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

Chapter 1593 Big Fish Already in Hand!

Ding Dawen was genuinely worried that Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming, seeing so many groupers in the sea, would keep fishing, thinking they could make more money by catching more fish.

I am relatively young and can stay up all night, while Zhao Shi and two other people at the embassy are over seventy years old no matter what.

Constantly staying up late is definitely not a good idea.

Now that I'm going back to sleep, that's a good thing.

"Hey!"

"Why are there so many fish in this deep pit?"

"We absolutely cannot waste any; we must catch as many fish as possible."

Ding Dawen had no intention of going to sleep.

There are fish underwater where the fishing boat is moored, and there are so many fish that we definitely have to try our best to catch them.

I don't know why these fish came here, but one thing is 100% certain: if we don't catch them quickly, these groupers will likely go somewhere else.

Ding Dawen started fishing with one rod, but gradually he used two, and then three.

Once a crab or octopus is hooked, it won't be long before a fish bites the hook once it reaches the water depth.

Ding Dawen was extremely busy, even a bit flustered. Sometimes, one pole would already have a hook, but before he could even push the electric winch, another pole would have a hook.

Ding Dawen had no choice but to reduce the number of poles by one, so that one person could hang two poles, but even so, he was still very busy.

Ding Dawen didn't know how long he had been fishing, and before he knew it, the sky was getting darker.

Ding Dawen took a long-handled net, scooped up a grouper weighing about thirty pounds, wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned and went into the cabin to call Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng and Lin Zuhua to get up.

"Ding Dawen".

"Didn't you sleep at all last night?"

Wu Weimin yawned as he spoke to Ding Dawen.

Ding Dawen was covered in sweat, and his clothes were soaked through, whether from sweat or seawater, it was hard to tell. It was obvious that he hadn't slept all night.

"There were just too many groupers in this deep pit under the fishing boat. I fished all night long."

"How can I possibly sleep!"

Ding Dawen chuckled. He had been fishing all night, so much so that he hadn't had time to sleep.

"How many did you catch? You must have made tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan, right?"

Lin Zuhua was not surprised at all.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and I have been fishing too much, and we want to catch big fish. We're not interested in small ones. If another person who likes fishing encountered such fishing conditions, they definitely wouldn't go to sleep.

Ding Dawen was so excited about how many fish he was catching, and how each one was worth several thousand yuan. He was probably having trouble sleeping and his mind was probably focused on catching as many fish as possible.

"I don't know how many I caught, but there was always some. At first, I used one rod, then three rods, but I couldn't keep up, so I used two rods instead."

"I was so busy and flustered, I really don't know how many fish I caught."

Ding Dawen shook his head, admitting he couldn't remember how many fish he'd caught in one night or one all-nighter.

At first, I just memorized the information, but as I fished more and more, I found that both rods were getting too busy.

I didn't keep track of how many fish I caught, but I'm sure I lost dozens.

"I really don't understand how there are still so many fish in this deep pit after so long."

Gao Zhicheng was very surprised.

Having fished for so many years, this is truly the first time I've encountered a situation like this.

Zhao Dahai explained very clearly that this deep pit had been used for fishing, and quite a few fish had been caught, but generally only three to five fish could be caught.

The number of grouper in this pit has remained the same since yesterday, which is truly unexpected.

Zhao Dahai's judgment should be fairly accurate; there must be some reason why a lot of rock spots accumulated in this deep pit in a short period of time.

It's just that I really don't know what the reason is, and I have to find a way to figure it out.

"Hurry, hurry!"

"Hurry up and try it out, see if there are any large groupers in this pit."

While shouting, Wu Weimin immediately began preparing the pole.

Gao Zhicheng and Lin Zuhua both nodded and immediately got to work. In no time, they had set up and adjusted the electric winch, hooked a large crab or octopus onto the hook, and then immediately put it into the sea.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua fished for over an hour, but no large groupers took the bait, so they had no choice but to fish for smaller ones.

"What the hell!"

"That can't be right, can it?"

"Why are there no big groupers among so many small ones?"

Wu Weimin was very frustrated. He tried to catch a big one last night but didn't manage to. He got up early this morning hoping to catch a big one, but still no big ones took the bait.

Wu Weimin really couldn't understand what was going on.

"Who knows! Logically speaking, there should be some, but we haven't caught any yet."

"I don't know if it's really not there, or if it is but it's not biting."

Gao Zhicheng frowned deeply and glanced at Ding Dawen next to him. Ding Dawen was using a double hook to fish for small fish, catching one after another.

He, Lin Zuhua, and Wu Weimin couldn't catch any big groupers, but when they switched to double hooks and fished in shallower areas, they immediately got groupers weighing 20 or 30 pounds to bite.

This only proves that there are indeed fish here, but most of these fish are relatively small.

Are there really no big ones?

Gao Zhicheng thought it was unlikely; on the contrary, there must be big ones here, but he didn't know why these big ones just wouldn't take the bait.

"Gao Zhicheng."

Do you think there are any large groupers on the seabed around this area?

Lin Zuhua pushed the electric reel hard, and a fish took the bait. But this time, when he couldn't catch a big fish, he switched to a double hook and fished in a shallower area.

Not only were there fish biting the hook, but two fish were biting it. Lin Zuhua felt that what he needed to figure out now was whether there were any large groupers in this deep pit.

If you have a large one, keep fishing. The more time you spend fishing and the more times you fish, the more likely you are to catch one.

If there aren't any large groupers, then there's nothing to say, so just leave it alone.

"Who can say for sure about these things?"

"No one has X-ray vision. With a depth of over 100 meters, no one can be sure whether there are fish or not, or whether there are big fish."

