"Are you sure you can really make more money by doing this?"
Lei Da was a little worried. Zhao Dahai just said that these golden pomfrets would not be sold immediately, but would be pickled into dried salted fish.
"definitely!"
Zhao Dahai is very sure that he can definitely sell it at a higher price.
"That's unlikely, isn't it?"
Zhong Shizhu and Lei Da have the same view. There is no great need to pickle salted fish. Selling it fresh is the best way to convert it into money immediately. Especially now that it is the fishing moratorium, the price of fish is quite good.
"Uncle Shizhu."
"Uncle Dayou."
"Golden pomfret is not a fancy fish."
"But if you pickle it into dried salted fish, the quality of such a big fish will immediately rise."
“Able to sell at a good price.”
Zhao Dahai grew up by the sea. He knows that golden pomfret is not a high-end fish and it is not easy to sell it at a good price. If he wants to increase his worth, pickling it into salted fish is a simple and effective way.
"ha!"
"I think you two are really worried about something unfounded!"
"Would Zhao Dahai do something he's not sure about?"
Liu Bin shook his head.
Zhong Shizhu and Lei Da laughed for a moment. Zhao Dahai must be confident enough to do such a thing, so there is no need to worry.
Zhao Dahai took a rest for a while. It was getting late, so he immediately drove the speedboat, with both engines running, and rushed back to the dock. All the fish were brought back to the yard and all were frozen. It was already two o'clock in the morning when everything was finished.
Zhao Dahai walked back to the room and took out money. One was wages, the other was for the many fish he caught today, and the other person received a red envelope worth two thousand yuan.
Did Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Da politely excuse themselves? When they go fishing and catch a large number of fish, shrimps and crabs, the ship owner has the habit of covering up red spots. This is a common thing. There is nothing wrong with Zhao Dahai doing this.
These people work hard and get peace of mind.
Zhao Dahai sent Zhong Shizhu away, and Liu Bin and Lei Dayou agreed that Ma Hongyu and others would come to help pickle the salted fish tomorrow. Each person would be paid 300 yuan a day. He and his grandmother Zhong Cuihua could not afford more than 2,000 yuan.
Pomfret.
Zhao Dahai woke up and opened his eyes when he heard someone talking in the yard. He listened carefully and found the voices of Ma Hongyu and his grandma Zhong Cuihua. He immediately got up and stretched, and went out to see Ma Hongyu.
Xu Dongxue and Luo Lan were busy killing fish in the yard.
"Yo!"
"Zhao Dahai!"
“The size of these golden pomfrets we caught yesterday were really good!”
"It must be more than two thousand catties of fish!"
Ma Hongyu was quick with her hands and feet. She took a fish in her left hand and pressed it on the chopping board. She used a knife in her right hand to cut open the fish belly. The tip of the knife reached into the fish belly and scraped twice. All the fish intestines and other internal organs were scraped out.
Will rinse it clean with water.
"Who would have thought that you could catch so many fish in the sea?"
Xu Dongxue smiled. When Liu Bin came back at night yesterday, he told him that he had caught more than two thousand kilograms of golden pomfret. He didn't believe it at all. When he came to see it this morning, he was shocked. It must be more than two thousand kilograms.
"ha!"
"I was lucky yesterday, and I happened to hit that place with a big school of fish."
"Liu Bin, Uncle Liu and the others work hard and work hard."
"Only one can catch so many."
Zhao Dahai pulled up a stool and sat down, just about to work.
"Why!"
"The sea."
"You don't need to do this anymore, just a few of us."
Roland immediately stopped him.
Zhao Dahai thought for a while and nodded. Even though there were so many fish, Ma Hongyu and the others were quick and could kill them all in half a day.
Zhao Dahai was not idle, and immediately found a large dustpan made of bamboo at home. There were many fish, and it was not enough. He went to the second grandfather Zhao Shi's and Zhong Shizhu's homes, borrowed a dozen of them, and washed them all.
, let it dry.
Three o'clock in the afternoon.
Ma Hongyu, Xu Dongxue and Luo Lan killed all the golden pomfrets, washed them with salt water three times and marinated them. They placed them one by one on the dustpan to dry. After all the work was done, it was already five or six o'clock in the evening.
