After confirming that it was this buoy, Ye Yaohua took the lead in pulling it up, then pulled up the sinker line and began to reel it in.
The other two watched on, curious about what good stuff could be pulled up, after all, there had been a sardine storm yesterday.
Ye Yaodong did not have high expectations. After all, sardines were ready-made live bait, and the big fish would not have enough time to eat them.
He probably only uses these hooks to catch smaller fish, which cannot swallow sardines. But he is hard to say, what if there is an idiot
“Is it sinking?” Ye Yaopeng asked as he watched him reel in the line.
"It's not sinking and it's easy to pull." Ye Yaohua said.
Ye Yaodong was not disappointed, "It should not be very big."
Ye Yaohua continued to reel in the line, and the three brothers also saw the fish being pulled out of the water.
"It's Laron."
Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua were both quite happy. The first fish that came up was a Laren fish, which looked quite big.
Ye Yaohua took off the hook, weighed it in his hand, and said with a smile: "I'm lucky, it's about 3 kilograms."
The body of the Larynx is spindle-shaped, with a blue-black back, a silvery-white belly with a light blue hue, and two parallel light blue longitudinal bands on the sides of the body, which looks quite beautiful.
Ye Yaodong was quite satisfied. He didn't expect to catch a big fish, as long as he had a good harvest. Laren fish is a top-quality sashimi material, and this one is worth two or three dollars.
Ye Yaopeng seemed to be eager to try it too. After Ye Yaohua pulled up two black sea breams weighing more than a kilogram and three tench fish weighing around a kilogram, he could no longer hold back.
"Let me do it, let me do it, let me collect some too..."
Who can resist the charm of longline fishing and opening blind boxes to catch fish? You never know what kind of surprise will be given to you in the next second~
Ye Yaodong laughed and even rushed to do it.
Those three tench fish are pretty good too. Tench fish are small fish, usually only 2-3 large in size. It is not easy for these three to weigh one kilogram, and each one is worth one dollar.
Tench is a typical marine carnivorous fish, also known as flower-bodied chickenfish. It is widely distributed in many sea areas and is a tropical and subtropical warm-water near-bottom fish.
They often live in shallow coastal waters near gravel bottoms, sandy bottoms or reefs, and can also live in seawater or brackish water.
I don’t know if Ye Yaopeng was unlucky or if the next few hooks were all baited with shrimps, but after passing through his hands, either the hooks were empty or they caught a series of green carps, and the size of each one was only about one pound.
But Ye Yaopeng was still very excited.
After he pulled up a sea wolf weighing about ten kilograms, he was even happier, "Dongzi, your longline fishing is pretty good."
"Indeed, I think so too. It's good to just catch big fish. Putting out a thousand hooks at a time is like using a thousand fishing rods to fish at the same time. It's quite efficient, but it's easy to catch empty hooks."
"It's not bad. I've been reeling in the line for so long that I don't have time to hook a few."
"That's because I put it down yesterday morning, and it's been a day since then, so there are fewer empty hooks."
"That's true..."
Ye Yaopeng continued to learn more about longline fishing from him. Ye Yaodong was also very open and told him everything he knew. As for whether they wanted to do some longline fishing, that was up to them.
Everyone has his own opinion. What he thinks is good may not be considered good by others.
Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua took turns reeling in the line with great interest. They removed the hook and put the fishing line into the basket. At this time, a blue grouper was caught on the hook, which made the two brothers very happy.
"Damn, I actually caught a blue grouper, that's great..."
Ye Yaohua was eager to try, "Brother, let's go back and ask someone to make a few hundred to try?"
"Okay, I'll ask someone to do it when I get back."
Ye Yaodong was not surprised at all. Blue grouper is not expensive among groupers, only slightly better than tiger grouper. Moreover, this one was not very big, only about one and a half kilograms.
But it is still worth being happy about. He has caught a lot of groupers and premium fish in the past few months, but this is the first time he has caught a blue grouper.
Maybe I have a card collecting mentality, and the blue grouper card in my heart is lit up.
