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

Chapter 1597 The method really works
"This is amazing!"

"I caught a fish right away!"

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"Zhao Dahai".

"Isn't your idea really excellent!"

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Wu Weimin and Lin Zuhua were very surprised.

At first, neither of them caught any fish, but following Zhao Dahai's method, they quickly and rapidly pulled the jig at a fixed water depth.

After only about twenty tugs, a fish took the bait.

It's not particularly big, but it weighs at least 20 or 30 pounds.

The pull was incredibly strong the moment they were hooked. The two of them were prepared, but they still almost lost their balance. However, after getting through the first one, it became very easy.

"If there are fish in the sea, especially if there are many fish and they bite easily, then it's useful, but not very useful."

Zhao Dahai smiled and nodded.

Fishing can be incredibly complex, yet incredibly simple in some ways.

If you know how to fish, it's actually very simple; if you don't know how, it's very difficult.

Another point is that if there are fish in the sea, and the fish are biting very aggressively, you can catch fish no matter how you throw them in.

I don't know if there are any large groupers in this deep pit under the fishing boat now, but there are quite a few small ones.

If you use the right method, it's actually not difficult at all; in fact, it's quite easy.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua are in this situation now.

"Another one!"

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"Yo!"

"This one is bigger!"

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"Crazy, crazy!"

"Why did the grouper here suddenly go berserk all of a sudden?!"

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Wu Weimin was panting heavily, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

"I'm not fishing anymore! I'm not fishing anymore!"

"It's not that there are no fish in the sea, it's that it's really impossible to fish there!"

Wu Weimin gave a wry smile.

At first, Lin Zuhua, Gao Zhicheng, and I couldn't catch any grouper in the sea. Even though Zhao Dahai said we couldn't catch them with a jig, Zhao Dahai came back, said a few words, and changed the method. Not only did we catch some, but we caught three in a row.

These groupers weren't particularly big; the largest weighed only about 50 pounds, the smallest were 20 pounds, and one I caught weighed just over 10 pounds.

However, the pull of these fish was really too great, and the key was that they kept coming one after another without stopping, which was really tiring.

Fortunately, the last one weighed about ten pounds. If it had weighed twenty pounds, it wouldn't have been able to be pulled up, let alone a larger one.

Lin Zuhua gritted his teeth, gripped the pole tightly with both hands, and lifted it upwards.

Wu Weimin had already made it clear that he was done fishing after catching the third fish, but the fish he had hooked now was quite large, definitely over fifty pounds, and had a very strong pull. He couldn't stop now, even if he wanted to, he had to pull the fish up first.

Lin Zuhua held on for a while, but couldn't hold on any longer, so he simply called out to Zhao Dahai.

Zhao Dahai smiled and walked over, took the rod, lifted it up forcefully, and then vigorously spun the reel. In no time, he had pulled the hooked fish out of the water.

Lin Zuhua shook his head with a wry smile. The fish that had taken the bait was actually quite big, and he really couldn't handle it and couldn't pull it up. But for Zhao Dahai, it was as easy as drinking water. He finished off the fish in no time.

"Fishing requires not only skill, but also strength. Without strength, fishing for fish like this is too strenuous."

"I can't fish anymore, I need to rest."

Lin Zuhua wiped the sweat from his forehead and realized that his clothes were already soaked with sweat.

He was panting heavily, almost unable to breathe properly.

Catching big fish is indeed very exciting, but it's also incredibly tiring.

"If we use an electric reel, we can catch more fish, but with a hand-cranked spinning reel, we really can't catch many fish."

Wu Weimin drank some water, rested for a while, and felt a little better.

If we follow Zhao Dahai fishing, we can easily catch fish, and catch a lot of fish.

This incident proves that there were indeed fish under the fishing boat; on the contrary, there were plenty of them. It's just that we were using the wrong methods to catch them.

As soon as Zhao Dahai suggested using a metal plate, I followed his instructions and immediately caught fish, one after another.

There were just too many fish, and the pull was too strong, so Lin Zuhua and I gave up and stopped fishing.

"Correct!"

"It would be so much more comfortable to use an electric winch, but you can't use a metal plate with an electric winch."

"It's going to be quite difficult to catch a fish!"

"Should we just use double hooks to fish for grouper here?"

Lin Zuhua hesitated for a moment.

"No need, no need!"

"We just want to catch big fish; we're not really interested in small ones."

"We can go fishing when Ding Dawen has some free time, or when Uncle Zhao and Uncle Shi are free."

Wu Weimin shook his head without even thinking.

If you just want to fish, regardless of size, there's no need to wait here under the umbrella. Just go out to sea with Zhao Dahai and you can catch more, and you might even catch a bigger one.

Lin Zuhua nodded. Wu Weimin was right. The reason they went out to sea was not just to fish, but to catch big fish. If they wanted to use double hooks to fish for the small grouper here, Ding Dawen, Zhao Shi, or Shi Guangming could just do it.

"Jig fishing for grouper is really fun, but we're just too physically fit to catch many."

Lin Zuhua felt somewhat helpless.

Using an electric winch with double hooks to bait live shrimp, crabs, or octopuses for small grouper isn't really that interesting, but using the demo version with a hand-cranked rod for grouper fishing is quite good.

However, both Wu Weimin and I were too physically exhausted to keep fishing like this.

"No!"

"If you can't handle it, neither can I!"

Gao Zhicheng was panting heavily. Wu Weimin and Lin Zuhua had only caught three fish each before giving up. He gritted his teeth and caught one more, but he still couldn't keep up. There was nothing he could do, especially with the last one, which weighed about sixty pounds.

