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

Chapter 1578 How to catch a big fish?
"One hundred meters!"

"It's almost at the bottom of the sea. If there are any fish, they'll definitely bite the hook right away."

Wu Weimin glanced at the data displayed on the electric winch mounted on the gun mount in front of him; his giant crab was now...

The bait was placed only 20 meters from the seabed. If there were fish in the pit, a tap on the bottom would immediately attract a fish to bite.

As Wu Weimin spoke, he couldn't help but get excited. This was his first cast of the line on this trip, and he was hoping to catch a big fish. But just as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the sound of the electric winch turning. He was a little puzzled. What was going on? It sounded like a fish had taken the bait so quickly. He turned to look to the side and saw that the rod on the rack in front of Zhong Shizhu was bent very badly, and the sound of the electric winch turning was extremely unpleasant.

"No way?"

"How come a fish took the bait so quickly?"

Wu Weimin was dumbfounded. He really couldn't understand what was going on. They were all fishing together. Even if Zhong Shizhu was faster than them, there was no reason why a fish would bite the hook so quickly. Moreover, it looked like this grouper was quite big, at least eighty pounds.

Gao Zhicheng and Lin Zuhua turned to look at the rapidly spinning electric winch of Zhong Shizhu, especially when the pole mounted on the gun carriage was bent very sharply. Their eyes widened suddenly, looking round like copper bells.

"This is unbelievable! How could it be so fast? How could there be a fish biting the hook so quickly?"

Gao Zhicheng slapped his face hard, he really couldn't believe what he was seeing, he really couldn't believe that Zhong Shizhu had already caught a fish so quickly, and the fish was really big.

"what!"

"Can you guys hurry up a bit? If you keep moving this slowly, even if there are fish in this pit, we'll have already caught them all, and you won't even have anything to eat."

Upon hearing this, Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua immediately looked up and saw Lei Dayou and Liu Bin's speedboat less than two meters away. They noticed that the fishing rods in front of Lei Dayou and Liu Bin were exactly the same as Zhong Shizhu's, bent very badly, with the electric reel spinning continuously and making the same unpleasant sound. This was something that would happen if a big fish had been caught.

"what!"

“Lei Dayou, you’re right! They’re too slow. At this time of year, fishing depends on who’s quick. Only the quickest can catch fish. The slowest will definitely not catch any. They won’t even get a chance to eat fish, let alone the northwest wind.”

As Liu Bin spoke, he forcefully patted the electric winch mounted on the pole in front of him.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua were all dumbfounded. Not only did Zhong Shizhu catch a fish, but Lei Dayou and Liu Bin also caught fish. The key point was that the speed at which the fish were caught was just too fast.

"No way? How could it be so fast?"

As Wu Weimin spoke, he looked down at the pole on the gun mount in front of him. It was still about ten meters away from the seabed. He thought to himself that this wouldn't do and he had to hurry. Just as he reached out to lower it quickly, he suddenly saw the pole be pulled down hard.

Really? Fish are already biting the hook? Do you think you don't need to go to the sea to find fish biting the hook?
Could it be that a fish rushed up from the seabed and bit the hook? Is it that crazy?
Wu Weimin could hardly believe his eyes. He even rubbed them hard before he realized that a fish had indeed taken the bait, and that the fish was quite large.

Wu Weimin was a bit flustered. He yanked the rod hard, then pressed a button. The electric reel started spinning and began to reel in the line and pull the fish.

"This is unbelievable! Why would they go so crazy?"

Wu Weimin looked at the spinning electric reel and the rod in front of him and couldn't believe it. There was already a fish biting the hook before they even reached the seabed, and it looked like the fish was quite big, at least sixty or more.

"coming!"

"Damn it!"

"There are still at least five meters to go before we reach the seabed!"

……

"This is terrifying. Could it be that all these fish are hiding in this pit tonight?"

……

Wu Weimin turned to look at Gao Zhicheng and Lin Zuhua beside him. Both of them had fish biting the hook, and it seemed that they were just like him, having taken the bait before even reaching the seabed.

"Hey!"

"As long as there are fish in the sea, what need is there for any technology?"

"It doesn't matter whether it's crab, octopus, or live shrimp, they'll still bite, won't they?"

Wu Weimin was deeply impressed, as he had witnessed it firsthand. As long as you pinpoint the location of the fish, and if there are fish in the sea that are biting, you can catch them using crabs, live shrimp, or even octopus. The key point is that the fish hadn't even reached the seabed yet, and they were already rushing up from the pit to bite the hook. This proved that Zhao Dahai's judgment was correct once again. It was very likely that all the fish today were in the pit, or at least there were more fish in the pit than in the rock cave, and there might be many more. Otherwise, this would never have happened.

"Correct!"

"The difference between techniques and bait only becomes apparent when there are fish in the sea but they aren't biting much. Right now, it seems there's absolutely no difference."

Gao Zhicheng looked at the curve of the rod in front of him. The fish was not particularly big, but it was not small either, weighing about fifty pounds. He looked at Wu Weimin's rod and then at Lin Zuhua's rod. They were basically the same size as the fish he had caught.

Wu Weimin is absolutely right. When there's a fish in the sea that's biting like crazy, you can catch it no matter what kind of bait you use. That's a fact.

