Chapter 260: Opening up a tuna fishing spot
However, the next moment, the fish suddenly swung its tail.
The fishing rod, which had been holding strong, finally gave in and broke into several pieces with a snapping sound.
The big fish took the opportunity to shake its head, got rid of the hook, and then dived into the water and disappeared.
"Oh shit, my fish!" Zhang Ze was heartbroken. What he just caught was a giant grouper. Judging from its size, it must be a king fish.
If I run away now, it would be like losing hundreds of millions. I feel heartache with every breath I take.
"Oh, no, there's still a chance!"
But the next moment, Zhang Ze reacted and realized that he was using a cheat, so there was no reason to be afraid of the fish running away.
So he quickly replaced the bamboo pole with a big fish hook and exchanged it for a special bait for grouper.
Start the winch to send the bait into the water, and then wait quietly for the fish to bite again.
At the bottom of the water, the big fish, which was originally frightened, suddenly stopped as if it was possessed by a ghost the moment the bait entered the water.
The giant grouper is huge and doesn't swim very fast, so it didn't go far away and was still within the range of the bait.
If it was a tuna, even if Zhang Ze used a cheat and put out bait, it would not work because the fish would have run away long ago.
After a while, the bamboo pole bent sharply and made a creaking sound.
Zhang Ze showed a satisfied smile. Fortunately, the fish did not run away, otherwise he would have been heartbroken.
Twenty minutes later, the giant grouper was caught again.
Because it was a winch fish, Zhang Ze used the crane to hoist the fish up. The fishing line that was originally on the crane had already been retracted by him.
The fish was still in the air, and he couldn't wait to put the fish into the space.
[Successfully caught a giant grouper, weighing 382.83 catties, experience (fish king) +5000. ]
"Tsk tsk tsk, it looks like this trip out to sea has been a complete success!" Zhang Ze was very satisfied and immediately spent experience points to increase the size of the fish.
Although it is far inferior to the thousand-pound giant grouper, the taste of the giant grouper is much better, and the meat is not as rough as that of the saddleback grouper.
It would be perfect if there was another king seven-band grouper, but we won’t force it now.
Although the seven-band grouper is widely distributed, the number of king fish is still the largest in the Xisha Islands or the Nansha Islands.
That place is too far away, and Zhang Ze has no plans to go there for the time being.
Usually only one big fish is caught in one place, so he continued fishing, but until after one in the morning, he didn't see the second big fish.
When he woke up the next day, Zhang Ze first looked at the space.
Last night’s harvest was very good, and the space is now one third full.
After breakfast, he continued fishing. Normally, fish would go to the deep sea in winter, but fortunately the climate here was not that cold, so he could still fish in these shallow waters.
The fishing conditions in the morning were not as good as last night, but they were still pretty good.
After working until noon and catching several hundred kilograms of fish, Zhang Ze started the fishing boat and continued to head towards the continental shelf.
After an afternoon of sailing, he finally reached his destination, which was about two hundred nautical miles away from the coastline.
Here he is likely to encounter fishermen from abroad.
However, it was late at night and he couldn't see what was happening in the distance, so there should be no fishing boats around for the time being.
This was a completely new area of water, and Zhang Ze didn't know where there were any suitable fishing spots, so he could only continue sailing to search.
After driving for half an hour, we found nothing, not even a school of small fish.
However, a sudden cry from the sea caught Zhang Ze's attention, and he barely saw a few seabirds passing by through the lights on the boat.
Wandering aimlessly, he suddenly came up with an idea, so he immediately turned the boat around and chased after it.
Late at night, seabirds basically do not come out to forage for food, and it is impossible for the few seabirds that do come to migrate.
These seabirds probably live on a nearby isolated island and are returning to their nests to rest.
Just follow the seabirds and you might find an isolated island.
Generally, there are very good fishing spots near isolated islands, with good resources and even the possibility of encountering big fish.
The seabirds were not slow, and Zhang Ze could no longer see them at this time.
But it’s not a big problem. Just keep heading in the direction the seabirds are heading, and you will basically be able to find the isolated island.
It's impossible for a seabird preparing to return to its nest at sea to deliberately take a detour, right? As he thought, after the fishing boat had been sailing for more than an hour, Zhang Ze really found a huge isolated island.
Before he got close, he heard countless birds singing.
As he got closer, he finally found where the birdsong came from.
There was a cliff on the left side of the isolated island, where countless seabirds were flying, startled by fishing boats. The number was extremely exaggerated.
