"Then let's do it here tonight. I think we can catch a lot of fish nearby." Jin Sanbao had already observed the situation near the island. Based on his many years of fishing experience, he believed that the harvest from fishing nearby should not be bad.
Tong Yuanhang agreed: "Okay, then tomorrow morning after the tide goes out, we can go to the beach to catch seafood. There are many resources in the distant sea, so we will not get much even if we catch seafood."
The income of these people is not low now, so they all feel that they can gain a lot by going to the beach. The beach and reef areas after the tide goes out are naturally full of seafood.
Zhang Ze wanted to stay anyway, so naturally he had no objection.
There are a lot of jiangyao standing at the bottom of the water. After opening it, you mainly eat the scallops, which are big and full. The satisfaction you get from taking a bite is no less than that of eating abalone.
So after chatting with Jin Sanbao and the others, Zhang Ze went to change a bottle of oxygen and then returned to the reef to continue diving.
However, this time the javelin was replaced with a pair of fire tongs. The terrain here in the reef is irregular and undulating, and some large sharks basically will not come over, so there is no need for him to use the javelin to defend himself.
On the contrary, the fire tongs are more suitable for him when diving and catching prey. With them, he doesn't need to dive to the bottom, he can just use the fire tongs to pick up the prey one by one.
Especially for Jiang Yao, who stood like a monument, it was very convenient to use fire tongs.
This time Zhang Ze changed direction. After all, he had basically picked up everything in that direction.
After swimming for more than ten meters, the view in front of him suddenly opened up. He was a little surprised. He didn't expect that there was a sand bed of about two hundred square meters here on the reef.
There were lots of small fish swimming around here, and he also saw quite a few octopuses crawling on the sand bed.
Two meters to his left was an octopus on its way. It was about the size of a fist, but there was no reason not to catch it once it saw its prey.
Zhang Ze swam over and just as he got close to the octopus, he saw the octopus suddenly disappear from his sight with a "whoosh".
"Fuck~"
Looking at the two remaining tentacles on the sand bed, Zhang Ze couldn't help but let his hair stand on end.
What the hell? In an instant, an octopus as big as a fist was pulled into the sand bed.
Zhang Ze immediately moved away from the dangerous-looking sand bed. It would be no joke if he was bitten by such a ferocious creature.
But the next moment after he moved away, he found a strange creature on the sand bed beneath him.
Looking closely, I saw a strange thing on the sand bed, which was wide open like the mouth of some sci-fi creature.
Zhang Ze suddenly realized that he happened to know this creature, which was called Bobbit worm, also known as hell worm, and was mainly produced in the southeast coast of China.
This thing's body is full of joints like a centipede, and its length can even reach three meters.
However, despite its terrifying appearance, it still cannot avoid becoming a delicacy on the Chinese table.
It is basically used to make soup or steamed eggs. It is a hellish delicacy that most people dare not eat.
In later times, some people who like to hunt for novelties would raise this kind of insect, but it is not easy to raise. Some people also catch it and sell it for 200 yuan.
Zhang Ze had eaten things like earthworms and sandworms before, but he had never eaten this thing before, so he was quite interested in it.
He tried to use a pair of tongs to pick up the Bobbit worm. As soon as the tongs got close, the Bobbit worm seemed to sense something and bit it directly.
Fortunately, it doesn't have real teeth, otherwise its fangs would have been shattered.
When the Bobbit worm found that it could not drag its "prey", it seemed to sense the danger and immediately shrank back into the sand bed and hid.
Zhang Ze was stunned. It seemed that catching the Bobbit worm was not that easy!
Thinking of the scene of the Bobbit worm hunting just now, he immediately had an idea.
With a sudden thought, a silver carp weighing over one pound appeared in his hand. It was caught by longline fishing before. It was not valuable but it was good for bait, so he put it into the space and kept it.
Now the silver carp is taken out, of course, to be used as bait.
Zhang Ze grabbed the struggling silver carp tightly with his left hand, pressed it against a nearby rock, and then stabbed it to death with his fire tongs.
After killing the silver carp, he held the fish horizontally at the hole where the bobbit worm had just shrunk into the sand bed, and waited patiently.
After waiting for only a dozen seconds, the sand at the entrance of the cave flowed downwards, and it was obvious that the Bobbit worms inside were attracted out.
After it came out, it bit the silver carp directly and dragged it into the sand bed with great force.
But how could its strength compare to Zhang Ze's? The silver carp didn't move at all.
But this time it didn't run away when it couldn't bite it like before, because it knew that what it caught this time was indeed food, so it kept holding on to it.
Zhang Ze's pliers had already reached the neck of the Bobbit worm. While it was attracted by the silver carp, he clamped it hard with the pliers.
