Chapter 108 Octopus tube!
Zhao Dahai took the bamboo tube, weighed it, pressed his hands, and felt happy. He brought the mouth of the bamboo tube to his eyes, squinted and saw an octopus hiding inside.
“Ha!”
“A good start!”
Zhao Dahai was very happy.
Octopuses naturally like to drill holes, and they like to drill into any place with holes, such as rocks, holes, glass bottles, etc. The octopus tube takes advantage of this characteristic. If it is placed on the bottom of the sea where there are octopuses, the octopus will definitely dig in when it finds it.
Zhao Dahai took a bucket and placed it in front of him. He turned the bamboo tube upside down and knocked it gently twice. An octopus slowly slipped out and fell into the bucket. The octopus had long suckers and could not get into the bamboo tube. Shake it hard. If you are frightened, you can't pull it out even if you hold it tightly. Knock it gently a few times. If it doesn't come out, don't force it. Put it upside down and it will crawl out on its own after a while.
Zhao Dahai continued to pull the rope, and a string of octopus tubes were pulled up. Eight octopuses were caught in twenty bamboo tubes.
Zhao Dahai was very excited.
The efficiency of catching octopus in an octopus tube is not high. If you want to have a better harvest, you have to keep it for a longer time. It is common to keep it for two or three days or even a week.
I came today just to collect two or three bunches to see if there were any octopus. If not, I would collect the remaining ones in a few days. I didn't expect that in just one day and one night, there would be such a harvest. There may be many octopuses on this seabed.
Zhao Dahai was full of energy. He continued to collect strings one after another with quick hands and feet. He collected all fifty strings, poured out the octopus, stopped the fishing boat and rearranged it. The octopus has its own territory, and the same place does not exist. There may be two octopuses. The second time, you have to re-select a place with current and put it down with a fishing boat.
“Boom!”
Zhao Dahai picked up the last string of stones tied to the octopus bucket and threw it into the sea. The splash sprayed on his face, and he didn’t care at all. After a while, he picked up the kettle and drank a lot of water.
Zhao Dahai lifted the plastic bucket in front of him with both hands. Most of the bucket was full of octopuses, and the ones at the top were almost crawling out.
There were seven or eight octopus tubes in each string, and there were five or six in small ones. The total number of octopus caught was 300, which together weighed at least 20 kilograms, almost 30 kilograms.
The price of these octopuses is not particularly high. The purchase price of one pound is about twenty yuan, so you can get it for five to six hundred yuan.
Zhao Dahai took a net cage, poured all the octopuses into it, tied the mouths, and soaked them in the living cabin. They will collect them again tomorrow and sell them together.
The sky began to brighten, and the sun was bright red and not dazzling at all.
Zhao Dahai drove the fishing boat and left without going home. He had already made money today, but who could refuse to make more money and continue fishing.
Zhao Dahai threw the anchor into the sea, parked the fishing boat, and looked at the two small islands a hundred meters away. They were all covered with small rocks. Today's sea water is not as muddy as the previous few days, but as long as it is not clear, there will be no fish. It would be a fool to continue to lose sand tips or black bream.
Zhao Dahai tied a string of three hooks, hung a sea centipede cut into small sections, put it on the side of the boat into the sea, went directly to the bottom of the sea, shook it up and down three or five times, and immediately there was a fish bite. .
One piece!
Two items!
Sanjo!
Zhao Dahai reeled in the line and pulled the fish out of the water. Three small fish, as red as the big toe, were hanging on it and spinning around. They were all Shi Jiugong.
The muddy water means there are no fish!
There must be some!
Just look at the size and value.
Fish like Shi Jiugong don’t carry water. They find the right place where there are reefs, one after another, there are many!
Why don't the other fishermen or fishermen come? Small and worthless. The fish I just caught cost about five yuan per pound. Some time ago, the ones caught in the east end of the village were only worth a little money, but there were very few fish of this size. The shallow sea offshore is rare.
Who doesn’t want to drive a motorcycle? Everyone wants to catch big fish!
But aren’t there no motorcycles now? Bicycles are also pretty good, right?
So what if the fish is small and worthless?
As long as you can sell it for money!
If quality is not enough to make up for quantity, if you work hard and catch ten or twenty kilograms a day, won't you get enough money for gas and food?
It’s better than spending a whole day without catching a few sand tip or black bream, right?
People must be honest! There are big fish to make big money, but there are no big fish to make small money.
You really can’t choose!
Zhao Dahai picked off the fish and threw two into the live cabin. One took a knife, cut it into small pieces, hooked it up, and released it into the sea. He continued to fish for Shi Jiugong, who killed his own kind, so it was very useful.
Zhao Dahai fished for about ten minutes and found that there were a lot of Shi Jiugong. He decisively changed the string hook of six hooks and pulled out a long string of five or six fish. He fished for almost half an hour before slowing down. Slowly and without a fish mouth, he changed places and started going crazy again.
Crazy!
Shi Jiugong in the sea is really crazy!
Three o'clock in the afternoon.
Zhao Dahai decided to go home. I got up at three o'clock in the morning. It has been twelve hours now. First I pulled the octopus tube, and then I kept fishing for Shi Jiugong. I was a little tired. The most important thing was that the sun was too strong and the water temperature in the live cabin was a bit high. , the octopus died easily and decided to go home early.
Zhao Dahai returned to the dock. All the fishing boats that went out to sea to set fishing nets for fishing in the early morning or early morning were parked. No one was seen on the deck. The weather was too hot. He was worried that the octopus would die, so he packed up the fishing boats. , two buckets, one bucket was filled with octopus, the other bucket was filled with Shijiu Gong, two large baskets were placed on the shelf on the back seat of the motorcycle, and they drove directly home and pushed into the yard. The village was quiet. Quietly, I met no one.
Zhao Dahai picked up the cage containing the octopus and put it into a large bucket filled with sea water. He turned on the oxygenator and waited for a while to test the water temperature. It was a little high. He took a piece of ice and put it in. , all the ice melted, the water was a little cold, the octopus slowly regained its vitality and breathed a sigh of relief.
When Zhong Cuihua heard the sound of the oxygen machine, she came over and looked down at the octopus in the cage and smiled.
“Grandma!”
"Ginger is still spicy when old!"
"There are so many octopuses!"
"Put it down again!"
Zhao Dahai took a foam box and put it underneath I put a layer of ice stones, drained the water and put them in. Then I spread the ice layer by layer to lay the fish. It was not weighed. It weighed no less than thirty kilograms and could be worth one hundred and fifty yuan. Octopus is the most valuable thing. Grandma Zhong Cuihua is not a fisherman. A master, he has lived in a fishing village all his life, has heard and seen a lot, and has rich experience.
“Hehehe!”
"It's indeed a lot."
"It's a pity that I can't let it go for a few days!"
Zhong Cuihua shook her head.
“Ha!”
“Grandma!”
"It's not bad to earn a few hundred yuan by doing two trips!"
Zhao Dahai turned on the faucet and washed his hands and feet. After spending the whole day in the sun, he was covered in stinky sweat. The cool water felt very comfortable on his body.
The octopuses caught today all come up with the tide in specific seasons. Don't worry, I caught a lot today, but the total number is not too much. No matter people from my own village or other villages, I soon found that I was placing octopus tubes, imitating others, and catching them all at once.
Zhao Dahai’s idea is very simple. One trip today and another trip tomorrow. How much can you earn? In these two or three days, the sea water will definitely clear up a lot. Let’s continue fishing and releasing octopuses honestly. The tube is just a stop-gap measure, there are really no fish in the sea, so just subsidize it, that's it, there's no hope of making money all the time.
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