1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 140: Balangyu Caught More Than Jin

The fish, which were swimming far away at first, soon came closer and closer, and swarmed around the three boats.

All the boats were ready, waiting for the fish to approach, then the fishing nets would be spread out in the night and cover the area.

The difference this time from the past is that there is no need to hold a flashlight to look for where the fish are most densely populated, and then select the target before casting the net.

No matter where you scatter them, there will be plenty of fish.

While Liang Ziqiang was casting the net, he heard Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai on the other boat shouting and hollering non-stop. Deng Zhaocai was the most excited and noisy among them.

In this case, Liang Ziqiang felt that there was no need to wait too long for the net to sink and shrink. Not long after throwing it down, he began to collect the net.

Seeing that the fish were coming in large numbers tonight, Liang Zifeng knew that the catch would be considerable, so he had already been waiting by the side, waiting for his second brother to draw in the net, and then he would join in pulling it onto the boat.

"Damn! It's so damn heavy!" Liang Ziqiang found that even if two people pulled the net at the same time, it still felt heavy.

The fishing net was pulled onto the boat. With the help of the cabin light, the net could be seen to be bulging. It weighed at least 180 or 190 kilograms, and might even be over 200 kilograms.

Liang Ziqiang should be happy about such a good harvest, but at this moment Liang Ziqiang's face was a little stiff and he didn't look happy at all.

Not only was he not happy, but voices could be heard from the other two boats:

"Oh my god, this whole net is full of thorny fish?!"

This is why Liang Ziqiang is not happy. The scientific name of the thorny fish is blue round trevally, also known as "balang fish". It is true that balang fish either do not show up, or like to show up in groups, but it is also true that this fish is cheap.

Dragon head fish is 6 cents per pound, which is a bargain. This fish is a little cheaper than dragon head fish. It is estimated to be around 5 cents, and it is impossible to exceed the dragon head fish.

Originally I thought the saury was too cheap at just over a cent, but I ended up driving further out and luckily came across an entire sea of ​​these for five cents each.

"Are we going to fish it out or not?" Zhong Kang and Zhong Ming both began to hesitate.

"It would be a waste not to take advantage of it. It's too damn cheap, but the quantity is large, so we can make a lot of money!" Deng Zhaocai shouted not far away.

"Now that we're here, we can't go back with an empty boat. We better catch more!" Liang Ziqiang had no choice but to make the decision.

It seems that tonight will test my physical strength and endurance. There are so many fish that I can't catch them all. I can only catch as many as I can before I get cramps.

In this situation, the three boats did not choose to have two people cast the net at the same time, but instead one person cast the net and two people pulled it together.

On the Zhong family's boat, Zhong Kang casts the net, and Zhong Ming helps pull it together; on Li Liang's boat, Li Liang casts the net, and Deng Zhaocai helps pull it together.

The reason is that each net is very heavy. If you cast each net, it will be useless if you can't pull it up when the time comes.

Liang Ziqiang was doing just fine as usual. He cast the net and Liang Zifeng came over to help pull it together.

After each haul, all you have to do is move the boat a little bit and the net will be full of fish again.

It was unclear whether he had cast more than ten or twenty nets, but Liang Ziqiang was already sweating all over, as if he had just been fished out of the sea. It was a late autumn night, and the weather was a little cool, but it felt like he was working under the scorching sun in the middle of summer.

If in the past a large school of fish could occasionally be encountered by luck and small hills could be piled up in the cabin, this time mountains stood on all three boats.

There are only three boats here. If there were five boats, they would be able to form the "Five Mountains", which would be quite spectacular.

It is definitely around a thousand kilograms, and it should have exceeded it a lot earlier.

Liang Ziqiang remembered that the biggest catches in the past were when he encountered large numbers of golden pomfret and later large numbers of capelin.

But at that time, only more than 800 kilograms of capelin were caught, and then the school of capelin dispersed.

This time, in terms of quantity, it was much more powerful than the golden pomfret and the capelin. Li Liang's movements had slowed down. Liang Ziqiang saw that guy holding a flashlight and looking at the side of the boat, actually looking at the waterline.

He was worried that if the ship continued to load more, its draft would become deeper and deeper, and that something might happen eventually.

Liang Ziqiang asked him:
"Are you okay? Your boat can only hold two or three tons at most. It should be okay now that it weighs over a thousand pounds."

Li Liang responded, "You can still pretend, but you have to leave some space. What if you come across a valuable fish later?"

"Too!"

Liang Ziqiang himself also planned to fish two more times before stopping. His boat had a stronger carrying capacity than Li Liang's, but by the same token, he also had to consider what to do if he came across a valuable fish. He couldn't just throw the cheap thornfish in the cabin overboard, could he?

By the time Liang Ziqiang, Zhong Kang and others were about to vomit after catching so much fish, they shone their flashlights towards the sea. Unexpectedly, the school of fish had not dispersed at all. In fact, new thorny fish kept following the light and rushing towards them from afar.

The six people discussed it and chose to evacuate on their own initiative.

This is the first time I have encountered a situation where I couldn’t catch all the fish but the boat cabin was not big enough!

"Brother Qiang, should we go back to Guanqi Island directly, or should we wander around and look for other fish?" Li Liang asked loudly.

Everyone seemed to have unconsciously formed a habit of asking Liang Ziqiang's opinion before making a choice.

"Zhong Kang, what time is it now?" Liang Ziqiang turned around and asked Zhong Kang.

Zhong Kang looked at his watch: "It's about ten minutes to twelve."

I didn't expect to catch so many fish before midnight. It shows how fast they moved in such a hurry.

"Then let's take a look around again. Do you have enough oil on your boat?" Liang Ziqiang asked.

"It's enough. I just went to town the day before yesterday and bought a lot of diesel!" said Zhong Kang.

"I know that night fishing consumes a lot of fuel, so I have a lot of fuel on my boat!" Li Liang also replied.

"Then turn around and see!"

The six people quickly reached a consensus and continued to move on to other places.

They found a place and slowed the boat down to near a standstill again. This time they waited for more than an hour. At first, some small fish appeared, but they ignored them because they were small and worthless.

Until several obviously larger figures began to emerge on the water in the dark night and approached the fishing boat.

It swam very fast at first, but when it was almost close to the boat, it slowed down a little and came to the side of the boat.

Three beams of light were flickering back and forth, and all three boats were holding up flashlights and shining them into the sea.

Although they still couldn't see it as clearly as they did during the day, the typical spindle shape with two thin ends and a drum in the middle made it recognizable to everyone:
“Damn, is this a bomb fish?”

"It's true. It's somewhat related to the Golden Spear. It's called the Little Golden Spear!"

"It was worth the wait tonight!"

"I wonder which type of bomb fish it is?"

At this time, no one thought that their cabins were too full and could not accommodate more. Everyone pulled up their fishing nets, and cast out the fishing nets decisively when they saw the "little golden gun"...

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(End of this chapter)