Chapter 24: Rewarding
Fell into the sea with no life jacket on.
What's worse is that Zhang Xiaokai can't even swim, and his parents are both landlubbers, and they never took him to learn to swim when they were so big.
The school did offer swimming lessons, but in the end it was tennis lessons, plus a soccer lesson, which was often abused, and it had nothing to do with the water.
The second he fell from the fishing boat, Zhang Xiaokai felt like he was going to die, and even imagined the terrible feeling of suffocation in the water.
The sea is very cold, I don't know what I stepped on, slippery, fluttering and shouting for help!
As early as the second he saw him fall from the boat, little Patrick took off his coat, and at this time threw a lifebuoy in front of Zhang Xiaokai, shouting: "Hold it first! I'll help you up! Damn it, leave those fishing rods alone! Matt fell into the water!"
On the other side of the deck, someone suddenly ran over and tied a rope around his waist, and little Patrick jumped into the sea and reached out to grab Zhang Xiaokai's clothes.
……
There is no suspense.
As soon as he fell into the sea for more than ten seconds, Zhang Xiaokai was hugged by little Patrick.
He drank a lot of seawater in a panic, his hair was clinging to his head, and he stayed in the sea water of more than ten degrees to cool his heart, and little Patrick asked him to climb onto the boat with the handrail first, and he followed aboard.
A docile star shark was hovering around them, only a little more than a meter long, and he was inexplicably stepped on his head just now, and he was still dizzy.
A stupid bird standing on the deck was frightened by Zhang Xiaokai, naked his head with his mouth, and quickly waved his hand and shouted: "Go away!"
"Hahaha! What's the matter, you can't swim in the sea in this kind of weather, let alone go down with your clothes on, it's too heavy after soaking in water, and it will drag you to the bottom of the sea. ”
Mr. Kenny reached out and grabbed Zhang Xiaokai, dragged him onto the boat, and hurriedly brought the blanket.
Zhang Xiaokai was speechless, his heartbeat was still rapid after being down-to-earth, he took a deep breath and said with a wry smile: "How can I swim, I was dragged into the water by a big fish just now, it may be a whale, anyway, the strength is very strong, and I almost didn't have any time to react." ”
"Where's the fish?"
Little Patriet's lips trembled, first took off his wet clothes, wiped his hair and put on his coat and pants, he was frightened just now, but fortunately people are fine.
"In ...... There!"
A few dozen meters away, a yellow fishing rod was dragged and quickly passed through the sea, stirring up linear waves.
Today, the wind is not strong, the sea is relatively calm, and the slightest movement can be seen clearly.
I was going to say that it didn't matter, but when the fishing rod was lost, it was lost, but when little Patrick looked in the direction of Zhang Xiaokai's finger, he noticed that the fishing rod was moving very fast, and after a moment of sluggishness, he said: "God, you didn't catch a tuna just now, there are few fish that can swim so fast, and they still have so much strength." ”
"Really, then what are you waiting for, let's hurry up and chase it!"
It was Hank, who then asked, "So you're all right, are you, is there anything uncomfortable about it?" If you can still hold on, stay in the cabin and send you to shore later, it would be a shame if you missed the tuna." ”
"I'm fine, you can just do your own thing, leave me alone, I'm sorry for causing you trouble. ”
"It's nothing! go get dressed, I've got a spare coat in my bag, you can put it on first!"
Doing a lot of physical work, the strength is relatively large, when little Patrick patted him on the shoulder, Zhang Xiaokai almost didn't stand firm.
Fishing continues.
The USS Cleveland restarted and chased the rod to the spot where the rod had just disappeared, hoping to catch the precious tuna, even if there was only a slight chance of success.
No one blames Zhang Xiaokai for not holding the fishing rod steady, if it is really a big fish, then the strength is not something he can compete with, after drying his body, he changed his clothes, and little Patrick's spare clothes, whether it was pants or sleeves, were a little longer.
When they reached the deck again, they could see two fishing rods on them, and Mr. Kenny and Hank were snorting and chirping, trying to pull the fish up.
A thick fishing line hooked the star shark and put it directly back into the sea, which was simply a delay in time.
On the other line is a small tuna, bluefin tuna!
Happily, there was a school of bluefin tuna nearby, and the exhausted little tuna was not long enough, so it was cut off and put back into the sea, pulling the cut line for a while, and only letting go of it when it began to swing its tail back into the sea.
