There were 300 fish hooks, and the fish lined up to be caught, with only about thirty or forty empty hooks. Ye Yaodong collected the fish from beginning to end, and his waist was sore, but the harvest was still considerable.
Not to mention the blue grouper, he also caught ten red conger eels, as well as some black porgy weighing one or two kilograms, sea bass, yellow croaker, and mackerel. Most of them were croakers, just as he expected.
It's just that one person has to drive the boat, reel in the line and re-bait it. It seems too chaotic and inefficient.
I glanced at A Zheng and Xiao Xiao who were working in the distance. It was too far to see clearly, but I could see that one of them was driving the boat and the other was letting out the line, and they were doing it very calmly.
He shook his head and said that there was no comparison. They wanted to share it between two people, but he kept it all by himself. He would just hire another person when he changed to a bigger boat.
After reeling in the lines, he immediately took the two baskets of main lines on the boat to connect the tail end of the main line in the sea, and connected the buoy rope and the sinker rope together and threw them into the sea. He did not throw out the tail anchor and buoy until both baskets of main lines brought out to sea today were put into the sea.
He added 200 more hooks, making a total of 500 hooks put into the sea. On the first 300 hooks, he still hung shrimps as bait, and on the last 200 hooks he hung sea centipedes as bait. Some were too long, so he cut them into pieces with scissors and hung them up again.
I heard that this sea centipede is a universal bait just like the shrimp. I'll wait and see if there's anything new.
After finishing all the work, he clapped his hands, stood up straight, twisted his waist, and thought to himself that next time he could get some sea snakes or seahorses or something like that to make medicinal wine. He would still need it for his waist, and he could also make some for his father. Anyway, his father also loved to drink, and it could also nourish the body and eliminate rheumatism. His father had rheumatism.
He also picked up a bucket. His bucket was relatively tall and felt like it held more than 30 kilograms. Both buckets were full, and there were several large fish weighing more than 5-6 kilograms thrown on the boat.
Today's harvest will definitely exceed yesterday's. The blue grouper and a dozen large red conger eels alone are worth dozens of dollars.
This is just the beginning!
Ye Yaodong lay down leisurely, covered his face with his hat, and didn't plan to fish anymore. There were so many fish hooks in the sea, there was no need to fight with himself for the catch.
The sea waves were undulating and the boat was swaying with them, like a natural rocking chair that lulled people to sleep. An autumn rain came and a cool sea breeze blew, bringing with it an icy chill. He simply crossed his arms over his chest.
When going out to sea today, Lin Xiuqing specifically called him and asked him to put on a cotton-padded jacket. The wind was strong on the sea and it had rained yesterday, so it was indeed colder today, and it was indeed warm in the cotton-padded jacket.
He squinted his eyes slightly. The dim light, the shaking water surface, and the occasional sound of fish wagging their tails in the water made him feel so leisurely that his whole mind relaxed. He slowly closed his eyes, planning to rest for a while before getting up to reel in his line.
He didn't know how long it had been, but he suddenly heard a scream in his ear, and he was so scared that he sat up immediately.
"Dongzi, Dongzi?"
"Fuck, why are you screaming? I'm sleeping soundly!" Ye Yaodong shouted at them in a depressed mood as he was about to wake up.
"Damn, you're still alive? I thought you were dead. I quickly asked Zheng to row the boat over to check." Xiaoxiao glared at him unhappily.
"The lines are already laid out, so there's nothing to do. You can just lie down and take a nap because you're bored."
"We saw the boat floating from a distance and there was no one on board. We thought you had met with an accident and fell into the sea again."
"I'm very lucky, what can happen to me? Even if I fall into the sea, I can swim out. How can someone drown in such a shallow sea? It's not like I can't swim."
"Okay, okay, we've been worrying for nothing. We have to go back and collect our fishing hooks."
"Are we going to finish so soon?" Ye Yaodong rolled up his sleeves, checked the time on his wrist, and immediately stood up. He had actually slept for more than an hour.
"Youhe, our brother Dong has become rich? He even wears a watch?" Xiaoxiao, who had sharp eyes, saw him rolling up his sleeves and spoke out in surprise.
"I got it for nothing. I have this fortune. You can't envy me."
Ah Zheng was also interested now, "For free? How did you get it for free? Tell us so that the brothers can know, and see if we can get one for free too."
"It's no use saying it out loud, go back and collect your hooks, I have to reel in my line too, I've overslept."
"Tsk, you don't even share your fortune."
"This cannot be shared. If it can be shared, I will definitely tell you."
If you take money from others or help them get rid of disasters, and you have accepted their things, then you must keep the matter secret, at least it cannot be leaked from him.
As Ye Yaodong spoke, he rowed the boat towards the buoy where the line was first reeled in, but he saw that the waves were surging violently under the sea not far ahead.
"What's that in the water over there?"
"What?"
Zheng Xiaoxiao had originally planned to just let it go if he didn't say anything, and was about to row the boat back and start reeling in the line, but when he heard what he said, he stopped curiously and looked in the direction of his finger.
