There was quite a buzz about the boat purchase. Not only people in this village knew about it, but even some people from the neighboring village came to join in the fun.

After visiting the fishing boat, back on the shore, Tong Guoqi and Tong Junqiang lit firecrackers at the pier and paid homage to Mazu.

As long as you buy a new boat, you basically have to go through this set of procedures, and Zhang Ze is not surprised.

After returning home, the village chief came over and expressed in a subtle way that if he wanted boatmen, he could select a few people from the village to help.

Zhang Ze's place is different from the Tong family. There are four men in the Tong family, and a trawler can barely work.

He was alone here, and the boat was bigger. According to his idea, he definitely needed a boatman.

The village chief originally didn't want to take care of this matter, but several families in the village approached him and asked him to help as a lobbyist.

If you don’t come here in person, you naturally have little interaction with Zhang Ze.

The village chief also thought that Zhang Ze needed to find someone, so he came over to mention it.

But he refused flatly. If he wanted to hire a boatman, why didn't he go out on the boat a month ago? He just wanted to fish quietly by himself and use the function of space instantly.

"Kimbo, it's not that I don't want to recruit people, but I really don't need them here. I just put down a longline and a few cages, and fish when I have free time. I really don't need people."

Jin Luping was stunned after hearing this: "You can just launch a few longlines and a few cages, so why buy such a big ship? If you don't launch the net, how much money can you make on a trip to sea?"

"I used to be like this in Wenshui City. The boats at that time were also 15 meters long. I bought a big boat mainly because small boats can't go far. The offshore resources are just like that. No matter how hard I work, I can't make much money. There are more resources in the open sea.

Already."

“I used to mainly catch grouper to sell, and I plan to do the same when I come here.”

Zhang Ze had said so, so Jin Luping couldn't bring up the matter of boatmen anymore. He came here just to recommend to several families. If they are not hiring now, what else can he say?

"Kimbo, although I'm not recruiting people, I can ask the villagers to repair the longlines and cages that will be needed in the future. Every time the fishing boats come back and they need to be cleaned, I can also find those in the village that are having a harder time."

"That's okay. It's such a big ship. If you don't find someone to clean it, you'll have to work all day long."

After the village chief left, Zhang Ze rode a tricycle to Jin Sanbao's house. Six long ropes had already been prepared.

After knowing that he came back to pick up the boat, Jin Sanbao's family deliberately placed all the longlines in the bamboo basket one by one, arranged the lines one by one, and hung the fishhook one by one on the outside of the big bamboo basket to facilitate hanging bait.

Because there were six of them, there were six large bamboo baskets, which almost filled up his yard.

Zhang Ze came here to transport the longline to the ship. Every time it was used in the future, he would bring it back to their home for repair.

In the morning of the next day, Zhang Ze will go to sea to test the ship. Today he will not go directly to the open sea.

Although the new boat had been tested and found no problems, he still had to get familiar with the Duoyu in the offshore and make sure that there were no problems at all before he could go to the open sea with confidence.

First go to the pier and collect some bait from the returning fishermen. Because there are many fishermen returning in the morning, Zhang Ze collects a little here and a little there.

Many families collected it, and no one knew exactly how much bait he collected.

When he got to his boat, he moved a few large bamboo baskets and put the ordinary fishing bait he exchanged into them.

He prepared a total of three thousand portions, ready to be mixed with the large amount of bait purchased in the morning and hung on the longline.

Zhang Ze is not going to use the two longlines with a length of 200 meters today. It is also difficult for him to find a location with deep water and fish in the offshore.

We finished worshiping Mazu and setting off firecrackers yesterday, but it was deserted today.

But after a short meeting, Jin Sanbao came over with his family. This was Zhang Ze's special order to let his family come over to help hang bait. Six longlines cost five yuan.

But there were only four hanging today, so he gave me five yuan.

Bait Registration Jin Sanbao accepted the money after a few pushbacks. He had many brothers, so his parents couldn't help much. After all, they could only take care of this but not that. Being able to help all their brothers get wives was already very impressive.

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In addition, he also has many children, six in total. Even if it is not as expensive to raise children now as it will be in later generations, a family needs a lot of food and drink a month, so they need money very much, and he has remembered all Zhang Ze's disguised help.

Bottom of my heart.

After Jin Sanbao and his family all left, Zhang Ze started the Duoyu and followed the river into the sea.

Standing in the cab, he was a little excited. From today on, he could see all kinds of precious fish in the South China Sea!

Nanguang is not far from Dongsha Island, and he will probably go there to go fishing most of the time in the future.

Although Xisha Island is more famous, it is too far away. With the current fish resources, there is really no need for him to go there.

Because basically all the fish that can be caught in Xisha can also be caught in Dongsha.

Zhang Ze was just strolling offshore today. The five hundred nautical miles of range was enough for the waves, but yesterday it cost him more than 1,200 oceans to fill up the tank.

