Zhao Dahai stared at the big snake-like fish pulled out of the water with his eyes wide open.
White eel!
This is a big white eel!
The fish you wanted to catch by setting the hook yourself finally came!
There are many kinds of eels in the sea, and white eels are one of them. They have no scales, a blue-grey or blue-black back, and a white belly. They look a bit like eels. People in nearby villages usually call them white eels.
White eel is not as good as May eel, but it is still a rare high-end seafood. Steamed white eel with black bean sauce is a reserved dish for fishing village banquets. Whether it is served to multi-millionaires or ordinary people, it is very respectable.
Zhao Dahai was a little nervous. The eel that was hooked was as thick as an arm and weighed three to four kilograms. Its sharp teeth bit the nylon main line and rolled crazily. It was very powerful.
Zhao Dahai carefully pulled the eel to the side of the fishing boat. He changed his left hand to hold the main line, and picked up the net with his right hand, specially holding a longer wooden handle. The eel will jump when it finds danger. Once bitten, it will tear off a piece of flesh.
, you have to be extremely careful, no matter how big the fish is, it is not in this danger.
It took Zhao Dahai two or three minutes to pick up the white eel. He didn't dare to unhook it, so he put the net into the living cabin. The scissors directly cut off the sub-threads, and after falling over, the white eel fell into the living cabin and moved around like crazy, clatter.
There was a crashing sound and water splashed everywhere.
So fierce?
Zhao Dahai was startled and immediately covered the living cabin with the cover. He refused to give up and struggled for several minutes before he stopped.
Zhao Dahai wiped the sea water from his face. The eel struggled just now and was inexperienced, so he was a little embarrassed.
Zhao Dahai arranged the row of hooks and continued to pull the main line. He pulled up seven or eight empty hooks that were not catching fish. The familiar feeling appeared again. When he pulled it up, it turned out to be another white eel, but it was slightly smaller.
Only three or four kilograms.
Zhao Dahai seized the time and continued to pull the hooks. After collecting a basket, he caught a total of seven eels, ranging from two to three kilograms to four or five kilograms. The harvest was very good.
Zhao Dahai wharf did not stop and immediately rushed to collect the hooks for the seventh basket. As soon as the main line was pulled out of the water, the first hook was another eel. However, none of the subsequent hooks were hooked by eels, only two or three worthless ones.
For small fish, the hooks in the eighth, ninth and tenth baskets are in the same situation. There is no eel, only some fish, not big in size, and the only two-pound spring fish is worth some money.
Four p.m.
Zhao Dahai collected all the rows of hooks, drove the fishing boat back to the place where he caught the sixth basket of white eels, and carefully looked at the surrounding sea surface. The sea water was not deep, about seven or eight meters, and it was a bit turbid. He filled the water with a bucket and looked at it.
Look, there are a few small grains of sand. I don’t know if it’s just like this in normal times or maybe it’s just after the typhoon and the big swells rise from the bottom of the sea.
If you place the hooks in this position in front of you, you will catch seven white eels. If you place the hooks in the seventh basket, only the first hook will catch the eels.
Could it be that the area between the sixth and seventh Luokang only has white eels?
Not anywhere else?
Zhao Dahai thought about it for a while and felt that it was most likely the case. Next, he had to put the hook in this place. He rushed home immediately. Once he arrived at the dock, he fished for fish and went home. The eels did not need to be fed and were simply placed in the refrigerator without rest.
, I took out the ten baskets that I put out today, sorted them out a little, and immediately hung up the bait. All the white eels I caught were dragonhead fish, so I gave up on the small mud shrimps. After hanging up the ten baskets, I thought about it and moved out the other ten.
The baskets continue to be hung.
The movement of releasing the hook is very loud. Once a fish is caught, especially a valuable eel, it is very easy to attract attention, and many people will follow the release immediately. This is the virtue of shallow sea and offshore fishing, and it is basically a hammer.
In business, when you get to the point, you have to work hard, put down all twenty baskets at a time, and capture as much as you can. Don't think about the opportunity the day after tomorrow.
Zhao Dahai kept hanging dragon-headed fish, and grandma Zhong Cuihua cooked dinner and came over to help. The two of them were busy until twelve o'clock in the evening before they finished hanging all the fish.
Zhao Dahai was so hungry that he ate heartily. He told his grandmother Zhong Cuihua that he had to get up early and go out at four in the morning. If there were fish on the hooks of the twenty baskets, he would not come back too early. He might not come back until midnight.
Even later, the place where the hook is placed is not far away, so don’t worry.
After Zhao Dahai finished eating, he immediately took a bath and went to bed.
It's quiet at night.
Zhong Cuihua added some firewood to the stove, cooked rice and stir-fried vegetables, heated them on the stove, and then went to bed.
It's half past three in the morning.
Zhao Dahai got up lightly and walked into the kitchen. He saw that the food had been cooked a long time ago. He took the time to finish it. At just four o'clock, twenty baskets were put on a tricycle with all the hooks. They were pulled to the dock and loaded onto the fishing boat and tricycle.
