1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 143: Orange Guan Gong Fish
Since Lin Baixian wanted bait, Liang Ziqiang would certainly not refuse to give it to him. After scolding him a few words, he let him take it.

As a result, it finally caught a grouper and started screaming in surprise.

Liang Ziqiang glanced at him and thought:

"In fact, there is a better bait, maybe it can attract giant groupers!"

Lin Baixian was very interested: "What bait? Where is it?"

Liang Ziqiang looked at him unkindly: "If I throw you overboard, you'll be big enough to catch a giant grouper!"

"Fuck, you want to catch sharks..." Lin Baixian muttered, and suddenly became much quieter.

By the time Lin Baixian also started using fish chunks to catch tiger grouper, the tiger grouper seemed to have disappeared.

After waiting for a long time, Lin Baixian finally realized:

Liang Ziqiang has caught all the tiger grouper!
At this time, Liang Ziqiang had already moved his fishing rod to another part of the water. After a while, he caught another fish.

This time the fish was light orange in color with six dark red horizontal bands.

"This is... Guan Gong fish?!" Lin Baixian exclaimed after taking a look.

He was right. The fish in front of him with different shades of orange was none other than the Guan Gong bream.

Guan Gong bream is also a kind of grouper, also known as black-edged grouper, vertical-striped grouper, and red egret. Maybe it is because the orange-red color is like Guan Gong's big red face, so it is called "Guan Gong bream".

In terms of price, it is not worse than tiger grouper.

This fish is just a little small, obviously not as big as the tiger groupers in front. Guan Gong bream are generally small in size, and very few grow to one pound. Liang Ziqiang caught this one, and it was estimated to be about half a pound, which should be considered large among Guan Gong bream.

Lin Baixian was not idle either, he even caught fish more frequently than Liang Ziqiang.

In a blink of an eye, the rod moved, and I looked up and saw a goby.

Can you believe a 1-cent goby? This place is full of groupers, and the minimum should be a 2-dollar blue grouper. How can you, a goby, stay in such a place?
Lin Baixian refused to accept his fate. In a blink of an eye, the rod moved again. He looked again and saw a white mullet.

This is not even as good as shrimp goby. When the market is good, the white catfish can get one cent, but when the market is bad, it can get eighty-nine cents, less than one cent!

Lin Baixian got up and fought again. My fate is in my own hands. This time, the movement of the pole really touched him...

Blue round trevally, also known as the thorny fish.

When Liang Ziqiang was fishing at night that night, he caught about 1,500 kilograms of fish. He vomited it out immediately after catching it. After that, he would take a detour whenever he saw the fish and did not go to that sea area again for several nights.

The key is the price of this fish, five cents. Yes, it is not five cents, but five cents.

Lin Baixian took one look at the croakers that Liang Ziqiang kept catching, and then looked at the whitebait, goby and thorny fish he had caught, and suddenly he looked as if he had lost all hope in life.

Liang Ziqiang was also a little surprised. He didn't expect Lin Baixian's luck to be so bad today. He even suspected that Lin Baixian had gone to the toilet and didn't wash his hands before leaving...

Liang Ziqiang comforted him:

"Don't worry, don't underestimate these small fish. As long as they are used in the right place, they are very useful and ordinary fish can't replace them!"

Lin Baixian's complexion suddenly improved a lot, and he stretched his neck and asked:

"Are you talking about a good place where I can sell white mullets and gobies for a good price?"

"That's not the case." Liang Ziqiang pointed at his fishing rod and looked carefully at the small fish in the bucket:
"Look, all the fish pieces in the bucket are gone. You can chop up these whitebait and thornfish and use them as bait. They are all so fresh. If you chop them into pieces, they will definitely attract a lot of tiger groupers for me!"

Lin Baixian: “%#@&*#*!”

Liang Ziqiang was really not joking. He turned around and went down the reef to the boat. When he came back, he had a kitchen knife in his hand. He used a relatively flat area on the reef as a chopping board and cut the fish he had just caught.

In the blink of an eye, all of Lin Baixian's whitebait, shrimp goby, and thorny fish were broken down into small pieces by Liang Ziqiang, becoming even-sized, square-shaped pieces of fish meat, which were neatly arranged in a bucket to be used as bait.

Lin Baixian just watched like this. Liang Ziqiang came here to fish for grouper today, and he came here to fish for bait...

The division of labor is clear and the cooperation is tacit, there is nothing wrong with it!
Lin Baixian was holding back a mouthful of blood in his chest, and he didn't know how long he could hold it in before spitting it out...

With fresh fish pieces, Liang Ziqiang started to catch tiger grouper again. Moreover, the fresh fish meat just killed seemed to be able to especially whet the appetite of tiger grouper.

In the blink of an eye, a tiger stripe was hooked; in the blink of an eye again, it was another tiger stripe.

Even the tiger groupers in other nearby reefs were attracted and came over from afar.

It’s not that other groupers are not interested in the fish pieces, but the tiger grouper is very aggressive in grabbing food and doesn’t give other fish any chance. It swallows the fishhook directly.

Lin Baixian was stunned as he watched Liang Ziqiang throwing grouper into the bucket like a harvesting machine. Could this be the value of his existence?
After being shocked, he had to admire Liang Ziqiang's idea of ​​killing live fish to catch grouper. It was amazing that he could think of this!

After being stunned for a moment, he quickly followed suit and started fishing with white croaker and black carp.

Soon, he also started to catch two or three tiger groupers. His wounded heart finally found a little comfort.

"It seems that we have made mistakes in the past, such as earthworms and shrimps. It turns out that the real trick to catching grouper is to use freshly killed fish meat!"

After getting several tiger groupers, Lin Baixian was filled with emotion.

Liang Ziqiang, who was standing by, shook his head after hearing this:

"How is that possible? Fish chunks are not even the most ideal bait. What is the bait that grouper really likes the most? Have you really never heard of it?"

"What?" Lin Baixian had occasionally fished for grouper before, but he had never thought much about the tricks behind it.

"Crab chunks! Compared to shrimp and fish chunks, crab chunks are what the grouper is most interested in!"

"Damn it, you know all this, and you're still carrying fish and shrimps here for no reason? Why didn't you find some stone crabs, blue crabs, etc. before you set out, cut them into pieces and bring them over to catch grouper?!"

"It seems you really don't know. You think it's an ordinary crab? You have to use a heavy-shell crab!"

"Shit, if we can find a heavy-shell crab, who would be willing to use it for fishing..."

The heavy-shelled crab, also known as the bivalve crab and the heavy-skinned crab, has two layers of shells, hard and soft, on its body. One layer has already grown out, and the other has not yet fallen off.

This kind of crab can be regarded as one of the best crabs, with a firm and plump body, thick meat and yellow roe.

Not only do people like to eat this kind of crab, the crab meat of the heavy-skinned crab, when cut into pieces, has a special smell that is also extremely attractive to grouper.

"You say, with so many red crabs on Fox Bay Island, is it possible to find a heavy-shelled crab?"

Liang Ziqiang really started to think about it.

It is indeed a bit of a waste to use heavy-shell crabs to catch ordinary grouper, but what if you can attract rat grouper?

I have fished for grouper several times on this nameless island, and even caught the high-end grouper once.

He wondered if the more premium grouper, the so-called "king of groupers", was also hidden in a cave on this island. If he could really get some heavy-shelled crabs, he would be able to catch a lot of ordinary groupers, and maybe he could even attract a few more valuable top-grade groupers...

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