In an instant, the Bobbit worm let go of the silver carp and tried to retract, but its lifeline was clamped and it had no room to resist.
Zhang Ze took the opportunity to pull it up. He thought it would be difficult, just like the sea anemone, and it would be particularly difficult to pull out, and it might even break if he was not careful.
As a result, he pulled up the Bobbit worm easily. It looked to be about 1.23 meters long, and its body was emitting colorful colors.
The color is pretty, but the appearance does give me goosebumps.
[Successfully captured a Bobbit worm, weighing 0.28 catties, experience +30. ]
Not bad, there are 30 experience points. Maybe because it is impossible to obtain a large amount, the experience points given are quite a lot.
Now that he has found the correct way to catch Bobbit worms, Zhang Ze temporarily gives up picking up conchs, Jiang Yao and the like and continues to catch worms.
This time he came to the place where the octopus disappeared just now and continued to use the silver carp as bait.
After just two minutes of waiting, none of the bugs inside came out. Perhaps they were enjoying the octopus and had no time to come and hunt other prey. In this case, I could only look for the next target.
The sand bed was not big, and Zhang Ze only took ten minutes to sweep it all over, and successfully caught twenty-three Bobbit worms.
The longest one is two meters long, and the shortest is one meter long.
It’s not that there aren’t smaller ones, but Zhang Ze saw that their mouthparts were too small so he didn’t catch them.
Twenty-three pieces is not a small number. In later times, it could be sold for at least four thousand six hundred.
Zhang Ze did not go anywhere else to continue looking for Bobbit worms, but started to search Jiang Yao and Conch again.
No one here cares about this. Some of the conches are bigger than his hands and weigh at least one kilogram.
Jiang Yao was no less impressive, and those that were over 20 centimeters tall basically weighed one kilogram.
Unfortunately, there were not many sea cucumbers and abalone, so Zhang Ze didn't pick up many.
This time he paid attention to the oxygen tank. When the pointer reached the warning line, he swam back with the net bag.
He surfaced secretly, and with the cover of the trolling boat, Jin Sanbao and his companions did not notice him.
Zhang Ze's idea moved, and a large number of Jiangyao conches and a small number of sea cucumbers and scallops appeared in the trolling boat.
Of course, there are also five Bobbit worms, all of which are put into the net bag to prevent them from crawling around. These will be taken out and shown to Jin Sanbao and the others later.
Tong Yuanhang's trawler was working in the sea about one thousand meters west of the island, while other fishing boats were setting gillnets along the east side of the island.
Zhang Ze was speechless. If he had known they were busy, he wouldn't have needed to take out all the things. It wouldn't be too late to take them out after arriving on the Duoyu.
Climbing aboard and repacking his belongings, he trolled the boat back to the Fish.
Then he went to the live water tank and threw the Jiangyao conchs in to keep them. Then he took a plastic basket, got some sea water, and put the net bag containing the Bobbit worms in it.
After finishing, Zhang Ze took off his diving suit and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
After taking a shower and cleaning the diving suit and hanging it up, Zhang Ze took out the fishing rod and started tying the line.
It's still early now, just after two in the afternoon.
The reef is not suitable for fishing at this time. He did find many high-value fish when he was fishing on the seabed, but most of them were hiding and resting, and did not come out to look for food.
So the fish are not biting well at this time, even with the magical bait from space.
So after he prepared the fishing line and hooks, he started the Duoyu boat and prepared to find a deep water area to fish for deep-sea fish.
Most deep-sea fish are not affected by time. Although the fish bite will be less in the afternoon, you can still catch them if you are lucky.
Jin Sanbao and Tong Yuanhang were in the east and west respectively, so Zhang Ze also chose a direction, heading south.
The fishing boat did not travel far, only about two thousand meters, when he used the fish finder to find a good fishing spot at a depth of one hundred and fifty-seven meters.
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Because at a water depth of 130 meters, a large area of red appeared on the fish finder, indicating that there was obviously a school of fish staying there.
Zhang Ze looked at the fishing rod and suddenly showed an expression of disgust.
Then he came to the stern with a bundle of fishing line, wrapped the fishing line around the winch, and tied five hooks to the fishing line.
If there is no electric fishing rod, then use a winch. In this situation where there are obviously schools of fish, Zhang Ze said that he wanted to be lazy today.
I put on some ordinary bait, started the winch, and slowly let out the fishing line until it was about 130 meters.
That is to say, his winch can turn on both sides, otherwise he can't do anything lazy.
Zhang Ze grabbed the fishing line with his hands so that he could understand the movements at the bottom of the water based on the feedback from the fishing line.
