Chapter 240 The silvery-white "ribbon" (monthly ticket plus update 4)

  Three are side by side, and it is obvious that the two behind are not as big as the first one, and are a whole circle smaller.

  He shone it back and forth with a flashlight. According to his visual estimation, the size of the two behind them was about 1.23 meters, and they should weigh 60 to 70 kilograms.

   There was one with a bulging belly. He reckoned it was the tern that had just swallowed it, and was caught before it digested. He went to the corner and took a knife, intending to bleed it.

  Father Ye was very happy, "These three together weigh more than two hundred catties. The small fish is not worth much, but the big one is quite valuable."

   "Well, it should be worth dozens of yuan. With these three, today's trip has already earned."

  Ye Yaodong skillfully bleeds it, and Father Ye is not in a hurry to set off the boat, but is very pleased to watch him move.

  The sophistication of the third child during this period made him think that he is an experienced old fisherman, and he has really grown up.

   Sure enough, some men grow up later.

   After watching for a while, Father Ye went to pick up all the black mullets next to him into the basket after he finished handling one fish.

   These black mullets are of different sizes, but the smallest one weighs more than one catty, and one or two are larger, and should weigh five catties. He can tell when he weighs them in his hand.

  Mullet mullet is also called mullet. The back of the body is blue-gray and darker in color. The abdomen is silvery white, the color is relatively light, and there are some black spots on their bodies.

Every year around the beginning of winter, the black mullet is the fattest time, and it is also the most active time of the year. At this time, the black mullet is making careful preparations for wintering and spawning, swimming around , Grab food and save energy.

  Father Ye picked it up and said, "These black mullets weigh dozens of catties, so I'm lucky."

   "Well, it's just beginning of winter, so there must be a lot of fish. I'm almost ready, dad, when you're done, go and sail the boat, drive a little further, and I'll lower the sticky net."

"good."

  Ye Yaodong put the three Niugang squids in the basket after processing, and then went to the cabin to get the sticky net.

  They never let go of sticky nets, but they never let go, doesn't mean they don't know.

  Every winter, because the temperature is low, most fish are not active, and basically stay at the bottom of the water area, not often looking for food, so fishing is more difficult, and some fishermen in the village will use sticky nets to catch. About how it was released, they still know.

   After Father Ye drove the boat a long distance, Ye Yaodong shouted at him: "Father, it's right here."

  The wind on the boat was strong, coupled with the sound of the machine, he had to make it louder, and Father Ye immediately slowed down and stopped the boat when he heard it.

The sticky net is different from the trawling net. You can’t release the net while driving the boat. Instead, you have to lower the net in still water or slow water. Otherwise, the net will be easily washed away, and you need to lower it deeper so that you can reach the bottom where fish are densely populated. .

  And when lowering the net, you must follow the order of floating heads, one float after another, and do not offside, otherwise the net will easily become entangled when collecting the net, and the net will be useless.

  Ye Yaodong dropped the buoy after finishing the net, and he will not collect it until the return trip.

  Because if you use it again after one use, you need to collect the net and wash it, then tie it as it was when it was first made, and then dry it in the sun before it can be reused.

  There are a lot of impurities in the water. If you don't wash it, it is easy to corrode and damage the net with various weeds that stick to the fish net.

  It is a bit laborious to stick the net, so only in winter, someone in the village will put it.

  Otherwise, whoever is full will go out to put a net every day, collect a net, take it back, wash it and dry it for a day, and then continue to use it when it is dry.

  Generally people put sticky nets by the way, unless you specialize in sticky nets, and there is no special sticky net in their village.

   Immediately afterwards, he took out the fishing net of the trawling net, wasting no time at all, and while waiting for the line to be reeled, he could barely drag a net.

   In order to work hard to make money, he also worked hard.

  Father Ye started the boat again after he saw that he had finished placing the sticky net.

  Because of the cooperation during this period, the relationship between the father and son has improved a lot, and there is also a tacit understanding. One sails the boat and the other releases the net, proceeding in an orderly manner.

   At this time, the sky is already bright, but the sun is blocked by thick clouds, and there is no sunrise on the sea today.

  However, after eight o'clock, the sun came out from the thick clouds, and the dazzling sunlight shone on the sea surface, making the entire sea level look golden. Today is another sunny day.

  Ye Yaodong checked the time and felt that it was almost time to hoist the net, so he went to wind the net. Father Ye also slowed down the speed of the boat to let it move forward slowly, and went to help drag the net from the tail slide to the deck.

  The heavy net was dragged directly to the deck under the joint efforts of the father and son.

   "It's a mullet."

   "It's its flood season, right? At this time in previous years, the black mullet is also the most."

  Father Ye was a little happy. Their trawl nets like to drag fish schools, and they drag a lot of fish of the same kind, which is better than dragging a bunch of miscellaneous fish.

"should be."

  The entire net is 70 to 80 catties full of black mullet, and the goods received are not bad.

