Chen Zhiyao quickly stood up straight, feeling a strong pull from the fishing rod, her heart pounding with excitement.
Before turning off her X-ray glasses, she glanced down at the seawater.
Apart from the one she was fishing for, there were basically no big fish left; the rest were all small fry.
At this moment, the fishing rod in my hand was pulled by a huge force again. The fish below were very active and couldn't wait to rush around.
Chen Zhiyao was not very strong and was struggling to keep up, so she quickly turned on her X-ray glasses for beachcombing.
After doubling its strength, it became much easier to handle the situation. After all, it only weighed about 20 kilograms, which was far less than the strength of the tuna and the 30-40 kilogram carp it had been with before.
After resting for a while, Yan Shuting returned to her fishing spot with great enthusiasm.
While Chen Zhiyao was playing with her fish, this lucky novice caught two more spotted peppered snapper, both weighing over three pounds each.
The mother and daughter were fishing for big fish, while the other caught only expensive rock bream, making the father and son, who hadn't caught anything yet, extremely envious.
Chen Weiqiang wanted to walk the fish for his wife, but Yan Shuting ruthlessly chased him away.
"Ring ring ring..."
When the alarm clock rang at 3 o'clock, Chen Zhiyao had just pulled a giant brown-banded grouper weighing more than 20 kilograms out of the water.
This guy is really fat; it's the biggest grouper Chen Zhiyao has caught so far.
"This big guy could sell for at least 2,000 yuan." Chen Zhiyao hugged the giant grouper, her eyes crinkling with laughter.
As soon as she removed the fishing hook, Grandpa Chen and Chen Weiqiang pushed her aside.
The father and son hugged the huge creature and took a bunch of photos together.
"..."
Looking at these two childish men, Chen Zhiyao was speechless for a long time.
Just then, Yan Shuting caught a long, thin, fluorescent ribbonfish.
This ribbonfish is quite plump; it looks like it weighs over a pound.
It was still jumping wildly when it first flew onto the deck, but it was gone to another world in no time.
Looking at the plump ribbonfish, Chen Zhiyao said with a grin:
"I didn't expect to catch a ribbonfish. This kind of fish can't survive once it's out of the water. I'll just braise it when I get home tonight."
"Sure."
Yan Shuting happily removed the fishhook, almost not wanting to go back.
However, she was only thinking about it; the father and son had already gotten into the driver's seat and were preparing to haul in the fishing net.
The fishing boats were not far apart to begin with, and within minutes they arrived at the location to set up the fishing nets and traps.
As the crane slowly pulled up the fishing net, the people on the boat went wild with joy.
Whether it was two coarse-mesh gillnets or a fish trap, they were all filled with sea bass weighing six or seven pounds each, at least 20 of them.
Moreover, in addition to sea bass, there were even five pearl groupers weighing seven or eight pounds each in the fish trap.
As for the small-hole gillnets, the harvest was quite good, with a small group of golden pomfret.
In contrast, the worst harvest came from the crab traps, which yielded only seven or eight pounds of crabs and a few cuttlefish.
On their way back, the group encountered the pink dolphins they had seen that morning again, and it was a group of adorable little dolphins.
These adorable dolphins chased each other in twos and threes on the sea.
Two of the juvenile dolphins swam right up to the side of the fishing boat and would occasionally look over curiously.
Chen Zhiyao stood on the deck, frantically taking beautiful photos of these little guys.
Even though Grandpa Chen had been driving the fishing boat very slowly, after less than 5 minutes, the group of fickle little dolphins all ran away.
On the way back, Chen Zhiyao and her parents sorted the fish they had just caught.
It takes two hours to get back to the pier in town from Dolphin Island.
It was already past 5 p.m. when we got close to the pier, and the sunset over the sea was as beautiful as a richly colored oil painting.
Sunset at sea
Today is high tide, and the dock is very lively, with boats even queuing up.
The fishing boats from each household waited quite a while before they could find a place to dock.
On the way, Chen Zhiyao had already communicated with Boss Yang.
There's a particularly good catch today, so I asked him to drive a bigger truck to the dock to transport the catch.
When Yang Jiajun was unloading his catch, he was thrilled to see the brown grouper weighing over ten kilograms and the two red grouper.
"You've encountered a school of fish, all of them brown-banded grouper weighing over ten kilograms."
Chen Zhiyao approached with a smile, "Brother Yang, how much does this fish sell for per pound? And what's the price of these spotted pepper snapper now?"
“Your brown-banded grouper is big, so we’ll price it at 110 yuan per jin, and the striped pepper snapper at 90 yuan per jin.”
The catches from beachcombing and fishing are mixed together, but the fish caught by each individual are counted separately.
Grandpa Chen caught a few spotted pepper snapper and four brown grouper, earning a total of 3,800 yuan.
Chen Weiqiang caught one pearl grouper and three brown-banded grouper, earning a total of 3,180 yuan.
Yan Shuting also had a good haul: two red grouper, two brown striped grouper, and five striped pepper snapper.
Red grouper, 6.8 jin, 600 yuan per jin, total 4080 yuan. Brown grouper, 16 jin, 110 yuan per jin, total 1760 yuan.
12 catties of striped pepper snapper, 90 yuan per catty, totaling 1080 yuan.
Yan Shuting, who was fishing for the first time, earned a total of 6,920 yuan.
On Chen Zhiyao's side, it was all big guys.
4 jin of striped pepper snapper, 90 yuan per jin, totaling 360 yuan. 68 jin of brown-banded grouper, 110 yuan per jin, totaling 7480 yuan.
Chen Zhiyao's total earnings from fishing today were 7840 yuan.
After weighing the large fish, another group of people nearby also finished counting their various catches from the beachcombing trip.
39 jin of conger eel, 58 yuan per jin, totaling 2262 yuan. 30 jin of goose barnacles, 180 yuan per jin, totaling 5400 yuan.
Large abalone weighs 9 jin (4.5 kg), priced at 200 yuan per jin, totaling 1800 yuan. Sea bass weighs 96 jin (43 kg), priced at 36 yuan per jin, totaling 3456 yuan.
Golden pomfret, 38 jin, 26 yuan per jin, total 988 yuan. Pearl grouper, 35 jin, 38 yuan per jin, total 1330 yuan.
General's hat (a type of wild vegetable) weighs 8 jin (approximately 4 kg), at 60 yuan per jin, totaling 480 yuan. Piglet snails weigh 5 jin (approximately 2.5 kg), at 36 yuan per jin, totaling 180 yuan.
The shellfish, weighing several hundred kilograms, sold for a total of 4,000 yuan. Other seafood, in smaller quantities, also sold for 1,500 yuan.
Today's catch from beachcombing and fishing totaled [amount] yuan, which is divided equally among everyone, amounting to 5349 yuan per person.
Chen Zhiyao's income has reached a new high, with a total income of [amount missing].
Yan Shuting is now earning over 10,000 yuan a day. Having tasted success on her first fishing trip, she's thinking about going fishing more often in the future.
Besides the mother and daughter who earn over 10,000 yuan a day, Grandpa Chen and Chen Weiqiang also earned eight or nine thousand yuan today.
At this time, Yan Shuting also thought fishing was quite fun and planned to go fishing at the beach when she had free time.
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