The fish were hooked quite quickly in the beginning. Within two minutes, I could hear the fishing line being pulled. The fish was also shaking back and forth and left and right at the back. But now, after such a long time, it's still silent and not moving.
He stuck his head out of the boat's side and took a look. The sea was calm, with only the wind blowing the water slowly moving. He tried to lift the fishing line, then shook it left and right a few times. Perhaps the fish couldn't take the bait because the boat wasn't moving and the bait wasn't moving
As a result, just as he pulled up the fishing line, he felt a jam, and when the fish hook was pulled up, the bait on it was empty.
"Just now I felt like there was a fish, but I think I pulled the line too early."
"Why are you in such a hurry? Fishing requires patience. How can you expect a fish to bite the bait right after you throw the hook? It may take people more than 10 or 20 minutes to catch a single fish. Why are you in such a hurry?"
Ye Yaodong was speechless. He didn't know who it was. He just reminded him, but there was no response for a long time.
old man!
"I'll straighten the thread for you..."
"Oh! No need! I'll do it by myself. You go over to the side and enjoy the cool air. I'll fish and have fun slowly by myself." Ye Yaodong simply raised the wooden stick in his hand so that his father couldn't reach it.
Father Ye looked at him with anger. If he wasn’t bored, would he have come over
Father Ye was so depressed that he stopped watching and went straight to sit on a small stool, resting his chin in the sea breeze.
I have never had such a leisurely trip at sea. There is nothing to do, so I just park the boat here and let it drift.
At this moment, a boat really came towards this side without any eyes. Ye's father stood up, ready to yell at the boat to leave as soon as it got close, but the boat turned around and left before it even got close.
Father Ye had no choice but to sit back down, rubbing his chin and muttering, "Isn't this eyesight too good? He saw me leaving from a distance... Alas~ What time is it now? I should have moved the things at home..."
Hearing their frequent exclamations and reports of what new fish they had caught, Father Ye became a little itchy and after sitting there for more than half an hour, he stood up and walked over.
Just then, Ye Yaodong pulled up another rod and said, "Fuck, it's a tiger grouper. OK, OK. I was wondering why it bit the hook so hard."
When Father Ye came over and saw it, he said happily, "Yes, yes, we caught a grouper."
"Grouper? I heard this fish is quite expensive." said a soldier.
Ye Yaodong smiled so hard that his mouth almost split to the back of his head. "It's not bad. This tiger grouper is a cheap species among groupers, so it's not bad. The ones we just caught were all water bream, eels, black mullet, horse mackerel, black porgy, etc. This tiger grouper is the best. This grouper likes to move around in reefs the most."
"It's a pity that a red snapper just ran away, otherwise that fish looked like it would weigh three or four kilograms and could be sold for a good price."
After fishing for a while, he felt that the hand-line fishing had a very obvious feel and was powerful, and it felt better than using a rod.
After catching more than a dozen fish, he could already roughly distinguish what each vibration of the fishing line meant.
Every time a fish eats, the vibration of the fishing line can be quickly transmitted to his fingers. He can even roughly tell whether the fish is holding the food (taking a bite and immediately letting go) or swallowing it (having swallowed the hook into its mouth) based on the different vibrations of the fishing line.
Some fish only take one or two seconds to swallow a hook. If you are slow to react at this time, the fish will spit out the hook and run away.
He didn't notice one just now and it ran away. He saw a red shadow on the sea. It was a red snapper, but unfortunately it was dead.
The red snapper was the most cunning. It would not eat the bait immediately, but would run with the bait holding the hook in its mouth. It would gently pull the fishing line before eating the bait. He just reeled in the line too early and let it run away.
But it's also a lot of experience.
Ye's father was just about to help him unhook the grouper from the fishhook and put it in the bucket, but he discovered that this fish didn't seem to be a grouper
"Dongzi, this one looks like a clearwater grouper, not a tiger grouper."
"ah?"
"Look at it, its eyes are on the sides of its head, while tiger stripes' eyes are on the top of their head."
"Oh, it's true. I was mistaken. I only noticed the patterns on its body and didn't look at its eyes. But its eyes are almost reaching the top of its head. If you don't look closely, you can't tell them apart."
The clearwater grouper is also known as the cedar grouper. "Cedar" is the common name for coral among fishermen in Hong Kong Island. The cedar grouper is the grouper among corals.
The appearance, color and pattern of the clear water grouper are very similar to those of the tiger grouper, making it difficult to distinguish them. However, the eyes of the clear water grouper are on the sides of the head, while the eyes of the tiger grouper are on the top of the head, so if you look carefully, you can easily distinguish them.
