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

Chapter 1347 Devil Fish! Big one!

Ding Dawen stood beside the gun mount and waited for almost an hour, but there was no movement.

No way? Is there not even a single fish?
Do I really have to change to a string hook to fish for deep-sea stonefish?

Ding Dawen shook his head. He had such an idea at the beginning, but he dismissed it immediately. He didn't have to make money by fishing for Shi Jiugong, and he had no interest in fishing such fish.

Ding Dawen waited for another twenty minutes, but still no fish took the bait. The sun above his head was getting hotter and hotter, so he simply gave up and went back to the cab. He took the water cup and drank it in big gulps.

Ding Dawen sat on the chair and soon forgot about fishing.

Half past three in the afternoon.

Ding Dawen stood up, walked out of the cab, went to the cabin and called Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou to get up.

Zhao Dahai walked out of the cabin and was about to enter the cab when he suddenly saw a gun mount with a pole on it at the bow of the fishing boat.

"Yo!"

"Brother Dawen!"

"You are fishing! There is a fish on this pole!"

Zhao Dahai didn't pay much attention when he took the first look. Ding Dawen often did this. When the fishing boat stopped at this place and he had nothing to do, he would go fishing. But when he took a second look, he found that there was a fish on the rod.

Ding Dawen suddenly rushed out of the cab and took a look at the pole mounted on the gun mount.

"Are there any fish? How is this possible? Isn't the rod bent? The line is still a little loose?"

Ding Dawen looked at Zhao Dahai with some disbelief.

“It depends on what kind of fish it is!”

"Most of the time, the line is tight and the rod is bent, but sometimes, some fish won't move after being hooked. No one can tell for sure, but now there is definitely a fish on the hook."

As Zhao Dahai spoke, he walked over and pushed the switch of the electric winch.

Are there really fish?
Ding Dawen was a little skeptical, but what Zhao Dahai said was very certain that there was fish.

The electric winch started to rotate all of a sudden, and it took only a short while to tighten the line.

"what?"

"No way! There really is a fish!"

Ding Dawen was stunned for a moment. The line had been pulled tight, the fishing rod bent down, and kept shaking.

There must be a fish and it’s quite big!

Ding Dawen was a little dumbfounded. He really didn't expect that a fish would take the bait. What was even more unexpected was that a fish was hooked without him noticing it at all.

"What kind of fish is this? Why doesn't it look like a grouper?"

"It's not that small!"

Ding Dawen took a closer look and found that the fish caught was quite big, but it really didn't look like a grouper.

"Correct!"

"This fish is quite large, it must weigh at least 150 or 160 kilograms, and it's definitely not a grouper."

"What kind of fish is this?"

Zhao Dahai thought about it carefully, and an idea suddenly popped up in his mind.

"Devil fish!"

"This is a manta ray, and a big one at that. It must weigh more than 150 to 160 kilograms, maybe even 200 kilograms!"

Zhao Dahai had no idea how many groupers he had caught, and he knew very well what groupers looked like. This one was definitely not a grouper nor any other big fish, but looked very much like a manta ray.

After a manta ray is hooked, it behaves differently from ordinary fish. Sometimes it will be very quiet, just lying on the seabed and only moving occasionally. Another thing is that when a manta ray is pulled up, it is very heavy. At the same time, the tip of the fishing rod will keep shaking. This shaking is very different from that of other fish. Experienced people can tell the difference at once. This is because the body of the manta ray is like a big fan and it is different from ordinary fish when swimming.

"What kind of fish is this? Why is it so big?"

Zhong Shizhu walked out of the cabin and immediately saw Zhao Dahai standing next to the electric capstan. The electric capstan was rotating and the rod mounted on the gun mount was bent very badly and was shaking violently.

Lei Dayou and Liu Bin followed and walked out. When they saw the big fish on the rod, they quickly walked over.

"What kind of fish is this? It looks really big. It must weigh about 200 kilograms, right?"

……

"Ding Dawen!"

