Chapter 160 It’s not “cousin” but “cousin”!
Zhao Dahai held his breath for a moment and stared at the fish pulled out of the water with wide eyes for a long time. The deflated ball suddenly relaxed.
“Hey!”
“Chunzi!”
“I thought it was a big yellow croaker!”
Zhao Dahai smiled and shook his head. Chunzi fish looks a bit like a large yellow croaker. Not only are they similar in body shape, but both fishes will turn golden in color in muddy sea water, like gold bars. Some places joke that it is the "cousin of the large yellow croaker".
Zhao Dahai pulled the fish to the side of the boat, lifted the net and took a closer look. Yes, it was indeed a spring fish and not a large yellow croaker.
Chunzi fish is indeed not as good as large yellow croaker, but it is definitely a good fish. The fish has thick flesh, no small spines, is very tender, and tastes very good. Children, the elderly or people with weak constitution can eat it.
The price of spring fish is far lower than that of large yellow croaker, but relatively speaking, spring fish worth eight taels or more can sell for eighty yuan or even one hundred yuan per catty. The bigger the fish, the more expensive it is.
Zhao Dahai picked up the hook and weighed it. The Chunzi fish he caught weighed no less than two kilograms. This fish can be sold for at least two hundred yuan. It is not a big yellow croaker. The chance of making a big fortune is gone, but it is a small fortune. It's inevitable.
Zhao Dahai was a little surprised. The water depth here was about ten meters. This was not the best water depth for spring fish to grow.
Zhao Dahai thought about it for a while, but he had no clue. It didn’t matter, as long as it was there. The sea was connected in all directions, and the spring fish came when they wanted. No one could care about it, so a sea centipede was hung on the hook. I cast the rod to the end, tightened the line, stared at the tip of the rod, shook it a few times, and didn't immediately raise the rod to stab the fish. I waited for a while until the rod bent down and then raised the rod to hit the fish.
Chunzi fish is a bit like a dog shark. It eats very fiercely, and it is the kind of stuffy fish that can easily be eaten to death. This is different from black sea bream, especially yellow sea bream. Black sea bream and yellow sea bream are very precise when eating bait. They are careful to test. If they don’t stab the fish in time, they eat the bait, spit out the hook and run away. For yellow sea bream, it is even more obvious. You have to give way to the line when eating bait. Put the line out and lower your vigilance to get hooked.
The more Zhao Dahai fished, the more surprised he became. The Chunzi fish were hooked one after another. The smallest one was one pound, and the largest one was almost three pounds. They hit the nest again, and this time it was the nest of the "cousin" of the big yellow croaker. , I really didn’t expect such a surprise.
Zhao Dahai shook his hand. The fishing rod in his hand was mainly used to catch black snapper and yellow snapper of about one kilogram. Now all he caught were spring fish of two or three kilograms. The rod's soft line was thin and it was laborious. Okay, I pulled ten of them, my hands were so sore, I had no choice but to keep going. In the ten meters of water here, the spring fish must be a passing fish, and I definitely wouldn’t be able to catch them at another time. So hurry up and catch a few more.
The sun sets in the west.
Zhao Dahai put away his fishing rod, and the time to make money passed very quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. The last spring fish caught was half an hour ago. There should be few fish, so he decided No more fishing.
Zhao Dahai looked at the living cabin and saw that it was full of fish. He took the net and put the live ones in the living cabin. He took out the dead ones and put them in the refrigerator, folding them neatly. , especially spring fish, the price is very high, so you can’t be careless, otherwise you won’t be able to sell it at a good price if it looks bad.
Zhao Dahai drove the fishing boat back to the village pier. When he was almost there, he remembered that Zhao Shi had told him during the day that a lot of squid could be found every year within ten nautical miles to the northeast. He changed his mind and would not go home for the time being. He turned a corner and headed straight over.
Night falls.
Zhao Dahai rushed to the place and looked around. There were no fishing boats nearby. It was pitch black and he could only hear the sound of some waves crashing.
Zhao Dahai raised his head and looked into the distance. The scattered lights were not too dense. These were fishing boats. There were not many. However, at four or five o'clock in the morning, the entire sea was lit with lights. Transparent and very spectacular.
Zhao Dahai stopped the fishing boat, set up the lights on the sea, and turned on the switch. The little sun was as bright as the little sun. The blue-green underwater lights were lowered along the side of the boat. The water was six meters deep and the water was relatively turbid. , only a blur of yellow-green can be seen.
