In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 411: Squid fishing

The fleet departed from Heron Island and traveled about five hours to reach the fishing ground for squid fishing.

In his previous life, Li Duoyu had visited this fishing ground several times. The locals called this fishing ground Minnan Fishing Ground.

Many ships from southern Fujian and fishing boats from Nan'ao Island will come to this fishing ground to operate.

Looking at the two small islands with cliffs in front of him, Li Duoyu knew where they were without looking at a map.

Dongshan Island, Brother Island.

Not only is it rich in fishery resources, it is also a very important shipping route. Because of the central line, all domestic fishing boats and transport ships that want to go north must pass through this route.

However, this route is not easy to follow because there are many reefs near Brother Island. I heard from people that there are at least 30 sunken ships near the two Brother Islands, and many of them are cargo ships that used to go to the South China Sea.

After arriving at the squid fishing spot, Lao Zhuang, the head chef, started cooking dinner. Everyone couldn't help but salivate as they smelled the aroma of pork rib soup.

"dinner time."

Lao Zhuang knocked on the iron basin.

The ship's lights were turned on again.

Immediately afterwards, everyone took out their enamel basins and lined up to get meals from Lao Zhuang.

As long as you are not in the deep sea, fishing with hand lines may be more efficient than fishing rods.

The crew began to help install searchlights.

And just when they turned on the searchlight, many lights lit up on the dark sea surface at about the same time.

Li Duoyu was the first to throw the string hook in. In fact, he still had four fishing rods on his fishing boat, which could be used for fishing.

Li Duoyu threw the string hook, and less than twenty seconds later, the fishing line on his fingertips began to shake.

At this moment, Li Duoyu used his hands to lift the fishing line directly.

After seeing this fish, the fleet did not change positions anymore, because this fish is also one of the main foods of the marlin squid.

After seeing the Balang Fish, everyone looked disgusted. When it comes to this fish, bigger is not always better.

The squid will be here soon too.

The moment he lifted it up, Li Duoyu could clearly feel that something was struggling at the end of the fishing line.

Not long after the searchlight was turned on, many "light fish" gathered around the boat.

"Damn it, it's Balang who's here."

If they gather here.

Almost ten minutes later, another school of fish gathered. This time it was not a Balang fish, but a smaller light fish than the Balang fish.

As soon as the fish finder was turned on, they were all densely packed with dots, and it was impossible to tell whether they were squid or balang fish.

Not to mention that the big Balang fish is not easy to dry, and the taste is not as good as the small Balang fish.

It is also very simple to catch squid, that is, just change the spot and continue to turn on the light to lure the fish.

Many of the small miscellaneous fish that Li Duoyu just bought at Ludao Pier were baby fish.

Don’t use too much force when fishing for squid.

Usually, the fish is dried and matured and sold to the mainland. However, the fresh Balang fish is quite delicious when pan-fried, but it consumes a lot of fuel and many fishermen are reluctant to eat it that way.

At this time, the sky had almost darkened, the setting sun had completely fallen into the sea, the sea instantly turned dark, and the sky turned blue.

The fishing boat stayed in place for about ten minutes, and the little fish that were circling around the fishing boat suddenly became restless.

But thinking about it, it seems unnecessary. Handline fishing is the most traditional fishing method, and it is the most familiar to fishermen like them.

Then, the fishing line straightened.

But Li Duoyu was not in a hurry to reel in the line, but pulled it up at a constant speed, occasionally giving way to the line.

Li Duoyu looked at the sea surface and found some slender marine creatures in the water, chasing the little fish.

The locals call it Xiaoguyu.

Fishermen generally refer to these phototaxis fish as light fish.

Keep jumping out of the water.

After dinner.

Only then did everyone realize that there were so many squid fishing boats in the nearby waters.

Li Duoyu said to everyone: "Everyone can hang the bait and get ready to start fishing for squid."

After the fleet changed location.

In this kind of fishing ground, the fish finder of Li Duoyu's fishing boat is basically useless because there are so many small fish in this fishing ground.

Large glass lamps were hung on both sides of the fishing boat. When the lamps were turned on, they were very dazzling, making it difficult for everyone to open their eyes.

"Fuck, these ribs are so damn delicious."

Everyone squatted on the deck to eat. Chen Liang, who had not eaten meat for more than a month, wished he could imitate a dog and chew all the bones into pieces.

It is a kind of sea fish that is cheaper than Balang fish. Because of its fishy smell, no one even wants it on a fishing rod.

It is usually used as fishing bait or sold to feed mills to make fish meal.

Because the burst of squid is instantaneous.

When the squid explodes, if you happen to exert force, there is only one result, which is that the fishhook cuts the barrel of the squid, allowing the squid to escape.

