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

Chapter 1195: My hands are cramped from hanging on the bottom

"What to do?"

"It would be best if we could find Zhao Dahai, but the artificial island is so big that we can't find Zhao Dahai!"

Wu Guodong's brows were tightly knitted.

The decision to come to the artificial island to fish not long ago was really a bit hasty.

You can't necessarily catch fish by going to a place. Even if there are people or even many people who can catch fish in that place, it doesn't mean that you can catch fish by going there.

There must be fish on the artificial islands and reefs, and there are a lot of fish. The problem is that we are not familiar with this place. We don’t know where the fishing spots are or even what methods should be used to catch fish.

"Can we find Zhao Dahai?"

"Is there no such opportunity?"

Lin Zuhua looked at Ding Chongshan, then at Gao Zhicheng. This was the simplest and most direct method. As long as Zhao Dahai could be found, there would be no problem at all, and he would definitely be able to catch fish.

Ding Chongshan and Gao Zhicheng pondered for a while and shook their heads. The artificial island reef was not a small place, and it was not easy to find a speedboat.

"The only way now is for us to drive the speedboat around for an hour or so to see if we can find Zhao Dahai. If we can find him, we can go fishing with him. If we can't find him, we can only find a place to fish by ourselves."

"If you can catch something, go for it. If you can't, just wait until it's almost dark and go back to the fishing boat."

Gao Zhicheng thought about it for a long time and felt that this was the only way. At this moment, this was the only choice they had.

Ding Chongshan, Wu Weimin and Wu Guodong all nodded, this was indeed the only way.

Gao Zhicheng drove the speedboat forward with the fish finder turned on, one to see if he could find Zhao Dahai's speedboat, and the other to see if he could find a structure on the seabed, so that even if he couldn't find Zhao Dahai, he and his men could try to fish.

Gao Zhicheng was able to take care of it at first, but soon he could no longer take care of it and called Ding Chongshan over to keep an eye on the fish detector.

“This place is pretty nice!”

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"There's another spot here where I think I can catch a big grouper!"

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"Write it down! Write it down!"

"We have to remember the location of this place. If we can't find Zhao Dahai later, we can come here to fish!"

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Ding Chongshan, Lin Zuhua, Wu Weimin and Wu Guodong all crowded around the fish finder, staring with wide eyes at the structure of the seabed displayed on it. As soon as they found a good place, they immediately marked the coordinates.

Gao Zhicheng concentrated on driving the speedboat, but after more than an hour he still couldn't find Zhao Dahai.

Gao Zhicheng stopped the speedboat.

"It's getting late. If we keep looking like this, we may not be able to find Zhao Dahai."

"Why don't we just go fishing ourselves for two or three hours to see if we can catch anything. If not, we can just go back to the fishing boat."

Gao Zhicheng looked at Ding Chongshan and his men. If they continued to search like this, he really didn't know if they could find Zhao Dahai. The artificial island reef was not a small place.

Ding Chongshan, Wu Weimin and others all nodded. After searching for an hour without finding Zhao Dahai, they really could only go fishing by themselves.

Gao Zhicheng looked at the fish pond and found a place nearby that looked pretty good. He parked the speedboat and turned on the top flow engine.

"Why are there so few speedboats here on the artificial islands? What's going on?"

Wu Guodong felt very strange when he saw that there were few speedboats on the sea around him.

I heard that many speedboats went fishing on artificial islands and reefs recently, and some people have caught a lot of fish. Normally, there should be a lot of speedboats in this place, but now there are really too few.

Gao Zhicheng said that there are not many groupers caught on artificial islands or other places recently, and many speedboats used for grouper fishing have gone to fish for sea bass or black porgy.

Zhao Dahai and his crew caught a lot of grouper in this place yesterday. The news that the grouper had opened their mouths has not spread yet, so the other speedboats don’t know about it yet, as there are so few speedboats in this place.

Wu Guodong then understood what was going on.

"It looks like after a few days when the news gets out, this place will be packed with speedboats!"

