Feng Ye rowed the boat to the spot where he would set up his longline.
After locating the buoy, the boat stopped, pulled it up, and began reeling in the line.
I've been longline fishing all day, and I don't know if I'll catch anything good.
Actually, it's been sitting for a while; I should have come to collect a batch yesterday afternoon.
If you're using a longline, you can cast it out, wait a while, and then start reeling it in. After reeling it in from beginning to end, you can turn back and continue, repeating this cycle indefinitely.
He began reeling in the line with high hopes, but the first hook came up empty; the bait had been eaten, and the hook was completely bare.
"In stock."
The second hook feels different when pulled; it has weight, unlike the first hook which feels light and flimsy.
Gently pulling the fish out of the water, Feng Ye immediately smiled.
The entire body is red, with many dark red spots smaller than the eye diameter scattered on the head and upper sides of the body; these are red melon seed spots.
The Red Spotted Sea Bass, scientifically known as the Red Nine-spined Sea Bass, is also called the Song's Nine-spined Sea Bass. It gets its name from the small, reddish-brown or dark brown spots that cover its entire body. The color ranges from orange-red to yellowish-brown, and when juveniles, black spots are scattered on their sides.
After pulling the fish onto the boat and weighing it in his hand, Feng Ye laughed even harder; this red grouper weighed about four pounds.
The only downside was that it was already dead, but upon inspection, its gills were still bright red, indicating that it had only recently died and was still quite fresh.
Keep this red spot neatly tucked away, then continue reeling in the thread.
The third hook caught a small sea bass, weighing only about two pounds. It was also a dead fish, but it wasn't fresh anymore.
Feng Ye disdainfully took it off and put it aside, intending to chop it into small pieces to use as bait.
Then I caught several more sea bass, some big and some small, but without exception, none of them were fresh.
He rebaited the fish, cast it back in, and continued.
This time, a red eel came up, a red eel that strangled itself to death.
Looking at the two lines wrapped around the red eel, Feng Ye's lips twitched.
When a red eel takes a bite, it curls up and tightly entangles the thing that hurts it, resulting in its body getting tangled up and eventually strangling itself to death.
Like this one now, not only has its body twisted and tangled with the line that hooked it, but it has also tangled with another line on the side.
The red eel's body is curled up like this, so there's no way to untangle the hook for now; the only option is to cut the branch line.
Then another red eel was caught, and it too was strangled to death by itself.
After catching several red eels in a row, the feel of them finally changed; they were heavy and had a good weight to them.
As soon as Feng Ye pulled the line, the thing underwater started to act up, straining to burrow into the seabed, causing Feng Ye's body to sway.
"Large shipment."
Feng Ye's face lit up with joy, and he began to pull the sub-line upwards with force.
After pulling for only a short while, my hand was painfully constricted by the string.
However, by then we could vaguely see the fish and recognize what kind of fish it was.
"The big blue-clad woman is so big."
The scientific name of the blue wrasse is *Porphyra shuni*. There are many varieties, collectively known as "wrasse" or "dragon head fish". Its most distinctive feature is that its skull is a single piece.
This fish is very big, weighing at least twenty pounds.
One pound of fish requires ten pounds of strength.
No wonder it was so hard to pull them up.
After a while of stalemate, the big bluefish was slowly pulled to the water's surface beside the boat.
Taking advantage of the brief moment when the big blue fish wasn't struggling, Feng Ye quickly grabbed a net with one hand and scooped the fish in by the head.
Once the fish were hauled onto the boat, they were tossed into the small live water tank.
Such a big fish, we can't let it die.
Next, Feng Ye kept pulling the line, unhooking, and baiting, relentlessly repeating the task like a robot.
The fish caught were mostly over a pound each; there were no small fish.
This is the advantage of longline fishing: it allows for controlled fishing, catching only large fish and not small ones, making it a more restrained fishing method.
After pulling up the blue bream, Feng Ye then pulled up black sea bream, mackerel, tiger grouper, filefish, and other fish.
The most interesting hook pulled up a large blue crab weighing almost two pounds.
This large blue crab was very greedy. When the line was pulled out of the water, its large pincers were still tightly gripping the hooked sea bass.
Feng Ye, of course, didn't stand on ceremony and took it for himself.
He couldn't help but sigh when he saw a squid on the hook.
For some reason, the squid season started about half a month earlier than usual this year. By the time he was reborn, it was already the end of the squid season.
It has to be said that this is a very regrettable thing.
Of the five hundred fishing hooks, only about one hundred were empty; the rest had fish on them.
Although near-shore fishery resources are gradually decreasing, they are still very abundant compared to later generations.
It's a pity that the longline fish were released into the sea for too long, and many of them were no longer fresh.
Feng Ye was exhausted from collecting everything, her back aching, but she still smiled with satisfaction at the results.
It's too inefficient for one person to do all the work—rowing, reeling in the line, baiting, and re-casting.
Longline fishing requires at least two people to be more efficient and less tiring.
After finishing all the work, Feng Ye got up, twisted his waist, and rubbed it a few times with his hands before feeling a little better.
It was still early, so he planned to collect one more batch before heading back.
I looked around, hoping to find my older brother to chat with, but I couldn't find him. I didn't know if he had gone too far or gone to the back of some small island.
The sea is vast, and there's nowhere to begin searching.
Feng Ye simply lay down on the boat, covered his face with a straw hat, and closed his eyes.
He regretted not bringing a fishing rod with him, otherwise he wouldn't have been so bored that he had to go to sleep.
We have a fishing rod at home, even though it's made of bamboo, it'll do.
The waves gently rocked the small boat, creating a soothing, rocking motion that lulled one to sleep.
Feng Ye fell asleep without realizing it.
After an unknown amount of time, Feng Ye seemed to hear someone calling him in his sleep, and quickly opened his eyes and sat up.
"Ah Ye, Ah Ye."
"Brother, what are you doing? I was sleeping soundly, why did you have to wake me up?"
Feng Ye rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, feeling somewhat annoyed.
“I saw the boat floating on the water from afar, but I couldn’t see you, so I rushed over to check on you, afraid that something had happened to you.”
"What could possibly happen to me? Even if I fell into the sea, I could swim back up. It's not like I can't swim."
"Alright, alright, I was worrying for nothing. Since you're alright, I'll go back to casting the net."
"I'll go see if I can catch anything with longline fishing."
The two rowed their small boats and went their separate ways.
I've been lying on the boat, drifting with the waves for who knows how long, and we've already left the place where we used longline fishing. Now I can only row around and look for it.
He hadn't been paddling for long when he spotted the buoy of the fishing net.
However, when he rowed the boat to the location of the bottom cage, he did not see the longline buoy.
It should be noted that the location where he set the fish trap was not far from the location of the longline fishing, so he shouldn't have been able to see it.
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