Chapter 20: Fishing at Sea (I)
It was another beautiful morning, and Yang Zi, who got up early in the morning, ran early on the beach after washing up a little. It's not about physical fitness, it's just about enjoying the morning scenery while enjoying the mood.
Xiao Bing didn't come to call them early in the morning today, because a few people had made an appointment last night to set off together for the next few days to go fishing in a farther sea. Anyway, it is estimated that it will take more than two hours to get to the place, in order to reduce the probability of seasickness, everyone will sleep lazily, and then recuperate before setting off.
After running around the neighborhood for a while, the sun had gradually begun to dazzle, and Yang Zi went back to the hotel to prepare for the trip. In fact, there was nothing to pack, except for some small things such as clothes and daily necessities, and the other Xiao soldiers had already prepared them properly.
When the time came to eight o'clock, everyone began to assemble at the door of the hotel with simple luggage, the ladies and children will be free to move around on the island these days, and Qian Gang and the others began to prepare for departure with Brother Bing.
After everyone said goodbye to each other, Yang Zi and they slowly sailed out of the small bay on a yacht, and then sped up towards the boundless sea in the distance.
Since they were going to the open sea, it was likely that they would have spent a few days and nights on the ship if nothing else, and after tidying up their beds in the cabin, everyone stood on the deck and began to look at the scenery around them.
Before leaving, Xiao Bing had seen the weather conditions, and the sea would be relatively calm in the next few days, which was a rare fishing opportunity, and he planned to take everyone to the monsoon drifting zone in the nearby waters for fishing for a few days.
This current, which is not very far from here, brings a lot of fishery resources at this time of year, and the gathering of migrating and rushing fish to feed attracts many large predators to hunt here, and also provides a good opportunity for Yang Zi and them to fish for huge animals.
As the waves rose and fell, the yacht slowly moved away from the offshore area. As far as the eye can see, there is an endless sea of water, except for a few seagulls flying not far away, Yang Zi and they can no longer see any references.
It wasn't until a few hours later that Xiao Bing began to slowly slow down the speed of the boat, which was not very far from the current zone, and he looked at the GPS data while looking for the specific direction.
When the yacht was moving nearby at a slow pace for more than ten minutes, everyone suddenly felt that the direction of the hull suddenly changed, and they walked to the side of the boat and looked into the water, only to see that the sea had split in half not far from where they had just come. On one side is the blue seen before, and the other is a deeper blue-black.
When Xiao Bing saw it, he hurriedly set the direction of the boat to the side, and dropped the anchor. He told Yang Zi and the others that this is the monsoon drifting zone, a branch of the legendary ocean current, and everyone can try bottom fishing and iron plate fishing here.
It's even better if you spot a school of sailfish or tuna nearby, and a few people can try the most enjoyable trolling trick in the world. However, the fishing rod that meets the trolling fishing seems to be Yang Zi's one, and the fishing weight of other people's rods is too low to meet the standard.
Now that they have found their destination, the few people who still have plenty of time are not in a hurry to fish, but take out some ingredients and cold dishes from the refrigerator to make a meal to fill their stomachs first. After all, it's already noon, and it will be a joke if you catch a fish and don't have the strength to pull it up.
The ingredients for lunch were all selected by Brother Bing and Yang Zi, and the meat and vegetables were all prepared. As for fish and seafood~ hehe! Of course, it's made from local sources. Yang Zi also prepared a few crab cages for this purpose, throw them down before going to bed at night, and wait to eat the big crab tomorrow.
After eating a Chinese meal of Hunan cuisine and Cantonese cuisine, a few people who took a short break took out their fishing tackle and prepared to start fishing in the afternoon.
Yang Zi cleaned up his heavy iron plate rod and took out an iron plate bait weighing two hundred grams and hung it up.
The main reason for fishing with such a heavy fake bait is that the sea water is fluid, especially the sea water near this current moves at an alarming speed. If you throw down an iron plate at a depth of 100 meters, it will be washed away by the current.
The one he hung now was only for testing, and if the weight was not enough, he could only change to another 300-gram one.
As the fake bait fell into the water with a "poof", Yang Zi checked the angle of the line in the water while placing the fishing line. The rod he used was equipped with a drum wheel, which had the advantage of being large and durable. It's a bit bulky, but it goes well with big fish.
As the fishing line gradually decreased, Yang Zi's brows began to wrinkle. The situation is a little wrong, how can it not be finished when this is almost 200 meters away?
He called Xiao Bing over and asked, and after the other party took a look, he directly asked him to pull it up and change it for five hundred grams. Because this is fishing in the current, although the water depth is only about 150 meters, the fluidity of the sea water is much stronger than Yang Zi imagined, and it is difficult to land near the 200-gram bait.