"Huh? What's that under the water?"
"It looks like a bunch of long, thin things? Are they a school of eels?"
Ye Yaodong nodded with sparkling eyes, "It looks quite similar, so long. I threw the hooks into the sea last night, and when I was reeling in the lines, I caught more than a dozen large red conger eels, ranging from 70 to 80 kilograms. It's very pleasing."
The two were pleasantly surprised when they heard this. "So good? Then we won't close the line today."
"Next time I go out to sea, I must bring a hand-cast net. It's fine if I didn't bring it yesterday, but I didn't bring it today either." Ah Zheng felt a little regretful. Who would have thought that he would encounter a school of eels again.
Ye Yaodong was also thinking in his mind that he had to prepare a hand-cast net and put it on the boat as a backup. Otherwise, he would be very frustrated if he couldn't catch a good catch every time he encountered one. Today was not so bad, the fish school was near his hooks, so he would at least get some harvest.
Suddenly, the water on the sea surface churned, and a slender creature stretched out its head and emerged from the water. Before they could tell what it was, a sea eagle that had been flying in the sky above the sea swooped down from the sky and picked it up.
The three of them finally saw what the creature was and exclaimed...
"Hiss~"
"Fuck, this is a sea snake, and that's not a conger eel, it's a group of sea snakes, damn~ I have goosebumps..."
"This is a blue-ringed sea snake. Damn, I thought it was a school of moray eels."
Ye Yaodong also tightened his eyes as he looked at the sea eagle that flew away. In its mouth, it was holding an olive-colored sea snake with black rings all over its body.
"Fortunately, I didn't bring a fishing net to pull them up..."
He shuddered at the thought of a whole net of blue-ringed sea snakes, still alive, being pulled onto a fishing boat...
Who can bear this? This is killing them!
The other two couldn't help but feel lucky, "Yeah, if it was just one or two, we could still catch them, but with this group coming online, it's going to be fatal."
At this time, several blue-ringed sea snakes appeared one after another on the sea surface. The sea eagles and seabirds on the sea surface were watching eagerly and quickly leaned down to hunt, and none of them missed their beaks.
The blue-ringed sea snakes in mid-air struggled to curl up their entire bodies. Although they were ferocious, once they left the water and were in mid-air they had no ability to attack, and were almost completely unable to defend themselves, and could only become food for these seabirds.
Ye Yaodong guessed that they were accidentally hunted because they stretched their heads out to breathe.
At this time, the sea surface suddenly became boiling again. A group of blue-ringed sea snakes slowly floated to the surface of the water, forming a long snake formation that stretched for dozens of meters. The seabirds in the air excitedly flew down one after another to hunt.
"Hiss~"
so much…
The three of them gasped and looked with pale faces at the densely packed Blue Ringed Sea Snakes on the water in front of them. They were gathering in an overwhelming manner. The ships operating in the distant sea were also restless, swaying irregularly. It was estimated that there were groups of Blue Ringed Sea Snakes nearby and they were running away in fear.
Who isn’t afraid of snakes
It stretches for such a long distance, more than just dozens of meters, but hundreds or even thousands of meters. How many blue-ringed sea snakes must be underneath
There were more and more seabirds on the sea, flying from a distance. The three men were so scared that they quickly drove the boat away, away from their snake formation and the hunting of seabirds. At this moment, they had no time to reel in the line.
At this time, all the ships on the sea, whether they had encountered the blue-ringed sea snake or not, stopped operating. They were attracted by the seabirds in the sky. Those that were far away even rowed over to watch, and when they saw the blue-ringed sea snake on the sea, they couldn't help but gasp.
Ye Yaodong and Xiao Xiao A Zheng's boats were close together and they watched from a distance.
Many times, these ocean phenomena are not something you can see whenever you want, and they are rarely seen even for decades.
Ah Zheng stretched his neck and swallowed hard, "Do sea snakes also need to have a party?"
"Don't they live in groups? They need to bond with each other, right?"
"Snakes are cold-blooded animals, right? Do sea snakes have feelings? Are they just making up a story?"
Ye Yaodong listened to the two idiots talking nonsense with a frown on his face. "It's their reproductive season, so they will gather together to mate and reproduce."
"Such?"
"What a bunch of idiots! Isn't this convenient for seabirds to hunt?"
"We can't understand marine biological phenomena, but we know that it's their breeding season, so there are large-scale gatherings of blue-ringed sea snakes."
"Tsk tsk tsk, Dongzi, you really are an expert on everything at sea."
"Of course! I may not know everything or understand everything, but I definitely know more than you."
"How long do they stay together like this?"
"Not sure. They should disperse in an hour or two. If they stay at the sea level for a while longer, their group will lose dozens of birds. There will be more and more seabirds flying in from afar."
Not only seabirds, but more and more ships on the sea also came after hearing the news, all of them coming to watch the excitement.
It is not necessarily word of mouth from the ships at sea. Fishermen all know that there are usually schools of fish where seabirds gather and circle. The ships on the sea today were completely attracted by the seabirds.