After seeing Chen Weiqiang's numerous "oh ho"s, the two were so angry that they lost their appetite.
Chen Zhiyao angrily stuffed a mouthful of rice into her mouth, then turned and glared fiercely at the azure sea in front of her.
"Hmph, I'll fish this guy back later."
Grandpa Chen grew angrier the more he thought about it, and unconsciously quickened his eating pace, preparing to go back to fishing.
Chen Weiqiang, who couldn't go fishing, was initially feeling a bit sour, but now, seeing the two of them get their lines cut, he felt much better.
He scrolled through the fishing group messages with a mischievous grin, occasionally offering a few words of comfort to those anglers who had been out of the game for years.
The grandfather and grandson quickly finished their lunch, then excitedly took their fishing rods and went up to the deck, ready to redeem themselves.
Dreams are often grand, but reality is harsh. Forget about the big fish we caught this morning; even the small shrimp and fish are nowhere to be found.
The two waited for more than an hour, their initial excitement turning into indifference and numbness.
With no fish biting the hook, Chen Zhiyao was getting sleepy and yawned several times.
"Ring ring ring..."
It was exactly 3 p.m. when Chen Zhiyao's alarm for returning home went off.
Seeing that the fishing wasn't going well today, the grandfather and grandson walked into the driver's seat with long faces.
We're preparing to sail the fishing boat back to the vicinity of the reef island to retrieve the gillnets and fish traps we set this morning.
Having caught no fish, Grandpa Chen grew impatient and offered to start the boat.
Chen Zhiyao readily agreed, then went to the stern of the boat, enjoying the beautiful scenery while playing on her phone.
The islands here are undeveloped, the seawater is very clear, and the waves are especially sparkling and beautiful under the sunlight.
The spray at the stern
About half an hour later, the two returned to the vicinity of the reef island.
With limited energy, Chen Zhiyao deliberately simplified the fishing tools this time.
Besides two sticky nets, this time only five earth traps purchased from the system and eight crab traps were used.
The first thing to be collected was the coarse-mesh adhesive net.
However, the catch was mediocre. When the net was pulled up, she only saw a few barracuda weighing three or four pounds.
After a short while, Chen Zhiyao felt that something was wrong with the fishing net she had pulled up. She went over to take a closer look and found that there were many holes of different sizes in the net.
It seems they encountered a school of barracudas, but the barracudas are strong and have incredibly sharp teeth. The big, tough ones all ran away, leaving only a few small ones.
Looking at all the holes, big and small, she felt that the net was beyond repair.
Then he complained in a low voice, "Sigh, these few little sea bream aren't even enough to buy fishing nets."
After bringing the net up, the two of them also took the eight crab traps with them.
The first crab trap yielded only a so-so result, containing just two small squid and a mud crab weighing about half a pound.
The second crab trap was of average weight, and inside was a long, thin creature curled up. This creature was quite large, weighing several pounds.
At first, Chen Zhiyao thought it was a large eel and was about to pour it into the bucket, but when she got closer, she found it was a sea snake.
Seeing it flick its tongue at her, Chen Zhiyao swallowed hard, her scalp tingling, and unconsciously took several steps back.
"Grandpa, what a huge sea snake!"
Seeing his granddaughter's frightened expression, Grandpa Chen quickly came over and released the sea snake back into the sea.
Fortunately, the crab traps that followed were mostly filled with blue crabs and mud crabs. Although they were not very big, at least they weren't scary.
The last crab trap contained a moray eel that looked quite similar to the sea snake from before.
Looking at the enormous creature before her, Chen Zhiyao silently took a step back, her face filled with lingering fear. She didn't dare touch the cage at all.
In the end, the old man stepped forward and helped clean up the crab cage.
Then the two sailed the boat to the back of the reef island and retrieved the fine-mesh fishing net.
The fine-mesh gillnet yielded a good harvest, with dozens of yellowfin tuna weighing about a pound each hanging on it. It seems we've stumbled upon a school of tuna.
In addition, Chen Zhiyao also saw several small silver-black creatures, which were the more expensive black sea bream.
Seeing the densely packed yellow wax gourds hanging on the net, Chen Zhiyao's earlier gloom vanished. She skipped and hopped to drag the net aside and then prepared to put away the trap.
The traps were all purchased from the system, and they were all baited with the system's free bait. Chen Zhiyao had high hopes for them.
One by one, the fish traps were pulled up by the crane. She could clearly see many large fish jumping and struggling inside, as if they were ready to break out of the trap at any moment.
However, the quality of the system's fish traps was quite good, and these large fish had no choice but to be hauled onto the fishing boat.
The first cage looked very empty and light, but inside there were two small green dragons weighing about one pound each.
The two big guys were baring their teeth and claws inside the trap, but unfortunately they didn't have the aggressive pincers of a blue crab.
It was just a paper tiger bluffing, and Chen Zhiyao easily put it into the bucket.
The second fish trap was filled with a lot of fish, all of them six or seven-pound sea bream. The fish in this one trap alone weighed at least 30 pounds.
Although the barracuda is only 10 yuan per jin, there are quite a lot of them. This basket of fish can easily sell for more than 300 yuan.
Chen Zhiyao looked excitedly at the third cage, where there was actually a huge blue-clothed animal weighing four or five pounds.
The fish had really nice markings. After the old man picked it up, he happily held it and asked Chen Zhiyao to take pictures of it.
The remaining two traps contained bass, but they were quite large, each weighing seven or eight pounds.
Five large sea bass suddenly made the live fish hold a bit crowded.
Although the big fish that got away in the morning escaped, the grandfather and grandson were overjoyed to have caught so many big fish again, and laughter filled the fishing boat.
Although Grandpa Chen's harvest wasn't great today, he was still very happy for his granddaughter.
The two were so happy that they weren't in a hurry to go back and cheerfully began to clean up their catch.
Although we lost one coarse-mesh sticky net, the overall harvest was still quite good.
There were a total of 42 jin of barracuda, 43 jin of yellowtail amberjack, 6 jin of black sea bream, 38 jin of sea bass, two small green lobsters, a 4.5-jin blue croaker, 2 jin of cuttlefish, 5 jin of mud crab and 3 jin of blue crab.
After packing up their catch, the grandfather and grandson, accompanied by the stunning sunset over the sea, happily began their return journey.
Sunset at sea
Since the two didn't have a car, Chen Zhiyao sent a message to Boss Yang halfway there, asking him to wait at the dock to collect the fish.
As dusk fell, the two finally returned to the town's dock.
Knowing that there would be goose barnacles today, Mr. Yang had been waiting here early.
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