A soldier interrupted, "See if it's more expensive than tiger grouper?"
"Almost. Don't think that its value will go up just because it has the name of Hong Kong Island. In fact, it's almost the same. Hong Kong Island will return to our country sooner or later, so its status will certainly be the same."
Captain Chen agreed: "You are right, Hong Kong will return sooner or later!"
After Ye Yaodong finished sorting out the fishing line, his father thoughtfully put the bait on him. He suddenly felt guilty and handed the wooden stick he was using to select the fishing line to his father, and also handed over the stone he was holding in his other hand.
"I'll let you play for a while!"
"Fishing is fishing, how can it be playing?" Father Ye said this and happily took it over.
Several soldiers looked on with envy, they were also bored!
"I don't know which idiot came up with this stupid idea to send us to the sea to watch over the place. It would be enough for the loudspeaker at the dock to shout "No approach", but they actually sent us here. We have nothing to do but kill a mosquito at sea."
Ye Yaodong sat where Ye's father had originally sat. He was also bored and couldn't help but complain with his chin clenched.
"Ahem... those people from the museum." Captain Chen said with two dry coughs.
"Damn it, why don't they come by themselves? They just open their mouths and act like they are the boss. I don't know if the higher-ups are efficient. When will the salvage team come? Do we have to watch over the place at sea for a few more days?"
"Hey, stop making noise. No fish will take the bait if you talk so loudly." Father Ye looked at the line in his hand, which had not moved for a long time, and said impatiently.
"The fish are several meters or even dozens of meters under the water. How can they hear me making noises above the sea?"
"If you have nothing to do, go to the island over there and dig some shellfish instead of sitting here doing nothing."
"That's fine", anyway, he was wearing a sun hat, that is...
"Why didn't you go just now? Now you remember to send me."
"I've been listening to you talking about what fish you caught, and I've been itching to go to the island to dig some shellfish. I just remembered that your mother always said that there's nothing else at home except dried fish, and she's eaten it all. Go dig some for her and dry it in the sun."
He looked at his watch. It was not even ten o'clock yet. It would be too hard to bear if he didn't do something. "Then give me another hook and I'll go."
"Here, here. I asked you to do a little bit of work, and you're still bargaining!"
The way the father and son get along with each other is quite eye-opening for the four soldiers. One of them keeps talking back, while the other keeps looking down on others, but they seem to be in harmony.
As soon as the wooden stick and fishing line were handed to Ye Yaodong, he suddenly felt a violent pulling sensation, and he was so panicked that he almost dropped the wooden stick into the water.
"Fuck, at least give me some time to prepare. It didn't move for a long time in your hands, but when I handed it to me, it immediately bit the hook and ran away. It seems that it is more suitable for you to go to the island to dig shellfish."
"Stop talking nonsense and pull him up quickly."
"Aren't you pulling it?"
Ye Yaodong gritted his teeth. There was a red mark on the palm of his hand from the fishing line, and he was unable to pull it up even a little bit.
Fortunately, his fishing line was relatively thick and tied tightly to the stick. The stick was firmly held in his hand, and he was also big in size, so it was not easy for him to be dragged into the sea by the fish.
If it were his father who is not very short, it would be hard to say.
What kind of fish is biting the hook below? The pulling force is so strong, damn.
He had to let out and reel in the line from time to time just to reel in the fish, but it was quite difficult.
"This hook must be a big fish. The force is too great, right? Let us help you..." Two soldiers stood on either side of him and helped to pull the fish.
Father Ye also wanted to help, but there was no place for him to stand, so he could only give a few words of advice, "Comrades of the People's Liberation Army, be careful with your hands, don't let the fishing line cut you, this fish is too big, without a fishing rod, it's hard to pull it up with only this thin fishing line."
"It's you who broke the fishing rod."
"You're bringing it up again. I'll cut a piece of bamboo and return it to you when I get home tonight. It's been so long, and you're bringing it up again."
Ye Yaodong ignored his father and said to the two people on his left and right, "Loosen the line in your hands, I'll do it myself. If you encounter a big fish, you have to tighten and loosen the line to pull it up. You can't pull it with brute force. I don't know if the fishing line will be broken..."
While saying this, he was already cursing in his heart. It didn't matter if the line broke, but the fish couldn't escape.
With such a strong pulling force, the fish must be big. Whether we can make enough money today depends on whether we can pull up this big fish.
"Fuck, so energetic... still running... Damn..."