Ye Yaodong quickened his pace and walked over curiously, not even bothering to pick up a cat's-eye snail under his feet.
After taking only a few steps, he saw a black fish suddenly jump out of the puddle, and his eyes lit up instantly.
"Is it Black Bream or Bao Gong?"
He trotted over, and before he could take a closer look at the puddle, he saw an octopus crawling on the rocks at the edge, its tentacles waving wildly and moving quickly, trying to escape.
"The big red seal, it's easy to get."
He happily opened the sack in his hand, leaned against the reef and faced the direction where the octopus's tentacles were crawling. He watched it immediately crawl into the sack and fall into the trap.
Ye Yaodong shook the sack twice, and seeing that it was still firmly stuck to the opening, he pulled it off with force, threw it into the sack, and then shook it twice more.
Then he lay down on the reef and looked into the puddle. It was probably because the tide had just receded and the puddle was still full of sea water. However, he saw water constantly flowing out from the low position on the edge, and he estimated that the water level would become shallower after a while.
There is too much water in there right now, so it's not suitable to go in and fish. It's not easy to fish, and the fish in there are very slippery and hard to catch.
Just when he was planning to continue walking around and come back later, he saw a conger eel sliding out from the water outlet.
When the slender body was washed onto the beach by the current, it stagnated for only a moment before instantly twisting again.
"Oh my goodness, there's another moray eel in here! Another one has fallen into the trap."
The tide had just receded, and there was still tide washing in about one meter ahead. He was worried that if he twisted it a few more times, it would be washed back into the sea by the tide, so he ran forward and clamped its head with the tongs he carried with him.
This guy was still extremely ferocious after running out of water. He twisted his head and opened his big mouth that could swallow his head to bite the fire tongs. His head banged loudly and he even fainted at one point...
"Fuck, dizzy?"
It must be dizzy, Ye Yaodong felt, because its movements stopped and its head drooped.
He laughed and took the opportunity to grab its head and threw it into the sack. However, it was still full of energy and bumped around in the sack for a while, but it was quiet after a short while.
"Luckily I didn't fall into the puddle and slipped out by myself. If I had been bitten it would have been painful."
This made him more determined to wait until the water flowed away before going in to fish.
It’s a pity that I didn’t bring a fishing net, otherwise I could have just used one around the opening and not have to worry about it. If I was washed out by the water, I wouldn’t be able to escape.
There is no water pump, otherwise I would learn to pump water for fun. But judging from the speed of the water flow, it is not slow.
He continued to wander around, but apart from picking up two blue crabs, three swimming crabs, five stone crabs and nine male crabs under the nearby rocks, he didn't see anything else.
If he walked around the island again, he was afraid that he would have gone too far. If Aqing called him later, he would not be able to hear him. Walking here was already far enough.
Seeing that there were no more fish swimming near the puddle, he thought there was no need to waste time and simply went back to the place where he had just seen the clams.
I decided to take advantage of this time to dig some clams back home.
Just as he pulled up a bamboo clam that was as big as a pen tube, he vaguely heard his wife screaming over there. He quickly looked over and saw her standing there waving. After confirming that it was her screaming, he quickly threw the sack aside and ran over quickly.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Ye Yaodong ran out of breath and gasped.
"There are fish. There is a puddle over here with fish and crabs in it. I just saw a few splashes of water, but I couldn't catch them. I only caught two crabs, and they bit me when I was fishing them out of the water just now."
Lin Xiuqing stood on the rock excitedly, her body swaying as she spoke. Ye Yaodong was afraid that she would fall, so he quickly hugged her legs.
"Hey, you better be careful and come down quickly."
"What are you doing..."
It would have been fine if he didn't hug her. As soon as he hugged her, she felt her center of gravity was a little unstable, and she could only hold on to his shoulders to steady her body.
"I'm fine. Go to the puddle and catch some fish. There, there..." Lin Xiuqing turned around and pointed behind her.
Ye Yaodong carried her down, then climbed up to take a look and was speechless.
"You're just a tiny person, why did you call me here?"
"How can it be so small? It's quite big, half the size of our room..."
Ye Yaodong turned around and jumped down again. "Let's catch it when we go back. I thought something was wrong with you. I didn't take anything. I just ran over here. Wait, I just found a big puddle over there. It's much bigger than yours."
"Is there a bigger one? Is there a fish?" Lin Xiuqing was excited.
"Yes, I just caught a conger eel, about two kilograms, not big, but not small either. I also saw a fish, I don't know if it was a Bao Gong or a black sea bream."
"Then go catch it quickly."
