After catching three soft silks in succession, another manta ray came up. It was not very big. Ye Yaodong grabbed its nose without any moral principles, pulled it up roughly, and threw it on the boat for his father to sort out.
You are so ugly and so small, don't expect him to treat you gently.
After I caught 5 fish in a row, I got an empty hook again. The fish meat was still hanging there, and there might be no fish biting it.
This time when he went out to sea, he hung a variety of baits, some were shrimp baits, and some were fish pieces of various different species. Because they were all pulled up with ground traps, small fish of different species were cut up and used as bait, and those who were willing to take the bait would be caught.
Ye Yaodong continued to reel in the blind box. He knew it was another big fish after pulling it. It felt so good to get the fish. He was so happy.
"Oh wow! The mackerel weighs 5 kilograms!"
This longline fishing is more interesting than trawling and ground traps. The goods are caught one by one on the branch lines, and there are no small fish. Trawl nets and ground traps pull up a lot of fish at once. Although it is also very cool, it lacks a certain feeling.
Father Ye was also very happy as he was picking the fish and bleeding them in the back. He didn't expect that longline fishing was so easy to use. Each fish was quite big. He put the good quality fish in one basket and the inferior fish in another.
Ye Yaodong was very happy to get the goods. The fish near the coast were of higher quality than those along the coast, and there were more big fish. It might also be because the baits they used were relatively large.
In this era, the ocean has not been overfished, and except for a few species that are originally scarce, most resources are still very abundant. Decades later, there are still many second-level protected animals and first-level protected animals.
Ye Yaodong was collecting and baiting at the same time. It took him two hours to collect all the one thousand hooks. If he didn't mind being tired, he could go back and start over again.
But this time he was inexperienced and brought too few baits. 1,000 fish hooks require 1,000 baits. He used all the dozens of kilograms of small fish caught yesterday to make up the number, but it was still not enough for the bait. After he finished baiting the second time, the basin and bucket were both empty.
After Ye's father finished packing up the goods, he also saw that there was no bait left. He murmured, "The bait is used up too quickly. When I cut it this morning, there was still a large basin full of shrimps."
"That's right. I only had three to five hundred hooks to try before. I even left all the small fish and shrimps yesterday and didn't put them out to dry. But they weren't enough."
"Go back tonight and ask your elder and second brothers to keep all the small fish and shrimps. You can just pay some money to get them. Otherwise, we won't have enough bait. What shall we do?"
"We are out late today. If we go out at night tomorrow, the bait will be twice as much and it will not be enough. If we go to the dock to collect fish and shrimp, we can make a lot of money. Small fish and shrimp can't be sold for much money. Most people want to keep them back home and don't want to sell them."
Thinking about it made Ye's father feel heartbroken. He had originally thought that longline fishing was so efficient that it could catch fish continuously, and it only caught big fish, not small fish. It was too powerful.
Now looking at it this way, the bait alone costs a lot of money, plus the diesel fee and labor costs. If a couple goes out to sea, they can save a labor fare.
From this perspective, unless the fish caught are large in quantity and good in quality, it may not be able to beat trawling.
The trawl net has everything.
Ye Yaodong also felt that the bait was a bit of a waste. The number of worthless small fish and shrimps pulled up by the ground trap was not enough to support his longline fishing. Fish that could be sold at a high price certainly could not be used as bait.
"I will go back tonight and tell my eldest and second brothers that I will buy all the fish and shrimps that they can't sell at a good price from me."
All the baits have been hung up, and after the second wave is collected, they will have to reel in the lines and return. They are not in a hurry for this wave as there is plenty of time, so they plan to let it hang for a little longer. It is only 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Father Ye planned to lie down and take a nap, while Ye Yaodong went to see what he had just harvested.
I filled a bucket with soft silk, it was so full that it looked like it weighed more than ten pounds.
As for fish, the largest one was the yellowtail amberjack weighing over 20 kilograms. There were also many other big fish, the most numerous of which were the mackerel, two of which were over 10 kilograms, and two flounders weighing over 3 kilograms. There were also many varieties such as sea bass, black sea bream, red sea bream, sea wolf, etc., but their weights varied.
A lot of baits were not moved, and there were also many empty hooks and escaped fish, but the harvest of one rope was also considerable. Ye Yaodong estimated that these were worth dozens of dollars.
This is just the first time I have caught fish. If I go out at night and catch a few more times, I will have caught enough fish in a day. If the bait is not enough, it is worth buying some.
At about three o'clock, Ye Yaodong woke up his father who was sleeping and snoring, and planned to continue reeling in the line. After that, he would return home for dinner.
The sea area here is far away and not along the coast. Ye Yaodong plans to collect the fishing line at the same time as the harvest, so it is not suitable to leave it overnight.
After catching three Spanish mackerels in a row, a squid was caught. Ye Yaodong was afraid that its ink would spray all over his face, so he stretched out his arm to take the hook, then turned his face to the side, but saw a trawling fishing boat slowly approaching them.
He didn't take it seriously. It was common to run into fishing boats that were working. You do yours, I do mine, and we don't interfere with each other.
But the sea surface not far from the fishing boat was sparkling, which immediately attracted his attention. Then a big fish rushed towards the sea in front from far away, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right.
He forgot to reel in the line for a moment and looked towards the iron boat trawling the net. The fishing boat reacted quickly, turning around and chasing the big fish, trying to drag it into the net.
