"She's already given birth? So quickly?"
"That sea piglet doesn't look small. It's quite big."
"It should be about 70 centimeters. The belly can really hold a lot of things."
At this moment, the sea pig tilted its body slightly to one side, exposing one of its flippers, and the cub clung to the female's abdomen.
"Is this breastfeeding?"
"Is this something we can watch? Let's go, I'm going to reel in the line, please don't get in my way."
Unable to catch it, after watching the whole process, Ye Yaodong was about to reel in the line. It had been a long time since it was let down, and it was the first time, so he didn’t know what would come up.
"Watch you catch the goods. You have nothing to do anyway. We have just caught some good stuff, including two super big eels weighing probably a little over ten kilograms. Wow, I don't know how big they are." Ah Zheng said as he rowed the boat to the side so that it would not hinder his reeling in.
"500 hooks, how many did you collect?"
"A little over 100 jin. There's all kinds of stuff, but not as good as the ones from the last two days. Nothing particularly valuable, but not bad either. The weight is here, and the loading speed is not slow. I'm putting bait on while collecting. I'll go collect again later. I won't be home for lunch."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong pulled up the anchor that he had just thrown back into the sea and then reeled in the line.
Before the fish surfaced, he could already see clearly that it was a festive big red marlin.
"It's a great start, this red sea bream is great!"
"It looks like it should be about three pounds, right?"
"Almost." Ye Yaodong was very satisfied and continued to reel in the line.
"Hey~ It's a sea wolf. Another sea wolf came up for the second time. That's good."
The scientific name of the sea wolf fish is pike. It has a long and narrow body, up to 1.8 meters long. Because it has protruding fangs like wolf teeth, the locals also call it sea wolf fish.
"Well, this one weighs about 7 or 8 kilograms. Did you catch it just now?"
"There are more than a dozen of them, but they are not this big, only about two or three pounds."
He took the sea wolf down, killed it and threw it directly onto the boat. The bucket was filled with the goods from the trap, so there was not much space left. Then he put bait on the hook and continued to reel in the line.
At this time, the sea pig was swimming on the sea surface with its cub on its back. The cub's head, neck and abdomen were all pressed against the female's back. After a while, the big and small dived back into the sea.
Ye Yaodong took a glance and reeled in the line himself. The third fish that came up was a silly fish weighing about 5-6 jin. He threw it directly onto the boat with disgust and put on bait at the same time.
The waves today are surging, and the whole boat is shaking constantly.
I reeled in the lines one after another, but there was nothing special. The surrounding sea area was not far from the shore, and the fish were all the same. From time to time, there were some empty hooks because the bait had been eaten and the fish had escaped.
He was almost numb from reeling in the line, when suddenly he pulled on a heavy object, which was pulling on the line. He instantly perked up and pulled harder.
A Zheng Xiaoxiao next to him had already started fishing out of boredom. Now he saw him struggling to pull the line and felt that there was a big catch, so he took a look.
"Oh my god, it's a huge manta ray."
“What good luck.”
Ye Yaodong had no time to chat with them. He held the fishing line with one hand and picked up the spare knife on the boat with the other, preparing to cut off the manta ray's tail. However, he missed the target when he made the first move.
The tail of this manta ray is extremely poisonous. It can make you choose to go to heaven or hell in a minute. Generally, the tail of a manta ray will be cut off as soon as it is caught.
The knife was recently put on the boat because he thought it would be more convenient to cut fish meat as bait when fishing. He also got some small tools because it was always difficult to pull a big fish up every time he caught one. Getting some small tools to help could save a lot of trouble.
Ye Yaodong then picked up a homemade wooden stick hook and hooked the manta ray to the side of the boat. However, this fish had a very bad temper and even spit at Ye Yaodong.
He missed the hook again, wiped the water off his cheek, and cursed, "Fuck... wait and see how I kill you."
"Wow, this one is very fierce and has a strong temper!" Zheng and Xiaoxiao watched it leisurely, commenting from time to time and watching with great interest.
Manta rays are the largest species of fish. A typical stingray can be up to 2.5 meters long, while the largest manta ray can be over 7 meters long and is very aggressive.
Ye Yaodong aimed again and hooked the fish, this time he caught the fish's tail. He picked up the knife again to cut the fish's tail, but the fish shook its tail hard and he failed to cut it.
It was so infuriating that he had no choice but to pull it up first.
He pulled the rope up a few more times with all his strength. After he was sure, he put his hands in the manta ray's nose, exerted all his strength, pulled it up with all his might, and threw it onto the boat.
"Wow, it takes up almost half of the boat. The diameter is more than one meter! It must be worth a lot of money."
"No wonder you're having so much trouble pulling."
Ye Yaodong cursed with a gleeful expression: "My waist is about to break."
After saying that, he stepped on its tail with his foot, cut it off with a knife with great effort, and threw it back into the sea. By the way, he put the bait on the hook again, but when he was hanging it, he found that there was a joint on the branch line.
He placed 300 hooks in total, three of which were small tubes, hung on the last hook of each frame of fishing line.
He recognized the knot he tied. This joint seemed to be the connection between two baskets of fishing lines. This big manta ray should have been caught using the small tube as bait.
After thinking about it, he took the shrimp down again, took out a small tube from the bucket and hung it on the hook. The bigger the bait, the bigger the fish will be caught, but the tube will be empty easily.