Tiger grouper, giant grouper, sea bass, red grouper, blue grouper, and today's blue grouper, he feels that he may have the opportunity to collect all the known grouper species in his lifetime.
Just thinking about it makes me happy, as if I have added another item to my life resume.
"Another big mackerel..."
"This fish is not small, it weighs more than two kilograms..."
"Empty hook, nothing..."
…
Ye Yaodong leaned against the side of the boat and looked at his two brothers leisurely in high spirits. Today's harvest was good, with relatively few empty hooks. The frequent delivery of goods was indeed worth being happy about.
But at this moment, he frowned, "Did you hear any sound?"
"what sound?"
The two brothers were a little confused and stopped receiving the goods and talking.
"It sounds like a dog barking?"
"No way? Where did the dog come from in the sea?"
Ye Yaodong also frowned and said, "I also heard the dog barking?"
"It can't be so supernatural, right?"
Ye Yaodong looked around curiously and shone the flashlight towards the sea, only to see a small fish struggling on the side of the boat.
He found a hand scoop net, pointed a flashlight at the dog, and scooped it up. As a result, the dog's barking became more obvious, and Ye Yaodong immediately put it back into the sea.
He remembered.
"Dongzi? Didn't you fish it out? Why did you put it back again?"
"I haven't looked closely yet. Is that barking sound made by this fish? So strange?"
Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua were both a little curious.
"This little fish is called the boxfish, and it's one of the ten strangest species in the world. Its surface is poisonous, and the toxin is very strong. It has a bad temper, and it will release the poison if it disagrees with you or is caught or touched, and then poison itself to death. If it is in the sea, it's okay, because there is seawater to dilute it."
"So the barking sound of a dog is made by it?" Ye Yaohua felt it was incredible that a fish could actually make the barking sound of a dog.
"Yep."
"This... this is really strange..."
"Don't worry about it. If you put it back, it won't poison itself. Hurry up and reel in the line. It's almost daybreak. Once you're done you can haul in the net right away. Don't delay your work."
The ocean is so vast that there are all kinds of wonders. Some of them you will recognize when you encounter them and find them interesting, but most of them you will not be able to recognize when you encounter them.
The sky gradually turned pale, and the two brothers didn't waste any more words. They hurried to reel in the fish and lines. However, one of them was not careful and caught a big squid. Ye Yaohua didn't pay attention when he took the hook off, and it sprayed ink all over his face, and he couldn't even open his eyes.
"Oh my god, so cruel..."
Ye Yaodong looked at it with a smile on his face. The previous few squids either didn't spray ink or sprayed it when they were pulled up. None of them were as accurate as this one.
Ye Yaohua touched it and found that it was evenly distributed...
"You go and wash them, I'll collect here." Ye Yaopeng took the opportunity to take over the main line and continued to collect the goods.
It took nearly two hours to finally collect all the hooks. The three brothers watched excitedly. They saw that one of the last few hooks actually had a bomb fish on it. This made them all very happy, as they had thought there was no chance of catching a big fish today.
Although this bomb fish is not very big, weighing a little less than 30 kilograms, it is still a bomb fish and the largest fish caught by longline fishing today.
Other fish include bluefin tuna, sea bream, mackerel, black sea bream, eel, sea bass, etc., among which bluefin tuna accounts for one third and the largest quantity.
Only a few tench and larvae were caught at the beginning, and there was only one blue grouper and one bomb fish. However, we did catch more than twenty squids, probably weighing more than ten kilograms.
Although there were nothing particularly valuable today, the large quantities made Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua tempted and planned to go back and make a few hundred to try.
They deliberately packed his fish separately and put it in a corner so that it would be easier to distinguish them later.
After collecting all the hooks, Ye Yaodong had nothing to do so he found a corner and took a nap. He was so tired yesterday that he kept yawning.
Now that the work was done, he tilted his head and fell asleep immediately.
Anyway, he has nothing to do with trawling, and it takes two or three hours to pull up the net after it is put down. It is just right for him to wake up and see what they have caught.