1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 110 Successfully Captured the Hundred Jin Water Tiger
However, the fleeing fish were heading in their direction. The splashing water came from far away and did not spread everywhere, but stretched out in a ribbon.

At first glance, it looks like a long corridor of waves, or more figuratively speaking, it looks like a small water dragon.

As the distance got closer, the big guy hidden under the water finally showed up.

Behind the fleeing little fish, first there were distorted waves on the water surface, and then several larger waves splashed up.

A huge fish suddenly jumped out of the water, opened its big mouth in the air, and swallowed two or three fleeing small fish into its mouth.

The next second, the big fish fell back into the water, making a "splash" sound and causing a wave of white waves.

"Water Tiger?!"

Although it was only a short one or two seconds of flying in the air, Liang Ziqiang still saw the general shape of the big fish and recognized it.

At the same time, Liang's father also saw the big fish's true face, as if answering Liang Ziqiang:
"It's really a water tiger!"

As he spoke, the "water tiger" leaped into the air once more, with an extremely ferocious posture, like a desperate bandit.

Despite this, Liang Ziqiang breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed his hands on the steering wheel a little.

"Water tigers" are yellow mullet and bighead carp. This fish grows very fast and easily becomes large. It is ferocious and likes to fight alone. It feeds on other fish and can eat more than 1 ton of other fish a year.

As a predatory fish, the yellow diamond fish will chase other fish when it encounters them in the water until they are exhausted. Few small fish can escape from being chased by it.

Freshwater fishermen know more about this fish, especially freshwater aquaculture operators, who are deeply afraid of it because if a "water tiger" appears in the reservoir, other fish will suffer heavy losses.

But in fact, the yellow diamond fish has a strong adaptability and can survive in shallow seas and ports, but it is relatively rare.

This is also the reason why Liang Ziqiang and his father did not think of yellow croaker first.

"Water tigers" are extremely vicious killers of aquatic creatures, but they pose no threat to humans and ships and cannot be compared to sharks.

After the false alarm, Liang Ziqiang instead came up with the idea of ​​keeping the money.

"A Qiang, come here! This fish has a temper as big as its size, and it makes quite a noise when it struggles. Your boat is bigger and more stable, so it will be easier to catch it!" Liang's father shouted over here.

Liang Ziqiang agreed and steered the boat towards the water where the two were chasing and fleeing, and passed by from the side.

As the distance gets closer, even if the yellow diamond fish does not jump out of the water, its huge figure can be clearly seen underwater.

After preparing the fishing net, Liang Ziqiang was not in a hurry to cast it.

He was waiting. The next moment, the yellow jellyfish caught up with a few small fish, opened its mouth in the water, and swallowed them all in one gulp.

Almost at the same time as it opened its mouth to swallow, Liang Ziqiang decisively threw out the fishing net in his hand.

I got it! As the fishing net shrank, there was a struggle underwater, and splashes of water rose again.

Seeing this, Liang Zifeng ran over and helped to pull the net.

During the dragging process, I could clearly feel an opposing force, as if it was trying hard to break free and escape into the distance.

As the net was dragged closer and closer, the force not only caused the muscles in Liang Ziqiang's arms to tense as he pulled the net, but even caused the boat to shake a few times!

It was as if the thing captured in the water was really a tiger that was unwilling to give in.

The two of them worked together and after quite a bit of effort, they finally got the big fish onto the boat and placed it on the wooden planks of the cabin.

The yellow diamond fish in front of me has a long and narrow body, a spindle-shaped body, a cone-shaped head, a long and pointed snout, a large mouth, small eyes, a beak-shaped jaw, and it has a ferocious look.

Father Liang also drove the boat a little closer and said:
"It's really big, it must be at least 100 kilograms!"

"It should be over a hundred pounds." Liang Ziqiang nodded.

He looked back into the distance, the coast was still vaguely visible. He was thinking, should he go back, sell the big fish first, then come back to catch other fish, or continue fishing with this big fish?

After thinking about it, it was not too close to the shore, and it would waste gas money to go back and forth. Besides, although this yellow mullet was big, it was not like those big deep-sea fish, and it would not die immediately after coming out of the water due to the pressure. It was estimated that it could still survive on the boat for a while.