Zhang Ze did not go closer, but quietly went to other places on the isolated island. He did not want his fishing boat to be covered with bird droppings.
His boat was sailing very slowly and did not get close to isolated islands, so as to avoid accidentally hitting reefs in an unfamiliar environment.
The fish finder on his boat can detect the underwater terrain. Basically, if the underwater terrain becomes higher, he has to pay attention.
If it gets higher and higher, Zhang Ze will have to change direction.
Fortunately, the current distance is sufficient and the shallowest place detected is more than 30 meters, which is a safe water depth environment.
The fish resources next to the isolated island are obviously much better than those in open areas. The scattered red dots on the fish finder tell him where there are fish.
Occasionally a small red circle will appear, which is a sign of a school of small fish.
It took Zhang Ze more than forty minutes to circle the entire isolated island and understand the resources near the island.
The resources are not very good, but the fish resources in some deep water areas are good.
It is estimated that seabirds cannot dive to such a deep place, or it is cold in winter and the fish have moved to deep waters.
Zhang Ze did not go fishing for these deep-sea fish. Instead, he drove the fishing boat to a nearby place where the water was 270 meters deep. He then turned on all the lights on the fishing boat and tried to attract any tuna that might be nearby.
This is to take advantage of the tuna's tendency to move toward light. As long as there are tuna nearby and they are moving in shallow water, they will be attracted.
In addition, I came to this deep water area to try my luck. Maybe there would be tuna passing by under the water?
Zhang Ze's behavior mainly depends on luck, but he also has his own purpose, which is to take the opportunity to find out the fish situation on the lower continental shelf.
If we can find out the migration route of tuna, it will be much easier to catch tuna in the future.
Dongsha or the southern waters of Taiwan are not places where he can fish for a long time. It is okay to catch fish occasionally, so it is important to open up a fish resource point of his own.
There are currently troops stationed in the Paracel Islands. Even if domestic fishing boats want to approach, they will face strict inspections and may even be driven away.
Besides, the journey there is too far, and Zhang Ze doesn't want to catch tuna, so he has to sail for two days first.
However, good luck did not come to him tonight. No tuna was attracted, but a large group of small squids appeared.
The seabirds that were originally resting seemed to have discovered food and immediately came over to look for food under the light.
Seeing this, Zhang Ze turned off most of the lights on the boat and chose to leave to fish for deep-sea fish, and then change to another location tomorrow.
Sometimes time passes very quickly at sea.
Another day passed, and half of the high-value fish in the space had been collected, but Zhang Ze did not encounter the tuna and bluefin tuna he wanted.
The possibility of encountering them here would greatly increase, but the ocean is simply too vast.
When he woke up in the morning, Zhang Ze left the isolated island and continued his search.
Hard work pays off. After only sailing for more than 20 minutes, the fish finder sounded an alarm.
Within the detection range, six red dots appeared. They were not gathered too close, but they were moving in exactly the same direction.
This is most likely a small school of tuna, of course, it could also be a shark, but either way you should give it a try.
Although tuna swim all their lives, under normal circumstances they will not keep moving at high speed for no reason, so their swimming speed at this moment is not fast and the fishing boat can definitely keep up.
Arriving above them, Zhang Ze stopped the boat and dropped the anchor, then quickly threw the bait he had bought when leaving the fishing village into the water.
The bait sinking to the bottom will attract their attention and prevent them from running away.
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After throwing in about 40 to 50 kilograms of croaker and forming a large fish nest, Zhang Ze looked at the fish finder and saw that the fish was still at the bottom of the water. Only then did he feel relieved to tie the fishing line to the bamboo pole and install it on the winch.
Exchange for a tuna bait, hang it up and throw it into the water.
It is impossible to use several fishing rods at the same time when fishing for tuna. The distance is too close, and the tuna will run around and easily get tangled in the line, and even get cut in the end, so you can only fish one by one.
Start the winch, and the ten-kilogram lead sinker will quickly sink with the bait.
The water here is more than 220 meters deep, and it is difficult for the bait to sink quickly without such a large lead weight.
Several tunas were active on the bottom, so the bait had to sink to the bottom as well.
The winch was used to release the fishing line for a long time before the originally taut fishing line became loose, indicating that it had reached the bottom.
Then he turned the winch around and started to reel in a few metres of line before shutting it off.
Zhang Ze stared at the fishing rod with a nervous mood. If there was a tuna at the bottom of the water, it would definitely bite the hook. If not, he could only try the bait for swordfish or marlin.
