After seven or eight hours, the shrimp cages had some harvest. Five shrimp cages yielded six lobsters and two swimming crabs.
The harvest in broad daylight was indeed a bit poor, so Zhang Ze threw the shrimp cage back and thought that the harvest would be better if he collected it tomorrow morning.
After putting away the shrimp cages, it’s time to go fishing in the evening.
But in order to increase the chance of catching the red-billed sturgeon, Zhang Ze put down two longlines for fishing in shallow water.
The resources here are good. Even if there are no red-billed pike, there will be groupers and various types of snappers, so it is completely worthwhile to put out two longlines.
However, before casting the longline, he also made a nest. It was almost noon at that time, and he didn't plan to fish all the time. He just wanted to see if the fish would bite.
If you want to fish at night, you have to fish until at least midnight, so it is necessary to make a nest.
After finishing his work, Zhang Ze took out his fishing rod and put on his belly belt.
His wife made it herself, and he will always keep it with him even if he doesn’t catch a big fish tonight.
Why not wear it during the day? It's too damn hot! I just hold the fishing rod in my hand, put the bait on it and throw it into the water.
As soon as the bait entered the water, its floating appearance immediately attracted some fish that were more attracted to the bait, and they rushed to the bait position one after another.
Zhang Ze held the fishing rod in one hand and was about to take out a cigarette to cheer himself up for the evening, but suddenly a strong force came from the fishing rod and the bell on the tip of the rod began to jingle.
He threw away the cigarette he had just taken out of his hand, grabbed the fishing rod firmly and immediately pulled it up with force.
The fishing rod suddenly turned into a big curved bow, causing Zhang Ze's body to lean forward slightly.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and threw away the cigarette decisively, otherwise the big fish might have escaped.
Now that we have successfully stabbed the fish, there is basically no way this fish can escape.
It turned out that the bait was right. It attracted small fish, so the big fish would be nearby, so there was a chance to catch big fish right away.
This fish is very powerful, much more powerful than the red-billed sturgeon that we caught at noon.
Even though Zhang Ze was full of strength now, he still couldn't perform miracles by brute force and catch the fish directly, so he could only use his knees against the side of the boat to gain some strength, put the fishing rod against his belly belt, and start reeling in the fish.
Naturally, he wanted to pull the fish up quickly. The fish was biting so well that he could catch it as soon as it came up. The faster he fished, the more he would naturally catch.
So even though it was uncomfortable to have his knees against the side of the boat, using that leverage not only made it a lot easier, but he was also able to pull the fish to the side of the boat faster.
"Hah~" At this time the fish began to exert force and tried to dive to the bottom of the water.
It looks like it must be hiding in a cave in the reef. If it runs in, the fishing line will probably break, and Zhang Ze will probably have to use a winch to pull the fish out.
So he lifted the rod suddenly and used all his strength to stop the fish from swimming downstream.
(End of this chapter)
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