Thinking of this, he continued to sail forward, looking for a new target.

As he wandered along, he saw only a few fish here and there. Liang Ziqiang didn't need to be as particular as he was on the first day, so he just cast his net to catch them, regardless of the amount or value.

I cast more than ten nets, which took a lot of effort, but each net caught a few fish, and in total I only caught about 20 kilograms of fish. I kept wandering around until the afternoon, and finally encountered a school of slightly larger fish.

"The fish are coming!"

The two boats went to meet them excitedly, but when they got closer, all four people were disappointed.

"Sea bass! I thought it was a valuable fish!" Liang Tiancheng said disappointedly.

The sea goby, also known as the shrimp goby, costs about a dime per pound. Even if you catch all the fish in front of you, they will not be worth much.

But this was the only sizable school of fish we encountered today. No matter what, we quickly started casting our nets before the school of fish was scared away.

After a few nets, by the time they were done, a small mound of fish had formed in the cabin. In terms of weight alone, the harvest was not small.

What surprised Liang Ziqiang was that when he looked closely, he found that there were actually a few red snappers among the pile of fish.

The harvest that day was not satisfactory.

That "water tiger" was 40 cents a pound, and weighing 105 pounds, I got 42 yuan.

More than 200 kilograms of goby, but because I couldn't afford the price, I sold them at 1 cent, which only made a few dozen yuan.

The red snapper weighed nine catties in total, and sold for nine yuan at one yuan per catty. In addition to the other miscellaneous fish caught on the sea, they also sold for more than ten yuan.

A total of more than eighty yuan.

The income from Liang's father's boat was much lower, with only about 40 yuan.

Compared with yesterday's income, it is a world of difference. But there is no way, yesterday's shoal of capelin was so abundant and valuable, it was all a matter of luck to encounter it. For most fishermen, today's income is closer to normal, in fact, it is already higher than normal.

When it came time to pay his wages, Liang Zifeng refused to ask for more this time, saying that the catch today was not large and he could only ask for 3 yuan.

Liang Ziqiang persuaded him for a while, and Ah Feng thought about it and proposed that he would only accept the job if the catch was more than 80 yuan and he was paid 6 yuan; if it was less than 80 yuan, he would only take 3 yuan. He waited for Liang Ziqiang to agree before he accepted the money.

The next day's income was slightly lower than that of the first day. I didn't encounter big fish like the water tiger, but I caught a lot of sea bass and white mullet. After selling them, I made about 70 yuan.

The work was finished early that day, because Liang Ziqiang planned to go to town in the afternoon to buy some diesel. In addition, he had to buy some wire, a few anchors, and some network cables, and make some "underwater trolls" at home tomorrow when it was windy and rainy.

Just as he was about to go to town, he ran into Lin Baixian on the road and asked him, "Where are you going, Aqiang?"

"We're going to the town to buy some wire and other things to make underwater crawlers. Do you want to go buy some with us and make a few underwater crawlers to play with in the sea?" Liang Ziqiang replied as they walked.

"I think that thing is good for catching fish, but I have never done it, so I don't know how to do it!"

"It's not that difficult. If you don't know how, I'll teach you how to make it. It's pretty easy to get started!"

"You can learn it someday when you have time. By the way, I came here specially to see you today!"

"Is there something?" Liang Ziqiang stopped.

"Hey, Lu Feng called and said he's going to the island again. But this time he's not taking his friends with him. He said a relative of his wants to go to the island to look for something, and asked us to take the boat with him to look for it!"

"Tomorrow? He should know the weather tomorrow. It's windy and rainy. We can't go to the island!"

"Not tomorrow, but this week or next Sunday. He made an appointment with us in advance so that we can make time!"

"Didn't you tell me what you were looking for? I'd like to know which island might have it."

"No, maybe we can wait until his relative comes over and let him tell us in person!"

"That's fine. As long as the weather is fine, he can decide whether it's this week or next week!"

Liang Ziqiang couldn't figure out what they had to find on the island?

With doubts, I continued to busy myself...

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