This fish was really struggling; it was so full of energy that its face turned red, and it finally managed to pull itself out of the water.

Gao Zhicheng dared not fish any further. If he continued, even if there were fish, he wouldn't be able to pull them up. He couldn't even pull up a fish that weighed about ten pounds. He had completely exhausted all his strength.

"Zhao Dahai".

"Fishing with you is initially very fun, as you can catch fish whenever you want. However, as you continue fishing, you realize that it's not fun at all."

"Others get a terrible headache when they can't catch fish, but for you, fishing becomes a physical task."

Gao Zhicheng really didn't know what to say. If you go out to sea to fish with someone else's speedboat or with another boat captain, it's very difficult to catch fish, especially fish that are a little bigger.

Let alone groupers weighing fifty or sixty pounds, even catching one or two groupers weighing ten pounds would be considered very good. But Zhao Dahai could catch fish with just a few pointers, and he kept catching fish.

"what!"

"Gao Zhicheng!"

"We feel that fishing gets boring after a while, but that's just because we're too physically fit."

"You have to stop after catching only a few fish. If I didn't have Zhao Dahai's stamina, I could keep fishing non-stop for hours and catch twenty or thirty groupers, all weighing twenty, thirty or even fifty or sixty pounds. How could that not be fun?"

As Wu Weimin spoke, he lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and rested for about ten minutes to recover.

"That's right!"

"Wu Weimin! You're absolutely right! We're just too tired to continue fishing!"

"If you have the stamina to keep fishing, it must be a lot of fun!"

Lin Zuhua strongly agreed with Wu Weimin's statement.

Gao Zhicheng thought for a moment and could only nod, realizing that he really had no energy left.

"Zhao Dahai!"

"Are there really no large groupers here? Is it impossible to catch them even with a jig?"

This is what Gao Zhicheng is very concerned about.

Initially, he, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua thought that Zhao Dahai might be able to catch a large grouper weighing over 100 jin (50 kg) here.

"They definitely exist! But whether they'll take the bait is another matter!"

"There is a deep pit right below where our fishing boat is moored."

"If there's a big fish, it must be at the very bottom!"

"The reason I mentioned using heavier iron plates is that heavier iron plates can reach the seabed faster. Also, heavier iron plates are generally wider and longer."

"Rapid twitching will result in a larger amplitude, which is very likely to attract the bite of a large grouper."

"Another thing is that although it looks like a deep pit, there is a deeper area slightly to the left of the center of the pit, under the ship's side where you are standing now."

"This location is very likely where large groupers hide."

"That depends on whether you have the skill to fish in this spot!"

Zhao Dahai nodded, but then immediately shook his head.

There's definitely a chance there won't be any large groupers in the pit, but the chances of finding large groupers are still very high.

The fact that Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua couldn't catch large groupers is related to many other factors.

"Zhao Dahai!"

"Why don't you give it a try?"

"If we use an iron plate, even if a grouper weighing over 100 pounds bites the hook, we won't be able to pull it up. We might as well not even try."

Wu Weimin shook his head.

A few of us just caught a few fish, and they were all rather small, so we couldn't even reel them in.

There's definitely no problem with the electric winch. Even if a fish bites, we'll likely be able to pull it down.

However, if you're using a handheld stick to play on a metal plate, neither I, Lin Zuhua, nor Gao Zhicheng can really lift it up.

"Are you really not going to give it a try? Even if there's a hook, even if you can't pull it up, it doesn't matter?"

Zhao Dahai glanced at Wu Weiming, Lin Zuhua, and Gao Zhicheng.

I am more inclined to believe that there are large groupers weighing over 100 pounds in the pit, and who knows, there might be more than one, possibly several.

If Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua try one more time, they still have a chance.

To Zhao Dahai's surprise, Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua immediately shook their heads.

"I can't fish anymore, I really can't catch any more fish!"

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"Judging from this, we don't have that kind of technology anymore!"

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"It's not that I don't want to fish, it's that I really can't catch anything!"

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Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua kept shaking their heads as they spoke.

"what!"

"I'm asking you, what's going on here? It's just fishing. If you don't catch anything the first time, you can try again or again. You have plenty of time, and you're here to catch big fish."

"Zhao Dahai".

"Don't bother with Boss Wu and the others, just go to sleep or something!"

Zhao Dahai turned around and saw his second grandfather, Zhao Shi, and Shi Guangming walking out of the cabin. It seemed they had overheard what Wu Weimin and the others had just said.

Zhao Dahai smiled, nodded, and left the deck to go back to his cabin to sleep.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua were a little embarrassed.

“You guys have all been fishing for years, don’t you know that these big fish are actually very difficult to catch? How could you possibly catch them just because you want to?”

"Zhao Dahai can indeed catch big fish often, even fish weighing over 100 pounds, but that's because Zhao Dahai has the skill, and he spends all his time running around artificial islands and reefs."

"If you fish every day, your chances of success are definitely much higher."

"You only come here to fish every now and then. How is it possible to catch a fish weighing over 100 pounds every time?"

"Before you met Zhao Dahai, let alone a fish weighing over 100 pounds, you would be overjoyed to catch even a grouper weighing ten pounds or a sea bass weighing over ten pounds."

"It's just that I haven't caught a big fish for a day or two, and I can't stand it anymore."

Shi Guangming walked up to Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua and launched into a tirade of laughter and insults.

(End of this chapter)