He helped Ye's father collect all the hooks. There had been a lot of rain during this period, so there were fewer fishing boats out to sea, and it was not easy to buy fish bait at the dock.
It would be a luxury to use better fish as bait, so it is better to use trawl as the catch is plentiful in spring and the trawl harvest is very good.
Therefore, recently they only set the bait for longline fishing once, put it down when the fishing boat sets out, and collect it before returning. They trawle the net at other times, being flexible.
After collecting all the hooks, he drove the boat further towards the reef. It was already four o'clock. Although he had left enough time in advance, it was still quite late.
As soon as Father Ye arrived, he frowned and said, "There are still 6 traps that have not been collected. I don't know if the ones behind are stuck. If you want to go into the water again, find the stuck traps first. I will collect them directly on the shore. In case there are still stuck ones, you should pay more attention underwater. Collect them earlier and go back earlier. The sun is about to set."
Ye Yaodong nodded as he took off his clothes and wrung out the wet clothes he had taken off earlier, "Got it."
Father Ye watched him change into wet clothes again, put on the strange mask, tube and flippers, and couldn't help but say again: "Remember! Don't forget it after you get into the water. You can always come back. Take back the trap first."
"Got it. I'll be up in 20 minutes at most. My watch is in my coat pocket. Check the time yourself."
He didn't mind the discomfort of wearing wet clothes since he was going into the water soon anyway.
Having learned from his previous lessons, he always brings an extra set of clothes when going out to sea. He changed into dry clothes when he just came ashore, and now when he is about to go into the water, he changes back into wet clothes.
Otherwise, you will have no clothes to wear when you come up, and you can only wear wet clothes that stick to your body.
Ye Yaodong then inserted the small hand-held net into the rope tied to the net bag around his waist and secured it. After doing some simple warm-up exercises, he jumped into the water.
This time there was no need to practice in the surface water layer. He dived directly into the deep sea with familiarity, without stopping halfway to waste time.
But when he was diving, he unexpectedly encountered a school of white-scaled fish in the water layer of six or seven meters. The white-scaled fish were silvery white in color and were swimming densely in the same direction.
He felt sorry for it. If all the fish were dragged down in one net, there would be at least two or three hundred kilograms. This season happened to be their spawning period, and their movements were slow, thus forming a flood season for fishing.
Looking at such a large group of white-scaled fish, he moved slowly for a moment, and was surrounded by the fish in an instant. The fish, each 20 to 30 centimeters long, were not afraid of him. Perhaps they relied on their large numbers and went around his body and continued to move forward.
The underwater world is amazing...
He paused for a moment out of curiosity, stretched out his hand to poke the white-scaled fish swimming past him, only to see it startled and wagging its tail, making a small splash of water, before quickly swimming away.
Afraid of delaying too long and wasting time, he did not wait for the school of fish to pass by, but continued to move quickly downwards with his flapping flippers.
When Ye's father saw that the air pipe connected to the air pump on the boat stayed still for a while and then continued to be stretched, he became nervous, fearing that something might have happened.
In his heart, he scolded his troublesome son severely, "Can't you just let the nets go fishing? Why do you have to mess around like this? You are so restless. I am old, and I still have to worry about you..."
Ye Yaodong didn't know that his father was getting angry again and he didn't dare to delay any longer when he went down again. He dived directly to the reef on the seabed in one breath. This time, the landing point was three or four meters away from the previous time.
He determined the direction and simply started to walk around the reef below to free the stuck trap first.
As a result, he walked around for a long time but didn't even look nearby. He couldn't help but frowning. It was strange. According to the direction, it should be in this area. It was impossible that it didn't fall.
He turned around again, looking at the sunken ship in the way, wondering if he had gotten on the ship? Was that why he didn't see it after turning around
With the intention of looking for more, he tried to climb onto the fishing boat. At first glance, he saw the trap that was stuck by the diesel engine.
Damn, no wonder I couldn’t find it, it turned out to be placed here.
At this time, Ye's father above was also trying to pull the rope. One end of the cage floated up instantly, but it was not pulled. A section of the cage was stuck on the parts on the edge of the machine.
Ye Yaodong hurried forward to untie that piece of fishing net, and the trap was pulled up instantly. His father was really timely.
Seeing the few small fish scattered in the fish bag below, he thought that he had lost a lot of money as there was not a single small blue dragon or sea cucumber in this net.
He patted the machine at hand. If there are no fish, he can use this machine to make up for it. When he goes back, he will bring a bundle of thicker ropes, tie it up, and drag it ashore.
He had no way of towing the sunken ship up, but since the machine was a little difficult, he could still ask two more people to help.
It has been sunk in the sea for several days. To pull it out, we have to ask a craftsman to dismantle it, clean it and repair it. I don't know if it can be used.
Let's give it a try. The broken ship still has 3,000 nails. If it can't be used, it can still be sold as junk.
