Chapter 243: The King Squid that Entangled Himself
Replace the fishhook, start the winch and lower the bait again.
After a while, the hook and bait returned to the bottom of the water, and just like before, it was pulled up a few meters to prevent it from getting hooked.
After waiting for more than ten seconds, there was movement on the fishing line. This time the pulling force was much greater than before. Obviously, the fish caught would be bigger than before.
Zhang Ze was overjoyed. Could it be a bigger grouper? He grabbed the fishing line and tugged hard. The fish was successfully stabbed. He let go of the fishing line and quickly turned on the winch.
The winch turned slowly and the fishing line was reeled in circle by circle, but the fishing line constantly swaying on the water surface also indicated that the fish at the bottom of the water was struggling violently.
But as the fish was slowly pulled to the upper surface of the water, the change in water pressure directly hit the fish hard, causing it to calm down.
Basically, for fish weighing less than 100 kilograms, there is no difference to the winch. Even if the fish is bigger, the reeling speed is still about the same as before.
A few minutes later, a strange fish with a pink tumor on its head appeared on the water surface.
This fish looks like a birthday star, but its teeth are similar to those of the Schwanni's tusk fish. A mouth full of pig teeth looks quite ugly.
But Zhang Ze was surprised to see this fish. It was a golden-browed wrasse. It felt like he hadn’t seen it for a long time.
The last time was last year, when he was collecting traps, one of the fish strayed in.
But that one was much smaller, only 11 pounds.
After Zhang Ze put it into the space, he found that it weighed twenty-three pounds, more than twice as large.
Everyone in his family has eaten this fish, so he plans to sell it this time. The price will not be lower than that of the smaller grouper.
A grouper and a wrasse made Zhang Ze certain that there was a coral reef at the bottom of the water.
His favorite fishing spot is the coral reef, especially the deep sea one. Not to mention the abundant resources, most of the fish are very valuable.
Zhang Ze didn't even bother to continue fishing. He hurried to the cockpit to get out a notebook and write down the coordinates of this location so as not to forget them later.
Until he finds a better deep-sea fish fishing spot, this will be his treasure land.
Returning to the stern, Zhang Ze caught a few more golden wrasses, but their appearance was very different from the previous one. They looked like normal parrotfish.
This is a female golden wrasse. Basically, every male fish has three thousand concubines, so the chance of catching multiple male golden wrasses in a row in one place is very small, but the chance of catching a group of females is very high.
Even if these female golden wrasses are small, they weigh at least four or five kilograms, which is actually quite good.
About an hour later, Zhang Ze, who had already caught thirteen fish, had a good harvest. Although the number was small, the weight was over 100 kilograms, and the price was over 200 yuan.
A fine-spotted grouper, a male golden-browed wrasse, and a 13-pound long-tailed sea bream that was caught later. These three alone cost nearly 150 yuan.
As expected, quality overcomes everything, and you often can’t make big money just by relying on quantity.
There was still more than an hour left before the longline was collected, so Zhang Ze hurried to continue while the fish were in good condition.
This time there was another huge pulling force, even stronger than the golden wrasse just now. Is there another big catch?
Zhang Ze quickly stabbed the fish, then quickly started the winch, and then looked at the sea expectantly.
As a result, he caught another huge meter-sized wrasse. The reason why he was so sure was that the fish also had a bulge on its forehead.
But it is obviously different from the golden wrasse. It is blue-green in color overall, and its teeth are exactly the same as those of the parrotfish, which seem to have a very strong bite force.
Zhang Ze has never caught this fish, but he recognizes it.
Because this fish has since been put into the second level conservation category, it is classified as vulnerable on the red list.
[Successfully caught a parrotfish, weighing 32.66 catties, experience +20. ]
The experience value is good, it seems that the taste of this fish should be acceptable.
Zhang Ze originally thought that this kind of fish was very rare and there would not be many of them. However, an hour later, he saw eleven bumphead parrotfish swimming in the space, and they were all about the same size. He was really wondering why it was included in the protection list.
Although it was the 1980s, the number was really not small at all! Looking at the time, it was almost time to reel in the longline, so Zhang Ze packed up the fishing line and hooks and started the Duoyu.
Next door is the location for casting longlines, which is not far away. He first collects the two deep-sea longlines here.
