Chapter 197 Various Fish Schools at the Junction
After Jin Sanbao had set up a nest, the fishing situation immediately became uncontrollable. After Zhang Ze caught two Spanish mackerels in a row, the three of them also caught fish, each catching a Spanish mackerel. It was obvious that a group of Spanish mackerels had come to the bottom of the water.
I don’t know if the swordfish were attracted by them, but the next moment Zhang Ze caught a big black sea bream, weighing about seven or eight kilograms.
Then a big stone clam came, and he was so happy that he immediately put it into the space.
[Successfully caught a spotted snapper, weighing 4.33 catties, experience +20. ]
Tsk tsk tsk, Jin Sanbao and his friends did a great job in finding a good fishing spot. If they hadn't attracted all the mackerels over there, how could he have caught this precious big stone clam? It was probably snatched away by the mackerels as soon as the bait was put in the water.
A big stone clam is probably heavier than a 100-pound mackerel.
The star snapper is an extremely rare species of snapper in later generations, and its price in the market is extremely outrageous.
There are too few of these fish in the market, which leads to a high price for the fish. Even if the fish is small and caught with a net, the unit price is more than five hundred yuan.
But sea fishing usually goes to deep sea, and the fish caught will basically be more than two kilograms, and the price will go up to fifteen hundred yuan. It is a dream fish species that is not inferior to the black-haired fish in price.
Most groupers are just little brothers in front of it, except for those that are particularly attractive.
The number of stone clams in this era must have been greater than in later generations because many coral reefs had not been plowed flat by trawlers.
But the overall catch volume is still very low, so the price will not be too low either. When the time comes, it can definitely be sold at a high price in a restaurant.
Having caught a top-notch catch, Zhang Ze's passion for fishing rose again.
However, at this moment, a huge school of fish was already within reach.
So Zhang Ze threw the hook bait into the water again, expecting the next big clam, but the bait was directly intercepted.
This fish is extremely powerful, and certainly cannot be compared to those giant king fish caught, but it has plenty of impact and is very domineering, giving the illusion of catching a red snapper or a yellow bream.
Could it be that a giant mackerel has arrived?
Just as I was wondering, the fish that took the hook did not swim to the bottom of the water, but appeared on the surface instead.
The yellow-green silhouette and the deep blue fins made Zhang Ze suddenly realize that it was a ghost-headed fish.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak"
In an instant, the demon-like knife ran dozens of meters with the fishing line at a very fast speed.
The squeaking sound of the fishing reel's unloading alarm made Xiao Hei, who was lying next to it, prick up his ears.
The tense atmosphere made it feel uneasy, so it raised its head and stared at him closely.
Zhang Ze was concentrating on fishing at the moment and had no time to care about it.
However, after four or five minutes, the pulling force from the fishing rod showed no sign of weakening.
I didn't see the exact size of the fish in the quick glance I just saw, I just thought it was quite big. Because it was dark, the fish ran away and Zhang Ze couldn't see it anymore.
However, this did reveal that the swordfish that had bitten the hook was quite large.
The pulling force of the fish obviously exceeded the maximum unloading value of the fishing reel. Only Zhang Ze held the crank tightly to prevent the fish from running away. Otherwise, in just a few minutes, the fish would probably have run four or five hundred meters away.
It's only about 70 to 80 meters away now. When the fish gets tired, it will be faster to pull it back, and the fish will stop to rest less often.
Zhang Ze didn't use too much strength. He could control the fish within 30 meters, but this would be a good time to fish. What would he do next? He had to fish until at least 12 o'clock in the evening. Even if he was in good physical condition, he had to allocate his physical energy well.
Therefore, when the swordfish was attacking, he held the fishing rod with one hand and pressed the handle with the other hand to keep it still.
This makes it impossible for the ghost-head knife to escape, and it can only move back and forth continuously.
As time passed, the fishing rod slightly raised its head, and the pulling force from the handle became much weaker.
Zhang Ze tried to relax a little, and found that the swordfish was so tired that it could not keep up with the force of the fishing reel.
Even if he relaxed, the demon knife could not pull the fishing line, and it was obviously time for him to counterattack.
Zhang Ze picked up the fishing rod from the base, raised it up with force, and quickly turned the crank while pulling the swordfish closer.
While reeling in the line, the angle of the fishing rod is slowly lowered until it is parallel to the water surface and then raised again.
For three rounds in a row, every time the fishing rod was raised high, the scorpionfish could be pulled in a long way.
But every time it pulled, its mouth would hurt, so under the stimulation of the pain in its mouth, the knife exerted force again.
But the pulling force of the fish's second pull was far less than that at the beginning. Even when Zhang Ze let go of his hand, the crank only turned at a very slow speed. It was obvious that it could not pass the test of unloading force.