Zhao Dahai was resting and waiting. There were no squids, no cuttlefish, but groups of small fish came. After a closer look, they were anchovies. This is a small fish common in shallow coastal waters. When the season comes The number of a group of fish is very large, but generally no one catches it. They are small and the price is low. The price varies from a few yuan per catty to more than ten yuan per catty depending on the size. The key is that it is too troublesome to catch fish online. If you encounter a large group, The entire fishing net is full of fish, which is very labor-intensive and may even cause the entire fishing net to be scrapped, which is not cost-effective.
Zhao Dahai picked up the fishing net and tried five or six times, but only caught two or three fish. He remembered that he had bought several pairs of fish skin string hooks, so he immediately tied it to a fishing rod and threw it into the sea. , up and down, pumped a few times, one after another bit on the hook, and pulled up five in a string. Catching anchovies is very easy. If you encounter a school of fish, you will bite the hook as soon as you see it. However, unhooking and unhooking fish is very troublesome. There are many hooks in string hooks, and you may catch them accidentally when you are not moving. Catching anchovies, especially in a string When I was fishing, I jumped out of the water as hard as I could. When I was picking fish, the string hook would get directly wrapped around my hand if I was not careful. Once the barbed hook penetrated into the flesh, it would definitely hurt to death.
Zhao Dahai did not unhook the hooks one by one. This was too troublesome. He held the lead in his left hand and the fishing rod in his right hand. He tightened the line and shook it violently up and down twice. The anchovy hanging on the hook was unhooked. It fell on the deck, crackling like rain.
Zhao Da threw the string hook into the sea, one string after another, and another string after that. In less than twenty minutes, the whole deck was covered with anchovies. This was the real crazy pulling.
Zhao Dahai lowered his head and looked at the sea surface. Under the strong light, groups of anchovies were swimming east and west in the sea water, constantly shuttling back and forth.
It’s over!
The sea is full of anchovies, there are no squid or cuttlefish at all.
Zhao Dahai was a little unwilling to give up. After waiting for an hour, he changed to wooden shrimp and fished for 20 minutes. All he caught were anchovies. He was very speechless and gave up fishing. There are indeed cuttlefish or squid in the sea, but there are definitely not many of them. At least I didn't encounter any tonight. I have made up my mind to try here every time I go fishing in the sea and see if I can make a fortune one day. .
Zhao Dahai started to pack up the anchovies on the deck. They were cheap goods. He didn’t plan to sell them, but just ate them himself. There was nothing special about them. He took a bucket and put them in, and put some crushed ice on them.
Zhao Dahai returned to the dock. It was almost eight o'clock in the evening. He took the time to pack up his things, clean the fishing boat, and caught a lot of fish. He took the live fish and the valuable spring fish home first, and then I rode a motorcycle to the pier again and took two mesh bags. One contained five or six kilograms of anchovies, and the rest was put in another mesh bag. I went to the second grandfather Zhao Shi’s house and gave away the five or six kilograms of anchovies. A bag of fish was taken back to his home.
Zhao Dahai took a knife and a chopping board, scaled and opened the fish belly, cleaned about four kilograms of anchovies, each one had to have two taels, they were very fat, and their stomachs were full of oil, and they were cooked in a big iron pot Heat it up, add some oil and let it smoke, put the fish in and fry it a little, add water, ginger slices, salt, soy sauce, cover it and let it simmer for ten minutes, then open the lid of the pot and your saliva will almost flow out.
Zhao Dahai took the big iron basin, which was filled with steam. He just went out and placed it on the table in the yard, and called his grandma Zhong Cuihua to eat.
“Grandma!”
“I’ve been back late from fishing these days!”
“It’s almost around this time today.”
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"I want to see if there are squid or cuttlefish in the sea!"
"This has to be done at night."
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Zhao Dahai told grandma Zhong Cuihua what to do next I came back late for a few days, picked up an anchovy, put it whole into my mouth, pulled it out, and a fish bone came out. The fish meat was all in my mouth, salty and fresh, plus the taste of ginger, It was very easy to eat, one item after another, and I was sweating profusely.
After Zhao Dahai finished his dinner, he looked at the fish caught today in the fish pond. Most of the fish that could be fed were black snapper. There were not many spring fish. He was a little proud. He made a lot today. He checked again. After checking out the chilled spring fish in the refrigerator, I went to take a shower without any problems. It was almost one o'clock in the morning when I lay in bed. The tide will be early tomorrow. I have to get up at 4:30 in the morning to cook breakfast. After eating, I will go to the pier to go to sea at 5 o'clock.
(End of this chapter)