At present, there are no yachts produced in China, and there are no corresponding laws and regulations. Now this yacht is sailing on the sea, which is equivalent to driving it at will.
As far as he knows, in 20 years, there will be a specific classification of this type of leisure vessels.
The lowest should be Category V ships, which cannot sail more than five nautical miles from the shore and have a minimum design significant wave height of 0.5 meters.
The waves on the ship vary greatly and their heights are uneven. The significant wave height can be understood as the wave height you observe visually, which is usually 1.6 times the average wave height.
Then, Category 4 ships cannot run more than 10 nautical miles from the shore, Category 3 ships cannot run more than 20 nautical miles from the shore, Category 2 ships cannot exceed 200 nautical miles, and the highest level Category 1 ships can exceed 200 nautical miles. Only such ships can go deep-sea fishing.
When he was at sea in the past, every time he was about to reach the shore, he would see many fishing boats fishing dozens of miles offshore. He was curious and searched for some relevant information about fishing boats to learn more about them.
But nowadays they have no taboos, there are no relevant laws and regulations, you can sail freely and go as far as you want.
Many fish gather in offshore fishing wells, trenches, and faults, most of which are more than sixty or seventy nautical miles away from the shore. He guessed that these people would definitely not go so far to take risks, and at most they would fish for fun near the coast.
Sure enough, he estimated that after sailing for a little over an hour, about 30 nautical miles, the yacht gradually slowed down and stopped.
He estimated in his mind that this distance was about 10 nautical miles further than their previous trawling point. After all, there were 15 nautical miles from the pier in their village to the Hairun pier, and in the past they would start trawling after sailing out for about 35 nautical miles.
By this time, it was already completely dark. After the boat stopped sailing, Ye Yaodong saw them excitedly opening the packages, taking out fishing rods, and discussing about getting started.
Some of them looked brand new at first glance, and I guess they couldn’t wait for them to be delivered, so they asked someone to buy them in a hurry.
He was not far away and could see the brand of the fishing rod at a glance. It was a Dijia fishing rod, made in Taiwan and sold in large Taiwanese stores.
"Wow, tsk tsk tsk~ Such a good fishing rod, we still use bamboo rods to fish." Ah Zheng muttered to himself.
"It's your fault that you can't reincarnate."
"No need to compare, let's just come out to see the world. It's great to get paid. It's like someone is paying us to come out and broaden our horizons, hahaha."
The three of them were talking there, but Ye Yaodong moved a little closer to the side. He only said not to disturb them, but did not say that they could not take a closer look. When Hong Wenle got on the boat, he also told them to be more casual.
I saw them shaking the reel unskillfully, trying it out, and then they shouted, "It's started, it's started."
"I've always heard that sea fishing is fun, so I'll give it a try."
"Where's the bait?"
"Here, here, it looks like some of the shrimps we bought are already dead."
"Only shrimp? Let's catch them alive."
These people are not professionals, they are all rookies, and the only bait seems to be the simplest small live shrimps that Wang Maoquan prepared for them.
After all, "big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps, shrimps eat mud" is a food chain rule. Large sea fish not only eat small fish, but also particularly like to eat shrimps.
Shrimp is a good bait for sea fishing.
At this time, a young man caught a shrimp in a hurry and hung it up casually, with the hook exposed. He looked at it with a frown on his face.
How dare someone who knows nothing about this come sea fishing
Seeing a young man about to cast the hook, he quickly reminded him, "Comrade, you put the bait on the wrong place..."
"Ah? Wrong number."
Others who knew a little bit reminded him, "Don't expose the fishhook, otherwise no fish will eat your bait."
Ye Yaodong added, "You can try to avoid the head of the shrimp and hang it on the shrimp gun. This way, the shrimp is not easily thrown off when you cast the bait, and it stays active for a longer time, and the swimming posture is more natural. I have tried it."
“Where’s the shrimp gun?”
Yip Yao Tung: …
"The pointed, gun-like part at the front of the shrimp head is the shrimp gun." As he spoke, he walked forward to help him hang a bait.
"Oh, I see. Thank you!"
Others who had hung it incorrectly also took it down and hung it again like him.
After Ye Yaodong temporarily broke into the interior, he did not leave. Instead, he stood aside and watched from a close distance.
The other three saw it, followed quietly, and stood quietly by to watch.
The young man held the fishing rod with the bait on it, hesitated for a moment, and then said to Ye Yaodong: "I have never fished before, can you show me how to do it?"
Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows, "Can I help you fish first?"
"Yes, show me how to do it."
Others also agreed, "Sure, show me how to fish and see how it goes."
"All right."
He took the fishing rod, which was about four to five meters long, touched the reel next to it, and after getting familiar with it, he threw the hook far away, about five or six meters away.
As a result, within ten seconds, he felt a pulling force on the hook and a fish was caught.
"I'm coming."
