After dinner, Zhang Ze cleaned up and went to the cockpit to raise the anchor and set sail. The weather was hot in the afternoon, which was just right for sailing.
Following the river to the sea, Zhang Ze thought for a while and decided to go fishing for red-billed sturgeon.
The red-billed sturgeons in the space have basically not been sold. After catching them this time, I can take them out and sell them, and then I will earn a lot of money.
Money is something that you can't stop spending. When I first earned a few dollars or tens of dollars a day, I felt that my life had become a lot better.
With an income of one or two hundred yuan a day, you can feel like a rich man.
Tens of thousands of dollars don’t seem like much money now, and he still can’t even afford a car.
The only thing visible to the naked eye is the infinite improvement in the quality of life, but he is still just a fisherman.
Thinking about Tong Shuyao who was pregnant at home, Zhang Ze stroked his chin while driving the boat and thought, now that the family conditions are better, after the child is born and the body is recovered, should he prepare short skirts, stockings, cheongsams and so on? After all, her family is rich and powerful, and the little girl from the fisherman's family should also evolve into a noble lady.
Thinking about how his wife would look wearing these, Zhang Ze felt hot all over. He was indeed suitable for the sea, because the sea was all water.
After arriving at the fishing spot for red-billed sturgeon, he turned off the engine and stopped the boat. Then he went back to his room, turned on the air conditioner and took a nap.
When I woke up, the sun had already set over the sea, illuminating the surface with a golden color, but it was also quite dazzling.
Zhang Ze took his fishing rod and came to the corridor on the backlit side. With the hull of the boat blocking his view, he would not be exposed to the sun.
Today he saw several slightly larger fishing boats staying on the sea in the distance and could see fishermen pulling in their nets.
Obviously, as time goes by, more and more fishermen will find others to buy boats together and go to farther waters.
But this does not affect Zhang Ze. He plans to fish for red-billed sturgeon tonight and then go to the open sea to cast longlines tomorrow.
Anyway, the fish bait produced in the space will not deteriorate or stink, so it’s okay to keep it for a day.
When fishing for redmouth guppies, you naturally have to catch the big ones.
So Zhang Ze changed to the largest drum reel, adjusted the boat rod to the hardest tone, then tied the fishing line and hung the lead sinker.
Then exchange for ten sets of exclusive bait for red-billed sturgeon, hang them up and throw the hooks and baits into the water.
With a "plop", the hook bait sinks quickly under the action of the lead weight.
The water here is a little over 40 meters deep. When Zhang Ze felt that the fishing line was no longer being released, he reeled in the five-meter fishing line and began to wait.
He fishes by relying on the attraction given off by the bait, so he doesn't need to do the same as others who fish at the bottom, keeping the hook and bait as close to the bottom as possible so that the fish swimming at the bottom can see it.
A situation like this where there is not much undercurrent at the bottom of the water is generally called a "dead current". The fishing line only needs to be retracted one meter, and there is no need to worry about the water current pushing the lead hook bait and causing it to get stuck on the bottom.
If you encounter a flat current, you must be careful not only to reel in more fishing line, but also not to get too close to other anglers to avoid getting entangled with the fishing lines.
Of course, if you like bottom fishing, prepare two reels of line and ten leads, which is enough for a day (>ω*)
Large fish generally like to lurk on the seabed, so bottom fishing is more suitable.
After waiting for a while, the fishing rod on the base began to vibrate and the bell made a pleasant sound, waking up Xiao Hei who was sleeping on his back in the cabin.
Before he turned over, Zhang Ze had already grabbed the fishing rod and stabbed the fish.
This time, he immediately felt a heavy pull, and it was obvious that the fish was not small.
However, when Zhang Ze was about to walk the fish, the fish at the bottom of the water did not react much.
It was biting the hook quite vigorously at the beginning, but now it is half dead and too lazy to move?
Could it be that he had bad luck and caught a dead fish? Fortunately, the next moment, the fishing rod moved again, and Zhang Ze was relieved that it was alive.
This should be the kind of fish that doesn't swim much and its foraging is purely based on luck and lurking.
This kind of fish is very easy to catch. Zhang Ze immediately turned the crank quickly and pulled up the marine creature that had taken the hook.
Soon, an extremely ugly fish appeared on the sea.
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It turned out to be a stonefish. How could he catch this with his exclusive red-billed sturgeon bait?
This is really bad luck. Under normal circumstances, the exclusive bait will not be eaten by other fish.
But the probability is not 100%. Fish like stonefish like to lurk but have little swimming ability. As long as the food is in front of its mouth, it will not care about anything else and will just eat it first.
But this thing is really ugly, and its appearance is comparable to that of the anglerfish.