If it doesn't eat anything, it's a shark and there's nothing to catch.
Fortunately, Zhang Ze was not disappointed. Half a minute later, the fishing rod suddenly bent down and formed a bow shape.
“Swoosh~”
Caught a fish! Zhang Ze quickly grabbed the fishing rod with both hands and pulled it up hard, stabbing the fish manually, and then started the winch to reel in the line.
The hook pierced into the flesh fiercely, and the fish, feeling the pain, began to rush in the opposite direction of the fishing boat and started to wrestle directly with the winch.
The tuna was very fierce, and its explosive force at the beginning obviously caused the winch to pause.
Zhang Ze thought that the fish was too big for the winch to pull it, but the fish slowly started to turn again.
The speed is noticeably slower than usual, but very stable.
Zhang Ze relaxed immediately, he knew the fish was safe.
Sure enough, after nearly an hour of waiting, the tuna that had been struggling and resisting and exhausted itself was finally caught.
The fishing line is more than 200 meters long, the winch doesn't reel in fast enough and the fish is restless, so it takes a really long time.
But when Zhang Ze saw the huge bigeye tuna on the water, he realized that this was already very fast. If he went up alone, it would probably take another hour.
The tuna was not killed with a harpoon first, but was directly tied to its tail with a rope and fished up with a crane.
[Successfully caught a bigeye tuna, weighing 410.83 catties, experience (fish king) +8000. ]
This bigeye tuna is nearly three meters long, so it’s no surprise that it’s the fish king Zhang Ze.
Under normal circumstances, bigeye tuna can grow to two meters and a half in length and weigh more than three hundred kilograms.
It is estimated that those weighing more than 350 kilograms can become fish kings.
Compared to groupers and other fish, the king of fish seems rare because of its rarity.
However, there are a large number of tunas, and although the proportion of those that grow to king fish level may not be high, the number may not be very low.
I just didn’t expect that the experience points would be almost the same as that of the bluefin tuna.
However, bigeye tuna is second only to bluefin tuna and has a very good price in the market, so this experience value is normal.
An hour passed and I didn't know whether the fish at the bottom of the water had escaped.
Zhang Ze returned to the cockpit and looked at the fish finder, and discovered that the fish was still hovering nearby, just not under the boat. He was immediately overjoyed, thinking that at least there would be another one.
He quickly threw out ten kilograms of bait, using the fish's landing to attract the tuna, then quickly hung up a tuna bait and started the winch to lower the bait.
However, this time when the bait was about to sink to the bottom, the fishing rod suddenly bent down and the bait was intercepted.
Zhang Ze reacted very quickly, immediately turning the direction of the winch and quickly lifting the rod to hook the fish.
If you were a step slower, the tuna might have successfully cleaned its gills and unhooked.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and successfully stabbed the fish. At the same time, the winch tightened the slightly loosened fishing line again, so that the fish could not escape.
This time the winch turned at the same speed as last time, very slowly.
There was nothing for him to do at the moment, so he simply went to the kitchen to pour a bowl of boiled water and ate an egg cake before coming out.
Ten minutes later, when I returned to the deck, I didn't get much fishing line back, so I still had to wait.
It took nearly another hour before the fish was finally pulled to the surface.
A bigeye tuna that was smaller than the previous one but also a king of fish was put into the space.
Tuna like to move around with others of the same size. If a king fish appears, the rest will basically be of the same level, and the weight difference won't be too big.
However, the small fish would not stay in one place for a long time. When Zhang Ze was about to catch the third fish, the remaining four fish had disappeared without a trace.
He had no choice but to continue wandering around the nearby waters to see if he could encounter other tuna again.
However, no tuna was found, but a school of deep-sea fish was discovered at a depth of about 100 meters.
Zhang Ze thought that since there were tuna here, turning on the lights at night might be able to attract some, so he stopped the boat and started fishing here, waiting for night to fall.
This time we used five fishing rods together and soon caught several large cutlassfish. The small ones were four fingers wide, and the big ones were as wide as the palm of your hand.
Unfortunately, it is yellow-eye cutlassfish instead of East China Sea cutlassfish, and the quality is more than one level lower.
Although the fish were cheap, Zhang Ze did not despise them. Instead, he tied a string of hooks to each fishing rod to increase the efficiency of fishing.
When I started fishing again, my efficiency immediately increased several times.
There were at least two fish on one fishing rod, and the most exaggerated time he caught six.
There is one hook for each of the five fish, and one of them is biting the tail of another fish.
(End of this chapter)
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