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

Chapter 1523: Fished Too Much!

Xu Dachui glanced at the small mackerel he had just caught, weighing less than eight ounces, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly to Xu Xiaochui to put away his rod and go back now.

More than an hour had passed, and the threadfin bream I caught hadn't gotten any bigger; in fact, they were getting smaller and smaller. There was really no point in continuing to fish for them.

"There aren't many threadfin fish here today, especially the big ones. Otherwise, we would have caught one or two big ones already."

Xu Dachui had to admit that there weren't many large mackerel here today. They were all in the foamy areas of the island reefs where the current was very strong, right in front of Zhao Dahai and Zhong Shizhu's two speedboats. There really weren't any big fish at the edge of the foamy areas.

Xu Xiaochui had already reached his limit, and as soon as Xu Dachui shouted, he immediately put away his fishing rod.

Xu Da Chui and Xu Xiao Chui quickly packed their things and immediately boarded the speedboat to leave. There was really no way to earn any more money here today, so they might as well go home as soon as possible.

Seeing Xu Dachui and Xu Xiaochui leave in a somewhat embarrassed and angry manner, Song Tianping sighed deeply. Any fisherman would find it hard to bear such a scene.

"Big speedboats are great!"

Song Tianping looked at Zhao Dahai's two large speedboats with immense envy. Fishing here today doesn't really require any skill; it's all about who has the biggest speedboat. If a speedboat is big enough, it can reach the middle of the foam area and is guaranteed to catch large sea bass and large threadfin bream.

Song Tianping drove his speedboat away from the island's foamy area. No matter what he did, it was impossible to catch any large sea bass or threadfin bream here today.

Today, the only people who can make money, and a lot of money, in this island and reef foam area are the people on Zhao Dahai's two speedboats.

The very center of the island and reef foam zone.

Liu Lei's face turned bright red.

The pole he was holding was bent so badly that it almost flew off.

"Liu Lei."

"What are you doing? Why do you seem so weak?"

"This fish looks pretty big, could it weigh around 40 pounds? If it really is a threadfin bream, that size is incredible!"

Zhong Shizhu was panting heavily. When he first started fishing for sea bass, and even when he first started fishing for threadfin bream, he didn't feel too tired. But after fishing for so long, he really didn't have much strength left. He had to grit his teeth and persevere every time he caught a fish.

The fish on the rod in my hand is obviously very big, and with the current being so strong, plus it being a threadfin, the pulling force is no joke.

Zhong Shizhu knew very well that even he might not have been able to catch it.

Among our group, only Zhao Dahai possessed such abilities.

But we definitely can't let this opportunity slip by; we absolutely have to make fun of Liu Lei.

Liu Lei wanted to speak up and refute, but his lips trembled and he couldn't utter a word.

This fish was so big and strong that it was already too much to handle, let alone speak.

Liu Lei was very worried that if he opened his mouth, he would lose his grip on the pole and it would fly away.

"Do not talk!"

"Concentrate and take deep breaths in and out!"

"One shot after another! Don't rush!"

Zhao Dahai glanced at Liu Lei, then at the fish on the rod, and knew that the fish was indeed as Zhong Shizhu had said, definitely over thirty pounds and close to forty pounds.

Big fish, no matter what kind of fish they are, are all very strong.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou, despite their extensive fishing experience, found it extremely difficult to handle such fish.

Although Liu Lei has been going out to sea fishing with me these past few days, he is far from being very good at it.

Fish this big are really not easy to deal with.

At first, Liu Lei was a bit flustered, but Zhao Dahai's words immediately calmed him down. He immediately followed Zhao Dahai's instructions, reeling in the line and pulling the fish one after another. At first, he felt that the fish in his hand had a very strong pull, but after a while, he found that the pull of the fish in his hand was getting weaker and weaker.

"what!"

"Brother Dahai."

"What's going on? Why does the pull of this fish seem so much weaker now than it was at the beginning?"

At first, Liu Lei thought he might be imagining things, but he quickly realized that it wasn't like that at all. Not only did he feel that the pulling force was less, but he was also able to speak.

"What's so strange about that? One reason is that fish usually bite the hook with the most force at the beginning."

"Once you get through that first minute, or even ten seconds, the fish's strength will suddenly decrease significantly."

"Another important thing is that now that you've gained a foothold, I can use all my strength!"

Zhong Shizhu initially thought that he should go to Liu Lei's side to keep an eye on him and help him if needed. The fish was really too big, and it would be a real pity if it got away.

However, as soon as Zhao Dahai said that, he saw that Liu Lei had gained a firm footing and knew that he didn't need to help with this matter.

Zhao Dahai gripped the pole with both hands and lifted it upwards with force, sending a 20-pound threadfin fish flying directly onto the speedboat's deck.

No matter what kind of fish it is, it has a lot of strength when it first bites the hook.

Threadfin bream are already very strong, not to mention threadfin bream weighing 30 or 40 pounds. In addition, the current in the sea is very strong at this time, so the pulling force will be even greater.

Liu Lei doesn't have a lot of fishing experience, so it's already quite good that he was able to handle a fish like that.

"No! No!"

"Uncle Shizhu!"

"I really can't lift this fish myself, I need your help."

Liu Lei pulled the fish back to the side of the speedboat, intending to try and see if he could catch it, but he immediately realized that he really couldn't.

Liu Lei didn't force him and immediately called Zhong Shizhu for help.

Zhong Shizhu used a landing net to scoop up the fish, and it was quite difficult for him to pull it onto the speedboat with both hands.

"big!"

"This fish is really huge!"

"Liu Lei!"

