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

Chapter 1599 The more I fish, the happier I get!
The sun rose higher and higher.

The wind blowing across the sea is very hot.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua hid in the driver's seat, smoking and drinking tea.

"It's so hot!"

Wu Weimin took a sip of tea and pointed to the deck of the fishing boat.

There wasn't a drop of water in sight; it was extremely dry from the sun.

"Why didn't we feel the sun was so strong when we were fishing? Now that we're not fishing, we find the sun unbearable!"

Lin Zuhua smiled.

This is no joke. If you're fishing, it doesn't matter how hot the sun is now; you wouldn't even notice.

Now, hiding in the driver's seat and looking at the sun outside, I actually feel a little scared.

"Who told us not to go fishing now?"

As Gao Zhicheng spoke, he looked around at the sea. There were quite a few speedboats, but the weather was too hot at this time of year, and it was midday. Generally speaking, it was very difficult to catch fish. Most people who went out to sea to fish at this time stayed on speedboats.

The kind of person who will fish if they can, and will simply give up if they can't.

Even a god couldn't catch a fish at noon!

"This is no joke!"

"But while others couldn't catch any fish, Ding Dawen did, and judging by its appearance, it's quite a big one!"

As Lin Zuhua spoke, he pointed to Ding Dawen, who was fishing on the deck. To find out the pattern of the fish at the bottom of the deep pit, one must fish at different times.

That's exactly what Ding Dawen is doing now.

Can't catch any fish?

That's not true!

Ding Dawen has been fishing for half an hour and has already caught six fish. Now there are two more fish on his hook.

Eight fish were caught in such a short time, and none of them were small; the smallest one weighed seventeen or eighteen pounds.

All of them were uniformly bluish or sesame-like spots.

"How come there are so many fish in this sea?"

Lin Zuhua really couldn't understand what was going on. If there were any factors or patterns, two days had passed since he first started fishing here, and there had been fish all this time, and the number of fish didn't seem to have decreased at all.

"Who knows?"

"This just goes to show that the ocean is truly full of wonders!"

"Nobody knows what exactly happened."

Gao Zhicheng glanced at Ding Dawen on the deck. The two fish that had just been hooked were pulled out of the water. One weighed about 20 jin, but the other was much bigger, weighing about 60 jin.

Just as Gao Zhicheng was wondering whether he should help, Ding Dawen took a large net, scooped up one fish, then another, and lifted it up with a strong pull.

Gao Zhicheng shook his head.

People who frequently go out to sea and work are different; the two fish together weighed several dozen kilograms, almost a hundred kilograms.

If it were me, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua, we definitely wouldn't be able to carry it up by ourselves.

Ding Dawen struggled a bit, but he managed to lift it by himself.

"There aren't any speedboats around right now, so how about we go up on the deck and fish for a while?"

"One option is to cast our line and see if we can catch a big fish. If we really can't, we can just use a double hook to catch smaller fish. We can't just stand by and watch there are fish in the sea and ignore them!"

Wu Weimin felt a bit bored. It was midday under the blazing sun, and he had originally planned to take a nap after lunch, but he just couldn't fall asleep.

If you can't sleep, it's really boring. If there are other speedboats around, there's nothing you can do but stop fishing. But now, the speedboats that used to fish around here have long since disappeared.

Gao Zhicheng and Lin Zuhua nodded immediately, turned around and walked out of the cabin onto the deck.

Ding Dawen was a little surprised to see Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua all come out, but after looking around, he knew what was going on.

"We don't know where any of these speedboats are right now. Let's hurry up and go fishing to see what's going on."

"Are the groupers on the seabed now biting fiercely?"

"How does it feel?"

While preparing the food, Gao Zhicheng asked Ding Dawen.

From what I just saw in the driver's seat, the grouper's bite was very fierce, but whether that's really the case, only Ding Dawen, the fisherman, has the most accurate feeling.

"My feeling is that the number of groupers here is not much different from last night until this morning."

"The bite is really fierce."

As Ding Dawen spoke, he took off the hooks of the two groupers he had just caught and threw them into a large water tank filled with water and oxygenated.

In such a short time, I've already caught so many fish. If I fish in the afternoon, especially at night, the catch will be incredible.

"Mr. Wu."

"It doesn't really matter whether you fish for the smaller ones or not, let's see if we can catch the bigger ones."

As Ding Dawen spoke, he pointed to the sea.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua nodded and prepared their rods and hooks, all adorned with large octopuses.

"No way? A fish has already taken the bait in such a short time?"

Wu Weimin quickly baited the hook with the giant octopus and immediately put it into the sea. However, to his surprise, when it was only about 95 meters deep, a fish immediately took the bait. He watched helplessly as the rod bent sharply downwards. Instinctively, he reached out and forcefully pushed the switch of the electric reel.

"Little one!"

Wu Weimin glanced at the curve of the rod and estimated that the fish that had been hooked weighed about 20 pounds.

"Damn it!"

"What's going on? A fish is about to bite!"

……

"It's over, it's over!"

"My octopus-like body was robbed!"

……

Lin Zuhua and Gao Zhicheng stared wide-eyed. In all their years of fishing, they had almost never encountered anything like this.

I originally wanted to catch big fish, but I didn't even have time to tap the bottom or reach the big fish on the seabed before they were bitten by smaller fish.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua were both amused and exasperated.

Generally speaking, being able to catch fish, especially groupers weighing 20 or 30 pounds, is already considered very good. However, for our group, we really don't think that size is good enough.

However, the smaller fish that either cannot be hooked or have snatched the octopus from the hook are the ones that are caught.