Even if he suddenly took out so much money, his heart would throb, so he had to save what he needed to save.

Soon, the Duoyu entered the sea from the Pearl River Estuary, where Zhang Ze could see many fishermen busy at sea.

His boat is quite eye-catching and attracted the attention of many fishermen after it came out.

Zhang Ze even saw Jin Fan and his father, so he turned around and said hello.

Then he continued sailing farther away.

Although I planned to fish offshore, I didn’t plan to go so close.

Most of what Jinfan and other fishermen catch here are groups of low-priced fish, crabs, squid, etc., mainly in quantity.

If you are lucky, you can catch big bass, giant mullet, or even grouper, but the numbers of these are not large.

On the way, Zhang Ze would approach some small islands or coral reef areas from time to time, and then use a fish finder to observe the fish resources.

However, there may be many fishermen fishing offshore, and the resources in the places we pass through are relatively ordinary.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! So Zhang Ze continued to sail eastward, to a place slightly farther away.

Go further afield and explore waters that are beyond the reach of small wooden boats.

After driving for about an hour and a half, the Duoyu arrived about 20 nautical miles from the shore.

This is almost the dividing line between the offshore and the open sea, and Zhang Ze plans to find suitable fishing spots nearby.

The waters outside Nanguang are very unfamiliar to Zhang Ze. He doesn't know if there are any fishing spots with rich resources nearby, so the fishing boat continues to sail southeast to see if he can find a suitable location.

Another ten minutes passed, and the Duoyu came to a water area nearly 100 meters deep.

The fish finder can clearly show how deep it is, so Zhang Ze doesn't need to measure it at all.

But this is not the point. The point is that a large red signal appears at the bottom of the fish finder screen, which indicates that a large number of fish are gathering at the bottom of the water.

Sure enough, it would be great to have a fish finder. How could he know there were fish here by himself?

Now that he had found a good location, Zhang Ze stopped the ship and decisively dropped two longlines here.

The water surface was empty, and the Duoyu was moving slowly while he stood at the stern of the ship and used the longline winch to slowly lower the longline.

After placing one longline, Zhang Ze came to the cab and drove a few dozen meters to the side, and then continued to put in another longline.

After placing the two longlines, Zhang Ze drove in the shallower direction according to the depth display on the fish finder.

After traveling for more than 200 meters, the water depth changed from about 100 meters to more than 50 meters. It was obvious that the underwater terrain was a slope.

But what surprised Zhang Ze was that although there were no schools of fish along the way, there was always a display on the fish finder.

As the fishing boat continued to sail forward, a coral reef faintly emerging from the water appeared in front of him, and he suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the resources here were so good.

It seems that I am very lucky today. I can find a good fishing spot just by wandering around on the sea.

But it’s not bad, and it’s far from comparable to the Dongsha of later generations, let alone the current Dongsha.

After getting close to the coral reef, the number of fish displayed in the fish finder increased significantly, so the longline must be placed near here.

Zhang Ze took a walk around the sea and selected today's fishing spot and the location where he would lower the longline.

In order to avoid fishing being affected by the bait on the longline, he decided to put the longline on the west side of the coral reef and then fish on the east side.

Because they had just made a circle and the fishing boat was now on the east side of the coral reef, Zhang Ze simply took out some of the remaining bait he bought in the morning and spread some of it to make a nest.

Then we sailed to the other side to put the longline, and after the longline was put, we came back and made the nest, which just worked.

After placing the two longlines and returning to the nesting position, Zhang Ze spread some more bait.

Fishing for tuna requires a large number of fish to form a fish nest to attract them, but this is not necessary when fishing for coral grouper on the coral reef.

If you spread the nest material for free, that is not called making a nest but raising fish.

After spreading the nest material this time, Zhang Ze immediately took out the fishing rod, installed the base on the side of the boat, and put the fishing rod on it.

Hang up an ordinary fishing bait that can be exchanged in the space, and then start fishing.

I have been in Nanguang for a while, but because I haven’t gone out to sea much, the space has not been upgraded at all, and the experience points have not increased much.

But from now on, he believes that the space level will enter a steady but not slow upgrade state.

The nest made at this time has attracted many fish nearby. When ordinary fishing bait enters the water, several fish are immediately attracted.

These fish can be as small as less than a pound, and can be as large as more than ten pounds.

The fish didn't care about the food falling from the sky, and rushed towards the ordinary bait.

Before Zhang Zed even took a sip from the water cup, the small bell he hung on the fishing rod began to jingle.

The purpose of hanging a bell is to remind him that he has caught a fish, so that he does not need to keep an eye on the fishing rod all the time.

Zhang Ze saw that the arc of the fishing rod was not small, so he quickly grabbed it and lifted it upwards, and the fishing rod suddenly turned into a large curved bow.
To be continued...