These two rods are for fishing at a depth of 100 meters. I didn’t find the right position this time, so next time I will put them in the same precious spot where I just fished.
Sure enough, after the two longlines were pulled up, the harvest was indeed mediocre. The two longlines only caught more than 200 fish in total, weighing more than 700 kilograms.
You should know that the number of fish he caught at night using a winch was close to this.
The most important thing is that the bumphead parrotfish has greatly increased in weight. Each of these fish weighs more than 30 kilograms.
There must have been a small school of fish at the bottom of the water, and he caught most of them.
After collecting the two longlines, Zhang Ze drove the boat to the north. The longlines for fishing in shallow water were closer, so he collected the ones on this side first.
He was not worried at all about his longline being stolen in the open sea. He had been here for so long and had never encountered any other fishing boats.
The longline here was placed on the edge of the reef group. Thanks to the effect of the magic bait, the harvest was much better. A total of more than 750 fish were caught, which is three times the number of the two just now.
But more than a hundred of them were worthless ornamental fish. Zhang Ze kept a few particularly good-looking ones and released the rest.
We can't just kill these fish physically by catching fewer ornamental fish next time just to make money!
Not many people are involved in fish tanks now, otherwise he could take them back to the shore and sell them.
Continuing northward, Zhang Ze came to the location of the last two longlines. The water here was more than 230 meters deep, and he was also fishing for deep-sea fish.
But the resources were average, and he felt that the harvest should be similar to that of the first two.
However, as soon as he got here, Zhang Ze discovered that he was missing one of the long ropes.
???
How can I use such a big longline?
Stolen? But that's impossible. They wouldn't just steal one and leave the other untouched!
Just as Zhang Ze was wondering, the familiar float popped up slightly under his nose.
"What's going on?"
Looking at the floating float that kept going up and down, he was originally curious, but his eyes suddenly lit up. Could it be that a group of big fish came and the weight of the hook was too exaggerated to sink the longline? Zhang Ze quickly took out the hook, hooked the rope under the float, and then pulled it hard, but it didn't move.
I got rich, I got rich, how much fish is this! After trying several times, even with his strength, he couldn't pull the longline up a little bit, and finally Zhang Ze could only use his brain to solve this problem.
It was actually not difficult. He first lowered the trolling boat into the water, and then went up with a bundle of ropes.
Come to the float and tie the rope to the rope under the float.
After the length is extended, the longline can be pulled up with a winch.
The final result was just as he expected. The winch turned very slowly and with difficulty, but it still pulled the longline up little by little.
Zhang Ze also stood by and collected the fish. However, the first few longlines only caught a few ordinary deep-sea fish, which were not very big. Perhaps the school of fish was in the back half.
However, as each branch line was collected, his expression became more and more confused.
He had collected most of the longline, but he didn't see any fish at all, and the harvest was very average.
The winch was still turning slowly, only a little faster than before, as if it was pulling a huge heavy object.
Seeing this, Zhang Ze knew that he had gotten a big thing, and it was very likely a big thing with no economic value. His original excitement suddenly cooled down.
Could it be a whale shark or something like that? Facing Zhang Ze's doubts, the mysterious creature under the water soon revealed its true face.
The first thing that came into his sight was an unusually thick tentacle, which was tightly wrapped around the main line of the longline and had tangled the sub-line into a mess, trapping him on it and making him unable to move.
One or two sub-lines might be broken with such a thick tentacle, but dozens of them would be impossible to break.
Seeing this, Zhang Ze knew what was in the water.
Just by looking at the tentacles, you can tell that it is a type of squid, similar to the calamari, with two particularly long tentacles.
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Sure enough, identical tentacles soon appeared, also entangled in the sub-line, with some deep-sea fish hanging on them.
As the winch continued to turn, the true face of this big guy was fully revealed, a huge and terrifying giant squid, also known as the colossal squid.
This giant squid was probably attracted by the fish on the longline, came over to feed and then got entangled in the leader line.
It must have struggled when it was entangled, and the more it struggled, the tighter it became. Zhang Ze saw that many sub-lines had already cut deeply into its body.
As for the giant squid, it seems to be still alive, but it probably won't live for long.
Zhang Zeyou was startled by the giant squid, whose length was estimated to be almost the same as that of Duoyu, but he did not hesitate and quickly put it into the space while it was still alive.
