Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1091 Meals must be arranged first
Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou finished their breakfast, checked that they had taken all their belongings, and immediately boarded the speedboat to go fishing.

Ding Dawen watched Zhao Dahai's speedboat leave, walked to the side of the fishing boat, and looked down.

The weather was very good, with calm winds and seas. Lights were on on the deck of the fishing boat, and from time to time the sound of rising water could be heard on the surrounding sea. These were all large tadpole fish that were preying on the smaller fish attracted by the lights.

Ding Dawen checked several release rods and found that some of the fish had died. He replaced them with new live ones, put them back into the sea and adjusted their positions.

Ding Dawen checked the fish in the live water tank and found no major problems. He fished out a few dead ones and put them in the cold storage. He finished breakfast and it was still dark. He looked at the time and saw that it was just a little after four in the morning, less than five o'clock. He remembered the small fish attracted by the lights beside the fishing boat he had just seen. He took the sea bass fishing rod, hung some live shrimps on it and let it go down. He didn't put it too deep, just in one meter of water. The rod led the shrimps and let them stroll around the side of the fishing boat.

"coming!"

Ding Dawen suddenly raised his hand, raised the rod and stabbed the fish, then reeled the line up and pulled it out of the water. He picked up the scoop net with one hand and scooped it up. The fish was not particularly big, but not small, weighing five or six pounds and very fat. There were fish in the sea next to the fishing boat, and there were schools of fish. He hurried to continue fishing and fished for half an hour in one go.

"Yo!"

"How long have you been fishing? How come you caught so many?"

Lin Zuhua yawned as he walked out of the cabin and onto the deck. He saw Ding Dawen fishing for sea bass and immediately walked over quickly. He looked at a dozen sea bass swimming around in a large box filled with water on the deck.

Ding Dawen smiled and told Lin Zuhua that he had only been fishing for about half an hour.

Lin Zuhua became interested when he heard this. He thought that since they could catch so many fish in such a short time, there must be a group of sea bass in the sea next to the fishing boat. He immediately took the fishing rod, hung some live shrimps on it and put it into the sea. He shook it gently twice and immediately a fish took the bait.

"what!"

"Ding Dawen."

"Why do we need to go out to sea? Can't we catch a lot of fish here?"

Lin Zuhua was very happy. He didn't know where the slight sleepiness he had just felt disappeared, and he felt extremely energetic now.

The fishing boats stayed at this place for several days in a row. It was like a natural reef or an island in the sea. In addition, there were lights every night, which attracted the small fish around. With small fish, there would be big fish. Every day, there would be some big fish, especially fish like sea bass, which gathered here to prey on small fish.

Sometimes you can catch fish, but the thing is, the fish schools are big and small and not stable. It's okay to catch a few for fun or make two or three hundred yuan or five or six yuan, but it's impossible to catch a lot and make a lot of money.

“Why do I feel like fishing is such a simple thing?”

Ding Dawen did not use a scoop net. He pulled the line and caught a sea bass weighing about three pounds. He removed the hook and threw it into the water tank next to him.

Ding Dawen really felt that fishing was not difficult at all. Just a while ago, he caught nearly twenty sea bass. Some were five or six kilograms, some were two or three kilograms, and the smallest was only one kilogram. But no matter what, it was really easy to fish.

"Ding Dawen!"

"It's not surprising that you feel this way."

"But that's definitely not right!"

"Your uncle Ding Chongshan and I have been friends for many years. We went fishing together when my father was young."

"Fishing has never been easy for decades."

"But ever since I went fishing with Zhao Dahai, I started to feel that the fish in the sea are like watermelons in the field. You can pick them up at will."

"You feel the same way as I do now, but if you go fishing seriously, and you are on a speedboat or boat, you will find that all the fish in the sea seem to have disappeared and you can't catch any fish at all."

Lin Zuhua was not surprised at all that Ding Dawen felt this way. In fact, he felt the same way.

Don’t just think that we only caught 700 to 800 kilograms of fish yesterday, but we have to look at how many fish other speedboats caught.