After it calmed down, Zhang Ze continued to reel in the line, repeating this process over and over again.
A distance of seventy or eighty meters is considered very close for experienced sea fishermen. It took only ten minutes to pull the yellow-green knifefish to the side of the boat.
The fish is indeed quite big, it feels like it is about 1.5 meters long.
Zhang Ze tried with a large scoop net, but found it a bit difficult, so he simply picked up the hook that was also placed aside.
The hook pierced directly into the fish's brain. Guitoudao was fatally wounded and struggled violently. His hand holding the hook kept shaking. It was obvious that he could not control the fish with one hand.
However, the hook had already penetrated deeply into the fish's brain, making it impossible for the fish to break free no matter how hard it struggled.
Then Zhang Ze let go of the fishing rod with his left hand, and held the hook together to lift the dozens of kilograms of swordfish onto the boat.
"Ooooooo. Ooooooo."
The sudden appearance of the big guy scared Xiao Hei so much that he jumped up, and then he whimpered and quickly hid in the cabin.
“.”
Zhang Ze was speechless for a while. At this moment, he doubted whether this dog could watch a boat when it grew up since it was so timid.
[Successfully caught a dorado, weighing 63.28 catties, experience +5. ]
Zhang Ze glanced at the introduction and then walked towards the cold storage compartment.
After entering the cold storage compartment, he released the injured and dying Daochi.
The color of the knifefish just caught is still pretty good, but once it dies completely, its yellow-green color will turn into silver like the cutlassfish, and it is dull.
The price of swordfish is not high and the taste is average, but there is still a market for it. More than 60 kilograms can be sold for about 15 yuan.
Fifteen dollars for a fish, an ordinary fisherman would have gone crazy with joy.
So although Zhang Ze was not very happy about catching such a fish, he was not disappointed either.
It’s a pity that I don’t have a mobile phone or WeChat, otherwise I could take a photo and send it to the fishing group.
The school of swordfish should be passing through the Gemini Islands, so when Zhang Ze continued fishing, he found that there were no fish intercepting the food.
After waiting for about a minute and seeing no response from the fishing rod, he went to the cockpit and looked at the cabin, only to find that all the fish that had passed by had left, including the Spanish mackerel and swordfish he had caught before.
Fortunately, the undercurrent at the bottom of the water doesn't seem to be that fast, and there are always fish. As long as Zhang Ze keeps fishing at the bottom, he will definitely get something.
The lead weight sank quickly with the hook and bait. When it reached the bottom, he was afraid that the undercurrent would cause the hook to get stuck on the bottom, so he directly reeled in about three meters of fishing line.
"Swoosh~"
As soon as I reeled in the fishing line and locked the unloading force, the bell at the tip of the rod started to jingle.
Zhang Ze immediately raised the rod with force, and the hook immediately pierced the fish's lips.
Unfortunately, the force transmitted from the fishing rod was not strong, and the fishing reel was motionless. It was obvious that the fish that came up this time was a small fish.
Of course, small fish is a small fish for Zhang Ze. In his opinion, any fish weighing less than three kilograms is considered small fish.
That’s right, turtle hunters became so arrogant after entering the 1980s.
The fish was not big, so there was no need to be polite. After a violent pull, the fish at the bottom of the water flew up directly.
After just a short while, a golden fish appeared on the sea.
Under the light of the fishing boat, the bright gold color is particularly eye-catching.
"Hey, Aze, you also caught a big yellow croaker?" Jin Sanbao on the opposite side happened to notice it, so he shouted in a teasing tone.
"." Zhang Ze remained silent. It was only because the yellow croaker had not been hyped up yet, otherwise the other party would not have used such a tone.
This big yellow croaker weighs almost one and a half kilograms and looks very good. Any fisherman in the future would be envious when seeing it.
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However, Zhang Ze was not surprised to catch a big yellow croaker. After all, he had caught one when he just came over.
He felt that there must be a school of yellow croakers in the nearby reef area, and it would be nice if he could catch some yellow croakers at night.
However, compared with Wenshui City, the price of yellow croaker in Nanfang seems to be lower. The price of a pound and a half is just over 40 cents.
He put it into the space and kept it there first, but this big yellow croaker also reminded Zhang Ze of the ancestor yellow croaker he had caught.
He thought he was quite funny, so he insisted on keeping the more than ten kilograms of yellow croaker, waiting until the Zhoushan yellow croaker was almost extinct before taking it out to show off.
Perhaps, the fun of fishing is so simple and unpretentious.
Then we continued, and after catching five large yellow croakers weighing over a pound, we finally caught something different.
[Successfully caught a black snapper, weighing 1.36 catties, experience +5. ]
Seeing the name seems to be a surprise. This name is only one character different from the white star snapper, also known as the stone clam.