Gao Zhicheng hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.

There are definitely fish at the bottom of this deep pit where the fishing boat is moored, and there are a lot of them. Ding Dawen has been fishing all night and has been able to catch a lot of fish, but he really can't say for sure whether there are any big fish in the sea.

Gao Zhicheng understood perfectly what Lin Zuhua meant. He was saying that if there were any big fish, he should keep fishing and keep going until he caught one. If there weren't any big fish, there was no need to waste time. He should just fish for small fish or go out to sea with Zhao Dahai's speedboat. That way, he would have a chance to catch big fish.

However, there's definitely no way to say for sure about this kind of thing; there's no way to be certain.

Wu Weimin and Lin Zuhua nodded, feeling very frustrated. It was really hard to say whether there were any big fish or not.

"What should we do? Should we continue to try fishing here for a few more days and see if we can catch anything? If we really can't catch anything, we can just go out to sea with Zhao Dahai's speedboat."

Gao Zhicheng glanced at Lin Zuhua and Wu Weimin. This was the current situation. They had to figure out whether to continue fishing here or just hurry up and go out to sea with Zhao Dahai's speedboat.

Lin Zuhua and Wu Weimin hesitated. This was really a bad situation, and they needed to make a decision quickly.

"Zhao Dahai and the others are back!"

Ding Dawen picked up a fish and looked up to see Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou's two speedboats speeding back.

Ding Dawen quickly carried the fish onto the deck of the fishing boat, removed the hook, and threw it into a large tank filled with seawater and oxygen. He then shouted loudly for the other workers to come over quickly.

"Zhao Dahai has caught a lot of fish again. I wonder if they are groupers or some other kind of fish?"

"Please, please, it can't be one of those groupers that weigh 100 or 200 pounds again, or we'll really regret it!"

Lin Zuhua carefully examined the two speedboats driven by Zhao Dahai and Lei Dayou. They looked very fast, but anyone familiar with the power of such speedboats knew that this speed was actually very slow. Most importantly, they had a very deep draft and created very large waves.

This phenomenon only occurs when a speedboat is loaded with a lot of cargo. In other words, Zhao Dahai caught a lot of fish on this trip, but it's unclear what kind of fish they were or how big they were.

Why are some of us a little nervous?

Wu Weimin stared wide-eyed as Zhao Dahai's two speedboats stopped beside the large fishing boat, and the people Ding Dawen had been calling for had already started working. He realized he was indeed a little nervous.

"what!"

"Is there even a need to say it? We're starting to worry that Zhao Dahai has caught some of the fish we're looking for this time, and they're big ones at that."

Gao Zhicheng burst out laughing.

I'm not kidding, I'm genuinely worried right now that Zhao Dahai might have caught the same big fish that we all wanted to catch on this trip.

"Mr. Wu Weimin!"

"You've missed another great opportunity!"

Zhong Shizhu looked up and saw that Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, Lin Zuhua and the others were all staring down at him with wide eyes, so he simply shouted loudly.

"what?"

What kind of opportunities did we miss?

Gao Zhicheng's heart skipped a beat. He wondered if this was exactly what he feared. Could it be that Zhao Dahai had actually caught some fish that they had wanted to catch but hadn't been able to catch?
"Really? What kind of fish did you catch this time?"

Gao Zhicheng was very anxious and immediately asked Zhong Shizhu what kind of fish he had caught this time.

"A giant Spanish mackerel! A giant Spanish mackerel weighing over 200 pounds!"

Zhong Shizhu knew that Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua all really wanted to catch big fish, so he simply pointed to something covered by a waterproof tarpaulin on the splint.

Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua were all stunned for a moment before noticing that there was indeed something covering the deck of the speedboat. They hadn't paid attention to it at first, as they had been focused on the live water tank, and only now did they realize it.

"Zhong Shizhu, you're not kidding, are you? Did you really catch such a big mackerel?"

Gao Zhicheng was a little hesitant to believe it, but he knew that such things were unlikely to be false.

"Zhao Dahai".

"Did you really catch a fish that big?"

Wu Weimin simply asked Zhao Dahai directly: Zhong Shizhu might say this on purpose, but Zhao Dahai would never say it on purpose.

Zhao Dahai smiled and nodded.

Zhong Shizhu was not wrong; he really did catch a 200-pound mackerel.

"No way? What kind of place could have caught such a huge mackerel?"

……

"Two hundred pounds, that's a huge mackerel! How did you catch it?"

……

"Hey!"

"Why do we have to catch a 100-pound grouper? Wouldn't a 200-pound mackerel be better? Why do we have to stay on the fishing boat? If we go out to sea with the speedboat, wouldn't we have a chance to catch a fish that big?"

……

Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua were devastated. They had never expected that Zhao Dahai would catch such a large mackerel on this trip. They had been staying on the fishing boat, trying to catch grouper weighing over 100 jin, but they hadn't caught a single one and had missed such a great opportunity.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou boarded the large fishing boat along the embankment.

"Boss Wu!"

"Even if you all went out to sea together, you might not be able to catch a mackerel like this, it's almost impossible. Even if you did, only Zhao Dahai could catch one."

Seeing that Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua were extremely frustrated and even regretful, Liu Bin bluntly stated that even if they had gone out to sea with him, they wouldn't have been able to catch that mackerel. Only Zhao Dahai could catch it.

"Why is this happening? If we just go out with them, shouldn't we have a chance? Why is it that only Zhao Dahai can catch fish?"

Gao Zhicheng was very puzzled, but even more so, he was somewhat unconvinced. Although it was very likely that only Zhao Dahai could catch this big mackerel, as long as he, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua went out to sea, they should at least have a chance.

(End of this chapter)