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

Chapter 1502 is just a little harder to catch!
Four p.m.

The sun began to set in the west, and the reflection on the sea surface was extremely intense.

"Brother Dahai."

"Haven't people always said that you can't catch many fish at the Windmill Foot fishing spot? How come we caught so many fish today?"

Liu Lei drank water from his cup while glancing occasionally at the pole on the gun mount right in front of him.

The fish started biting around 8 or 9 a.m. this morning and have been fishing ever since.

There might not be an 8,000-pound fish, but a 5,000-pound fish is definitely not going to escape.

This is not a sea bass, but a grouper.

One speedboat was already full, and now the second speedboat has made quite a bit of fish.

If you came here to fish in a speedboat, you'd already be heading back by now.

"Who says there are no fish here? If there weren't fish here, how could it have become such a famous fishing spot?"

"Not to mention that for the past twenty years or so, people have come here to fish every day as long as the weather is right. You can imagine how many fish are at this fishing spot!"

Zhao Dahai shook his head.

Liu Lei's statement is actually not accurate at all.

How could there be no fish at the Windmill Foot Fishing Spot? Not only are there fish, but there are a lot of them. Otherwise, so many people wouldn't have come here to fish in the past two or three decades.

If people keep coming to fish in a certain place, it means there are always fish there, and plenty of them.

Nobody's a fool. If you can't catch fish or make money in a place, nobody will come here.

"Look around here right now, there are at least twenty speedboats we can see."

"If you really can't catch fish here, how could so many people stay here all the time?"

Zhao Dahai pointed to the surrounding sea.

Liu Lei turned his head and nodded. It really was like that. If this place really didn't have any fish, as people said, it would be impossible for such a scene to appear.

"There have always been fish at the Windmill Foot fishing spot, and quite a lot of them. It's just that so many people have been fishing here for so many years that it has become very difficult to catch fish here."

Zhao Dahai knew very well that there were indeed fish at Fengchejiao; on the contrary, there were many fish there, and some of them were quite large.

I hadn't fished here for so long, but I tried it today and caught thousands of pounds of fish. How can you say there are no fish here?

The number of fish I caught here today is not much different from the number I would catch if I went to an artificial reef.

If I had to say something, it would be that the fish here are actually quite difficult to catch, or rather, it's much harder for them to bite than in places like artificial islands and reefs.

"what?"

Why?

Liu Lei was a little puzzled. He didn't understand why Zhao Dahai said the fish here were difficult to catch. When he was fishing here today, he really didn't find the fish difficult to catch. As long as Zhao Dahai told him and Zhong Shizhu to tap the bottom, in other words, as long as they did what Zhao Dahai said, they could almost always catch fish.

"what!"

"Liu Lei."

"You don't really think the fish here are so easy to catch, do you? Especially don't think you can catch this many fish just by driving a speedboat here, do you?"

Zhong Shizhu lit a cigarette and took a puff. At this point, there weren't many fish left to catch. Everyone had stopped talking and chatting, just hoping to catch one or two more.

"Hey!"

"I definitely wouldn't be able to catch any fish if I came here alone. I just think the fish here aren't as hard to catch as Brother Dahai said."

"Didn't we catch a lot of fish here today?"

Liu Lei knew very well that he didn't have that kind of skill. It was impossible for him to catch so many fish just by driving a speedboat here. If he really had that skill, he would have bought a speedboat long ago and come here to fish. He would have made much more money than at Hongyun Restaurant.

I just feel that fishing here today is not much different from fishing for grouper or sea bass on artificial reefs or in foam areas. I just do whatever Zhao Dahai does, and I'm sure I'll catch fish.

"That's because we came here fishing with Zhao Dahai. If we came on our own, that would be a different story."

"correct!"

"Brother Dahai, why do you think the fish here are hard to catch?"

Liu Lei nodded. Zhong Shizhu and the others were right. He thought the fish here were easy to catch because he came here with Zhao Dahai. If he came here with other people, he would never have had this feeling.

Liu Lei found it a bit strange that Zhao Dahai thought the fish here were very difficult to catch.

"The windmill fishing spot isn't too close to the shore, but it's not too far either, so a lot of people come here to fish."

"You should know that not every fish that bites the hook can be pulled up. In fact, if the angler's skills are not good, even if a fish bites the hook, it will get away."

"Some fish don't just escape once or twice, but many times."

"Although fish are not as smart as humans, the more they are caught and the more they escape, the more experience they gain, making it very difficult to catch them."

"In that case, the windmill fishing spot is not actually devoid of fish, but rather, the remaining fish are mostly older, larger ones."

"Actually, there are many fish like this at the Windmill Foot fishing spot."

"If ordinary people don't have much skill, they can only rely on luck to catch fish like this. That's why many people think the fish at the Windmill Foot fishing spot are hard to catch."

"But everyone is very clear that there are not only fish here, but a lot of fish."

As Zhao Dahai spoke, he called to Zhongzhizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Dayou, and Liu Lei to pack up their lines. At this point, there was no point in catching any fish, so they might as well not waste the time, go back early, eat and sleep, and continue fishing at sea early the next morning.

There really are fish at the windmill fishing spot, and it's easy to catch big ones, but the key problem is that most people don't have the skill to catch them.

"Brother Dahai."

Will we come back to this spot to fish again?

As Liu Lei watched, he asked Zhao Dahai with some curiosity, "We've caught so many groupers here, and they're all quite large. Under normal circumstances, we can come back here to fish again tomorrow."