Seeing that he was looking into the distance, Ye's father also looked over, but there was nothing special. There was only a fishing boat operating, but the boat was driving a little faster. The normal trawling speed is 3 to 5 nautical miles per hour.
"What are you looking at? Reel in the line quickly and go home."
"I just saw a big fish, and this boat seems to be going after that big fish now."
"What does it have to do with us?"
"That boat is coming our way."
Seeing the boat getting closer and closer to him, Ye's father also looked over.
I don’t know if they had caught a big fish, but the boat actually slowed down and was just in front of them, just a few meters away, and then they saw them collecting the nets.
Father Ye patted his shoulder and said, "What's so good about it? I'll take your goods."
"Oh." He was actually just curious and wanted to know if they had caught the big fish. What kind of fish was that? Looking at the movement on the sea at that time, the fish seemed to be quite big, and he felt a little itchy.
Just as he turned his head, he heard a sudden scream from the boat. The distance was so close that it was hard for him not to hear it.
But he couldn't see it, so he had to give up for the time being and continued to reel in the line without paying attention to what was happening over there.
He was pleasantly surprised when he tried to catch it. It was difficult for him to pull the line, and the waves on the water splashed on his face. He dragged the fish slowly and carefully to prevent it from escaping, until the fish emerged from the water!
"Bomb fish? No, it's a tuna. Dad, come here and get the scoop net! It's a tuna!" Ye Yaodong shouted excitedly to his father.
This one looks like it’s definitely over one meter long. It’s the biggest catch we’ve made today and is much more valuable than the yellowtail that got away before. We can’t let it get away this time.
After he pulled the fish to the surface of the water, he didn't dare to drag it hard and waited for his father to come over with a hand net to catch it.
He pulled it slowly, struggling with it, splashing water everywhere. Both he and Ye's father's faces and bodies were soaked by the splashing water. After pulling it to the side of the boat, Ye's father used a hand net to fish it out.
But the fish was very big, and Ye's father didn't check it for a moment, so it flipped out. Fortunately, the fishhook got it and it didn't run away.
Father Ye took aim again, grasped the handle of the hand net with both hands, and scooped it up with all his strength and threw it onto the deck.
The two then saw clearly that it was a bluefin tuna, and their faces immediately broke into smiles of joy.
“It’s albacore!”
The fish has a torpedo-shaped appearance and smooth skin. He recognized its species at a glance because its first dorsal fin is dark yellow, its second dorsal fin is light yellow, its back has a dark blue metallic luster, and its edges and belly are silvery white.
This albacore tuna is widely distributed in various domestic waters and in waters around the world.
There are many types of tuna, including bluefin tuna, albacore tuna, bluefin tuna, bigeye tuna, blackfin tuna, etc. The best is of course bluefin tuna, but albacore tuna is not bad either.
This one is about 1.2 meters long, and its size makes it absolutely top-notch.
After the albacore tuna was thrown onto the deck, it bounced a few times and swung its tail. Ye Yaodong planned to bleed it while it was still alive and then let his father reel in the line.
He wanted to cut this top-quality tuna himself. This was the first time he had encountered it since he was reborn.
At this time, the ship in front also sailed towards them and approached their ship.
"Youhe, you also caught a tuna?" A short, thin and dark middle-aged man leaned against the side of the boat, stretching his neck to look at the albacore tuna on their boat.
Ye Yaodong was curious about what kind of fish they had just caught online, so he smiled and said, "Uncle, I just saw a big fish on the sea. Did you catch it?"
The short, thin, dark-skinned middle-aged man smiled proudly, "Yes, the one I just caught is bigger than yours and more valuable than your albacore tuna. It's a yellowfin tuna."
Father Ye said with envy: "Really? We are so lucky, we have seen it before."
"It was chasing a school of anchovies. We happened to be trawling near the front when we saw part of it emerging from the water. We chased it and unexpectedly we actually caught it."
"It's a school of anchovies. No wonder. I said that fish looked like it was hunting." Ye Yaodong felt a little regretful. The yellowfin tuna was also top quality.
"We were lucky. We saw it right after our boat came over and caught it right away. You guys are not good enough. You actually used longline fishing. If you were trawling in this area, it would have been caught in your net long ago."
Ye Yaodong shrugged. "Albacore tuna is pretty good, not much different."
A middle-aged woman on the boat, probably his wife, also spoke up at this time, "Who said that? It's much worse, okay? The yellowfin tuna is much better than yours. Show them."
"Let me show you. It's just bled." The short, thin, dark-skinned middle-aged man was really happy. He proudly pulled out the yellowfin tuna and held it in his hands to show them. He said proudly, "See, this head, these golden fins, beautiful, right?"
Ye Yaodong also saw it, and it was indeed a little bigger than them.
The woman said proudly, "It's better than yours, isn't it? It's bigger, and this fish is rare to see near the coast..."
Before he could finish his words, a wave suddenly rolled over, causing the boat to shake. The middle-aged man's body also shook, and his hands lost their balance, causing his eyes to shrink in shock.
“Ahh~”
"Ah~fish...my fish..."
That yellowfin tuna actually fell directly into the sea...
The middle-aged man reacted quickly and immediately leaned half of his body out of the side of the boat, trying to catch the fish, but he only touched the fish's tail, and the yellowfin tuna sank directly.
The woman also excitedly rushed to the side of the boat, leaned half of her body out, stretched out her arms, but only touched a handful of sea water.
"Ahhh~ My tuna..."