The sun sets in the west.
The evening breeze blows gently.
Zhao Dahai stood in front of the first dustpan at the beginning. In just over an hour, the moisture on the top of the fish skin had dried up, leaving it tight and wrinkled.
"good!"
“It’s really good!”
Zhao Dahai looked at the golden pomfrets one after another on a dozen dustpans in the open space in front of the yard, feeling very good.
Golden pomfret has a fatal weakness. The fish meat has a special smell. People who like it will think it is the scent of licorice. Most people don't like this smell and cannot accept it. However, it can be pickled into dried salted fish.
When fried in oil, this smell is greatly weakened and turns into another very charming aroma. People who don't like fresh golden pomfret will immediately change their attitude.
In addition, the golden pomfrets I caught are very large, so it is easy to sell them at a good price. In fact, this is the same as red drum. Red drum is sold fresh, and the fish meat has no taste and is relatively cheap.
, if not cooked properly, it will not taste good, but once it is pickled into salted dried fish, the fish will be big and thick, and its value will double.
Sold to Liu Gang or Wu Weimin?
Liu Gang’s restaurant doesn’t really need this kind of dried fish, right?
Zhao Dahai was thinking about who to sell these golden pomfrets to after they were dried. At first he planned to sell them to Liu Gang's Hongyun Restaurant, but after careful consideration for a while, he felt that it would be better to sell them to Wu Weimin. But there was no need for this.
Don't worry, it will take at least three to five days to dry.
After Zhao Dahai finished dinner, he remembered that the speedboat was almost out of fuel and he would have to continue running out to sea early tomorrow morning. He immediately went to the dock and drove the speedboat to refuel and fill up the tank.
Zhao Dahai went home early and went to bed early. He got up at around four o'clock the next morning. After breakfast, he carried the things he had prepared to the pier, got on the speedboat, packed up briefly, and went to sea immediately. Every day's life was almost exactly the same.
, either on the fishing road, on the road selling fish, or some daily things, nothing earth-shattering.
Zhao Dahai was almost two nautical miles away from the pier. He clicked on the navigation and found that he would not be fishing for yellow chicken or black sea bream today. He would not go to Windmill Corner for the time being. After catching so many fish, there was not much left. It would take time to gather fish or maybe
When fish appear, go straight to fishing for grouper.
Zhao Dahai ran for a full three hours, basically at a speed of forty knots, and covered more than a hundred nautical miles in one go.
Zhao Dahai looked at the navigation and fish finder, and immediately approached the spot where he would fish for grouper today. He raised his head and looked east. The sun was almost rising. He looked around at the sea. It was calm. He was the only one in a speedboat.
There are no other people, no other speedboats.
Zhao Dahai shook his head and went fishing in the open sea. He often encountered such a situation. If he was not brave enough, he would not dare to come to such a place.
Today's fishing spot is very far away. Ordinary speedboats would not be willing to travel such a distance, as they would have to burn a lot of gasoline.
Zhao Dahai couldn't catch grouper at the Windmill Corner fishing spot several times before, so he decided to try hard today because it was the furthest fishing spot he knew.
Zhao Dahai looked at the fish detector and saw that the water depth had reached 120 meters. He just thought about trying the hand spinning wheel and gave up immediately. It was really a bit deep and the hand spinning wheel couldn't do much good in a place like this.
The effect is that the line is too long, and the movement and feeling of the hand are greatly affected. In addition, once there are fish in the depth of the sea water, once the opening is very fierce, there is no need for delicate operation.
Zhao Dahai immediately started to prepare. The electric winch was installed on the pole, and the pole was locked on the fort. He plugged in the plug of the electric winch. After trying it, there was no problem. It rotated very smoothly. He tied the fishing gear.
"Whether you can make money today or catch a big fish depends on you!"
Zhao Dahai picked up the big hook that was about the width of a finger, fished out a large shrimp from the live cabin, hung it on the shrimp gun, and placed it in the live cabin at his feet. This is a universal bait that can be eaten by any fish.
