Chapter 187 Silly sunfish

In the morning of the second day, we were going to go out to sea to test the waters. Before going to bed, Ye Yaodong checked several baskets of fishing lines. The damaged ones were well repaired. Every hook was neatly hung on the edge of the bamboo baskets, and the fishing lines The plate was well played, and he went to bed only after there was no problem.

  The next day, at 9 o'clock in the morning, the fishing boat was pushed into the water with the joint efforts of everyone, and then the firecrackers on the pier were crackling, and a bunch of them were set off. Both Ye Yaodong and Ye's father were beaming.

  Buying a boat is no less important to a fisherman than building a house. The villagers around the pier came forward to congratulate Ye Yaodong one after another, and praised Ye Yaodong with good words...

  Father Ye also felt proud, his whole face was flushed, whose son could afford a 17-meter boat at such a young age? Not all of them hang around behind Lao Tzu.

  Mother Ye helped Lin Xiuqing carry a load of sugar cakes to the pier, and gave a piece to each of the friends who set off firecrackers, and everyone who gave firecrackers to relatives and friends also got a share.

  Mum Ye helped to deal with matters on the shore, and Ye Yaodong and Father Ye set sail directly to sea after setting off the firecrackers.

  Although I haven’t gone to sea until now, the time is a bit tight, but it doesn’t matter, today is just a test of the water, first find a suitable sea area to put the hook.

Father Ye just watched Ye Yaodong sail the boat the whole time, and he chopped up the small fish that Ye Yaodong left yesterday, and hung the fishhook as bait after chopping. Can improve the sense of direction.

  1000 hooks, ten baskets on the boat, baiting is also a time-consuming job, but fortunately, his fishing lines are arranged by someone, which saves a lot of work.

  By the time Ye Yaodong sailed the boat to the target sea area, his father hadn't finished hanging the bait yet. He was afraid that the number of small shrimps was limited and would not be enough for bait, so he prepared a lot of small fish to use as bait.

  The small fish in the washbasin were cut to pieces. Father Ye quickly inserted the hook with his hands and feet, and Ye Yaodong also helped.

   When the hang is almost done, let his father slow down and sail the boat, which is about the same as the speed of trawling.

When the boat is moving, the fishhooks are lowered one by one, and then the buoy rope and sinker rope are tied. After the baskets of hooks are thrown into the sea, a stone is put into the last end of the hooks, and then the last hook is thrown into the sea. Throw the buoy down, this buoy is for positioning.

  Longline fishing is divided into floating longline and bottom longline.

  The float used for longline fishing is in the shape of a wooden ball or a long stick.

  The amount of float should be determined according to the fishing purpose.

  If you want to catch bottom fish and all the fishing tackle must sink to the bottom of the water, you don’t need to use floats, just use the hook string as the identification mark.

  When fishing for mid-level fish, the float should ensure that the fishing tackle can hang in the middle of the water.

   Fishing for upper layer fish requires more floats.

  He has always been fishing for bottom fish along the coast, and now he comes to offshore waters, and he wants to try what he can catch in mid-water longline fishing.

  Experience is accumulated from continuous attempts.

   After everything was done, he washed his hands with fresh water and stood up looking towards the sea.

  But at this moment, he suddenly saw a huge fish floating on the sea in the distance.

  He shouted loudly to his father: "Dad!"

  Father Ye didn't understand, so he turned his head to look at him.

  Ye Yaodong pointed his finger in the direction of the big fish, "Look over there, let's drive the boat over there to have a look, that floating object seems to be a fish."

  Father Ye looked in the direction of his finger, and also saw a big white fish floating on the sea in the distance to the east. He thought that he had finished setting up the rope, and he was idle, so he might as well go and have a look.

   As a result, the father and son were shocked when they approached.

   "Fish Kueh?!"

"Sunfish!"

  Father Ye said the fish cake in front, and Ye Yaodong said sunfish.

  In Hokkien, sunfish is called fish cake.

   "Fuck, why is it so big?"

  Father Ye’s heart skipped a beat, this fish is unlucky, luckily they didn’t catch it, they just saw it, it’s all right.

  Ye Yaodong lay curiously on the side of the boat, and observed carefully, "Father, this one is so big, it should be over two meters long, and it probably weighs a ton."

   "Well, there should be, stay away from it, this fish is unlucky."

  Their fishermen all rely on the sea for their food, and they have a lot of specialties. They don’t even eat sunfish. For them, catching sunfish means unlucky, as long as they are caught, they must be released to ensure safety.

  If you don’t believe in evil and don’t release them, if you eat them, you will encounter evil at any time, and you may lose your life. Of course, some people believe in evil, and some people don’t believe in evil.

  People in Wanwan like to eat sunfish. Because of thick skin, more bones and less meat, they mainly eat its intestines. The famous dish "fried dragon intestines" is mainly made of sunfish intestines.

  The local villagers believe in evil, no matter how expensive or valuable they are, they will not catch sunfish. The first time they catch sunfish is to release them. To put it bluntly, they are superstitious.

  Going to sea itself seeks peace.

  In some places, fishermen are relatively wicked, cut off the fins of sunfish and put them back into the water, because they think sunfish have no value at all, they just waste their bait, and they are hateful thieves.

  These sunfish whose fins have been cut off have completely lost the ability to swim in the water and can only die slowly.