“Zhao Dahai caught several bigger ones than yours! But none of the other threadfin bream we caught can compare to yours.”

Zhong Shizhu was very envious.

He and Lei Dayou and Liu Bin, who were on another speedboat next to him, caught a lot of sea bass and threadfin bream today, far exceeding Liu Lei in terms of quantity.

However, the threadfin bream that Liu Lei caught is much larger than the ones he, Lei Dayou, and Liu Bin caught.

"Uncle Stone Pillar".

"This sea is full of big threadfin bream. Everyone knows who can catch the biggest one. I just had a bit more luck!"

Liu Lei was genuinely surprised by this. After Zhong Shizhu mentioned it, he took a closer look and realized that the threadfin he had caught was indeed enormous. In his memory, none of the threadfins caught by Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, or Lei Dayou were nearly as big as his. "Alright, alright!"

"If you say things like that, aren't you just trying to act all high and mighty in front of us again?"

Zhong Shizhu was somewhat helpless.

Liu Bin, Lei Dayou, and I did catch more threadfin bream than Liu Lei, and much more, but that couldn't compare to the fact that the one Liu Lei caught was much bigger than any of the others.

"How could that be? Even if the one I caught is a little bigger than yours, it still can't compare to the threadfin bream that Brother Dahai caught."

"It's really just a little bigger than yours."

"Even if I wanted to be proud, I couldn't, could I?"

Liu Lei shook his head seriously.

"Zhong Shizhu".

"Aren't you just asking for trouble? If you hadn't told him, Liu Lei wouldn't have known that the threadfin he caught was bigger than the ones we caught."

"Now that you've said it like that, doesn't that mean you know? Now you can be smug, right?"

Lei Da vigorously wiped the seawater off his face.

The fish that Liu Lei caught was indeed larger than the ones he, Liu Bin, and Zhong Shizhu had caught.

But Liu Lei didn't care about this at all.

Or perhaps Liu Lei simply didn't know about this.

Zhong Shizhu's statement is a reminder that such a thing happened.

"Zhong Shizhu".

"You've really gotten me into serious trouble this time!"

"If you hadn't told me, Liu Lei really wouldn't have known about this. Now that you've mentioned it, for the next year or two, every time Liu Lei talks about fishing today, he'll bring it up: the threadfin bream he caught was bigger than all three of us combined."

Liu Bing nodded. Lei Dayou was right. Liu Lei didn't know about this at first; he only found out after Zhong Shizhu told him.

"Correct!"

"At first, I really didn't notice this."

Liu Lei nodded in admission that he hadn't really noticed when he caught this fish that it was bigger than those caught by Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou.

Zhong Shizhu was at a loss; he hadn't even noticed this when he mentioned it.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Dayou, and Liu Lei, a total of five people, were chatting while making the most of their time to fish.

"Come on, come on!"

"There are no more fish! There are no more fish!"

Zhao Dahai shouted loudly to Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Dayou, and Liu Lei to stop fishing. There was no need to fish anymore. One reason was that no fish had bitten the hook in the past ten minutes, and the other was that the current in the foamy area of ​​the island was starting to slow down.

Both sea bass and threadfin are greatly affected by the current.

If the water flow slows down, it basically means there are no fish left in that area.

"Brother Dahai!"

"How many fish did we catch today?"

Liu Lei hadn't paid much attention while fishing, but now that he had finished and stopped to rest, he noticed that there was a large pile of threadfin bream around his feet, some of them still swishing their tails.

There was no room left in the live water tank to hold all the threadfin bream we caught, but we had to hurry up and fish. Besides, we didn't need to keep the threadfin bream alive to sell, so we simply caught them and piled them up on the deck of the speedboat.

There seem to be so many threadfin bream that there's no room left on the entire deck of the speedboat.

Who knows?

"But we've caught a lot of fish today!"

"If you add up all the sea bass and threadfin, two speedboats would definitely catch more than 10,000 kilograms."

Zhao Dahai glanced at his speedboat, then at Lei Dayou's and Liu Bin's speedboats opposite him. The situation was almost identical; the entire deck of both boats was piled high with fish.

It's hard to say exactly how many fish we caught today, but the only thing we can be sure of is that we caught quite a lot.

"Brother Dahai!"

"How could you not make money fishing like that!"

"There aren't many speedboats here today, and even if there are, they can only fish on the edge of the foam area. I just looked at the fish they caught, and they were all relatively small."

Liu Lei pointed to the surrounding sea.

The waves are quite high today, so there aren't many speedboats coming here to fish.

Even the speedboats that did arrive weren't very big, so they couldn't actually get into the middle of the island's foam zone.

There's no way to catch big fish.

"These people's speedboats are too small and lack power. If the current is too strong or the waves are too high, their speedboats definitely won't dare to come in. It's just too dangerous."

Zhao Dahai took a few sips of water.

I noticed this myself while fishing.

My speedboat is quite large, which gave me a significant advantage in such rough seas.

Other speedboats used for sea bass fishing, while not particularly large or small, are really useless.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Dayou, and Liu Lei rested for about ten minutes before driving their speedboat away from the island's foamy area back to their large fishing boat.

"How many fish did you catch?"

Standing on the deck of the large fishing boat, Shi Guangming saw Zhao Dahai and Lei Dayou's two speedboats returning and couldn't help but shout loudly.

"Grandpa Shi!"

"Is there even a need to say that? How could we not catch any fish if we come back at this time?"

"I not only caught fish today, I caught a lot of fish!"

"They have both sea bass and threadfin, and they're all big fish?"

Liu Lei loudly and triumphantly replied to Shi Guangming.

(End of this chapter)