Before their bait even reached the seabed, the grouper had already rushed up and bit the hook, proving that there were a great many fish in the sea, and that these fish were almost starving.

"what!"

"This couldn't be better for us. Judging from this, we'll not only catch fish today, but we'll catch a lot of fish." Lin Zuhua was very excited. Although he didn't go out to sea fishing often, he had been fishing for many years and had a lot of experience. The fact that fish were already biting the hook before they even touched the bottom could only mean that Zhao Dahai had chosen a spot with a lot of fish tonight.

When there are too many fish and nothing to eat, they become very hungry. As soon as they see something appearing around them, they will frantically hunt for it. This is the main and most important reason why these fish rush straight up from the seabed.

In just a short while, he, Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou all caught fish, and the fish were all around fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty pounds.

Needless to say, tonight we can not only catch fish, but a lot of fish. We might catch about twenty groupers in this one pond. If that's the case, that would be amazing. We could catch a thousand or even fifteen hundred catties of groupers in one go.

Zhao Dahai glanced at the incredibly excited Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua and found it somewhat amusing. For himself, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou, this was really nothing special; in fact, they caught this many fish almost every day they went out to sea, and they encountered such a scene at least every few days.

Gao Zhicheng glanced at the fishing rod in front of him. The fish was only fifty meters away from being pulled up, but it was strange that he hadn't heard Zhao Dahai speak.

"Damn it!"

"Zhao Dahai!"

"What's going on? We're all fishing, and the fish we've all caught are about the same size!"

"They're either fifty or sixty pounds, or seventy or eighty pounds. How come your fish weighs over a hundred pounds?"

Gao Zhicheng couldn't help but shout loudly.

It's not surprising that Zhao Dahai caught a fish since everyone else had caught one too. But the key point is that the fish Zhao Dahai caught was significantly larger than the ones they had caught.

Zhong Shizhu caught a fish that weighed about 80 pounds, but Zhao Dahai caught one that definitely weighed over 100 pounds.

Don't be fooled by the seemingly small difference of 20 pounds between 80 and 100 pounds of fish. The difference is significant. Most importantly, while 80 pounds is relatively common, fish weighing over 100 pounds are extremely rare.

The difference here is not just a little bit, it's a huge difference. But the current situation is that Zhao Dahai caught a fish weighing over 100 pounds, while the others all caught fish weighing 50 or 60 pounds. The only one that Zhong Shizhu caught was a fish weighing around 70 or 80 pounds.

"what?"

"One hundred pounds! This is definitely a giant grouper weighing over one hundred pounds!"

……

"How could this be? We were all fishing on a speedboat, and the fish were biting at about the same time. The most important thing is that we were all using octopus, crabs, or live shrimp."

"Why is the fish you caught, Zhao Dahai, so much bigger than ours?"

……

Wu Weimin and Lin Zuhua initially didn't pay attention to the size of the fish Zhao Dahai had caught. But when Gao Zhicheng shouted, they turned around and were all dumbfounded, unable to understand what was going on. Why was Zhao Dahai able to catch a fish weighing over 100 jin (50 kg), while they could only catch fish weighing 50 or 60 jin (25 or 30 kg)?

It's perfectly normal to catch fish of different sizes at different fishing spots, but the fact that everyone is at the same spot on the same speedboat is a bit hard to accept.

"What can we do?"

"Could it be that these crabs or octopuses take on a different flavor after passing through my hands? Otherwise, why would such large fish insist on biting my hook and not yours?"

Zhao Dahai laughed.

Two speedboats were fishing in the same spot, and they both bit the hook around the same time, but the fish that I caught was definitely bigger.

"How could it be like this?"

Gao Zhicheng thought about it carefully, then shook his head. What Zhao Dahai said was complete nonsense. There was no way such a thing could happen. There must be something different about it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be that all of them caught relatively small fish, while the one Zhao Dahai caught was much bigger than theirs.

Wu Weimin and Lin Zuhua both nodded. Gao Zhicheng was right; there must be something different about him.

"Actually, the method is very simple!"

Zhao Dahai smiled and nodded. Gao Zhicheng was indeed more experienced in fishing and didn't blindly believe everything he was told. In fact, there was a difference, which was why he had caught such a large fish. Although Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, Lin Zuhua, and even Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou had caught fish, their sizes were different from his.

"Really? Is there really some difference?"

Wu Weimin's eyes widened suddenly. He thought Gao Zhicheng's words made sense, but he never expected that there was actually a difference.

"Zhao Dahai".

"Are you serious? You don't actually have some kind of trick to catch big fish, do you? The fish we catch are all relatively small, don't they?"

Lin Zuhua was a little hesitant to believe it, but Zhao Dahai wouldn't joke about something like this. Since he had already said that, it really meant that Zhao Dahai's fishing method was very likely different from theirs. That was why Zhao Dahai was able to catch big fish, while they could only catch smaller ones.

Gao Zhicheng didn't say anything, but immediately stared at Zhao Dahai, even ignoring the grouper that was almost pulled out of the water.

Zhao Dahai nodded. He really wasn't lying. The reason he was able to catch larger groupers was because of a very small trick that Gao Zhicheng and the others hadn't noticed. That was the reason why everyone else caught fish, but he caught larger ones.

(End of this chapter)