I originally didn't want to bother with it, it was too troublesome, but now that I've seen it, I might as well pull it up and give it a try. If it works, it could be worth a lot of money.
After thinking it over and over again in his mind and making up his mind, he planned to go to the bottom of the sea. The first thing he had to do was to fill the net bag.
Who knew that just as he was about to stop and swim away, a grouper emerged from under the machine
Grouper
Deep red
Eastern star grouper? Holy crap!
Ye Yaodong's eyes tightened with shock, but it was a pity that he was at the bottom of the sea, otherwise, he would have to exclaim "Fuck" several times to express his surprise!
For fear of disturbing the grouper, he dared not move for fear of scaring it away. He slowly took off the scoop net on his waist, fearing that excessive movement would cause waves in the sea.
He aimed the mouth of the scoop net at the fish and when he moved forward to scoop it up, he saw the fish alertly flick its tail and bounce to the side.
He followed with a hand net, thinking of giving up if the fish swam too far. After all, grouper were very ferocious and active, and difficult to catch, and he had limited time.
He followed it out of the boat and watched it swim towards a reef nearby. It was in his direction, so he followed closely behind.
After it swam to the reef, it dived into a crevice. The crevice had only one entrance and exit. Ye Yaodong was instantly surprised, as he thought he would give up as he could not catch it.
He quickly blocked the exit with a scoop net, and then hit the stone hard on both sides. The 'Eastern Star Grouper' was frightened and rushed out of the exit and directly into the scoop net, falling into the trap.
In an instant, he also felt a collision, and was violently hit left and right in the hand-carrying net.
He immediately grabbed the mouth of the net to prevent it from escaping. The fish was quite ferocious and was still struggling after being caught in the net.
With a smile in his eyes, he was filled with joy. He opened the net a little, reached his hand in, and intended to pick it up and put it in the net bag.
But the moment he caught it, the smile on his face froze.
what is this
Holy shit, this isn’t a grouper!
This is a white line red bass!
Damn, the light underwater is not very good, and I didn’t hold it in my hand to look closely, so I made a mistake...
Damn, these two fish look so similar, I was so happy in vain.
Ah, Ye Yaodong is exhausted...
I wasted a lot of time and energy, and I'm still running after someone, damn it...
After cursing in his heart, he still threw the fish into the net bag depressedly. He had already caught it, he couldn't just throw it away.
Oh, it's so infuriating!
The name of the white-lined red bass is a common name. Its official name is the tail-striped nine-thorn bass. The front half is bright red, and the back half is darker, sometimes turning into dark brown spots.
Because it looks similar to grouper, it is often used by unscrupulous merchants to impersonate grouper.
In fact, there are two white diagonal "∨"-shaped stripes on its tail, which makes it very easy to identify. However, he was just surprised and it escaped again, so he didn't see it carefully. The underwater vision is not so clear through the mask, so he ignored it.
Alas, he couldn't be depressed anymore, so he turned around and swam towards the reef.
Time is running out. He had just wasted too much time looking for traps and catching fish. He had to hurry up and pry the abalone directly to save trouble, otherwise he would suffer a big loss this time.
He was paying attention to his feet to avoid stone fish or other unidentified objects, but he saw a small green dragon lying on the reef diagonally above him. It weighed about 70 to 80 grams, quite large.
He first aimed the scoop net at its butt in case it ran away, and prepared to catch it with his other hand, but before he could get close, it jumped back in alert and fell into the net.
The scoop net in my hand was stretched straight by the impact, and then I felt it being pulled again.
It is impossible to escape once you enter the hand-copied website.
Ye Yaodong brought the hand-held net in front of him. The little blue dragon was struggling inside it, but the more it struggled, the tighter its legs got entangled in the net.
He reached behind the lobster and freed its entangled feet from the net.
The hand holding the lobster can feel vibrations at the same time. This is because the lobster's tail is constantly bending forward, doing a cart-like motion...
After putting the fish in his bag, he immediately took the time to pry out the abalone. After a long time, there was still only one fish, a small green dragon, in the net bag. He could only fill it with abalone. Fortunately, the abalone was not bad.
He pried them out quickly and skillfully, putting them into the net bag one by one...
When he felt he was reaching his limit, he swung his fins to float up and out of the water.
Father Ye was relieved to see him come up.
"Next time, if it's not necessary, it's better not to go in the water as much as possible. It takes so long every time you go in, it's too unsafe."
"It's OK! I didn't go very deep."
"That's fine, don't go down."
"It's actually quite fun, staying on the boat and waiting for the blind boxes to open, although it's a surprise, but it's not as exciting as an underwater adventure."
Father Ye was worried and helpless. "You are not exciting at all. You are risking your life. The risk is already high at sea. You want to go to the bottom of the sea? You really think your life is too long."
Ye Yaodong nodded and climbed onto the boat. He felt that a dozen meters was safe.