After putting the trap back into the sea, Ye Yaodong rowed the boat to a farther sea to find a new fishing spot, but saw a group of seabirds circling over the sea not far away.
Where there are seabirds circling, there are usually schools of fish. He rowed the boat over with some anticipation, but found that there were two big whales hunting on the sea not far away, and one of them had its bloody mouth wide open.
Now he didn't dare to go over and could only watch from a distance. He didn't know what kind of whale it was. It was huge, several meters long, and its mouth was so big that it could probably swallow him.
Suddenly, a whale jumped out of the sea to hunt, and he saw clearly that it was a Bryde's whale.
My goodness, this is another second-level protected animal.
Whales are large mammals that live in the sea. They breathe with lungs like humans, so they float to the surface of the water from time to time, but they cannot leave the ocean.
Although Bryde's whales are large, they are timid and will run to the deep sea when frightened. If there are always ships on the sea, they dare not even come up to breathe and drown themselves alive.
There has been a 7-day fishing ban and no boats have gone out from their side. No wonder the fish swam to their area.
He stood on the boat and watched curiously for a while, only to see two Bryde's whales working together, one driving the school of fish in the water while the other sat back and enjoyed the fruits of its labor
Ye Yaodong thought about it and decided to stay away from it. He couldn't afford to mess with such a huge monster.
He rowed the boat to a slightly farther position, but saw several small boats on the sea not far away rowing towards him quickly.
I guess you also saw seabirds circling over the sea
He took another look at the two Bryde's whales and guessed that they would be scared away soon.
Just as he took out his fishing rod and prepared to put the bait on it while watching, he heard someone calling him loudly.
"Dongzi?"
Ye Yaodong heard the voice and looked over in surprise. It was Xiaoxiao and A Zheng.
He put down his fishing rod and waited for their boat to approach.
"Why are you here?"
"Why don't you go over there and take a look? There are so many seabirds circling in the sky, there must be schools of fish."
He raised an eyebrow, "You guys are so diligent?"
"Aren't you more diligent? We were thinking, we have nothing to do anyway, and we haven't been out to sea for a week, so we thought about going out for a walk, trying it out, and putting down the few Korean websites we just hired someone to make."
He glanced at the Korean network on their ship, "It's so efficient, it's only been a few days?"
"Wouldn't it be faster to hire someone to do it? We only built 7 Korean Internet cafes. Anyway, we can just put them there first and close them the next day. We can use as many Internet connections as we can get?"
Korean nets are larger than ground trap nets. They are made up of layers of circular circles, but they can only catch fish, not shrimps or crabs.
As they approached, the other boats were heading for the distant sea. Ah Zheng asked quickly, "There are so many seabirds over there, why don't you go over there instead of staying here?"
"There were two huge Bryde's whales feeding."
"Ah? Bryde's whale? What kind of whale is Bryde's whale? I've never heard of it. But... there really are schools of fish over there." Both of them were amazed.
"Um."
"Several boats have passed by. Shall we go and take a look too?" Ah Zheng looked at Xiao Xiao and asked anxiously. He was very curious.
"It's up to you. Bryde's whales are timid. With so many small boats approaching, they will definitely flee."
"It's good to be timid. If you are timid, you won't attack others. Let's go take a look first to see what it looks like." Xiao Xiao nodded. He was also very curious. "Then let's go over and take a look first."
Ye Yaodong waved his hand and said, "Go ahead."
He watched them row away and went back to baiting his hook.
Afraid that the small shrimps in the bucket would die, he first used the shrimps as live bait by passing through a hard bone in the middle of the shrimp's skull.
He confidently threw the hook into the sea. Shrimp is known as a universal bait that can catch any fish. His bucket was filled with small sword shrimps or small white shrimps. Small fishes under half a catty cannot eat these shrimps, let alone those weighing one catty.
He was very confident that he would catch a big fish this time.
I glanced at the fishing boats in the distance, but it seemed that I couldn't see the Bryde's whale. I didn't know if it was really scared away.
It’s better for it to run away. With its huge body, it seems that it will never be full no matter how much it eats. It’s better to eat less and save it for him!
He just glanced distractedly and felt the fishing rod move. He hurriedly lifted the rod, but it was empty. The bait was eaten and the fish ran away!
"Fuck, he took the bait so quickly, and he got away again."
He felt depressed for a moment and hung another live shrimp on the fishing rod. This time he didn't dare to look around and focused his attention on the fishing rod.
Unexpectedly, less than ten seconds after he cast it, the fishing rod moved again. He pulled it up effortlessly. It was a black carp weighing more than one kilogram.
Luckily, he didn’t get away this time. He took the bait so quickly.
Perhaps the fish were running around in fear, driven away by the two Bryde's whales
After putting the black wither into the bucket, he took the opportunity to look into the distance and saw two or three nets cast there.
So brave? Did the Bryde's whale escape
After thinking about it, he rowed the boat over and cast his nets there one by one, believing that there must be a school of fish that they had seen.