However, the stonefish's mouth is facing upwards because it will bury itself in the sand. If its mouth is not facing upwards, how can it swallow the lucky ones passing by?
After pulling the fish up, Zhang Ze saw Xiao Hei coming to his feet at some point. He didn't dare to put the fish on the deck. He simply reached out and touched the fish's tail and put it into the space.
[Successfully caught a rose poisonous fish, weighing 4.02 catties, experience +15. ]
Some people also call this fish tiger fish, but unlike the tiger fish that Zhang Ze caught last time, this one is larger in size, but the price is much lower, and the output is slightly higher than the other tiger fish.
Tiger fish tastes delicious.
Zhang Ze finally decided to keep the fish for himself. It is absolutely delicious when used to make chicken soup.
Although it is a poisonous fish, the main organ that launches its venom is the fishbone on its back. As long as you handle it carefully and burn it in a pile of matches, there will be no problem.
Zhang Ze thought it was not a bad deal to exchange a redmouth sturgeon's special bait for a stonefish.
He put the bait back on and threw it into the water. Just as he was about to pick up Xiao Hei and reel it in for a while, he didn't even have time to tighten the fishing line because the bait was intercepted during the descent.
Its bite is not as fierce as that of stonefish, but it is also very fierce. The fishing line is pulled out with a hissing sound, and it looks like a big fish has been hooked.
Zhang Ze quickly turned off the line-releasing drum. In an instant, the fishing line suddenly became taut and the fishing line in the drum stopped moving.
Although it looks like a big fish, it is actually not that big and cannot even resist the unloading force of the drum.
But the fish struggled violently, and Zhang Ze couldn't catch it for a while without pulling it hard.
But the fact that the fish couldn’t pull the unloading force also meant that its end came quickly, and after only three or four minutes, the fish appeared on the water surface.
It was a red-billed sturgeon, and it looked to be only about three or five kilograms.
Although it was not big, Zhang Ze still nodded with satisfaction. This was more like it! He used the exclusive bait but ended up catching other fish. He would doubt whether he bought the wrong bait.
Continuing on, Zhang Ze would pick up a red-billed sturgeon from time to time. Today he was lucky and successfully found a fishing spot with red-billed sturgeons.
But it’s not that his luck was very good, because after using up ten portions of bait, he didn’t catch any red-billed guppies weighing more than ten kilograms, none of them were very big.
Zhang Ze felt that it was probably not time for dinner yet, and those large red-billed sturgeons were probably still hiding and resting.
So I looked at my watch and it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, so I simply packed up my fishing rod and went to the kitchen to cook dinner.
"Come on, Xiao Hei, go find the ball!"
After taking a break after dinner, Zhang Ze did not start fishing immediately, but took out a small ball and started teasing the dog.
Unlike local dogs, Xiao Hei has a lively and active gene, so he needs to be played with and allowed to run often.
If his energy is not released, the furniture on his boat will suffer.
It's not just the Husky's nature to destroy the house. All dogs that can't vent their energy are likely to do so.
It was not until the sun had completely set and Xiao Hei was sticking out his tongue and panting that Zhang Ze threw the ball into the doghouse and got up to go fishing.
He took the base and fishing rod to the stern of the boat. He had no choice but to fish in the corridor in the afternoon. In fact, fishing at the stern was the most comfortable and there was more space.
Originally, Zhang Ze was going to continue exchanging ten portions of red-billed sturgeon bait, but after thinking about it, he switched to ordinary bait, intending to see if there were other more valuable fish at the bottom of the water.
The redmouth guppies he caught in the afternoon were not very big, so he felt it was not very interesting.
This time the bait sank to the bottom. About half a minute after Zhang Ze tightened the fishing line, the fishing rod sent a signal that the hook was bitten.
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It is still a fierce bite, which is also the characteristic of most marine fish. They will not eat bait as gently as freshwater fish.
There were a lot of thorn fish, but seeing that the fish couldn't pull the fishing line, Zhang Ze was disappointed again. Where was his big fish? The pulling force of the fish was okay. Zhang Ze played it a few times and then pulled it up directly.
The first thing you notice is the mouth full of sharp teeth. One bite from it would probably tear off a piece of flesh.
This fish looks very similar to cutlassfish, but it looks much more ferocious.
Its body has a metallic black luster, its tail is scissor-shaped, and it seems to be a better swimmer than the cutlassfish.
Zhang Ze is familiar with this fish. In his previous life, he came to the South China Sea to fish. He could catch this kind of black belt fish, also known as blackfin snake mackerel, every time he went to the open sea for four days and three nights.
Although its name contains the word snake mackerel, it has nothing to do with oil leak fish. On the contrary, it tastes quite good and is much more delicious than the yellow-eye cutlassfish that Zhang Ze had caught before.