What's more, under normal circumstances, Zhao Dahai could catch at least three to four thousand kilograms, seven to eight thousand kilograms, or even over ten thousand kilograms in a day as long as he went out to sea. It was not difficult for him to do so. Fishing must be very simple on a speedboat like this.

"You are just fishing on a fishing boat now, and you are not fishing for money. One is fishing for fun, and the other is to catch as much as you can. There is no pressure. Sometimes you catch more, sometimes you catch less."

"That's how it feels. Once you start fishing seriously to make money, it's not the same anymore."

Lin Zuhua knows very well what fishing is all about.

"Correct!"

"Nowadays, fishing is just for fun. If you can catch one, then that's it. There is no pressure to make money."

"If you really want to make money by fishing, then it's not like that."

Ding Dawen pondered it carefully. What Chen Zuhua said was not wrong at all. He did catch a lot of fish today, but he didn't catch many fish in the past two days. If he calmed down, he really didn't catch many fish. If he bought a speedboat to go fishing, or paid the fishing fee to go fishing with others, the fish he caught in a few days might not be enough to make up for it. Even if he made money, he wouldn't make much. Needless to say, Zhao Dahai's express delivery, as Ding Chongshan just said, could catch so many fish. Other speedboats really couldn't catch many fish. This was what he saw with his own eyes recently. The difference was too great.

"Ding Dawen."

"You won't be able to make a living from fishing!"

"You don't have the ability to do this. Your personality just doesn't allow you to do this!"

"You are a good fisherman. Don't think about anything else in your life. Just follow Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang and work."

"I made a lot of money, but the main thing was that I didn't feel any pressure."

"I sell all the fish I catch on this fishing boat. I can definitely make two or three thousand yuan a month."

"If you calculate it this way, many people who go out to sea to fish or those who specialize in sea fishing cannot compare to your income."

"This job is easy."

"in addition."

"I heard that your girlfriend Ma Baozhu is now working with Ding Xiaoxiang on the fish rack."

"Wait a couple of years, and you two will get married and have kids, and then you can live a good life, right?"

"Everyone like Zhao Dahai, Ding Xiaoxiang and even Liu Lei makes a lot of money, but you have to look at what kind of people they are. Look at their personalities and see how hard they work."

"Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou made a lot of money following Zhao Dahai, but they still had to work very hard."

Lin Zuhua didn't know whether Ding Dawen said this because he wanted to go fishing with Zhao Dahai. Although the salary of driving a fishing boat was good, it was definitely not comparable to that of Zhong Shizhu and others. Ding Dawen watched Zhong Shizhu and others making a lot of money following Zhao Dahai every day, so it was normal for him to have some thoughts in his mind.

It is true that he and Ding Dawen are not related, but he has a very good relationship with Ding Dawen's uncle Ding Chongshan. From this point of view, he can be regarded as Ding Dawen's elder. It is okay to say a few more words about such things.

"Boss Lin."

"I never thought about going fishing with Zhao Dahai."

"It's just what you said. My personality is not capable of this."

"When I think about going out to sea to fish at four or five in the morning, my scalp starts to tingle. I might not be able to sleep the whole night."

“This job is very good for me right now.”

"One is that the salary is good, another is that I can catch some fish and sell them when I have time, which is another source of income, and another is that there is really not much pressure."

"I don't have too many ideas. I just want to have a stable income. Besides, Ma Baozhu is now working for Ding Xiaoxiang, which is another stable income."

"If two people are together, this income is considered very good in our town."

Ding Dawen shook his head a little embarrassedly. He really had no intention of going fishing with Zhao Dahai. Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou did earn more money, even ten times more than him. But it depended on whether he could do such a job. If not, nothing he said would be of any use.

Lin Zuhua caught seven or eight sea bass and his hands felt a little sore, so he simply stopped fishing. He looked at the several rods clamped nearby and there was no movement at all.

"I wonder if there will be any mackerel today?"

Lin Zuhua asked Ding Dawen and found that all the fish on the hooks were alive.