The young people were so excited that they leaned on the railings to watch.
"So fast?"
"Pull it up quickly and see what fish it is."
Ye Yaodong felt the pulling force from the fishhook and slowly turned the hand crank with joy. He waited for the fish to automatically relieve the force before he quickly reeled in the line.
At this time, the fish on the hook was exposed to the water surface, and everyone could see its true face.
"Oh shit, it's a yellow pomfret!" Ye Yaodong was pleasantly surprised. This fish must weigh five kilograms.
The young people immediately cheered as well.
"It's a good start, all right."
"Pull it up quickly, this fish looks pretty big."
Ye Yaodong kept reeling in the line with joy. Xiaoxiao simply took the long-handled hand scoop net beside him, helped him scoop up the fish, and then put it on the deck.
The group of young men immediately surrounded it. One of them grabbed the fish in his hand and gestured with his palm, "It's bigger than my face. How many kilograms does it weigh?"
"It's almost bigger than your butt, okay?"
“Hahahaha~”
"It should be five pounds, right?"
After completing the task, Ye Yaodong put the fishing rod aside and returned it to the young man.
Unexpectedly, the young man said with a smile: "This fish is yours because you caught it. Take it."
"ah?"
Hong Wenle smiled and said, "Indeed, there are buckets on the boat, just take any one you want."
"Okay, thank you very much."
Ye Yaodong picked up the fish happily. Ah Zheng quickly took a bucket and put it in for him. He said enviously, "Great, Dongzi, you got a fish for free!"
The fat man also said enviously: "Such a big yellow pomfret costs two yuan per pound."
Xiaoxiao also said: "This one is estimated to be five kilograms."
“It’s not in vain!”
He weighed the fish in the bucket, then put the bucket in the corner and turned his attention back to the people.
The young man he helped to hang the bait with was the first to throw the hook towards the sea. The others were not willing to be left behind and stood in a row and threw the hook out one after another.
Less than 30 seconds later, the young man next to him was reeling in the line while shouting in ecstasy, "Got it, got it!"
Everyone looked over in surprise...
"Ah, it's just a black sea bream!" The young man's voice sounded slightly disappointed.
Ye Yaodong said, "In this season, black sea bream are all white and fat, and they are big. Yours weighs two or three pounds, which is not small."
Hong Wenle also smiled and said, "Yes, Zhiming, you are the first one to catch it, and we haven't made any movement yet..."
Unexpectedly, his fishing rod moved as soon as he finished speaking. Without bothering to speak, he immediately turned the reel to reel in the line, but found that the fish seemed a little big. He had to keep letting out or reeling in the line to cushion the fish's resistance.
"Ah, it's red snapper..."
His friends were the first to shout out excitedly.
Ye Yaodong also looked at it with surprise. It was the Amberjack. Some people would call it red snapper, but its scientific name is actually red snapper.
This amberjack is not big, only half a meter long, but compared with other fish, it is already very large.
Hong Wenle was pleasantly surprised and kept reeling in the fish until the fish was completely exhausted, then he reeled it in. He had fished before and had some experience, so he was a little better than the others.
"Oh, it's so big. Is this one half a meter long?"
Everyone looked at the red snapper still hanging on the hook with surprise.
"Ah, I moved here too..."
"Me too… "
No one else was bothered to look at Hong Wenle's amberjack, and all of them turned their attention to their own fishing rods.
Hong Wenle happily took the fish down and threw it onto the deck.
Compared to the black sea bream, this red snapper is more than three or four times larger.
When it comes to sea fishing, fish are more likely to bite the hook at night because fish feed not only by vision but also by sense of smell. Although it is night, the fish's ability to find bait is no worse than during the day.
Moreover, at night, some small fish that like to make noise in their nests return to their nests to rest, and the big fish begin to come out to look for food, so the probability of catching big fish is greater at night.
In addition, changes in tides seriously affect the activities of marine fish. Most near-shore fish will migrate short distances with the rise and fall of the tide.
When the tide is high, they swim to the shallows near the shore to find food, and when the tide is low, they swim back to deep water.
The best time for sea fishing is high tide, followed by low tide. Fish are least likely to bite during low tide and no tide.
Today is the first day of the new year. The tide level is at its lowest at 12 o'clock at night. It is only a little after 7 o'clock now, and it is still high tide.
Hong Wenle watched others reeling in their lines, and was not in a hurry to put in the bait. He wanted to see what fish others had caught.
Ye Yaodong looked at the amberjack on the deck and was about to remind him when he heard them shouting excitedly.
"Ah, here it comes..."
At this moment, everyone suddenly heard a "cluck" sound, which was a bit like the sound of a pig grunting.
"Ah... it's the yellow chicken fish..."
"mine too…"
"Shit, mine too."
They cast their rods one after another, and were a little confused when they saw that they were all yellow croakers.