   Sunfish looks like a flat oval as a whole, with a short body and thick sides. The caudal fin has degenerated, only the dorsal and **** fins are well developed.

  From a distance, the sunfish seems to have only a big head and a small tail, so the sunfish is also called a headfish in some places.

  The name sunfish is actually called by the Wanwan side, because fishermen often see them lying on the sea surface basking in the sun, just like an overturned car.

  But the color and appearance of the sunfish are not very good-looking. If there is a car model to match, then this car may be a garbage truck.

   At this time, it should be lying on the sea and basking in the sun. It especially likes to bask in the sun, so it is also called sunfish abroad.

  It is also called moonlight fish, because sunfish can secrete a special substance that can heal other creatures on the seabed. It can be said that it is a "undersea doctor".

  Many fish often surround it, including some small fish that can emit light. These fish swim with sunfish and look like a glowing moon through the water.

  Both father and son felt that it was unlucky to encounter this kind of fish. Although it was big, rare, and could be sold for money, it could not change the fact that it was a sunfish.

  The two of them are not going to move it either, it is not easy for this fish to grow so big.

  They planned to leave the sea directly by sailing to avoid the sunfish, but suddenly another sea lion appeared in the sea, and the two stopped their movements again.

I saw that the sea lion looked small compared to the sunfish, but it directly bit the sunfish's fin fiercely, gnawed and swallowed it, but the sunfish did not fight back or run away in a daze, motionless. Let the seals eat.

  Suddenly, two sea lions appeared on the surface of the sea, gnawing together, but the sunfish still didn’t move. Both father and son were worried about it.

   "This idiot! No wonder he is called the head of the three idiots in the sea, land and air."

  Father Ye looked at him in confusion, "What is the head of the three idiots in the sea, land and air?"

   "You don't understand, it's useless to tell you."

  Father Ye glared at him. Is this the way he talks to Lao Tzu?

   "Hey hey hey, look at you, that, that..."

  Father Ye was immediately distracted again.

  I saw another white figure thrown up from the sea not far away. The water was rippling and tumbling, and another white figure was thrown out of the sea one after another, like a flying saucer.

  The father and son also saw clearly that the sunfish that were thrown into the air like flying saucers were sunfish, and the seabirds flying in the sky also rushed down to peck at the opportunity, gathering more and more.

   In the distance, a large number of sea lions threw those small sunfish into the air, and after teasing them, they continued to attack the 2-meter-long sunfish in front of them.

   This sunfish was bitten by them like a big cake, and still didn’t know how to resist or escape, just watched it being slowly bitten and devoured by sea lions, and became their buffet.

   The intelligence of the sunfish is too low, and it may not realize that it is going to die. After all, it has a big body of about two meters but only weighs 6g.

   It's also notoriously big and dumb.

   Immediately afterwards, the group of sea lions dragged it to the depths of the sea while biting. It may be that this one is too big, so it is inconvenient to throw it into the air, so it is dragged into the sea.

  Generally, sea lions will throw almost eaten sunfish into the air to let the seagulls have a full meal. Just like what the father and son saw just now, several "flying saucers" flew in the sky.

  The waves on the sea gradually became smaller, and the sea lions also dived into the sea. Ye Yaodong still felt that it was a pity. If it was another fish, he would definitely find a way to drag it up.

  It is not easy for this fish to grow so big. I heard that it will take decades to grow to such a large individual.

   "It's a bit unlucky, I encountered sunfish on the first day after the boat sailed." Father Ye was still quite superstitious, and he felt quite uneasy.

   "We didn't catch it again? What's the bad luck? It's the first time I've seen such a big sunfish. Unfortunately, if it changes its name, I will have to drag it up even if I go down."

  Father Ye gave him a hard look, "What nonsense are you talking about? What we are looking for when we go to sea is a safety. When we hear its name, everyone wants to hide away."

   "That's why I said it would be better if it had a different name."

   "Don't think about what you have all day..."

  Ye Yaodong shrugged, his father is so boring, he can't even think about it!

"Dongzi, it will take at least one or two hours for this row of hooks to be put into the sea. The time in between is too late. Go back and ask your mother to help weave a net. In the spare time in the middle, you can also trawl the surrounding sea area. Or get some crabs Cages, shrimp pots, catch together, the efficiency is higher."

  Ye Yaodong also thinks so. The shortcoming of longline fishing is just like this. The time between intervals is too free, unlike trawling, which needs to be sailed on the sea all the time.

   This free time is best used to increase efficiency.

"Okay, I'll take some time to buy materials when I go back and ask my mother to help weave one. It's not easy to go to other places to make nets at the moment. When I go back at night, I will go to Ah Zheng and borrow the hand-throwing net in his hand first." , use it for a few days."

"It's up to you."

  Ye Yaodong used to set row hooks along the coast, and he could still go to Azheng for a chat, occasionally fishing a few rods, but now he can only fish a few rods to pass the time.

  Yesterday he moved everything from the small boat to the big boat, including the simple fishing rod.

  Father Ye saw him take out that crude fishing rod, the corner of his mouth twitched, he really wanted to say something, dogs can't change eating shit...

  I’m all out to sea, and I still want to play!

  Ye Yaodong: Wronged~

   Although his broken fishing rod is crude, it can still fish and make money!

  Some people can catch with only fishing line and hook.

  (end of this chapter)