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Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry to get down and fish immediately. Before the start of the fishing moratorium, he followed a few speedboats. He just set the location of the fishing spot and left. He was not particularly familiar with this place. He wanted to fish here today.
, you have to scan the points first to find the structure.
Zhao Dahai drove the speedboat slowly and stared at the fish. The water was not flowing. He tried fishing at a fixed point to see if he could catch fish, but he had to find the structural area first. The fish on the bottom of the sea all hide in such places.
.
"right!"
"This should be a trench!"
…
"but!"
"It looks like it should be relatively narrow!"
…
"I wonder if it's a meter wide!"
…
Zhao Dahai studied the topography of the seabed seen on the fish detector and found a trench with a drop of almost ten meters, but this trench was not wide.
Zhao Dahai was a little hesitant. There must be fish in a place like this, and it is not easy to place them accurately in the ditch. The seabed is not calm, and the water flow is very likely to be very fast. The lead drop is too light to reach the bottom or it may deflect.
, the lead weight is too heavy and the signal from the fishing rod becomes very weak. It is very likely that the fish took the bait or ate the bait without knowing it.
Do you want to go somewhere else?!
Zhao Dahai looked up at the calm, mirror-like wide sea around him and shook his head. It was too wide here. It was not easy to find a suitable structure in such a place. It took almost an hour to find the trench.
, I would be unwilling not to give it a try.
Zhao Dahai decided to give it a try. If he really couldn't catch any fish, he would look for another structure.
Zhao Dahai thought for a while, and replaced the fishing group with a lead weight of only three pounds and a lead weight of six pounds.
Seventy meters!
Eighty meters!
Ninety meters!
Zhao Dahai looked at the thread that was already skewed. He shook his head and did not continue to unwind it. He pushed the switch and started to wind up the thread.
The water depth of less than one hundred meters is already unbearable, and the plummet may now be almost twenty meters away from his speedboat.
It is impossible to reach the correct location, it is impossible to reach the trench on the bottom of the sea.
Zhao Dahai changed to eight pounds of heavy lead and tried it. This time it was slightly better, but when the water depth reached 100 meters, the line was still offset very much. He had no choice but to take up the line again and change it again.
Heavy lead.
"If this one doesn't work, then there's nothing we can do!"
Zhao Dahai picked up a twelve-pound lead pendant and hung it on the figure-eight swivel. This was his heaviest lead pendant. If he couldn't reach the bottom, he could only change to another fishing spot. When he saw that the live shrimp was dying, he changed it.
Hang up one shrimp and throw the replaced shrimp in the refrigerator. You will either eat it for lunch today or cook it back to eat. It must not be wasted.
Eighty meters!
Ninety meters!
One hundred meters!
One hundred and ten meters!
One hundred and twenty meters!
Zhao Dahai saw the bent and tight line of the fishing rod, flicked it up, and almost became horizontal. The fishing line immediately became loose and loose, and he breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, the lead pendant hit the bottom smoothly.
Zhao Dahai stretched out his hand and pulled the thread, and found that the deflection this time was not particularly severe. The position where the lead hit the bottom of the sea bottom was about three meters away from the tail of his speedboat. This was already very good, at least it had reached the bottom, and
The deviation is not too far. As long as the speedboat drives forward three to five meters, the lead can be controlled to fall into the trench.
Zhao Dahai just wanted to let go of the thread in his hand and move the speedboat forward. Unexpectedly, the thread immediately bounced out and tightened immediately.
ah?
Are there any fish biting the hook?
Didn’t it just come to the end?
Is there any fish before you even have time to hit the bottom?
Isn't it outside the trench?
Zhao Dahai had no psychological preparation and did not expect a fish to bite the hook. He reacted two seconds too late before pushing the switch to retract the line.
The tip of the fishing rod placed on the fort immediately bent down and entered the water directly.
The electric winch rotated twice and stopped immediately.
Dry!
Motor protection!
It’s over!
what to do?
Zhao Dahai's expression changed. This was a fish that was hooked. It was too big and had too much pulling force. The electric winch could not hold it anymore and it got stuck.