With a bumper harvest of rock bream, Chen Zhiyao worked hard to carry two large buckets of fish into the live water tank.
While working, he also shared this method with his family.
She made quite a fuss, and the others had been itching to try it out, so they all started learning.
The four of them followed Chen Zhiyao's example, throwing all the shrimp in the bucket into the sea to create a feeding area. When they saw fish coming, they would set up nets to catch them.
I must say, catching fish with a hand-thrown net is much faster than fishing directly.
Although their net wasn't as dramatic as Chen Zhiyao's first net, they still caught several rock bream in one go.
Seeing that it really worked, the group became even more excited and poured the remaining shrimp and the added seawater into the sea.
Besides fish, all sorts of other marine life also came to the surface.
Sea fish are fast, and in the first few nets, everyone caught mostly various kinds of sea fish.
Among them, rock bream were the most numerous, making up almost half. The rest were all brightly colored and beautiful coral fish.
Later on, the nets caught a wider variety of things.
Octopus, cuttlefish, blue crab, octopus, blue crab, small lobster, large prawns, and all kinds of sea fish—if you can think of it, you can catch it.
The catch of fish came in bucket after bucket, which was somewhat exaggerated.
However, no one thought much of it, believing it was the sea god's blessing that gave them a great start to the new year.
This year, my family will definitely have a prosperous and smooth year.
Chen Zhiyao had an even better harvest; she poured all the remaining bait from the bucket onto the fishing net.
With this great stuff, all sorts of seafood will crawl into the fishing net on their own.
Besides sea fish, she also caught several small green lobsters weighing about a pound each, and quite a few giant blue crabs weighing over a pound each.
The number of fish is also limited, and the effective range of the bait companion is only 10 meters. It has no effect outside this area.
Seeing that the fishing net was catching less and less, Chen Zhiyao decided to cast one last net before going to cook.
Unexpectedly, the final haul brought her a pleasant surprise.
The fishing net didn't catch many fish, only one bluefin bream, one black sea bream, and two spotted pepper sea bream.
The catch wasn't large, but each fish weighed four or five pounds.
Looking at the several large sea fish of different colors on the fishing net, Chen Zhiyao's sore arms immediately stopped hurting.
He immediately became energetic and pulled up the heavy fishing net.
In just 10 minutes, the family of five caught all the fish in the vicinity.
Chen Zhiyao was quick-witted and was the first to use a net to catch fish.
She caught half of the fish in the vicinity.
The various types of rock bream weighed over 100 jin (50 kg) in total, and other seafood also weighed several tens of jin (30 kg) in total.
The others didn't have as many fish as she did, but they still had a decent catch, each with several dozen kilograms of fish.
Everyone's face was filled with the joy of a bountiful harvest, and the atmosphere on the boat was peaceful and cheerful.
Yan Shuting happily took out her phone and was surprised to find that it was already 12:30.
"It's past 12 o'clock, everyone must be hungry, I'll go cook."
Chen Zhiyao, who was standing nearby, acted quickly and immediately took out three small green dragons and three large green crabs.
Afraid that my mom wouldn't agree, I even broke off the lobster's whiskers and snapped off the crab claws.
Then he smiled innocently and looked at Yan Shuting:
"Mom, we had a good harvest today. And since it's Chinese New Year, let's have a nice meal."
"Alright, alright, I didn't say I disagreed, why are you in such a hurry, little girl?"
Looking at the incomplete little green dragon and big green crab, Yan Shuting couldn't help but mutter to herself: Is she really that stingy?
Chen Zhiyao had no idea what her mother was thinking, and she took advantage of the situation by bringing out the two pounds of goose barnacles she had collected that morning while beachcombing.
"And these basil snails, we'll steam them with the blue crabs later."
"Buddha's hand snails are so expensive!" Yan Shuting immediately wanted to scold her spendthrift daughter.
But seeing her beaming smile, she swallowed her words. Oh well, it's the New Year, she wouldn't spoil the fun.
There are several people on the boat, and they've been working all morning. These seafood items, which have very little meat, are definitely not enough to feed them.
Yan Shuting picked and chose, and then picked out some small miscellaneous fish and octopus.
The elderly couple and Chen Weiqiang were sorting the fish on the deck, while the mother and daughter carried their things and went into the kitchen.
As Chen Zhiyao walked to the kitchen door, she overheard her grandmother calling her aunt, asking her to help feed Ah Huang and Xue Tuan.
As for the chickens in the orchard, the old lady put out a lot of chicken feed before leaving, enough to feed them for a day.
There was a cabbage that Yan Shuting had brought from home that morning in the kitchen. After looking at the ingredients she brought in, she immediately arranged the dishes for lunch.
Steamed baby lobster, steamed large blue crab, steamed snails, mixed fish stew, stir-fried octopus, and stir-fried cabbage.
Living off the land and water, they basically eat seafood feasts every time they go out to sea to fish.
There were many dishes, but they were mostly steamed. The mother and daughter finished preparing the seafood feast in about half an hour.
Steamed baby green lobster
Steamed Blue Crab
Steamed Buddha's Hand Snail
Mixed Fish Stew
"Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready!"
Chen Zhiyao shouted at the deck, then hurriedly took out her phone and started snapping photos.
Looking at this delicious and visually appealing seafood feast, Chen Zhiyao felt incredibly proud of herself.
She made all of these.
Such a beautiful and delicious seafood feast shouldn't be enjoyed by just one person.
In addition to posting it on her WeChat Moments, Chen Zhiyao also shared it in a group chat for her two best friends to see.
Li Lin and Tang Youyou had just finished eating when they saw the photos in the group chat, and they wanted nothing more than to fly over and beat her up.
Although they have all kinds of delicious food at home, as children from inland areas, they have never had a seafood feast before (*?????).
You can look at it but you can't eat it; this person is really wicked.
Amidst the chorus of criticism, Chen Zhiyao happily put away her phone and got up to serve rice to everyone.
The seafood feast received unanimous praise, especially the goose barnacles and baby lobsters, which were absolutely delicious.
Amidst everyone's praise, Chen Zhiyao was practically wagging her tail in the air.
Everyone had a good haul this morning, especially a bumper catch of rock bream, and no one wanted to go home so early.
So everyone unanimously decided to continue fishing in the afternoon.
Judging from the footage from the fish finder, there is hardly any seafood left near the fishing boat.
Considering that the bait's range is only 10 meters, while this coral reef in front of us is several hundred square meters, it's quite surprising.
Chen Zhiyao immediately steered the fishing boat to the other side of the coral reef.
Although there weren't any large schools of fish, there were quite a few big ones in the nearby waters, and Chen Zhiyao and her friends were eager to catch some.
Since the shrimp she brought in the morning were all used up, Chen Zhiyao simply took out all the octopuses she had picked up that morning.
This is perfect for catching big fish. If you want to catch small fish, just cut off a small section of an octopus's leg.
Just like in the morning, she deliberately poured two bottles of bait additive into the bucket.
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