Chapter 202: Yellow Chicken Fish School
The blood of the hawksbill turtle's corpse flowed into the sea, and soon attracted a group of sharks to fight for it.
Zhang Ze rinsed the hawksbill turtle shell with water several times, and after it was roughly clean, he threw it aside and left it alone.
He had already wasted a lot of time removing the tortoise shell, and the remaining cuticles and barnacles on the tortoise's back would be left to be cleaned up slowly! He didn't even need to clean them up, as the buyer would handle them more scientifically and professionally after selling them, trying to ensure the integrity of the tortoise shell.
After washing his hands, Zhang Ze picked up the fishing rod and walked to the side of the boat. He then replaced the float with ordinary bait and started fishing while the hawksbill turtle carcass attracted a large number of sharks and other fish.
This time we used the floating rock fishing method, mainly fishing for fish in the upper water layer.
As the bait entered the water, it immediately took effect. In less than fifteen seconds, the float floating on the water was quickly pulled into the sea.
Zhang Ze quickly raised the fishing rod, and with a "swoosh", the fishing rod turned into a big bow, followed by a huge force.
The next moment, the big fish that was hooked appeared on the water surface by itself. It was a shark.
The shark that was attracted temporarily was not a big shark, so although the force was strong, it was well within his tolerance. The shark was probably only a little over one meter long.
Zhang Ze quickly pulled the hooked shark towards the stern of the boat, away from the location of the hawksbill turtle's corpse.
If the sharks that came were small like the ones that got hooked, he wouldn't worry about the hooked sharks being eaten by their own kind. But if other ferocious carnivorous sharks came, this place would not be suitable for him to fish.
Those sharks will be attracted to the shark caught on the rod and then eat it.
But Zhang Ze was lucky. After seven or eight minutes, he hooked up this 34-pound small shark and the water surface suddenly exploded.
A huge white shark rushed out of the water, holding a sea lion that had come in at some point in its mouth.
The sea surface that was originally dyed red by hawksbill turtles has returned to calm over time, but it will become lively again this day.
Zhang Ze thought about whether to fish for the white shark, but finally decided to give up.
Because he saw other large sharks, even if he caught one of them, the other sharks would be left alone, so he might as well leave quickly and fish for red-billed sturgeon.
After catching the small shark, Zhang Ze went to the cockpit to collect the anchor, then left and continued looking for a suitable fishing spot.
Soon, he found an excellent fishing spot.
The nearby sea area was empty, but there was a large red area at a depth of thirty to forty meters on the fish finder.
The water here is fifty-three meters deep, which means there is a school of fish lingering here on the bottom of the water.
Not knowing how big the fish was, Zhang Ze decided to test the water with a big fish hook first. It would be best if a fish took the bait.
There is no need to change it. Anyway, the fish is too small to swallow the hook and bait at one time, so the bait will not be eaten and disappear.
After installing the fishing rod on the base and replacing the lead weight with the bait, Zhang Ze threw the hook and bait into the water.
The drum reel rotated rapidly, and the fishing line inside was quickly paid out thirty or forty meters due to the weight of the lead sinker.
Feeling that the depth was about right, Zhang Ze quickly closed the drum and turned the unloading force to maximum.
Normal fishing rod unloading usually leaves some room for buffering after a big fish is hooked, to prevent the rod from being broken by a sudden huge force.
However, there is no need to worry about this problem for Zhang Ze's fishing rod, just set the unloading force to the maximum.
After about ten seconds, the tip of the fishing rod suddenly began to shake slightly. He immediately focused his attention and grabbed the fishing rod with both hands.
The next moment, the fishing rod suddenly bent downward.
“Here it comes!”
Zhang Ze saw the right opportunity and immediately raised the rod to stab the fish.
Just by lifting the rod, he could clearly feel the fish had no power to resist and was being pulled by him.
Obviously, if the fish took the hook, it must be big, but not too big either.
The fish's strength was no match for the unloading force, so Zhang Ze was not polite. He turned the handlebars very quickly. Thirty or forty meters was not a distance at all, and the fish at the bottom of the water soon appeared on the surface.
It turned out to be a yellow chicken fish, which was quite large, about 40 centimeters long and weighed about five kilograms.
Zhang Ze first discovered this fish when he went longline fishing in Nanning. He was able to catch a lot of it almost every time he went out to sea afterwards, because this is a kind of fish that likes to live in groups, and especially likes to appear in the water layer outside the coral reefs.
Yellow chicken fish has extremely high nutritional value, tastes delicious but is relatively affordable.
Most of these fish are about 20 centimeters in size. Jin Guangcheng will buy them at 42 cents per pound, which is not a low price.
Of course, larger yellow chickens can also be used to make sashimi, such as the one Zhang Ze is catching now.