Of course, he personally feels that it is not as good as the authentic Zhoushan hairtail fish.
The Zhoushan hairtail species is actually also found in the South China Sea, but it may have something to do with the waters of its origin. The hairtail produced by Zhoushan fishery does taste much better.
[Successfully caught a blackfin mackerel, weighing 5.26 catties, experience +8. ]
After putting the fish into the space and taking a look at it, Zhang Ze no longer paid attention to the fish.
The production of this fish is not high, but you can still see some on the market. The price is 3.8 cents per pound, which is quite acceptable.
Continuing to hang up ordinary bait, one minute later, Zhang Ze easily caught a fish.
Looking at the big bubble ball on the water surface, he suddenly realized that it was no wonder that he felt the fishing line had no tension, it turned out to be a puffer fish.
It was the most common pufferfish that even fishermen disliked. Zhang Ze collected it, held the pufferfish in his hand, and saw that the deck was a little dirty, so he used it to brush it. Next, he used more than a dozen ordinary baits in a row, but he didn't catch a single grouper. They were all ordinary fish with relatively low unit prices, and they were not big.
He tried the bait with a redmouth guppy and found that there was no sign of the fish taking the bait, so he knew he should change locations.
If the fish bite was not so-so, Zhang Ze would not want to start the boat. After all, it costs a lot of money to start the fishing boat every time! While looking at the fish finder, he wandered around some isolated islands and reefs.
Suddenly, there was a "bang". Zhang Ze's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that he had hit a reef? But the fish finder did not show any shallow water nearby!
But he still stopped the boat and quickly checked whether the propulsion system was intact, and then checked whether the hull was damaged or leaking.
When he found that everything was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief, then went to the side of the deck and observed the sea conditions with a flashlight.
Just now he could vaguely feel the movement coming from the left side of the bow, so he would prioritize checking the sea on the left.
When he came to the left stern, he unexpectedly saw something floating on the sea about ten meters away. Did he hit that thing?
It looks like the corpse of some creature, could it be a whale?
Out of curiosity, Zhang Ze returned to the cockpit, turned the bow of the boat, and slowly approached.
When he arrived nearby, walked out of the cabin and saw a giant sea turtle, he gasped.
But the next moment, Ugh~ Zhang Ze almost vomited because of the obvious stench of dead fish.
Logically, he was used to the smell because the fishing village pier was filled with this smell.
But the smell was too strong, just like the smell of a fishing net that had been used for a long time and was left out in the sun. Even fishermen couldn't stand it.
It was obvious that the giant turtle was dead and had been dead for some time.
What’s interesting is that it was not eaten by carnivorous creatures such as sharks. Perhaps after a while, sharks will come to clean it up.
When Zhang Ze saw clearly that it was a giant hawksbill turtle, a look of surprise immediately appeared in his eyes.
The hawksbill turtle is nearly two meters long, and its shell is more than 1.5 meters long. It is a great treasure!
The shell of the hawksbill turtle is a rare treasure in China. Its shell is an organic gem, and the patterns are very beautiful. It is extremely valuable, especially such a big one.
A normal adult hawksbill turtle is considered very large if it grows to 1.5 meters, not to mention this two-meter one. Its shell is probably of top quality.
In later generations, sea turtles are basically protected animals, and ordinary people are not qualified to handle even their corpses, as it is illegal.
Of course, there are huge benefits involved, and it is not ruled out that someone will come secretly.
But the hawksbill turtle was not included in the protected category until after 1988, and it is only 1980 now, so it is okay for Zhang Ze to sell turtle shells openly.
In order to prevent the turtle from attracting sharks and stealing its shell, Zhang Ze did not care about the smell. He used a hook to pull the hawksbill turtle to the side of the boat, and then lifted it up with a crane.
As soon as the hawksbill turtle arrived on the boat, Xiao Hei started barking and retreating. He only felt safe when he retreated all the way to the cabin door, and then he kept barking.
"Be quiet!" Zhang Ze comforted it and touched its head, and Xiao Hei immediately calmed down.
After calming the dog down, Zhang Ze opened the cabin door, threw the dog in and closed it again.
Before hoisting the hawksbill turtle up, he closed all the doors and windows on the boat to prevent the stench from drifting into the room.
I just didn't notice Xiao Hei, and I didn't know when it ran out.
Next, Zhang Ze took the fish-killing knife and began to deal with the dead hawksbill turtle.
The scene was too bloody and disgusting. After dealing with the hawksbill turtle, he washed the deck clean with a desperate look on his face, then took off his clothes and threw them directly into the garbage bag.
It was too nauseating, so he had already eaten at night. Otherwise, Zhang Ze would have to starve until at least tomorrow noon to recover. However, he didn't want to eat meat in the near future. (End of this chapter)
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