  Ye Yaodong fiddled with the pile of fish at random. Besides the black mullet, there were also some green mullets in it, "Father, if you don't have enough bait later, use the green mullet to cut it."

   "Well, I know."

"Huh?"

  He fiddled with the pile of fish, but found a pattern that was quite special. It was covered with dark brown dots all over its body, and its belly was light without spots.

   "Grouper?" Father Ye asked uncertainly, because it has spots on its body, and it looks quite similar to a grouper.

   "No, it should be a thick-lipped rock perch. It weighs almost two catties. Pick it up alone first."

   "That's right, that's right, that's a rock perch." Father Ye came back to his senses as soon as he said it.

   Whether it is a good fish that is valuable or not, you can usually tell by looking at the patterns on its body. These fish either have different patterns on their bodies, or they are super-average in size.

  Stone perch will be a little more expensive than ordinary fish, not as rare as grouper, but the price should not be much different from tiger grouper. This one should sell for three or four yuan.

  Ye Yaodong asked his father to tidy up the fish, and he went to sail the boat. It has been three or four hours since the rake was put down, and it was time to collect a wave.

  Just as he was driving the boat to the sea where the longline was placed, he saw a silver ribbon appearing on the sea ahead.

  He thought he was wrong, but when he looked closely, there was indeed a silver ribbon in front of him, swaying on the sea.

   "Father, come here."

  He drove the boat towards the silver ribbon, and asked his father to come and have a look.

   "What's going on?"

   "Look at the sea over there."

  Father Ye's eyes widened suddenly, "What is that? Why is it so long and white?"

   "I don't know, that's why I asked you to come and have a look."

   "Follow up and have a look."

   "Well, it floated pretty fast, it's so long, I don't know what it is." Ye Yaodong frowned.

  Father Ye stretched his neck and still couldn't understand, "What kind of garbage? It looks like a ribbon, with a little red on top of the white."

   "It just looks like, if it's made of fabric, it would float on the surface of the sea, and it can still swing in the water. It looks a bit like a sea snake, but it's a bit long."

  The ocean is really wonderful, there are all kinds of magical things, and I don’t know what they are?

  He followed behind the long "ribbon" not far or near, and did not increase his horsepower to catch up. After all, it was an unknown thing, and what if he got too close to attack the fishing boat.

   And he saw that it was drifting towards a small island in front, and planned to follow it first to see if it was going to the small island over there.

  The fishing boat moved forward at a constant speed, but gradually narrowed the distance. It was because the speed of the "ribbon" slowed down, and the small island on the opposite side was getting closer and closer.

   When the fishing boat was about to approach the small island, the father and son also clearly saw the looming figure on the shallow beach.

   "Hairtail fish?"

   "Oarfish!"

  Both father and son spoke in unison, the first sentence was said by Ye Father, and the latter sentence was said by Ye Yaodong.

   Both of them were stunned!

   It’s an oarfish?

   "Damn it! This is an oarfish!"

  Father Ye said excitedly: "It's the oarfish, Dongzi, stop on the island!"

   It doesn’t take his father to tell him that he knows to stop on the island first.

  The terrain of this small island is quite high. Now it is low tide, and part of the beach is exposed. When the fishing boat approached the small island, most of the body of the oarfish was exposed on the beach.

   "Fuck, it's so long..." Father Ye couldn't help but swear.

  Ye Yaodong watched the oarfish washed directly onto the beach by the sea, with only half of its body still swaying in the water, so he couldn't help but licked his lips.

  He thought of another name for oarfish, which is also called earthquake fish, because only when an underwater earthquake occurs, this deep-sea fish will be frightened and will be shocked to swim up to shallow waters for refuge.

   Some people also say that whenever the oarfish appears, there will be an earthquake or tsunami in the local area.

  Some people call it Dragon King Fish, Dragon Palace Messenger, etc. In fact, its real scientific name is Oarfish Leshii.

   "I'll dock the boat first."

   In such a short time, almost the whole body of this oarfish washed up on the beach and was stranded.

  Father Ye didn't wait for the boat to dock, he climbed off the boat and walked onto the beach.

  Ye Yaodong parked the boat and followed closely behind. He didn't even bother to take a second look at the densely packed juveniles growing on the surrounding stone walls.

Looking closely, its length is even more shocking. I saw that this oarfish has a huge body, about four or five meters, bright silver on the outside, with a head like a horse's head, red pelvic fin, and red dorsal fin. The ones that grow from the top of the head are like tassels.

  It looks very similar to ordinary hairtail, both of which have a flat body. At first glance, it looks like a shiny silver belt, except that one is super large and the other is small.

  At this moment, although it has run aground, its tail is still swaying occasionally, and it seems that it has taken in less air and released more air.

   "Dad, have you heard of oarfish?"

  Father Ye frowned, "I heard that the appearance of the oarfish also means that an earthquake or tsunami is coming soon."

   There should be another chapter today

  

  

  (end of this chapter)