"Your luck is incredible. You can catch big fish no matter where the fishing boat stops."

……

Liu Bin and Lei Dayou both glanced at Ding Dawen.

This is really true. This is the fact. Ding Dawen's fishing boat can always catch big fish no matter where it stops. The most recent time, he caught a lot of big groupers. The time before that, he caught a lot of big mackerels. This time, he caught another big fish.

"This could be a large manta ray. It looks like it could really weigh 200 kilograms!"

Zhao Dahai slapped the rod in front of him hard. This rod was very hard and could catch very big fish. The electric reel was the same, but now the rod was severely bent and the electric reel was struggling to turn. The fish that was hooked was really big. If it was really the manta ray he said, it would weigh at least two hundred kilograms.

"what?"

"A 200-pound giant manta ray?"

Zhong Shizhu was shocked. He never expected it to be such a big manta ray. He had never seen such a big one in all his years of going out to sea.

"It's still a little bit uncertain whether it's a manta ray, but I think it looks very much like a manta ray."

Zhao Dahai shook his head and guessed it was a manta ray, but he would have to pull it out of the water to know if it was a real devil. He couldn't guarantee it 100%.

"I didn't even know this fish was hooked!"

"Zhao Dahai woke up and walked out of the cabin. He saw that there was a fish on the hook. I didn't believe it at first!"

Ding Dawen shook his head a little embarrassedly. He set up the rod and caught the fish himself, but he really didn't know when the fish was hooked.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou all felt a little amused when they heard this, but if they thought about it carefully, it was not surprising. First, the manta ray had bitten the hook, so it would not necessarily make much noise. Second, Ding Dawen was not guarding the rod all the time, but had to be busy with other things. In this way, they really didn't know that the fish had taken the bait.

"This fish has eaten the dead ditch and can't escape. I guess this fish has been struggling, but it just found that it can't escape or it has almost exhausted its strength, so it just stopped and lay on the seabed!"

As Liu Bin spoke, he walked to the side of the fishing boat and looked down at the sea.

"Yo!"

“This fish is almost visible!”

As soon as Liu Bin lowered his head, he saw the clear sea water, in which the shadow of a huge fish was slowly floating up.

"Zhao Dahai."

"You're right, it's a big manta ray!" "Fuck!"

"This fish is really big, it must weigh 200 kilograms!"

When Lei Dayou heard what Liu Bin said, he immediately rushed to the side of the fishing boat and looked down. The shadow of the fish inside was very large, like a dark cloud.

"Not bad, not bad! This manta ray is really big!"

"Brother Dawen!"

"You are so lucky. You can catch such a big fish just by finding a place where fishing boats are parked!"

Zhao Dahai saw the giant manta ray in the sea clearly, and he really had to admire Ding Dawen. He was really amazing. To find the place where the fish were, he had to rely on skills, spend time and effort.

Ding Dawen doesn't care about anything and just stops wherever it is convenient. Sometimes he doesn't care at all and just stops in one place, but he can always catch big fish.

"Correct!"

"Ding Dawen."

"In this area, no one can compare to you!"

Zhong Shizhu gave Ding Dawen a thumbs up. In this regard, no one could compare to Ding Dawen.

Ding Dawen smiled a little embarrassedly, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"Out of the water! Out of the water!"

Lei Dayou saw the giant manta ray floating on the water and shouted loudly.

"Ding Dawen!"

"Put down the ladder!"

Lei Dayou turned around and shouted at Ding Dawen, the fish has already surfaced. If they want to deal with it, they have to lower the boat ladder and get to the surface.
"Don't worry! Don't worry!"

When Zhao Dahai saw that Lei Dayou wanted to lower the boat ladder to the surface of the water this time, he knew that this was not possible.

The most powerful feature of the manta ray is its long tail, which has a long thorn on it. If it were to pierce a human body, it would be no joke.

That's poisonous!

In this vast ocean, one of the most important reasons why the manta ray is called the manta ray is this tail.