If the length is about 40 centimeters, the price can be higher, around 55 cents.
Even in later times, the price of a yellow chicken is between forty and eighty yuan. It is normal for the price to fluctuate, depending mainly on size, season and region.
Although Zhang Ze’s main target today is the red-billed sturgeon, a large red-billed sturgeon is hard to come by.
It's worth it to get a hawksbill turtle shell tonight, so there's no need to pursue the giant red-billed sturgeon.
Since he encountered a school of yellow croaker fish, he would definitely not let it go.
The smaller ones are 42 cents per pound, and you can make a lot of money by fishing more.
It’s a pity that Zhang Ze doesn’t have an electric winch, otherwise he would have put out three of them and the harvesting speed would not be slower than that of longline hooks.
He gently touched the yellow chicken and put it into the space, then immediately put on the bait and continued to throw it into the water.
For a while, Zhang Ze was so busy that he couldn't stop, and he was very efficient in catching fish on the rod.
He just had to hang the bait, quickly turn the crank, touch the yellow chicken, put it into the space, and then hang the bait again, and repeat this process.
But after fishing for half an hour, when he saw that there were only twenty-one yellow chicken fish in the space, Zhang Ze still felt that the speed was too slow.
After taking back the hook, he took out a few more hooks and tied them to the fishing line.
The five hooks are of different sizes, but catching two of them each time can double your efficiency.
After his rebirth, because his main income came from longline fishing, Zhang Ze had never used this trick that he often used in his previous life. Today, he rarely used it.
Hang five ordinary baits on five hooks and throw them into the water.
Only five or six seconds later, there was movement from the fishing rod again.
When he lifted the fishing rod, he felt that it was obviously much heavier. A smile appeared on Zhang Ze's face. It seems that he will have to fish for small fish in this way in the future.
He turned the crank quickly, and this time his arms were a little tired because of the large amount of fish, but the fish still appeared on the water surface quickly.
Three yellow chickens appeared in front of him, flapping their tails quickly. The big one was thirty centimeters long, and the small one was about twenty centimeters long. It seemed that this method was correct.
Zhang Ze didn't need to remove the hook, he just needed to put the bait back on, so by the time he finished fishing at one o'clock in the morning, two hundred and thirty-three yellow chickens had appeared in the space.
The big ones weigh five or six pounds, and the small ones weigh a little over one pound, adding up to a total of 673 pounds.
This is the result after he changed to a string hook, the effect is very obvious.
But even so, when Zhang Ze came to the cabin and turned off the lights, he found that the bottom of the water was still a bright red. It was obvious that the number of fish in this school was quite exaggerated, and the more than 200 fish he caught were just a drop in the bucket.
Since he didn't plan to go fishing in the morning, Zhang Ze woke up naturally at around eight o'clock the next morning.
After washing, brushing his teeth, making breakfast and feeding Xiao Hei, he went to the cockpit, started the Duoyu and set off for the vicinity of Dongsha Island.
Zhang Ze couldn't remember when the oil wells in the waters of Nanguan were built. Anyway, he hadn't seen any at sea so far. He even went to the location of the oil wells in his memory and found nothing. Therefore, he currently cannot get to the oil wells, a natural sea fishing spot.
Without oil wells, he had to run around and fish near some well-known islands, which was very frustrating.
If there were oil wells, he wouldn't have to take the risk of coming to Dongsha.
Fortunately, the place where he stayed was far away from Dongsha, and he basically did not encounter any patrol boats from Taiwan.
Compared with fishing grounds such as Hailing in Nan'ao that are located near the sea, the resources near Dongsha are indeed much better.
There are many kinds of fish here, including sharks, swordfish, tuna, red tuna, yellow tuna, bullfish, red friend, red snapper, bluefish, sea bream, etc.
You can also catch fish in succession here, and there will be different surprises every time you cast the fish.
When we arrived near Dongsha Island, it was already noon.
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In order to maximize the benefits of longline fishing, Zhang Ze usually releases the fish around dinner time. Fish are most active at night and the chance of taking the bait is the highest.
Therefore, when he was not sleepy and did not want to take a nap in the afternoon, he had no choice but to go out to sea with his fishing rod.
As for setting up the fishing nets, Zhang Ze really didn't want to pick and choose among the pile of fish. It was a waste of time and energy.
After dropping anchor and mooring the fishing boat, Zhang Ze looked at the depth where the most fish were found, then put on a long-sleeved shirt and a bamboo hat, and went to the shade of the deck corridor to start fishing.
Still give priority to big fish, and switch to small fish hooks if big fish cannot be caught.
The fish finder shows that there are the most fish at the bottom, so we can only fish at the bottom at this time.