"Why are you in such a hurry? The water level is too full. How can I catch anything? Besides, I didn't bring a bucket just now. I threw everything I picked up into the sack. When there are too many things, it will be crushed directly."
Ye Yaodong thought for a moment and said, "Wait here. I'll go get two hand nets from the boat. It will be easier to use the hand nets to fish later. It will be too slippery and hard to catch."
"Hey, then go quickly."
Lin Xiuqing was waiting there, prying at the stone wall while keeping an eye on the puddle. She saw a king crab crawling out from a small rock nearby, so she quickly crawled over to grab it, excitedly put it in the bucket, and then returned to her original position to continue digging.
Ye Yaodong went and came back quickly, jumped off the reef with two hand nets, and handed the smaller one to her, "The water level in this puddle doesn't look high, so you can just fish as you like. I'll go over there and take a look first."
"OK."
"Be careful! Call me if you have any problem. Don't be alarmed. Even if you catch a grouper, you don't have to tell me. I will see it when I come back."
"I know. It's not that easy to catch him." Lin Xiuqing responded unhappily.
Ye Yaodong picked up another bucket. When he went there just now, he only took a folding sack and fire tongs. It is better to keep the live fish in the bucket.
After giving his wife a few more instructions, he hurriedly ran towards the big puddle again.
There was still a lot of water in it, and a few soft crabs and small white shrimps were washed away by the gaps in the water flow at the edge.
He didn't want to pick them up at first, but looking at the empty bucket, he thought he might as well pick some. Those soft crabs had just shed their shells and hadn't hardened yet. They didn't look bad and looked quite fresh.
You can pick them up and cook a crab tofu soup or crab cabbage soup, which are very fresh, or you can use them to cook noodles.
By the way, he took the conger eel he had just caught out of the sack and put it in the bucket to prevent it from being crushed to death later.
After Ye Yaodong finished doing all this, he climbed up the reef next to him with a hand net, then stretched out his hand and tried to fish a few times in the puddle.
There was no purpose or method, and he didn't start from the edge. He just stirred the puddle a few times, scooped it up, and searched randomly. As a result, there really was a black sea bream swimming in the water, revealing its figure, which was spotted by his sharp eyes.
"Fuck, a black porgy. Damn it. This is called fishing in troubled waters!"
Since he has seen it all, how can I let it go
Even without a pump to pump the water away, he can still use a hand net to stir the water and fish in troubled waters.
Seeing the direction the black sea bream was swimming, he followed it with a hand net and caught it in one go.
The black sea bream was caught directly into the fishing net without any preparation, and it kept jumping around in the net in a panic.
Ye Yaodong took the fish out with satisfaction and threw it into the bucket. "I don't know if the one I saw just now is this black sea bream. It's about 700 to 800 grams, so-so. It's small enough to steam for the three children."
Hearing that eating sea fish can make people smarter, he has never stopped supplying his two children with fish for more than a year. Now his daughter also eats a few bites of sea fish every day, and they are all species with fewer bones.
After successfully catching a black sea bream, he continued stirring the water to see if he could catch more fish.
There are fish, but they are not easy to catch because there are reefs on the sides and stones underneath. I just saw two eels, but they hid at the edge of the rocks and could not be caught. After a few seconds, they disappeared.
Ye Yaodong kept fishing in the big puddle, changing his position from time to time, and he really caught a flower eel and two small spring carps.
"I just saw a tiger stripe. Where did it go? Are you not blind?"
"I clearly saw it, where did it go?"
He was crawling around on the rocks around him, busying himself happily and muttering to himself.
"It disappeared after a while. It jumped so fast... Did it hide under a rock? Damn..."
"Hey... Another Shi Jiu Gong, so many..."
Ye Yaodong fished in the puddle several times but didn't see any tiger grouper. However, he didn't get discouraged. He just fished up whatever he saw.
As the water level continued to drop, rocks were exposed at the edge of the puddle, and he also saw several jumping fish.
But it was too small, and he was thinking about the grouper at the moment, so he had no time to catch it. It wouldn't be too late to catch it later.
Just when he was feeling a little tired from crawling around and wanted to sit down to rest and let the turbid water settle, he just stepped on a stone and felt the stone shake unstablely.
Fortunately, he only stepped on it once, and when he felt unstable, he immediately stopped. After his body shook for a while, he stabilized instantly.
The stone under my feet just rolled a little, and suddenly I felt like a stone caused a thousand waves, and many dog sharks jumped out from under the stone.
"Oh... Shit... Shit..."
He widened his eyes in surprise, looking at the dog sharks running around, and had a feeling that the surprise came too suddenly.
"A group of dog sharks. Damn! I didn't find any groupers, but I found a group of dog sharks..."