Wu Guodong is not a professional fisherman, but he runs a fishing tackle shop and is very familiar with the situations faced by fishermen in the sea.

If you can't catch fish in one place, they will definitely crowd to another place.

A few days ago, it was impossible to catch grouper in places like artificial islands and reefs or Windmill Feet. Those who were fishing for grouper had no choice but to fish for other fish, such as sea bass or black porgy, or yellow chicken, which were all the targets of these anglers.

But once a place is found where fish can be caught and the news spreads, everyone will definitely use this place.

There are indeed not many speedboats on the artificial islands and reefs now, but there are people like this. If you catch a fish, the news will spread all over the world in a few days.

"what!"

"Does this need to be said?"

"Tomorrow there will definitely be more speedboats waiting to fish here, and the day after tomorrow there will definitely be even more people coming here to fish!"

Ding Chongshan quickly prepared the rod, but he didn't have the ability to use a hand-cranked spinning wheel rod, so he could only use the rod on the gun mount.

"One hundred and forty-five meters of water depth!"

"There are reefs of all sizes and shapes underneath!"

"We are parked in a very good location now."

"Let the line go to 135 to 140 meters."

"Stop for a while and see if there are any fish taking the bait. If there are no fish, pull up the rod."

"If not, then knock again."

While watching the fish finder, Gao Zhicheng loudly reminded Ding Chongshan, Lin Zuhua and others to go fishing.

"Hey!"

"Why do I feel that what you said, Gao Zhicheng, sounds very much like what Zhao Dahai said?"

Ding Chongshan glanced at Gao Zhicheng.

"Yeah!"

"It really sounds like what Zhao Dahai said!"

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"what!"

"After hearing that shout just now, I really thought we were in the sea!"

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"It sounds a bit like what you said, but I wonder if we can catch any fish."

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"Gao Zhicheng."

"What's going on with you? Why do you sound like Zhao Dahai?"...

Wu Weimin, Lin Zuhua, Wu Guodong and others all laughed.

"All right!"

"You are absolutely right. What I just said is very much like Zhao Dahai."

"It looks like he has been fishing too many times with Zhao Dahai. He has unknowingly influenced me."

Gao Zhicheng wanted to refute at first, but he soon realized that it was just as Ding Chongshan said, and his words were almost exactly the same as Zhao Dahai's.

"It doesn't matter what you say, it doesn't matter what tone you use, it doesn't matter whether you look like Zhao Dahai or not, the most important thing now is whether we can catch any fish!"

Ding Chongshan let out the line as he spoke, and stopped at 135 meters.

"No fish is biting!"

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"I've been waiting for a while!"

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"Pull up the pole!"

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"Put the line and hit the bottom."

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Ding Chongshan, Wu Weimin, Lin Zuhua and Wu Guodong worked hard but no fish took the bait.

Gao Zhicheng looked at the rod in front of him and smiled bitterly. He used the same operating technique and the same line release, but it got stuck in the reef and hung on the bottom.

"Hahahaha!"

"Gao Zhicheng!"

"It seems like not everyone can eat this bowl of rice from the captain!"

"If someone like you were the captain of the boat, no one would be willing to reserve a fishing spot!"

Ding Chongshan shook his head as he spoke.

Gao Zhicheng is indeed a master at fishing, but now it seems that he is not qualified to be a boat captain. He doesn't know whether there are fish in the place he found, but his men didn't catch any fish, and two of them got stuck.

"Yo!"

"I said, are you thinking too much?"

"If I had Zhao Dahai's ability, why would I need to take you out to sea to fish?"

"Wouldn't it be nice if I could go fishing on my own?"

Gao Zhicheng started to curse with laughter.

Ding Chongshan, Wu Weimin, Lin Zuhua and Wu Guodong had no way to refute it. What he said was actually very correct. If Gao Zhicheng really had Zhao Dahai's ability, he could go fishing on the sea by himself. There would be no need to wait for or follow Zhao Dahai's speedboat to go fishing.