Ah Zheng and Xiao Xiao were also surprised to see his actions and asked, "You used the small tube as bait?"
"Yeah, let's try three of them. This big manta ray should have been caught by the small pipe."
"Ah? If we had known earlier, we would have tried some big baits."
"You can try it later. This side is not far from the shore. There may be fewer big fish here, so it will be easier to release them."
Ye Yaodong continued to reel in the line as he spoke, and a two-pound black sea bream came up. The fish was rather impatient and actually forced itself to drown.
The fish's respiratory organs are gills, which are used to filter oxygen in the water. Its gills had problems during the struggle, and the fish drowned.
He didn't stop for a moment and pulled up the main line again. As a result, he pulled up five or six sea wolves one after another, but they were not that big, probably only about two or three pounds.
After watching here for a while, A Zheng and the others rowed the boat to the place where they had placed the hooks before. They had been here for a long time, and it was time to go back and reel in the lines.
Ye Yaodong was exhausted from continuously delivering goods.
But the next movement surprised him again. He looked at the fishing line and found that there was a joint again, and this time there was a small tube as bait.
He pulled it casually and felt it was particularly heavy, so he knew he had another big fish. He didn't know if it was a high-quality fish, but it was very heavy.
This big fish was also very ferocious, creating a lot of waves on the sea surface. Ye Yaodong pulled it out of the water with great effort. Wow, it was a giant mackerel.
It’s okay, the fish is not bad, the key is that it’s big.
He held the main line with one hand, turned around and picked up a wooden stick hook on the boat, found the right opportunity and hooked it directly onto the fish head, pulled it onto the deck and put it together with the sea wolf.
I feel that this wooden stick hook is quite useful. It is quite difficult to pull up a big fish with a thin and long fishing line. With this hook, it is much easier. You don’t have to kill it deliberately, it will be dead as soon as you pull it ashore.
Both fish have long and narrow bodies. When placed together, it is obvious that the giant mackerel is longer and much larger than the sea wolffish.
When he pulled it up, he felt the weight and estimated that it should be more than 20 kilograms, worth 6-7 yuan.
It's a little worse than that manta ray, but it's not bad either.
The small wooden boat cannot go to sea too far away, and there are fewer big fish in the waters too close, so it all depends on luck to catch the fish.
Having these two fish is already a guaranteed minimum. Although the other fish are cheap, their quantity and weight cannot be surpassed, and when added together, it is quite a considerable sum.
Moreover, after these hooks are collected one by one, you can continue to bait them. It takes a lot of time from beginning to end, and you can continue after a while.
Both small fish brought him surprises, and he was secretly hoping that the last one would bring another big fish.
But he was disappointed. When he pulled up the last branch line, it was so light that he knew there was no stock without even looking. When he pulled it up, he saw that the small tube was still there.
Then there is no need to bait, just keep throwing it back into the sea.
After everything was collected, Ye Yaodong clapped his hands and wanted to find an empty spot on the boat to sit down, but he found that there was not much space left.
After collecting 300 hooks in a round, both buckets are full and can’t hold any more. There are already traps filled with goods, so there is not much space for more.
He threw most of the fish he had just pulled up together with the sea wolves and horse mackerel.
The manta ray takes up the largest area, and there are other tools on the boat.
He kicked his tools to the corner, sat down to rest for a while, drank some tea, and prepared to collect the goods in an hour. There were quite a lot of empty hooks just now, accounting for more than two-thirds.
It's still too close to the shore. It would have been better if we could have bought a bigger iron boat earlier.
As he was thinking, he felt something passing over his head. A shadow covered him and then another black shadow flashed by. He looked up in confusion and was startled.
"Fuck, such a big manta ray?"
It was a flying manta ray, flying in the air about 2 meters above the sea surface...
“Pah~”
There was a loud noise on the water surface, like a cannon, which spread for miles and stirred up huge splashes of water, which splashed all over him, soaking him from head to toe.
This is the sound of a manta ray falling into the water. The scene is beautiful and spectacular, but it is not very friendly to him!
He wiped the water off his face. This was the second time he was splashed in the face by a manta ray. Was it easy for him to catch a fish? Why did they take revenge on him like this
Just when I was about to curse at it, I saw it rising in the sea in a rotating posture. When it approached the sea surface, its rotation speed and swimming speed continued to increase until it jumped out of the water with a beautiful somersault.
Ye Yaodong was stunned. This was the second time he had seen it. He had also seen it in his previous life at sea.
The diameter of this manta ray is estimated to be more than three meters.
Before he could come to his senses, the huge manta ray flew towards his boat.
Ye Yaodong's eyes tightened, thinking that it was going to swoop down and fan him with its wings.
Its "pair of wings" is not something that ordinary people can bear.
When a manta ray gets angry, it can break a person's bones and kill him with just a flap of its powerful wings.
His small body can't bear it...
He reacted quickly and lay down quickly, hoping to avoid the attack, but he didn't expect the fish to pass him directly, hang itself on the anchor chain of the boat with its head fin, and then drag the boat quickly around on the sea.
The sudden rapid advance made him sway so much that he almost rolled off the boat. Fortunately, he quickly grabbed the side of the boat and stabilized his shaking body.
"Fuck... ahhh... are you taking revenge on me?"
"Ahhh~ Stop, stop~"
The manta ray could not understand human language, and the weight of the small wooden boat was nothing to it. It dragged the boat and continued to move quickly on the sea.