"Is it impossible not to go down?"

"We can't pull up such a big fish!"

“Even a scoop net isn’t this big!”

Lei Dayou frowned.

I have been fishing at sea for so many years, it is impossible for me not to know that such a large manta ray is actually very dangerous.

If there is a scoop net, it will definitely be used more often. However, although the scoop nets on the fishing boats are large, they are only used to deal with groupers weighing 200 kilograms.

There is a huge difference in size between a 200-pound manta ray and a 200-pound grouper. The main difference is that the manta ray is flat, while the grouper is oval.

A scoop net that can catch a 200-pound grouper is basically unlikely to catch a 200-pound manta ray.

It is impossible to pull such a heavy fish directly onto the big fishing boat by pulling the fishing line.
Manta rays are not valuable fish. It doesn't matter if you don't catch one. You won't spend time and effort to fish for one. But if you catch one, you can't throw it away.

A manta ray that is as big as 200 kilograms can be sold for a lot of money no matter what.

Otherwise, I would definitely not continue.

"We must go down, but we can't go down now!"

"Don't we have big iron hooks on our fishing boats? Just use the big iron hooks."

"There's no need to bring it up and just hook it to death. Let's go down and get it up!"

There is no way Zhao Dahai would not want this giant manta ray, but he cannot go down now while it is still alive. That would make himself uncomfortable. No matter how careful he is, there could still be accidents and danger.

I didn't plan to sell the manta ray. I caught it and ate it all by myself. I put the rest in the freezer until I get back. I can eat what I want and forget what I don't want.

"Correct!"

"We don't sell the fish we catch, so why would we care whether they are alive or dead?"

"Big iron hook! Let's use the big iron hook to kill this big manta ray, and then we'll cook it and have a meal!"

"what!"

"I've never eaten such a big manta ray before!"

Zhong Shizhu must be very excited.

A large manta ray can be sold for a lot of money, but this amount of money is not worth mentioning to people like himself or Dahai. The meat of a manta ray of this size is very thick and must taste good. It is better to kill it and cook it yourself.

The meat of manta ray is very different from other fish. It is very tender and delicious when braised.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou each took a large iron hook with a long handle and stood by the side of the fishing boat. When the time was right, they hooked the vital part of the manta ray's head.

The giant manta ray struggled desperately, and after a while it slowly became motionless.

Zhao Dahai looked carefully and made sure that the giant manta ray was dead, then he called Ding Dawen to lower the boat ladder.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou went down the ladder and got on the speedboat. It took them a while to get a rope to tie up the manta ray and pull it onto the fishing boat.

Ding Dawen's eyes widened suddenly. He couldn't see the manta ray clearly in the sea, or he couldn't quite feel how big the fish was. But now that it was pulled onto the fishing boat and spread out on the deck, it was really huge.

"Ding Dawen!"

"We're going out to sea to fish soon, so you can ask the people in the kitchen to kill the fish and make a good meal for us to eat when we come back!"

Zhong Shizhu couldn't help drooling when he saw such a big manta ray, but he and his men had to go out to sea to fish soon, so he could only wait to come back to eat it.

Ding Dawen nodded, and waited a while before calling the people in the kitchen to kill the fish.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou saw that the time was almost up, so they immediately went to the kitchen to eat. After dinner, they checked the things on the speedboat and found that they were all ready to go out to sea to fish. The speedboat was very fast and disappeared in a short while.

Night falls slowly.

The decks of the fishing boats were brightly lit.

Ding Dawen looked at the manta ray that had been cut into eight pieces, picked out the thickest and fattiest piece of meat, and asked someone to send the rest, including the liver of the manta ray, back to the cold storage of the fishing boat.

"The manta ray is so big, and the meat is so thick, it will be delicious if braised."

Ding Dawen muttered something quietly and called out to the people in the kitchen to cook, waiting for Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu and the others to come back from fishing so that they could have a good meal together.

(End of this chapter)