Even if you use a fishing rod to catch squid, you have to adjust the leakage force of the fishing reel very low. The reason why many novices let the squid run away is that the leakage force is not done well.

The whole boat was watching Li Duoyu intently. As he pulled up the string hooks, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up. There were only five string hooks in total, but there were actually three gun barrel squid hanging on the hooks.

The moment the squid came out of the water, three jets of black water of different sizes shot out at once. Chen Liang, who was watching from the side, was sprayed all over.

"Damn it, uncle, why is there so much water?"

On the string hook, there was a gun barrel squid as long as a small arm. Li Duoyu quickly said: "Take the net, this one is too big, if you pull it up, it may run away."

Small squid can be pulled ashore directly, but for large squid it is best to use a dip net. This is the stage where many novices try to catch fish.

It took Li Duoyu less than two minutes from throwing the hook to catching the squid, and the squid that came up were all alive and kicking.

After catching the squid, Li Duoyu temporarily threw the squid into the bucket. The purpose of this was to make the squid spit out ink and also keep the squid alive longer.

Otherwise, if you throw them directly into the ice cabin, if these squid spit out ink together in the ice cabin, the ice cubes will probably be stained black.

Seeing that Li Duoyu caught three squid so quickly, the old fisherman on the boat couldn't help but start throwing hooks to fish.

The squid hook that Li Duoyu taught you to make is so exaggerated that squid bite the hook immediately before the hook sinks to the bottom.

But when many crew members pulled up the string hook, they found that it was empty, and there were several more. When they left the water, the squid ran away, and they only caught a few small tentacles.

"There are so many fish, why don't the squids you catch run away? Why do all the squids we catch run away?"

Li Duoyu joked: "I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. The squid is so soft. Don't be too violent. Be gentle and it will be easy to catch."

The old fisherman suddenly realized that only Chen Liang, a single man, was there. He said with a grimace, "How can I catch a fish and be gentle at the same time?"

Heigou, who had just been married not long ago, smiled and said: "When you find someone, you will know how gentle you have to be."

"Ganni's black dog, it's great to have a wife, isn't it? Believe it or not, before the end of the year, I will also marry a scumbag."

Black Dog smiled and said: "Hurry up then, if you get married this year, I will give you a big red envelope."

Chen Liang's father shook his head in disgust and said, "It would be great if he had this ability. All the money he earned in the first half of the year was spent on treating his group of gangster friends to dinner. Now he can't even find a coin in his pocket." Chen Liang scratched his head in embarrassment. Scratching his head: "Those are all brothers. They keep calling me, so I'm embarrassed not to treat them."

Chen Youquan couldn't help but patted his head: "I treat your brother to dinner every day, but my brother's wife won't sleep with you."

Everyone followed Li Duoyu’s method and stopped pulling the fish so violently. Sure enough, the gun barrel squid was easily caught.

The second uncle couldn't help but ask: "Duoyu, I've always had a question that I can't figure out. How do you know so much?"

Faced with this problem, Li Duoyu had at least a dozen solutions, and he casually replied: "It was introduced in a fishing magazine. I have never fished before, and I didn't expect the effect to be so good."

The second uncle sighed.

"It seems that we all suffer the consequences of being uneducated."

If more than ten people fish for squid together, the catch will be very exaggerated.

On average, more than twenty barrel squid are caught on board every two minutes.

Due to the huge number of squid gathered by the lights, everyone caught more than 600 fresh squid in about an hour.

At the beginning, everyone felt it was very fresh and very interesting. They kept pulling on the fishing line and even competed with who could catch more.

But after two hours of continuous fishing, the crew's movements became slower and slower. Some people had already begun to hammer their shoulders. Because they kept repeating the same movement, their shoulders and arms were very sore.

Especially the index finger, which has become numb and even a little sore from shaking the fishing line all the time.

"Fuck, there are so many thorns on this fishhook, and I got stung again." Chen Liang couldn't help but curse.

"You wear gloves."

"If you wear gloves, you won't feel that way, and the fish won't even know it."

Li Duoyu looked at Chen Liang and agreed very much with what he said.

"Now that thing is really too thick. When I put it on, I really don't feel anything. Every time I use that thing, it takes at least two hours, and I am almost exhausted."

Chen Liang was stunned for a moment.

Then he came to his senses and cursed with a dark face: "Fuck, you just caught me and bullied me, right?"

The old fisherman on the boat couldn't help but laugh: "If I didn't bully you, then who would I bully? You are the only one on the boat who has not yet had a partner."

"Ganniang."

Li Duoyu, who had caught nearly a hundred squid, stretched his shoulders and moved his body. Fishing for squid was indeed a pleasure, but once the line was put together, all that was left was boredom.