Lin Zuhua remembered what Zhao Dahai said when fishing with cattle, one cannot stay in one place without moving. One has to let the cattle go farther away or get closer, so that one has more chances to catch fish.

Lin Zuhua picked up a fishing rod. The farthest he had put it was about 300 meters away, and no fish had taken the bait for the entire night.

Three hundred meters is already very far. If no fish are biting the hook, there is no need to continue casting it further. Reel in the line and cast it to about two hundred and fifty meters. Wait and see if there are any fish. If not, wait another hour or so and continue reeling it in to two hundred meters.

Lin Zuhua was spinning the spinning wheel to reel in the line, and just after he had reeled in less than twenty meters, a fish took the bait.

Lin Zuhua was startled, but reacted very quickly and continued to reel in the fish.

Look at this, Ding Dawen, he didn't even try to fish for sea bass anymore and immediately ran over with a scoop net.

"Boss Lin."

"How big is this fish? Is it big?"

Ding Dawen couldn't wait to ask.

"Hey!"

"It should be a mackerel, but it must not be very big. I estimate it is only about 30 to 40 kilograms."

Lin Zuhua thought the fish was of good size at first, but after pulling for a while, he shook his head in disappointment. It was very likely a mackerel, but the size of this mackerel was really small, no more than 40 kilograms.

Lin Zuhua didn't spend too much effort or time to pull the hooked fish to the side of the fishing boat.

"Hey!"

"There are really a lot of mackerels in this place, but it seems to be really difficult to catch a big one!"

Lin Zuhua saw Ding Dawen using the large scoop net to catch the fish, then he opened the spool and let go of the line and shook his head.

I did catch a fish, but the size of the fish was really not that great.

In the past few days, whether it was himself or Ding Chongshan and Ding Dawen, they all caught a lot of mackerels in this place, and two of them were very big, proving that there were really a lot of mackerels in this place. As long as you graze the cattle here and keep watch, you will have the chance to catch fish.

If Ding Chongshan and Ding Dawen had not caught those two big mackerels, they would have been very happy to be able to catch such big mackerels.

But my goal in coming here is to catch a giant mackerel weighing over 100 kilograms, so I don't really care about this one that weighs around 40 kilograms.

"Boss Lin."

"If there is a big one, there will be a small one, right? There is no need to rush. There is plenty of time anyway. Just wait here slowly. One day you will be able to guard it!"

Ding Dawen carried the mackerel onto the deck of the fishing boat and without any hesitation, he smashed it hard on the deck.

Mackerel is relatively large in size and struggles with great force. Don't even think about keeping such a fish alive. Once it leaves the water or is caught, it will basically be dead.

But the mackerel will not die immediately. If it struggles very hard, it will be very dangerous to unhook it. If you cannot keep it alive, you might as well knock it unconscious and then unhook it.

Ding Dawen took a pair of pliers and came over to remove the hook. The mackerel's teeth were very closed, so even if it didn't struggle much now, you had to be careful and not reach in, otherwise you would be getting yourself into trouble, as no one could tell if the fish would suddenly bite you.

Ding Dawen was very careful with the pliers in his hand. He hit the mackerel's head twice before starting to remove the hook.

"Ding Dawen!"

"Shall we eat this mackerel for lunch?"

"Give me some pan-fried mackerel!"

“The freshly caught mackerel must be very good!”

As Lin Zuhua spoke, he couldn't help but drool a little.

People who fish, live by the sea, or like to eat seafood all know that large mackerels weighing dozens of kilograms taste really good when fried.

"Row!"

"For lunch, we'll mainly have pan-fried mackerel. Another thing is, didn't we just catch these fresh sea bass? Let's make soup with two of them, and stir-fry some meat and vegetables or something!"

Ding Dawen smiled and nodded. The pan-fried mackerel was really good. The size of the mackerel was not very big, but it was definitely not small. The thickest part was as thick as a human thigh. It was cut into slices and pan-fried. It was very delicious. This was definitely not a joke.

Ding Dawen carried the large mackerel and picked out two medium-sized sea bass and walked towards the kitchen together. The meal had to be arranged first.

(End of this chapter)