1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 265: The Finale of Bonito

After waiting for a long time, the time for the second batch of hooks was probably about up, so Liang Ziqiang started to fish again.

There were obviously not that many sea catfish this time. It seems that the number of catfish passing through this seabed is also very limited.

Liang's father discussed with him and felt that there was little point in staying here any longer, so they decided to move to a location closer to Niu Shit Island.

After arriving there, they had a chance to have some lunch on the boat while waiting.

After dinner, they were busy again.

While waiting for the longline, pick up the fishing rod and fish for those snappers in the reef.

People sit at the bow of the boat, and the longline fishing line can automatically catch the bream on the nearby water surface, while the fishing rod is extended into the reef to catch the bream in the cracks of the rocks. This is really a two-birds-with-one-stone (diao).

It is obvious that the fish catch in the reefs of Niu Shi Island has been decreasing each time.

This time the waiting period for the fishing rod became very long, and it took half a day to catch a fish.

We fished for about two hours and did have some harvest, with each person only catching about ten fish in total, and they were all the most common flathead and black sea bream.

The most valuable thing Liang Ziqiang caught was just a bull dung snapper.

Several people couldn't fish any further.

Thinking that it was about time, the guys put away their fishing rods and started to check on the longline fishing results.

As a result, Liang Ziqiang caught all the hooks and only caught 17 flathead bream and 8 black bream. What was unexpected was that he also caught two squids and a hairtail fish.

White carp and thorny barb are the mainstream, with dozens of each.

Apart from these, the other hundreds of hooks are all empty hooks.

"It's gone. It seems that we have really made this island poor. There is nothing left!" Liang Tiancheng sighed.

Through the harvest of longline fishing, it can be further confirmed that there are indeed no sea bream on Niu Shi Island now.

In this case, there is no need to stay any longer, so let’s prepare to return.

After the fishing lines were collected, most of them were untied and put into the basin, but three lines were still left, which meant 150 hooks.

The reason why these hooks remain in the water is that the bait on the iron hooks has not fallen off much and is basically still there.

The two fishing lines on Liang's father's boat were also confiscated.

The two boats sailed a little slower than usual all the way back to the village.

When they could see the coast, Liang's father shouted to Liang Ziqiang:
"Hurry up and reel in the two or three remaining fishing lines in the water! If you go any further, the hook will get stuck on the seabed!"

Zhu Tianpeng also walked to the side of the boat and said, "Put it away and have a look. We are on our way back. I wonder if there will be one or two fish taking the bait along the way?"

Finally, the two of them pulled up a fishing line. There was indeed something there. What was caught on the fishing line was a large mass of seaweed!
"Damn, I still have to clean up the seaweed. I shouldn't have left these lines in the water!" Liang Tiancheng was already regretting it. Needless to say, his fishing line also had some seaweed stuck on it.

There was no time to clean the seaweed on the hook, so Liang Ziqiang went on to collect the other two fishing lines that remained in the water.

Anyway, I didn't hold out much hope. After all, the boat was relatively fast on the way back. Although mobile longline fishing can be operated while fishing, when the boat speed reaches a certain level, most fish can't catch up and can't bite the hook.

Liang Ziqiang would be thankful as long as he didn't pull up more clumps of seaweed.

When I pulled the line, I found it was heavier than the previous line that was covered with seaweed.

After pulling for a while, a figure emerged from one of the iron hooks.

The figure is not small, and its body is in a special bomb shape.

"Is this... bonito?!" Zhu Tianpeng didn't expect to see this kind of fish in front of him.

"It's a bonito!" Liang Ziqiang was even more overjoyed.

Last year, when he was fishing at night, he did catch flat rudder tuna and round rudder tuna. The tuna is quite different from them and is considered a relative. The size of tuna is not small, and they have one thing in common when swimming: they swim very fast and chase small fish in the water like flowing clouds and water.

With the speed of bonito, it is still possible to catch up and bite the hook. In this case, they are not so strange.

This fish must be more than ten kilograms, and it is the largest fish they have caught in longline fishing today.

After taking the bonito off the hook, the first thing Liang Ziqiang did was to pick up a kitchen knife, aim it at the transition point from the lower edge of the gill cover to the fish's belly, and cut a knife swiftly.

In an instant, fish blood gushed out as if a spring had been poked open.

All bonito are the same, they must be bled immediately after being caught. If processed in time, their value can be multiplied several times.

Just as he finished dealing with the matter here, Zhu Tianpeng's voice rang out again.

With another fishing line, Zhu Tianpeng also pulled up a bonito of similar size to this one.

"I didn't expect that we would catch a big fish today! It's a bonito. I'm afraid this bonito must weigh more than 20 kilograms?!"

Liang's father's boat also pulled up bonito, and the eldest brother Liang Tiancheng excitedly estimated the size of the fish.

Liang Ziqiang took a look. His father's boat only had one bonito, but it was slightly bigger than the one he had.

"You're so happy about a bonito! Stop shouting. You're not waiting for me to bleed you, are you? Go get a kitchen knife and bleed you while I watch. I'll point out anything wrong!" Liang's father was already urging Liang Tiancheng.

Then, Liang Ziqiang heard at least four or five words "idiot" coming out of his father's mouth.

There was a lot of blood in the bucket, and at the same time, Liang Tiancheng's head and face were sprayed with a lot of saliva by his father.

The ending was happy. After an experimental bleeding, the value of a large bonito was elevated.

At this point, all the fishing lines on the two boats were completely collected on board. Finally, the main rope, floating rope, float, etc. were also all collected on board.

When the two ships were very close to each other, Liang Ziqiang discussed it with his father.

They decided to act separately.

Among all the fish harvested today, catfish and bluefin bream are the most numerous. These two kinds of fish were taken to Zheng Liu by my father and eldest brother to sell.

The two kinds of fish, including Liang Ziqiang's, were also pushed by his father to sell. Anyway, they were packed in different buckets and baskets, so it was impossible for the two families to mix them up.

The four people also took the flathead and black sea bream that they caught to Zheng Liu.

As for the several dozen kilograms of thorny barramundi and whitebait, I will not sell them but keep them in pots at home and use them as bait for longline fishing next time I go out to sea.

Liang Ziqiang had to rush to the city to deal with the truly valuable monsters, the lampreys.

They were all given to him to take to the city, along with his father's lampreys, with the two families putting them in different buckets.

Oh, and there are also three bonito that we just got. Even if we drained the blood in time, it is still far from being a high-end seafood product, and Yuehai Restaurant will definitely not accept it. This was also pushed to Zheng Liu by my father and eldest brother.

"It's getting late. You should hurry up and sail to the city. The big winner today is those fake eels. Don't delay. I've seen Zheng Liu catch this kind of monster before. He can sell it for more than one yuan!"

After discussing how to deal with several types of fish, Liang's father urged Liang Ziqiang to go and come back early.

In theory, one must first spend some time and effort to remove the lampreys from the sea catfish, and then take them separately to the Moon Sea for sale.

But Liang Ziqiang didn't have that much time, so he simply took the sea catfish to the Moon Sea.

They sorted out the intact catfish that were not attached to the eels and were taken to Zheng Liu by his father and brother.

Anyone who has the strange eel on his body will be sent to the restaurant, both the fish and the eel.

There are about half and half of the two types of catfish.

There were about 200 to 300 catfish with eels on the two boats. After Liang Ziqiang loaded them onto his lotus-patterned boat, he and Zhu Tianpeng sped up the boat and rushed to the city.

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