In an instant, the huge giant squid disappeared under the sea, and the originally empty space became squeezed into a ball.
[Successfully caught a giant squid, weighing 2688.22 catties, experience (King Squid) +10000. ]
"Haha, as expected!" Zhang Ze suppressed his fear of the big guy and put it into his space. Isn't it just for the experience points?
Although he didn't know much about this creature, he knew that they were basically only about ten meters long. If they grew to more than twenty meters, they were almost as long as the Duoyu, and they were definitely king-level creatures.
Ten thousand experience points offset a lot of his depressed mood, which was similar to his longline fishing catch tonight.
Then he began to observe the situation of the giant squid.
The space can restore the state of aquatic life, but the giant squid has wounds all over it, and Zhang Ze is not sure whether it can survive.
However, it did not survive after all. It only lasted half an hour before being expelled from the space and appeared on the front deck.
At this time, Zhang Ze had just pulled up the last longline. Except for the giant squid, the harvests of the other two longlines were even worse.
But he didn't care about it. The harvest of fishing at sea has a lot to do with luck. If he was unlucky this time, he might be unlucky next time.
He quickly ran to the front deck at this moment. Xiao Hei was frightened by the huge squid that appeared out of nowhere, and kept screaming. He hid in his doghouse for a long time and didn't dare to come out until he found Zhang Ze coming. Then he hurried to him for comfort.
"Good job, you didn't get scared!"
Zhang Ze looked at the doghouse, smiled and touched the dog's head to comfort it, and waited until the dog calmed down before observing the huge giant squid up close.
In space, it appears to be twenty-three meters and sixty in length, but in fact the length of the cylinder is only about ten meters, mainly because the two tentacles are particularly long, more than ten meters long, longer than its body.
The other arms were fine, estimated to be about six or seven meters long.
No one knew how long this giant squid lived, but it eventually died under its longline.
A pair of eyeballs bigger than basketballs, this is what it means to stare as wide as bells.
The main body of the giant squid is red, but after it dies, it gradually turns white.
Zhang Ze quickly took out all the plastic baskets, filled them with seawater and put them into the refrigerated compartment to freeze them, then drove the Duoyu towards the fishing village. He wanted to quickly deliver the giant squid back and sell it to Zhao Xianghua.
The meat of giant squid is not delicious. It is said that it tastes like toilet cleaner. He has definitely never tried it, but he just happened to see a video and heard someone introduce it to him.
But no matter whether it tastes good or not, such a big hesitation is enough to attract attention.
There are not many entertainment activities nowadays, and people have the habit of joining in the fun. The advertising effect of this giant squid should be very good.
After setting the navigation and putting the ship into automatic driving, Zhang Ze picked up the radio to contact Tong Yuanhang.
"Ahang, can you hear me?"
"I can hear you, what's wrong?"
"I got a giant squid that's over 20 meters long. I can't get it into the cold storage, so I have to go back overnight to let you know."
"Fuck, how many meters?"
"More than 20 meters. I didn't measure it exactly, but it's about the same length as my boat."
"Fuck, don't go yet, where are you? I'll be there soon. I've never even heard of a hesitation that's over 20 meters long. I have to see it!"
"That's fine!"
Zhang Ze hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.
It wouldn't take much time to let them take a look, so he simply turned around and drove towards Jin Sanbao.
"Go to Sanbao. Since you want to see it, then let everyone see it!"
"Okay, okay, we'll be there soon!"
After a while, Zhang Ze was the first to arrive at the place where Jin Sanbao and his team set up the barbed wire.
They were busy collecting the gillnets at the moment, and when they noticed that the Duoyu was approaching them, they slowed down their work.
When the Duoyu stopped right next to them, Jin Sanbao walked to the side of the ship and shouted, "Aze, what's the matter with you coming here?"
"I got a big one and was going to go back first, but Ah Hang insisted on seeing it, so I just came to your side."
"Oh my god, they caught another big one?" Jin Sanbao and his companions all became interested. "Come on, come on, come closer, move the boats together so we can crawl over."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Ze slowed down and moved closer little by little. When they were only a few meters away, he stopped and walked out of the cabin, took the rope thrown by Jin Fan, and pulled it to make the two boats stick together.
By using manpower to pull, there will be no violent collisions between ships.
(End of this chapter)
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