"What should we do?" "I feel like even using heavier lead wouldn't make any difference."

Wu Weimin was extremely helpless.

Looking down at the deck beneath my feet, I saw that I had already caught three fish, each weighing ten or twenty pounds.

It wasn't that I didn't want to catch a big one, but the octopus on the hook hadn't even had time to tap the bottom before it was snatched away by a smaller fish above it.

They tried to reach the seabed faster by using a heavier lead weight, but it didn't work.

"What else is there to say? We can only fish for whatever fish are available now!"

"It's practically impossible to catch a big fish now!"

Gao Zhicheng had no other options.

I don't know why, but now the deep pits under the fishing boats are not only full of small groupers, but it seems that the groupers are even more active at midday.

Before I could even tap the bottom, a fish had already taken the bait.

There's really no point in thinking about this; the only solution is to just keep fishing for these small fish.

Wu Weimin and Lin Zuhua both nodded. In this situation, there really wasn't much they could do but continue fishing, and only small fish.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua were determined to catch any fish, big or small, as long as they took the bait.

With no other speedboats around, they could fish without any worries.

"what!"

"One after another!"

……

"Who says fishing for small fish isn't fun? These days, fishing for small fish is just as much fun!"

……

"Correct!"

"As long as we don't keep thinking about only catching big fish, fishing for fish that weigh 20 or 30 pounds can be just as fun."

"Sometimes we can catch a fish that weighs fifty or sixty pounds, that's amazing, it'll surprise us!"

……

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua became increasingly happy as they fished, catching one grouper after another from the sea. They used an electric reel, which required effort but wasn't particularly strenuous.

"Boss Wu!"

"Take a break! Take a break!"

While fishing, Ding Dawen kept an eye on his surroundings. He spotted several black dots in the distance, speeding towards their large fishing boat. He knew these were speedboats that had come to fish and were changing spots. Once they saw them, they would stop or squeeze to the side of the large fishing boat.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua were having a great time fishing, but when they looked up and saw a speedboat speeding towards them in the distance, they had no choice but to stop, pack up their rods, collect the fish on the deck, and put them into the live water tank of the fishing boat before returning to the wheelhouse.

"As long as you're not fishing with a hand-cranked spinning reel, especially when fishing for big groupers or the like, you can have a lot of fun no matter how big or small the fish is."

Wu Weimin vigorously wiped the sweat from his face, picked up his water cup, and gulped down several mouthfuls of water.

I just finished fishing with Lin Zuhua and Gao Zhicheng for about two hours.

Each person caught at least twenty fish, which together weighed at least four or five hundred pounds.

Despite catching so many fish, none of them felt too tired.

The main reason is that an electric winch is used instead of the lever of a hand-cranked spinning wheel, which makes it much easier.

"Who says otherwise? If I fished like that, I could fish for a whole day and night!"

Lin Zuhua immediately recalled that not long ago Zhao Dahai had called on his men to fish for grouper using iron plates.

This wasn't just ordinary fatigue, it was extreme fatigue. Just thinking about it now makes my hands tremble uncontrollably.

"what!"

"We're just not cut out for this kind of work!"

"I won't talk about Zhao Dahai."

“Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou can fish for grouper for five, six, or even ten hours straight, even using a hand-cranked spinning reel rod.”

Gao Zhicheng truly admires him.

Zhao Dahai, along with Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou, were able to catch a lot of fish. The most important thing was that they were able to find where the fish were, but another very important thing was that Zhao Dahai and his group could fish continuously for a long time.

Even if the sea is teeming with fish, you still have to catch them to count.

If you want to fish, especially if you want to catch a lot, you have to keep fishing, which requires a lot of physical strength and energy.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou have that kind of physical strength and power.

There's no way a few of us could do this.

"Ding Dawen".

How many fish did we catch just now?

Lin Zuhua asked Ding Dawen, who had just entered the driver's seat, with some curiosity.

"I'm not sure exactly how much, but it's at least 2,500 jin, and possibly even 3,000 jin."

As Ding Dawen spoke, he walked to the windshield of the driver's cab and carefully examined the speedboats he had spotted earlier. They were now much closer and had stopped about 100 meters from the large fishing boat. There were three speedboats in total, each with four or five people on board, who were busily preparing their fishing rods and getting ready to fish.

The fish that the group of us caught over several hours, if added together, would definitely weigh no less than 2,500 jin (1,250 kg).

Even fish that aren't very valuable can make a lot of money if you have a lot of them, let alone these valuable groupers.

"The grouper in this sea is absolutely amazing. It's a pity that people came, otherwise we could have fished until night or even until dawn. I don't know how many fish we could have caught."

Lin Zuhua looked at the dozens of speedboats a hundred meters away with a bit of regret and shook his head.

The number of grouper under the fishing boats hasn't decreased, and they're biting incredibly aggressively, but with people coming, there's nothing that can be done.

"These speedboats won't be able to fish here for much longer. Let's wait until they leave before we continue fishing!"

Gao Zhicheng took a few sips of water, rested for a bit, and then pointed to the people on the speedboat.

"Why do you say that? Why can't these speedboats fish for very long?"

Wu Weimin looked at it carefully and really couldn't see what Gao Zhicheng was talking about.

"Although there are many people on these speedboats, it's obvious at a glance that they're just out fishing for fun."

"They definitely have experience, but not much."

“It is very difficult to bottom fish for grouper in places like artificial reefs.”

"If they get snagged too much, they won't be able to catch any fish. The boat captain will definitely have to take them to another spot, otherwise they won't be able to make any money!"

Gao Zhicheng could see very clearly that these speedboats would have to move to another location soon.

(End of this chapter)