Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 486: Island Reef Sea Hunt
From 70% high tide to 70% low tide.

After a while, the fish bite dropped suddenly, which was amazing.

Although you can still fish at this time, the fish's appetite has dropped to normal levels.

Everyone took the opportunity to rest.

During the entire tide period, we caught two groupers, two yellowfin tuna, three mackerel, and various other fish of different sizes.

The blackfish is the most common species. It seems that when the fishing season comes, they often come to the interface.

"Damn it, what a waste of expression. Luckily we caught yellow croaker today, otherwise I would have lost money again." Ergou cursed and started to boil water.

After finishing your work, you should start enjoying the delicious seafood ingredients to make your hard work worthwhile.

"I was pretty lucky today. The tuna I caught in the river weighed over 40 kilograms and could be sold for over a thousand yuan."

Qin Dahe felt relieved when he heard this. He thought the tuna he had just pulled up was a giant weighing a hundred pounds, and his hands were sore from shaking it. But it turned out to be only more than forty pounds.

He said cheerfully, "Do you have an iron plate? I'll fry the big tuna for you."

"Haha, that's enough as long as you have this intention. Your fish is too big. I can't eat it without excreting the acid." Wenwen said with a smile.

"Two groupers and a few sea hares will be enough. We just finished lunch not long ago."

Sea hares are small squids, a kind of bait they bought in the morning. It seems to be more expensive than all the fish present except grouper and yellow croaker.

"The catch in the coastal waters is actually pretty good. We used to go fishing in Zhoushan quite often."

"Today's catch, excluding the large yellow croaker, should be worth around three thousand yuan."

"So many?" Not counting the yellow croaker, there seemed to be only more than 200 kilograms of fish in total.

While Ergou was preparing the sauce, he explained the price of the fish.

The fish caught at noon and sent back to the city in the evening are considered to be of the highest quality.

Even cheap mackerel can be sold for more than ten yuan per pound, not to mention tuna.

A 40-kilogram tuna can make 10 kilograms of sashimi, and Japanese restaurants in Shanghai are scrambling to get it.

The same goes for the other small fish. Once they reach the shore, Wenwen’s restaurant will buy them at the market price, so they won’t lose money.

A pot of water was boiled and the soy sauce was ready. Ergou began to invite everyone to come and eat the fish fillets.

"I learned this from Guang Lao, so let's just make do with it."

"The fish is fresh and tastes good no matter how you eat it." Xiao Xia couldn't wait to pick up a fish fillet, roll it in the sauce twice, and then dip it in the sauce and put it into her mouth, with a look of enjoyment on her face.

In the living room on the first floor, four people gathered around a pot of boiling water and ate grouper.

Leave the fish bones close to the meat and put them in to eat together.

Qin Dahe scalded a piece of it with his chopsticks, and it tasted incredibly tender when he put it in his mouth.

He ate another sea hare and said, "This is better than what I had at the private restaurant." His eyes lit up.

"Haha, seafood has to be fresh. Some of it isn't even dead yet, so it's naturally delicious."

"Where are we going fishing next?" he asked while eating meat.

"I'll take you to the beach. You're the guest today, so I'll let you see more." Ergou said with a smile, chewing on a small squid. "You're really lucky."

"Haha, thank you guys very much, I'll treat you to a private meal tonight."

It can be seen that the three of them regard him as a friend, even though they have only known each other for one day. This is very rare.

I cooked the yellow croaker in the evening and treated everyone to a meal. After all, I caught it while on a yacht with someone.

After eating two groupers and two kilograms of sea slugs, everyone rested with their stomachs bulging.

Everyone was smoking a cigarette, and the sea breeze blew in through the living room door. The interior of the yacht was still very comfortable.

"Don't worry, wait until the tide goes out for a while before going to the beach."

"I know. I'll take a nap." He took a sip of soda comfortably. To be honest, he was really jealous of this yacht.

You can also buy one and put it in the Yuxi River. Whether you go to the Yangtze River or Chaohu Lake, fishing will definitely be fun.

Of course, it's just a thought. I'll buy one when I make enough money.

Seagulls passed by outside the yacht from time to time, and even landed on the deck, and bursts of chirping could be heard.

The blue sky, white clouds and waves hit the yacht. Lying on the sofa, he closed his sleepy eyes. The sea breeze was perfect for sleeping.

It was already three o'clock when he was woken up.

"Dahe, hurry up, we only have an hour."

"Here it comes." I was shocked and immediately felt energetic after getting up.

When I watched the short video, I was so envious of those who live by the sea. Now I have the opportunity to go to the beach too.

The video recorder was recharged and a new memory card was hung on the chest to secure it.

I took a lot of videos during this trip to the sea. I will add more time to the CD next time so that I can show it to my family when I get back.

Only after getting out of the yacht did we see an "island". It wasn't even an island, but a reef exposed after the tide went out.

"I wouldn't bring ordinary people here. This is the secret base of our fishing boat." Ergou said proudly and went down first.