Park directly at the dock, lock it, and immediately drive the fishing boat out to sea.
Zhao Dahai rushed to the place where he caught the white eel yesterday and looked at the sea surface. The color of the sea water was as turbid as yesterday, and the waves were similar. He breathed a sigh of relief.
Once the tide comes, there comes a fish.
If the weather is calm here today, especially if the sea water becomes very clear, it is very likely that we will not be able to catch white eels.
Last night I specifically asked my grandma Zhong Cuihua that she had never heard of so many eels in the place where I put the hooks. It was most likely that the typhoon came with the tide.
Such eels or other fish, shrimps and crabs usually stay for two or three days. If you happen to encounter them, you can catch them if you can, and if you miss them, they are gone.
Zhao Dahai didn't waste time. He had to hurry up and release the hooks for the twenty baskets today. They were all placed at the place where seven eels were caught yesterday. After placing the hooks for the first basket, they were placed in almost parallel positions.
Put them out in the direction opposite to the sea, and place a basket every two to three hundred meters or four to five hundred meters. After placing twenty baskets, eat something simple and start pulling the hooks immediately.
"bingo!"
As soon as Zhao Dahai pulled the first hook of the first basket, his hands immediately felt shaking, and he was very strong, and he kept rolling and pulling. This was completely different from catching black sea bream, eel, or other fish, including grouper.
Same.
Large white eels, especially those weighing seven to eight kilograms or more than ten kilograms, are very strong. They will roll over to death especially when struggling. They also have sharp teeth, making it easy to decouple or break the thread.
This is a sandy bottom with no rocks, so you don’t have to worry about drilling into the bottom of the sea and you don’t have to worry about breaking the line.
Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry, carefully and slowly pulled the eel out of the water in two or three minutes.
Zhao Dahai's eyes widened and he couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. The white eel on the water surface was bigger than the first one caught yesterday. It was floating like a python and must have weighed at least seven or eight pounds.
Zhao Dahai took a deep breath, calmed down for a while, took the fishing net, and did not dare to put it directly into the water. He placed it in the air above the eel's head, saw the right moment, and suddenly copied it down.
The white eel was frightened and rushed forward. The net had already covered its head. It rushed forward and crashed into the net. It couldn't get out. It became fierce and fierce. It opened its mouth and bit the net, spinning crazily.
twist.
Zhao Dahai held the wooden handle of the net with both hands and carried it onto the fishing boat.
The eel continued to twist and struggle wildly, leaving patches of mucus on the deck. It took five or six minutes to slowly calm down.
Zhao Dahai breathed a sigh of relief. The 50 to 60 kilogram big blue spots didn't take so much effort.
Pulling the big grouper out of the sea, especially out of the water, takes almost all the strength, but it is just a little heavier. It will struggle when it gets on the fishing boat, but the struggle is not severe. It usually only takes two, three or even many times to pull it out of the deep water.
Due to the flatulence and loss of pressure, I was almost dead.
The white eel is different, but it is pulled up from a water depth of seven to eight meters and no more than ten meters. There is no such thing as loss of pressure, and it does not consume energy. It is very fierce, and it has sharp teeth that are very scary.
Zhao Dahai took the scissors and cut off the sub-thread. He had caught a few fish yesterday and gained experience. He did not directly turn the net into the live cabin, but put the net into the live cabin together and gently shook it out slowly.
, immediately took the cover of the living cabin and covered it. Hearing the reaction, the eel struggled wildly again, and the sound of hitting the deck of the living cabin shook his head. It was really too fierce.
Zhao Dahai continued to pull the row of hooks, and found four empty hooks. On the sixth hook, another eel was hooked, both of which were only half as big as the first one, weighing three kilograms.
Zhao Dahai was very happy. His guess was right. Only the area where he placed the hooks had big white eels. He caught another one so quickly. There were more white eels here today than yesterday.
It took Zhao Dahai almost forty minutes to pull out the first row of hooks and caught a total of eleven eels.
Zhao Dahai shook his hands and drove the fishing boat to the position of the hook of the second basket while taking a few sips of water. Don't think about having time to eat in this situation today. The hooks of the nineteen baskets were in the sea.
Waiting for yourself, you must seize the time.
The sun sets in the west.
Zhao Dahai wiped the sweat from his forehead, and started to pull the first basket hook continuously until now. He only finished pulling the fifteen basket hooks, and there were still five baskets waiting for him in the sea, without rest.
I was very tired, but when I thought about the big eels I had caught, I immediately took a shot of chicken blood. I was full of strength. I gritted my teeth and drove the fishing boat to the sixteenth basket where the hooks were arranged and continued to pull.
The moon is at the zenith.