Li Duoyu suddenly remembered that in his previous life, there were fishermen on Dandan Island who were deceived into working on offshore squid fishing boats.

It was originally agreed that it would be one year, but as soon as the contract was signed, it became two years.

When he went out, he was still a young and energetic guy. When he came back, he was so dark and thin that everyone almost didn't recognize him.

After returning to the island, the first thing he did was to take a knife and kill the villager who introduced him to work on the squid fishing boat.

The introducer was so frightened that he ran away all night. Later, after everyone's persuasion, he gave up his obsession with killing people.

According to him, the squid fishing boat is a scarier place than coal mining in the black brick kiln. There is almost no rest during the day and you have to work at night. On average, you have to work at least fifteen hours a day.

It floats on the water all year round.

The food was not good either.

When you get sick, your medical conditions are still limited and you only need to take antibiotics. If you can't resist it, you have to rely on your own body to carry it on.

Interpersonal relationships are also extremely complicated, and things like picking up soap, forming cliques, and being isolated often happen.

And some who are particularly disobedient are more likely to suffer shipwrecks and "accidentally" fall into the sea. A more conscientious captain may put the body in a cold storage and pull it back together.

If you are evil-hearted, just say that you were smuggled away.

Moreover, the squid fishing boat is dirty, messy and poor. If there is a big wave, it can shake out all the internal organs of a person. According to his words, even going to jail is ten times better than working on the squid fishing boat.

While they were fishing for squid, the third uncle poured the squid that had been sprayed with ink in the bucket onto the fish sifter and rinsed the squid clean with sea water.

At first, Li Zhengfa thought that even if he could catch squid with a handline, he would not catch a lot of fish.

Unexpectedly, in just two hours, thousands of squids were caught. Some large squids weighed one pound each, and the smallest ones weighed four pounds in total.

All in all, the squid caught in these two hours weighed about three hundred kilograms.

Li Zhengfa did a simple calculation. If calculated according to the purchase price at the dock, the purchase price of this grade of squid (caught squid) is 30 cents.

In other words, you can earn nine great unity cards in two hours.

Li Zhengfa looked at his watch. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. If he fished all night, he would fish until seven o'clock tomorrow morning.

You can do at least five more Jiuzhang Great Unity, and you can offset this month's debt in one trip.

Li Zhengfa shouted: "Don't be lazy, keep working. If we keep working for a few more days, everyone will get dividends this month."

Chen Liang had a dark face.

"I'm not going back, why are you still doing this?"

"Now that we've found a way to catch squid, why don't we come back?"

Chen Liang collapsed instantly and almost shed tears, because this was the longest trip he had ever taken to sea, and he had an intuition that it would take at least two months before he could return home.

Some old fishermen have long been accustomed to such intensity and think it is quite normal.

The second uncle shouted: "Boss, we seem to have caught all the squid around here. They are out of stock. You can change places."

"Okay, then let's move to another place and continue fishing."

Li Duoyu looked at the row of squid fishing crewmen in front of him. This squid fishing pattern was the initial form of the squid fishing boat.

Glancing at Third Uncle, whose face was full of excitement, Li Duoyu frowned slightly. He didn't know why, but he had an intuition.

If the third uncle is allowed to develop, he might really become the boss of an ocean-going squid fishing boat.

"Ugh."

Li Duoyu sighed. The ultimate goal of a ship's boss is not how much fish he catches, but how much oil and water he can squeeze out of the crew.

The night is getting deeper and deeper.

The number of squid fishing boats on the fishing ground gradually decreased. In the second half of the night, several crew members were so tired that they were lying on the deck. Some old fishermen were still fishing for squid.

In this way, everyone fished until the moment the sun came up the next day.

At this time, light fishing has no effect, and the fish catch is also reduced visibly to the naked eye. Sometimes, I can’t catch a squid in five minutes.

In the cabin, the boss of the boat, Li Zhengfa, looked at the baskets of fresh squid in front of him. His eyes were not sleepy at all, but rather excited.

Now, he can't wait to fly to the fishing port of Ludao immediately to show those who once ridiculed him.

At dawn.

After everyone had breakfast, the crew members who had been fishing all night didn't even want to take a shower and ran back to the cabin to sleep.

Li Duoyu discussed it with his third uncle and his uncle, and the fleet planned to continue fishing for squid until out of season.

Li Duoyu still had many things on his hands, and he was still the village director, so naturally he couldn't accompany them to continue fishing for squid.

The cousin Li Shuguang also had to go back to prepare the kelp seedlings, and the two took turns driving the fishing boat back to Dandan Island.

(End of this chapter)