Everyone was wearing rubber pants and steel gloves. Many things in the sea are poisonous, so we had to pay attention to safety.

"Dahe, come with me to this area. There are a few stone slabs here. There are always goods underneath." Wenwen shouted, and Qin Dahe immediately came over and turned on the video recorder on his chest.

"I'll lift the stone slab, and you'll be responsible for grabbing it." "Okay." I couldn't help but feel excited.

"Get up." With a shout, the blue-black stone slab was lifted up.

Qin Dahe quickly started to grab things from the bucket. Anything that could move was within his target range.

Three blue-black lobsters, they look like small blue dragons, I'm not sure if that's right.

Although he ran fast, his hands were even faster and he caught them all.

"Gone?" It's a bit of a pity, there are only two shrimps.

"Also, put those conch shells on too. We can eat them too."

"Oh, that's right." He immediately got busy, picking up some oysters from the back of the stone slab, and picked up half a bucket.

"Great! I didn't know there were so many things I could get from fishing."

"Haha, this is an offshore reef area. There are not so many resources along the coast of the mainland." Wenwen smiled and took him to another stone slab.

The three of them specially gathered these stone slabs together in order to collect these seafood, which is very convenient for entertaining friends here sometimes.

Because of the large population inland, it is difficult to pick up conchs and clams on the beach, let alone small octopuses, crabs, and lobsters.

"I'll lift it up, and you catch it." Qin Dahe took the lead.

These stone slabs have been carefully selected. It is a little difficult to lift them, but they cover a large area.

"Oh, there's a surprise this time." Wenwen smiled and grabbed something that looked like an eel and threw it into the bucket. The body was quite thick, estimated to be over one kilogram.

He was quick in his movements and caught all the unknown crabs.

"This is a naked eel, a very ferocious one. Be careful next time you see one. It hurts even if it bites through wire gloves."

"So powerful." Qin Dahe widened his eyes.

Ever since he went out to sea, his eyes weren't enough.

Ergou and Xiaoxia on the other side were also very happy, and it seemed that they had got a lot of good stuff.

"A grouper."

"Fuck!" Wenwen raised her middle finger!
Over there is a specially fenced-off puddle with different divisions of labor on both sides. However, usually we only catch some small fish occasionally. We were lucky today.

The two of them also found a lot of stranded small fish and shrimps, and Wenwen introduced many of them that Qin Dahe didn't recognize.

Half an hour later, the reef area was finally cleaned up and everyone started carrying things up.

It just so happened that the video recorder had no memory.

"The next step is to go fishing in the water. Dahe, please be careful."

"I know." Qin Dahe nodded seriously.

Because I was wearing leather pants, the sun was quite hot and sweat was running down my neck.

But as long as there is gain, all problems are not problems.

After replacing the new bucket, everyone went down again.

Everything in the water is looking for its target; large conches, oysters, and mussels are everywhere.

Several of them have strong arms, so they can just put on steel gloves and twist it hard. If that doesn't work, they have screwdrivers.

"No abalone or sea cucumber?" He was a little disappointed.

"Damn, that's a nice thought." Ergou said next to him, "When we first discovered this island, we caught six abalone, but now there's no trace of them."

"Abalone and sea cucumbers aren't that easy to catch. They're all below the tide line." "Fuck, I got a mud crab."

Wenwen was just about to continue popularizing science when suddenly a surprise came.

"Mud crab?"

"Well, these fish are occasionally found on offshore islands with low salinity. They're quite difficult to catch. This one can sell for sixty or seventy yuan."

Qin Dahe leaned over to take a look. It had a blue-black shell and two quite large claws.

"So happy?" he said with a smile, not knowing whether sixty or seventy dollars would be enough to buy a yacht.

Today on the boat, three rich second-generations kept emphasizing which fish could be sold for dozens of dollars. The same was true on the island, where they calculated exactly how many dollars each size of conch could be sold for.

"Hehe, I just enjoy the process. Sometimes I'm happy to earn dozens of dollars from a sea fishing trip." Wenwen had a smile on her face.

On the shore, they don’t even glance at clothes and shoes worth dozens or hundreds of dollars, and they spend a long time debating oysters worth a few cents on the island, just like a hamster collecting pine cones.

He stayed with me for another half an hour picking oysters, and we finished at four o'clock, filling three large buckets.

These three buckets of oysters and conchs can probably be sold for a few hundred yuan. Prices in Shanghai have always been strong.

"We'll have this for dinner."

"Just oysters?"

"Haha, let's also roast the grouper that Ergou caught. Add the small golden tuna and that'll be enough. Don't waste your big yellow croaker."

"Okay, then we'll sell our catch together and split the money equally. I guess you guys do this normally, right?" He said, and went up first with the bucket.

Since others are so hospitable, he has to be particular, since he doesn't have much money anyway.

Wenwen nodded and didn't dwell on it too much, it was just a matter of tens of thousands of dollars.

(End of this chapter)