Ye Yaodong rowed the boat hard. When he got closer, he saw the positions of Xiaoxiao and Azheng clearly. He rowed towards them and just happened to see them casting a net.
There were so many fish, probably weighing more than 10 to 20 kilograms. He was very surprised. "So many shoe sole fish and redhead fish? And water bream. Wow, there's even a big cucumber fish!"
Ye Yaodong noticed with his sharp eyes that there was actually a golden yellow croaker in the fishing net. At that time, no one was breeding yellow croakers, all of them were wild.
Xiaoxiao and Azheng also saw it, and hurriedly pulled it up happily.
The nearby fishing boats saw this and asked, "Did you catch any yellow croaker?"
The two men quickly poured all the fish into the bucket, picked out the big yellow croaker, held it in their hands, and had bright smiles on their faces.
"Damn, this one must weigh more than three pounds." Ye Yaodong looked at it enviously.
"It should be worth more than ten dollars." The two looked at the fish happily.
Other fishing boats also rowed over to take a closer look, and said, "Wow, there's actually a cucumber fish."
"So big? It's a pity that we came out to set up the trap net and didn't bring a hand-cast net."
"That's right. Who would have thought that there would be two whales hunting here and driving away a bunch of fish."
"Those two whales escaped, which was a good thing for you. Unfortunately, I have already put out all the traps."
"Don't feel sorry. Maybe these fish will run away and there will be more in the trap tomorrow."
"hope so."
Everyone gathered there discussing the situation with envy. Others who had small boats equipped with hand-cast nets had also cast two nets, but had not caught any good catches.
I couldn't help but feel envious, and I hurried to cast a few more nets, hoping that I could be as lucky as them.
After Ah Zheng and Xiao Xiao were happy, they put the fish back into the bucket and said, "Everyone, please make way for us. Please don't block our boat. Let our boat go out for a while. We still need to hurry up and cast more nets."
Ye Yaodong took the lead in rowing the boat to the side to make room for them. He also wanted to try fishing in this area to see if he could catch some good catches with shrimps.
"Dongzi, did you bring a fishing rod?" After casting a small net, Ah Zheng looked around and found that Dongzi was actually using live shrimps as bait.
"Yes, I thought that I would go out to set the traps today. I can't go back empty-handed after setting them out. I've been eating vegetarian food for several days and haven't eaten fresh fish. I remembered that there was a broken fishing rod in the warehouse, so I took it out to try and see if I could catch a few fish."
"It's okay. If you can't catch anything later, we can just take some from here."
"Okay, can you take the big yellow croaker back and steam it for me?"
Ah Zheng glared at him, "Fuck, get out of the way, I mean you can take any other fish you want."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes and said, "Why didn't you say so earlier? I thought you were so generous to your brothers and wanted to help them."
"That's a nice thought."
"I don't want it. I've been fishing for a while and you interrupted me. Just wait and see. I'll catch another big yellow croaker!" He said as he threw the fishing hook into the sea.
"Look what you just caught?"
"I'm busy now. I need to hurry up. I'll give it to you guys after I finish fishing... Shit... Shit... Here it comes..."
Before he could finish his words, he felt the fishhook was bitten. He hurriedly pulled it up, but it was a bit difficult. The bamboo pole bent a deep arc, but he was not worried but happy.
It’s a big fish!
Xiao Xiao was pulling the net nearby, and when she heard the sound she looked over, "Fuck, your fishing rod is really heavy, there must be a big fish!"
"I don't know if you can pull it up? Your fishing rod is too simple." The person who had not left yet also said there.
Ah Zheng also said, "Yeah, your fish looks pretty big. Live shrimps are really good. They took the bait before I could finish my words."
Ye Yaodong also thought so. This broken fishing rod was indeed too simple. Fortunately, he was wearing gloves. He pulled the fishing line around his hands and quickly wrapped it around them. It took him a lot of effort to pull the fish up little by little.
"Ah, it's a carp, it's so big! Is it more than 30 kilograms? I'm rich!" Ah Zheng's eyes popped out.
Ye Yaodong was also very surprised. Another big sturgeon? He felt that this one should not be more than 30 kilograms, maybe only about 27 or 28 kilograms. No wonder it was so heavy. He happily put the fish directly on the boat and knocked it unconscious.
It's so big and still alive when I caught it. If I'm not careful, it will jump into the sea. It's safer to stun it just in case.
Others also saw the process of him catching the fish and were talking about it, expressing their envy.
"Oh my god! Another big sturgeon! I'm rich! I'm rich!"
"I heard that Ye Laosan once caught a fish weighing more than 50 kilograms with his trawling net? He caught another one this time. He's made a fortune!"
“I don’t know how much this one can sell for?”
"It's definitely not cheap. Alas, these are yellow croaker and big sturgeon. Why don't we have this luck?"
"I didn't bring anything. I'm so angry..."
"Alas, I don't have such good fortune..."