Gao Zhicheng, Ding Chongshan, Wu Weimin, Lin Zuhua and Wu Guodong drove the speedboat to several places without any success in catching any fish. It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon and the sun was setting. It would be dark soon. One reason was for safety, and the other, more important, was that they had no intention of continuing fishing and so drove the speedboat back to Ding Dawen's fishing boat.

Ding Dawen saw Gao Zhicheng and his men's speedboat coming back from afar, so he immediately lowered the ladder, walked to the side of the fishing boat, and went down the ladder to a position almost close to the sea surface.

"Uncle."

"It looks like you didn't catch any fish today!"

As soon as Ding Dawen looked at Ding Chongshan's expression and then at the expressions of Wu Weimin and others, he immediately knew that there would be no fish caught this afternoon.

Why is it like this?
Zhao Dahai was not found!
Although people like Dabo Ding Chongshan and Wu Weimin have experience in fishing, they are not familiar with artificial islands and reefs, and they definitely cannot catch fish in the places they find.

"We spent almost an hour trying to find Zhao Dahai's speedboat."

“You can only fish by yourself!”

"I found a few good spots. The structure of the Ali is very good, but I didn't catch any fish. Instead, I kept getting stuck on the bottom!"

"In just two or three hours, each of the five of us failed at least ten times."

"I didn't catch any fish, but I lost a lot of money."

Ding Chongshan just shook his head.

During these few hours, we really didn't make any money.

Not to mention the gas money, just the lead weights, hooks and other things cost a lot of money.

"Fortunately, we don't have to go fishing to make money, otherwise we wouldn't even have any pants left."

Wu Guodong laughed at himself. It was a fact that there was really no need to go fishing at sea to make money. Otherwise, you would definitely lose money every day.

"The structure of the seabed here is too complicated. We are not familiar with it. If we cast our rod and hit the bottom, we will almost certainly get stuck."

"This is really strange! Why is it that when Zhao Dahai takes us to the artificial islands and reefs to fish, it's not that we never get stuck on the bottom, but that we rarely get stuck on the bottom!"

Gao Zhicheng thought carefully about the time when he and Zhao Dahai went fishing on the artificial islands and reefs. He had never gotten stuck like he did today. Getting stuck three or five times a day was already a big deal, but this afternoon, in just two or three hours, he got stuck so much that his hands were cramped.

"Artificial islands and reefs are different from natural islands and reefs. The structures in the sea are more complicated."

"Zhao Dahai is very familiar with the conditions on the seabed here."

"Even in unfamiliar places, Zhao Dahai can find out what's wrong with the feeling of his hands."

"It reminds us that we should pay attention."

"Another more important thing is that Zhao Dahai's speedboat is often docked in a very suitable position. Even if we don't pay much attention when knocking on the bottom, we won't get stuck."

Ding Chongshan didn't spend much time fishing with Zhao Dahai, but he knew very well how Zhao Dahai did it.

"Correct!"

"Zhao Dahai really knows the seabed structure here too well. Another thing is that Zhao Dahai can really tell where the speedboat should be docked to avoid getting stuck."

"Other boat bosses, including us, are gambling on luck when the speedboat hits the bottom in one place when fishing."

“Sometimes it doesn’t hang on the bottom, but more often it does.”

Lin Zuhua nodded.

This kind of thing is actually simple to say, but it is really difficult to do.

When they go fishing with Zhao Dahai, they rarely get stuck on the bottom, but it's just that Zhao Dahai knows the structure of the fishing spot too well.

Now that Zhao Dahai is not here, I am trying to find a spot to fish for grouper by hitting the bottom. It is normal to get stuck on the bottom.

Ding Chongshan, Gao Zhicheng, Lin Zuhua, Wu Weimin and Wu Guodong packed up the things on the speedboat and boarded the fishing boat. They were full of confidence when they went to the artificial islands and reefs, but now everyone is a little dejected.

(End of this chapter)