After waiting for about a minute, I suddenly felt a pulling force on the fishing line and found a fish.
Before he could react, the pulling force increased again, and it was obvious that another fish was caught.
There were at least two fish, so Zhang Ze didn't wait any longer and decisively turned on the winch to reel in the fishing line.
After a few minutes, three black fish appeared on the water surface and were then pulled to the side of the boat by the winch.
What kind of fish is this?
Zhang Ze didn't recognize it at first, as this was a species of fish he had never seen before and should be relatively unpopular, but he still quickly put it into his space.
[Successfully caught a petaled jade pomfret, weighing 5.83 catties, experience +8. ]
It was originally called jade pomfret, but although this fish is a kind of pomfret, it looks different from white pomfret and silver pomfret. Its appearance is not flat, but rather slender, with a round belly.
This was the first time Zhang Ze had heard of jade pomfret. He had never come across this kind of fish before, so he didn’t even know whether it was delicious or not.
If the taste is good, he can set a reasonable price even if there is no fixed price in the market.
If the taste is bad, then all the work in the afternoon will be in vain and there is a high probability that it will not be sold.
After all, this thing looks really ugly. Not to mention that it's all black, its eyes are also smart enough.
Zhang Ze hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to continue fishing.
Judging from the fact that there is no conversion function displayed in the space, this fish is edible and will not cause any harm to the human body.
The most that happens is that it tastes bad, so you can keep it in the space for later use as a bait.
Taking advantage of the gathering of fish, Zhang Ze decided to continue fishing, then quickly replaced the bait with a new one, and used a winch to let the fishing line down to continue fishing.
I don't know what the texture of this jade pomfret is like, but each one is quite big.
Three fish were just brought up, the small ones weigh more than four kilograms. If the price is right, we can sell a lot of them.
Next, the winch kept working non-stop. After fishing for about an hour, there were fifty-four jade pomfret in the space, weighing a little over two hundred and seventy-seven kilograms.
But a familiar ship appeared on the sea in the distance. It was Jin Sanbao and his crew.
Zhang Ze was surprised. Why were they here?
If there were people nearby, it would be difficult for him to directly collect the fish pulled to the side of the boat into the space.
In this case, he could only go and get a big bamboo basket.
The catch that will be caught later will have to be placed over the side of the boat to block the view, and a few baskets will have to be placed in the cold storage compartment.
Otherwise, if someone comes to his ship and sees the refrigerated compartment is empty, they will definitely be surprised.
"Oh my god, Aze, what kind of fishing method is this?" Jin Fan, who was standing on the bow of the boat, was stunned when he saw Zhang Ze operating the winch to hook the fish. He had never thought that the winch could be used for fishing.
Zhang Ze joked: "This is called semi-automatic fishing, also known as electric fishing. I created it myself."
"It's really semi-automatic." Seeing that he only needed to open and close the winch to catch the fish, Jin Fan expressed his sincere admiration.
Which fisherman would have thought of such a convenient operation?
Jin Sanbao, who had just parked his boat, was attracted by the black fish that had been caught: "What kind of fish is this? It looks so ugly. Can we eat it?"
"We'll know if we can eat it when Afan comes over tonight and grills one. Now that we've finally come across a school of fish, we'll have to fish for it first."
Zhang Ze took the fish off his feet and seemingly threw it into the bamboo basket at the back, but in fact it had been collected into the space. What appeared in the bamboo basket was the jade pomfret that had already gained experience points in the space.
Jin Sanbao: "Afan, it's up to you tonight, show off your skills."
Jin Fan: "Show your butt, quickly take out the fishing line and call A-Dong to fish with us!"
"Oh oh oh, right away!"
Soon, Jin Sanbao and the other three also took their fishing lines and started fishing by hand.
They also have a winch on their boat, but it is the kind specially used to pull gillnets. The diameter is about 40 to 50 centimeters, and it is unknown how many times a thousand meters of fishing line can be wrapped around it.
Unlike Zhang Ze’s winch which is specially used for pulling ropes, its diameter is only 20 centimeters, so it can barely be used as an electric winch.
As long as there is something to gain, time will pass quickly when you are busy.
Zhang Ze didn't even realize he had been fishing for long before the sun had already reached the sea level.
The sunset shining on the sea looked magnificent, but he was already tired of such beautiful scenery.
Seeing that it was almost five o'clock, Zhang Ze asked Jin Fan to come to his boat to prepare dinner, and then started to cast the longline.
Jin Sanbao and his friends stopped fishing. At a depth of 130 meters, it was too strenuous for them to fish with hand-lines, and their efficiency was also very slow. (End of this chapter)
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