"Why are they all yellow chicken fish?"
Hong Wenle laughed loudly, "Maybe a group of yellow chicken fish just happened to pass by? So you are all yellow chicken fish?"
"It's very possible..."
"Could it be that the sound just now was made by the yellow chicken fish?"
Ye Yaodong was itching to catch them, so he couldn't help but give them some scientific advice, "The yellow chicken fish is a little special. It can use the teeth in its throat to make a sound similar to a pig's grunt, and then use its swim bladder to amplify it, so you can hear its "cluck" sound when you catch it on the shore."
"Ah, like this? It's really special."
"It's really special. Although this yellow chicken fish is not big, only 1 to 2 kilograms, the impact it brings after being caught is extraordinary. The feeling is very strong, and I thought I caught a big fish."
"Me too, I thought I caught a big fish just now..."
"You are lucky. You caught a half-meter long red snapper first," said the young man named Zhiming who lent the fishing rod to Ye Yaodong. "You are all better than me. Mine caught a black sea bream. Come again, come again, I want to catch a big fish too."
"Maybe there are still schools of yellow chicken fish underneath, haha."
"That's fine, we just got out and have plenty of time anyway."
Seeing them tossing the yellowtail into the bucket while teasing, Ye Yaodong couldn't help but remind them, "Are you just going to throw this fish into the bucket and not care about it?"
Just now he saw him throw it directly onto the deck, so he wanted to ask.
"Ah? What else?"
He said with a smile: "Mr. Hong, once the fish in this sea are heavy, the first thing to do after removing the hook is to bleed them. You can't just leave them there."
"Ah? Bleeding???"
These young people know nothing, yet they want to learn sea fishing
"Sea fish swim fast and have strong athletic ability. As the fish continues to struggle after being caught, the accumulation of lactic acid in the fish meat will become more and more serious. In mild cases, the sour taste of the meat will increase, and in severe cases, the fish meat will change color significantly. Once a blood vessel is punctured by a fish hook, blood will seep into the muscle and form congestion, which will greatly affect the color and taste of the fish meat.
"As lactic acid accumulates, the flesh of the fish becomes 'burned' or damaged, and the more damaged the flesh is, the less valuable the fish is."
"So bleeding is to make the fish die quickly and keep the meat fresh as much as possible."
Hong Wenle was stunned when he heard this. He had fished before, but only at the dock when he was bored. He had never caught such a big fish. He always just focused on eating.
The others were also confused, but they also understood that the fish had to be bled to preserve its freshness to the greatest extent.
"Thank you. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known. I don't know anything about bloodletting. Can you help me bleed?"
"OK."
Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I might as well send the Buddha to the west!
The method of bleeding is very simple. Use scissors or lure pliers to pull out part of the fish's gills, or directly cut off the connection between the fish's gills and the body. Put it in a bucket of water and wait for the blood to flow out before burying it in ice for preservation.
If the fish is larger, you can make another cut at the tail to speed up the bleeding, but this is not necessary.
There was a small kitchen countertop on the yacht with everything in it. Ye Yaodong just picked up a pair of scissors and dealt with it, then threw it into a bucket and let it bleed slowly.
The young people watched him process the products with great interest, and were thankful that they had found someone who knew about the products, otherwise it would have been a waste.
After the blood was drained, they started fishing again.
Ah Zheng watched Ye Yaodong washing his hands and couldn't help but muttered, "You don't know anything, and you're still fishing..."
"Shh..."
With the experience of the first time, they were much calmer when the fish were hooked this time. However, they didn’t expect that all the fish caught this time were yellow chicken fish!
Listening to the discussion of those people, the fat man couldn't help but stick his head out, "There really is a school of yellow chicken fish below!"
Ah Zheng nodded, "Definitely."
Xiao Xiao felt a little regretful, "Oh, how nice it would be if I had a fishing net? I could just catch them all in one go, and I'd be rich. Fishing with one rod after another is so slow."
Ye Yaodong looked at the dark water surface. Due to the limited vision at night, he could not see anything. Even if there were schools of fish passing by, he could not see them clearly unless they created waves or jumped out of the water when hunting.
"Who doesn't think so? But the key is that people go out to sea for sea fishing, and they enjoy the fun of catching fish during the process."
"When can we go fishing at night? There are so many fish at night, and they look easy to catch."
"It would be better to go out and catch people at night, which might be more efficient."
Unfortunately, in the past, when they went out to sea at night, by the time the boat reached the destination, it was already daybreak, and they had never really engaged in night fishing.
“Each has its own fun…”
Just as they were chatting, Ye Yaodong suddenly discovered a large area of golden light moving constantly beneath the sea in the distance.
“Fuck, it’s a school of big yellow croakers!
!”
His exclamation directly attracted the attention of the three people who were chatting and the young men who were fishing. Everyone looked into the distance, and in an instant, exclamations rang out one after another.