However, the gap between black and white is very large. Zhang Ze didn’t know that the scientific name of the firefish is black star snapper before.
He was not at all surprised when he saw the fire-spot fish, because the price of this fish was very low, almost the same as that of sea bass.
But the taste is very delicious, and it is a very cost-effective seafood.
If you like to eat seafood but don’t want to spend money, you can buy this kind of fish. The market price is only about 30 to 41 kilograms. If you go to the wholesale market, the price may be even lower.
Just like the red snapper, even if it is farmed, it may cost one hundred and fifty to two hundred yuan per pound when bought in the market, but in the seafood wholesale market it is probably only about eighty yuan. The difference is so huge.
Of course, prices vary from region to region.
Three hours passed by unknowingly and the moon had risen high in the sky.
During this period, many schools of fish passed by, and Zhang Ze caught at least ten species of sea fish.
Guarding this intersection, every fish school will have to pay some favors.
Throwing the fishing hook out again, he raised his wrist to check the time. It was already past nine forty in the evening.
In theory, the longline can be reeled in. After that, you can take a shower and go to bed, and get up early tomorrow morning for morning fishing.
The fish are biting well in the morning. The weather is still hot now, so I probably won’t be able to catch anything until the afternoon, so it’s a good time for a nap.
"Swish~" At this moment, the fishing rod suddenly bent down sharply, and the sound of the bell was particularly loud in the night.
"Oh, it's almost over and you still want to give me a surprise?"
Zhang Ze quickly grabbed the fishing rod on the base and lifted it back hard, and the fishing rod immediately turned into a big bow.
Based on his experience of fishing for big fish after his rebirth, he was sure that this time it was definitely a big one, even more powerful than the 60-pound swordfish just now.
The struggle didn't seem to be strong, but it was very fast and very powerful.
At least when Zhang Ze raised the rod with force, the fish was not pulled by him, but continued to run.
"tuna?"
Watching the fishing line moving out with a hissing sound, the fishing reel's force unloading seemed to be of no use at all, forcing Zhang Ze to doubt whether he had caught this kind of fish that would be extremely valuable in later generations.
There are actually quite a lot of tuna in domestic waters. In addition to bluefin tuna and bigeye tuna, there are actually quite a lot of others like yellowfin tuna.
However, even bluefin tuna is not scarce in this era.
However, in the fishing grounds near Hailing Island, Zhang Ze estimated that it was most likely yellowfin tuna.
But regardless of whether it was a yellowfin tuna or not, he was going to reel in the longline after catching the fish, so he didn’t save any effort or energy this time.
He grabbed the fishing rod with both hands and pulled it back again. The big fish that had been rushing forward at the bottom of the water suddenly stopped.
Zhang Ze took the opportunity to grab the handle of the whip, which was spinning rapidly but had just stopped briefly, in an attempt to control this huge monster.
But the strength of the big fish was beyond his imagination. Even though he could lift 300 kilograms with one hand, he still couldn't stop the big fish.
The fishing line was released again and the crank began to turn, but with his obstruction, the speed was much slower this time.
Seeing that he had no way to catch the fish, Zhang Ze could only remain in the stalemate and wait until the fish got tired.
Five minutes passed quickly. Even though the night sea breeze was very cool, he was still sweating profusely, and most of his clothes were soaked with sweat.
At this moment, the pulling force from the fishing line was rapidly changing the reception point, and the tip of the fishing rod was lifted up a little.
It's not that the fish has no strength, but that the fish that was originally swimming at the bottom of the water is now running quickly towards the surface.
Suddenly, there was a splash in the water and a big fish jumped out of the water high into the air.
However, the distance was too far, already more than three hundred meters away, and Zhang Ze couldn't see it at all in the night.
He could only roughly understand the fish's movements through the fishing line. When he saw the fishing line suddenly rise up and become parallel to the sea surface or even have a higher arc, he understood that the fish must be washing its gills when it jumped out of the water.
Zhang Ze let go of the crank, grabbed the fishing rod with both hands and pulled hard. The instantaneous force pulled the fishing line, causing the big fish that jumped out of the water to feel a black screen in front of its eyes and its head shook violently.
Then his body fell uncontrollably into the water, splashing sea water high.
This made the big fish faint directly. The hook, which was originally slightly loose, was tightened again, and it took more than ten seconds to recover.
In these ten seconds or so, Zhang Ze had successfully recovered several meters of fishing line.
He actually hoped that more fish would jump out of the water, so that its energy would be consumed faster and he could also take the opportunity to reel in the line to prevent the fish from running too far.
However, this also made Zhang Ze realize that what he caught was probably not tuna, but most likely a marlin or swordfish.
Generally speaking, these are the only super-large fish that like to jump out of the water.
(End of this chapter)
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