Zhao Dahai gasped for air. He had just finished pulling the hook of the last basket. He was exhausted and could not hold on anymore. He slumped directly on the deck of the fishing boat as if he had no bones. Ever since the fishing boat was launched into the sea, no matter fishing or
Today is the most tiring day of fishing. I got up at three or four in the morning and have been working non-stop until now. I couldn't rest in the middle and all my strength was consumed.
Zhao Dahai sat for almost ten minutes, supporting the deck with both hands, and stood up with all his strength. He walked to the small cabin where the lunch boxes were placed and took the lunch box. When he opened the lid, his hands were trembling. He didn't use chopsticks or spoons. He just used his hands.
I grabbed it and stuffed it into my mouth and devoured it. It was enough for two large bowls of rice, plus the fatty pork belly. It was all stuffed into my stomach in less than five minutes. The rice I took out in the morning was now cold and hard, and I couldn't swallow it.
My neck was long and my throat was a little sore. I grabbed a water bottle and drank a lot of water. I rested for half an hour and slowly regained my strength.
"What the hell!"
“It’s so hard to make money today!”
"But it's a lot of money!"
Zhao Dahai saw that it was getting late, and he had told his grandma Zhong Cuihua last night that he would have to go back later today, but he would be worried and would have to go home early, so he would immediately set off the fishing boat and rush back to the village.
There was a car parked in the open space in front of Zhao Dahai's house. It had been parked for a long time and there was dew on the car.
Wu Weiminming sat in the car and looked at the time, which was already ten o'clock in the evening.
"No way?"
"It's so late! Why aren't you back yet?!"
Wu Weimin frowned.
Someone has booked fifty tables of very high-end banquets for ten days. In the past few days, he has been wandering around various villages, greeting people he is familiar with who go fishing at sea, and booking top-quality seafood.
, I haven’t fished for several days, and my hands were itchy. I saw that it was not far from Zhao Dahai’s village, so I rushed over. Unexpectedly, Zhao Dahai’s grandma Zhong Cuihua said that she had already gone to sea at three or four in the morning.
Since Wu Weiming followed Zhao Dahai on two trips to the sea and fished twice, the other boat bosses looked down upon him and waited here at the door. He originally thought that he would die at five or six o'clock but would be back at seven or eight o'clock. Unexpectedly,
I waited until ten o'clock in the evening.
Wu Weimin couldn't sit still, so he drove to the pier and parked it. He walked onto the pier and looked around. He didn't see Zhao Dahai's fishing boat. Even though it was here, he just waited on the pier. Zhao Dahai's fishing boat would come back immediately.
see.
Zhao Dahai drove the fishing boat and saw the lights of the pier of Langtou Village in the distance. He breathed a sigh of relief. He had to be more careful when driving a fishing boat at night. It took him a lot of time to get there.
Zhao Dahai slowly approached the dock. As soon as he parked the fishing boat, he suddenly heard someone calling him. He turned around and saw Wu Weimin shouting at him loudly and shining his hands.
"Boss Wu!"
"Why did you come here?"
Zhao Dahai didn't expect to see Wu Weimin here.
Wu Weiming smiled and said that he had been here a long time ago and wanted to go fishing, but he did not expect to wait for several hours before returning.
Zhao Dahai was a little embarrassed, but there was nothing he could do about it. He went out at three or four in the morning, and he couldn't be found on the sea at all.
"Did you release the hook? How was the harvest?"
Wu Weiming looked at the basket facing him on the deck and immediately knew that Zhao Dahai was going to sea to release the hook this time.
Zhao Dahai smiled and said that today's harvest is quite good.
Wu Weiming was a little curious about what kind of fish he caught, especially how many fish he caught, so he immediately got on the fishing boat.
Zhao Dahai opened the lid of the large refrigerator placed on the deck. He had been pulling the hooks all day, and it took a long time. More and more eels were caught, and the living cabin was crowded with them. The oxygen machine did not care.
Due to the lack of oxygen and the fact that the white eels didn’t need to be kept alive, they were almost dead and were placed in the refrigerator.
"ah?!"
"Eel?!"
"Such a big eel?"
"Is this what you hooked when you went out to sea today?"
Wu Weimin looked at the light from the fishing boat and was very surprised to see a whole refrigerator full of giant white eels with thick arms and legs.
Zhao Dahai shook his head with a smile and stamped the cover of the live cabin with his foot. The cabin was full.
"Isn't this crazy?!"
"How can you catch so many?"
"Why!"
"Why do I care about this?"
"No one has ordered these giant eels yet, right? I want them all!"
Wu Weimin immediately said, "The main thing is to capture these big white eels. This dish will be served at the banquet ten days later. It will be very honorable."
"The fishing boat just docked!"
"Where can I sell fish?!"
"Boss Wu, if you want it, sell it to you!"
Zhao Dahai nodded, thinking that Liu Gang must not know about this matter. These big white eels were originally intended to be sold to Liu Gang, but Wu Weiming happened to come here tonight, near the water and on a first-come-first-served basis, so he cut off the eels as soon as he opened his mouth.
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