After hanging the bait, throw it into the water. The lead weight sinks quickly with the bait, and the fishing line in the drum is also released out.
Soon, the fishing line in the fishing reel stopped paying out.
Zhang Ze reeled in a few meters of fishing line and then closed the fishing reel.
After waiting quietly for a while, the tip of the fishing rod kept shaking, which meant that there was actually a fish touching the bait at the bottom of the water, but the fish was probably too small to be swallowed in one bite.
But Zhang Ze didn't have to wait long. The next moment, the fishing rod suddenly bent downward, and the fishing line in the fishing reel shot out at the same time.
This situation made him overjoyed. He finally caught a big fish. Judging from the speed at which the fishing line was released, the fish must weigh at least two hundred kilograms.
When Zhang Ze stabbed the fish, the fishing rod bent violently and made a crackling sound as it could not bear the weight.
The heavy pulling feeling made him realize that this would be a protracted battle.
It's hard for gods to catch fish at noon, but there are exceptions occasionally! Now the sun is shining brightly. After standing outside for two minutes, Zhang Ze, who was trying hard to pull the big fish, was soon sweating profusely.
He had tried his best to stop the big fish from running further away, but he couldn't stop it at all. The fish was obviously bigger than he had imagined, probably a hundred pounds heavier than expected.
Now the big fish outbreak has just begun. Zhang Ze can only hold the fishing rod tightly in his hand and let the fishing line continue to be released out with a hissing sound.
Every time a fisherman goes fishing, his choices will be different.
Sometimes when you catch a big fish you can’t let it run away, and sometimes, to make things easier, you let the big fish run away for a while.
This is mainly based on different choices made according to the environment and geographical location.
Zhang Ze is now on the open sea, with no obstructions on all sides.
In order to save some energy, he would definitely be willing to let the fish run for a while, as long as the fish doesn't run so comfortably.
The three thousand meters of fishing line in the fishing reel is enough for this fish to escape forever.
Of course, Zhang Ze would not let the fish run too far, otherwise it would take more time and energy to pull the fish back, and there would also be the risk of being intercepted by sharks.
Time passed slowly, until Zhang Ze's clothes were completely soaked with sweat and stuck to his body, and the dragging feeling from the fishing rod in his hand gradually weakened.
It’s true, it’s uncomfortable to have wet clothes sticking to your body in such hot weather, but they are also extremely cool when the sea breeze blows.
Of course, this situation also makes it particularly easy to catch a cold, but this will not affect Zhang Ze who has already drunk the spiritual spring.
Ever since he drank the spiritual spring, his cold, cough, fever, etc. have completely disappeared.
After another three or four minutes, the speed at which the fishing reel released the line became slower and slower. Although it did not stop completely, it showed that the first round of outbreak had passed and the fish wanted to take a rest.
At this time, the fishing line has been pulled out for five or six hundred meters, which is a very long distance. From this situation, you can tell that the fish caught must be a large fish that is very fast.
Zhang Ze reached out and held the slowly rotating crank, pulled the fishing rod back with one hand, and began to turn the crank with the other hand to reel in the line.
This way of reeling in the line all depends on the strength of your arms. If you shake it too much, you will easily develop into a Kirin arm. However, most anglers have Kirin arms, which is considered entry-level equipment.
However, Zhang Ze's Qilin Arm is a red-equipped enhanced level 12, so the speed at which he shakes the handle is extremely fast.
But no matter how fast he is, he can't be as fast as taking the fishing rod off and holding it against his stomach to pull it. For now, he is just trying it out.
The big fish is not completely tired, he is just reeling in some of the line.
Sure enough, Zhang Ze only pulled back about thirty meters of fishing line when the big fish at the bottom of the water struggled again and tried to run out.
However, this time the force was not as strong as at the beginning, and Zhang Ze held the fishing rod tightly, not letting the fish get away.
If he let it run away again, he wouldn't know when he would catch it, so Zhang Ze used more force this time.
The big fish that couldn't run far could only move back and forth and left and right, allowing the fishing line to draw a perfect arc on the water surface.
But the distance was too far and Zhang Ze couldn't see anything at all.
This time the big fish only lasted three or four minutes before getting tired again. The fish's rest meant that his counterattack would continue.
This process will continue in this way. For bystanders who don't know how to fish, it would probably be boring and tedious.
But in the eyes of fishermen, this is romance.
“Huff, huff!”
Even Zhang Ze was exhausted after fishing for such a big fish. Moreover, it was already between 1:30 and 2:00 in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day, which made it even more unbearable.
Now the fish started to exert force again. He held the oar handle with his right hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his left hand.
At this time, Zhang Ze suddenly thought of a special tool to assist in catching big fish - the King Kong Ring.
If he had this thing, it would be much easier for him to catch big fish.
(End of this chapter)
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