As a relatively rare warm-blooded fish in the sea, tuna can only swim at high speed to get enough oxygen for the rest of its life, except for the beginning, and when it stops, it means death.
Throwing a baby tuna back into the sea in a semi-conscious state is tantamount to killing it outright, and no one wants to do that, just as most people give up hunting fawns when hunting.
The little tuna just swam away, Zhang Xiaokai can only hope that it will have a little brain, don't be greedy in the future, who will catch it, this time it will be lucky, and it may grow more than ten centimeters.
He could see the shadow of the fawn in the wilderness from it......
"Hey, here, I see the fishing rod!"
Mr. Kenny shouted that the rod hadn't sunk because it had been dragged by the fish, and the line was thick enough that it hadn't been broken.
As soon as little Patrick stepped out of the cockpit, he saw a big fish churning more than ten meters away, and said happily: "Ha! What a tuna!! Kenny, help me hold the rudder, I'll go get a speargun, such a big fish, there is no way to pick up the rod in the sea!"
It may be that there is something hanging behind him, so that the big fish goes crazy after being provoked, and appears on the surface of the sea several times in succession, twisting its body.
A large tuna, its whole body like a cannonball, making a splash.
There was a speargun at the stern of the fishing boat, attached to a thick rope, and after the big fish showed its body again, it shot out quickly, pinned to the gills of the bluefin tuna, and soon stopped moving.
It's a lot of evil today, there are a lot of fish nearby, there is no chance to rest, and the stern side is pulling fish again, this time I can see clearly, it's really tuna.
Patrick Jr. immediately went to the cockpit to inform Mr. Kenny, saying that he had found a school of fish and asked another fishing boat to rush here.
Two minutes later.
The culprit who had just pulled Zhang Xiaokai into the sea was pulled onto the boat, a huge bluefin tuna, whose gills had been shot through, and blood flowed out, not moving.
After taking off the shooting gun, the first time to bleed and remove the internal organs, whether it was 700 pounds, or barely to 800 pounds, no one knows, there is no suitable tool at hand to weigh the weight, anyway, it must be more than 700 pounds, it looks very impactful.
There was no time to rejoice, another tuna was pulled up, and the crew was about to go crazy.
Zhang Xiaokai was too, thinking that the old man who owed a lot of debts could breathe a sigh of relief, because he heard little Patrick say that such a big fish might be sold for 300,000 US dollars.
The fish farm next door caught three in succession, and the price was obviously higher, but the size was not as large as this one.
This is because the three fish have been reported by the media and are a bit famous, so the price far exceeds the market price, and they were bought by Walmart supermarkets as a gimmick, and they can't be sold at such a high price on weekdays.
At this time in 2010, tuna had not yet been sold at sky-high prices, but it was already very expensive, and the bigger it was, the more valuable it was.
The one that was caught was also a bluefin tuna, weighing only about 300 pounds, and when old Ronald rushed over, he was so happy that his old face blossomed, and he took a photo, saying that he had to hang it on his own wall.
The old man handled the internal organs and gills himself, and then wrapped them in ice to avoid damaging the meat and affecting the price.
No more tuna was caught during this time, but another giant moonfish was caught and hovered around for more than three hours before returning to the pier at two o'clock in the afternoon.
He made a phone call to tell the aquatic company that he had caught two big blue fins, contacted four companies one after another, and made an appointment to come and see the goods at the same time, which was the wisdom of the old man, and he hoped to sell them for a higher price.
I was lucky enough to catch only two big fish of value.
Landing on the shore, the elder Ronald spread ice on the bluefin tuna with his hand, and said in his mouth:
"When I was younger, when I first went to work as a sailor on a fishing boat, I could often see bluefin tuna in the sea around here, but now there are fewer and fewer of them, and some young people dare to show off when they catch 60 pounds of bluefin.
The largest bluefin tuna I've ever seen, weighing more than 1,700 pounds, was caught by a few people taking turns, and it took an hour and a half for the small boat to be dragged hundreds of meters to catch the big guy, and it sold for just over $400, and if it were to be put to this point, it would make the fish traders cry and beg me to sell it. ”
"Did you catch it?" Zhang Xiaokai inexplicably felt that the old man was a little cool at the moment.
Soon it was not cool, because old Ronald shook his head and said, "No, I hurt my arm at that time, so I had to watch them fish......"