Zhao Dahai shook his head and told Liu Lei that he wouldn't be fishing here tomorrow, but would instead go to the island and reef foam area or even just visit an artificial island and reef.

There are definitely fish at the Windmill Foot fishing spot, and quite a few, but the fish that are relatively easy to catch have been almost all caught today.

You can still catch fish here tomorrow, but it will be harder than today.

"If we come here to fish tomorrow, at most we can catch a thousand or two thousand catties of fish."

"Other people are already very happy to be able to catch so many fish, but it's really unnecessary for us. We can catch more fish and earn more money in other places, so we definitely have to go to other places."

As Zhao Dahai spoke, he drove the speedboat to the side of another speedboat that was moored at the corner of the windmill.

Lei Dayou and Liu Bin went up immediately.

A grouper weighing a thousand or two thousand pounds is really nothing to me.

If the current and tides are good in the foamy area of ​​the island reef, you can catch sea bass weighing several thousand kilograms. The money you can make is much more than fishing for grouper at Laifengchejiao. Alternatively, you can go to the artificial island reef, which is a bit farther away, but you can catch even more grouper.

People like us go out to sea to make more money, so we definitely need to calculate where it's more cost-effective to fish.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Dayou, and Liu Lei left the windmill fishing spot in two speedboats and returned to Ding Dawen's large fishing boat. It was already dark by then.

Ding Dawen had already seen Zhao Dahai's two speedboats returning. He turned on all the lights on the fishing boat from a distance, then lowered the ladder. As soon as the speedboats approached, he immediately called for people to come and work.

"Can you catch this many fish at the Windmill Foot fishing spot?"

Shi Guangming waited for Zhao Dahai to board the deck of the fishing boat and immediately asked about the fishing situation. He was very surprised to learn that Zhao Dahai could catch five thousand catties, or even six thousand catties of grouper in a day.

Zhao Dahai nodded. It had been a while since he'd been to the Windmill Fishing Spot, but judging from today's situation, there were still plenty of fish.

"There's a reason why such an old fishing spot like the Windmill Foot fishing spot has been able to attract so many fishermen for so many years."

"Artificial islands have more fish, but they are too far away for many people. One reason is the high cost of traveling there and another is the difficulty of returning if the waves are high."

"Now, more people still choose to fish at places like the Windmill Foot fishing spot, or at smaller fishing spots nearby."

Zhao Dahai nodded.

There are still plenty of fish at this well-established fishing spot like the Windmill Foot spot; otherwise, so many people wouldn't go there to fish.

But as I said, catching so many fish in a place like this is really not an easy thing, or rather, it takes a lot of effort.

Fishing spots on artificial islands and reefs are more complex and have more fish, but they are quite far away.

The cost is relatively high and the risk is relatively high, so there are relatively few people fishing.

"However, on the other hand, there are more and more people fishing at this artificial reef now, and larger speedboats are starting to appear."

Seeing that the cooked food had been served, Zhao Dahai called out to Zhong Shizhu and the others, urging them to sit down and eat together.

Every time we go fishing at sea, we bring cooked food, and it's quite plentiful. But when we're fishing, no one really feels like eating. We just eat a few bites to fill our stomachs, and by now we're all starving.

Artificial reefs are relatively far away, risky, and expensive, but there are more fish there, and now more and more people are going to artificial reefs to fish.

"Brother Dahai."

"This is not a good thing for us."

Liu Lei became a little anxious upon hearing this.

There are many fish on the artificial reef. Zhao Dahai led Zhong Shizhu and others to catch a lot of fish there, especially when not many people went there at the beginning.

If more and more people are fishing there now, it will definitely affect Zhao Dahai's fishing.

If Zhao Dahai's fishing is affected, it means that his seafood restaurant will have fewer grouper and other seafood available. This is a case of one thing affecting the whole situation.

"what!"

"Liu Lei."

"What do you have to worry about?"

"We're not worried about this, so why are you?"

"People have been fishing at the place where the artificial reef stands all along. It's not just us who are fishing, or rather, there were others fishing here long before we started fishing here, but not many."

"Artificial islands are so big, much bigger than the windmill fishing spot. So what if more people come here to fish?"

At first, Zhong Shizhu was just as nervous about this matter as Liu Lei. However, as time went on, he realized that it did have an impact on him and Zhao Dahai, but the impact was far less than he had imagined, and sometimes it had almost no impact at all.

"Correct!"

"Liu Lei, we've said before that there's really no need to be greedy about this, and we don't need to pay attention to it."

"Aren't there many people fishing for sea bass here at the island reef foam? Does that mean that because of these people, we're catching fewer fish?"

"How is that possible? In fact, we've caught quite a lot of sea bass here when we moved from the reef."

While eating heartily, Liu Bin pointed to the foam area of ​​the island reef not far away.

If the weather is right, countless people fish for sea bass here, but Zhao Dahai and his group still managed to catch a lot of sea bass.

"As long as you have enough skill, you can catch a lot of fish no matter where you are, there's no need to worry about it. The artificial islands and reefs are the same as the reefs here."

"When it comes to fishing, who can compare to Zhao Dahai!"

Lei Dayou smiled.

I've said this countless times already.

At first, everyone was very worried, but in fact, as time went by, it was gradually discovered that even if there was an impact, it was not significant.

(End of this chapter)