Yang Zi patted his head when he heard this, and could only fish up the thread set that had been put down, and then took out a 500-gram iron plate from the bait box on the side and replaced it.
The new lure hung heavily on the fishing rod, and when thrown into the water, the effect was really different from the previous one. Not only was the line more than twice as fast as before, but it didn't take long for the reel to stop spinning, and it seemed that the rig had fallen to the bottom of the sea.
Yang Zi saw that the fake bait was in place, so he locked the reel, and then lifted the fishing rod to collect some lines and began to lure the bait. It's just that maybe the fake bait under the water is too bluffing, although Xiao Bing told the fish here that the fish are out of the blue, but Yang Zi teased the boat for a long time and didn't see the fish come over to bite the hook.
Because there are not many of them, they just dispersed and fished directly, and did not use the way of releasing the rod, which would be happily held by the rod one by one.
Yang Zi turned his head to see that there were no fish on their side, and then looked at his fishing rod intently, fortunately, the fish in the water did not make him wait too long. Just when Yang Zi was holding the rod and shaking the bait, there was a pulling force in the water, and he was no stranger to boat fishing, so he quickly pulled up the rod and stabbed a few shots hard, and then swirled around with the fish at the bottom of the water.
When fishing in inland freshwater areas, people often think that the fish are too small or the rod is easy to break, so that they cannot use all their strength to sneak the fish.
But once this situation is in the sea, it is reversed, and the strength of the sea fish that moves more than ten or dozens of catties is basically about twice that of ordinary freshwater fish. And the pulling force of the slightly larger fishing rod is basically more than tens of kilograms, such as the 400-gauge rod in Yang Zi's hand, the fishing weight is as high as 50 kilograms.
In this kind of fishing, the first thing to lose is often not the fish in the water and the tackle in the hand, but the physical strength of the angler. In particular, if it lasts for tens of minutes, the body will become tired and disobedient, and it may take several days for people who do not exercise regularly to recover.
Fortunately, Yang Zi didn't have such troubles, with his current strange strength, if he wasn't worried about the problem with the fishing tackle, even if it was one or two hundred catties of fish, he could carry it directly. The fish in the water wasn't very big now, so it didn't take long for him to slip to the surface.
Xiao Bing, who was waiting on the side, saw the fish exposed to the water and hurriedly fished it up with a net, Yang Zi looked at the slender fish in front of him and found that he didn't know it again, so Brother Bing quickly introduced him.
This is a pike that is also known as a sea wolf because of its fierce personality and protruding teeth that resemble canine teeth. After listening to this, Yang Zi walked to the side with the pliers with interest and looked at it, and then prepared to take off the hook for it.
Because the hook was swallowed deeply, he tossed it a lot before taking the hook out. The fish's teeth are really powerful, and the steel wire is bitten in its mouth, which is very seeping.
Because he heard Xiao Bing say that this fish may carry some kind of deadly germs, Yang Zi threw it back into the sea without even letting it out of the net after taking the hook. Then pack up your fishing rod and start fishing.
After learning a lesson, Yang Zi put down the second rod that did not directly let the fake bait fall to the ground, but locked the fishing line after reaching a depth of more than 100 meters. Then I reel in the line while shaking the bait, intending to find fish species that are active in the middle and lower layers.
After teasing up and down a few times, it didn't take long for the fishing rod to move again, and Yang Zi quickly pulled the fish to the surface after tossing and turning.
This time, he recognized the fish at a glance, because its size was difficult to mistake. The silver-white body is flat and slender, and it looks like a jade belt, which is a common hairtail fish.
When Yang Zi was in Zhoushan before, he learned a braised hairtail fish method from a local old man, and he especially liked that taste, but unfortunately after returning to Hunan, he had not eaten it for a long time because of the lack of raw materials.
So when this hairtail fish was still struggling in the net, it had been sentenced to death by Yang Zi, and after picking off the hook, he put it in the fishing box on the side and iced, planning to show everyone a good hand at night.
Seeing that there were already two fish connected to Yang Zi's side, Qian Gang on the side was a little unable to sit still, and several people began to make some adjustments after asking Yang Zi about the water layer and techniques of fishing.
Time passed slowly, and after the initial adaptation time, the big guys began to slowly gain something. From time to time, they would pull up fish that they had never seen before.
With Xiao Bing, an experienced old captain, they only picked some fish with better taste and kept them, and basically put the rest back into the sea.
It's a pity that except for Yang Zi, Qian Gang and Lao Wang all have more or less seasickness, so they can only sit in the cabin to rest after knocking on the seasickness medicine.
Yang Zi had expected this situation a long time ago, so the preparations were very sufficient. Fortunately, the seasickness is not particularly serious, and the situation should get up after resting for a while, and it has not yet reached the point where it needs to return, which makes Yang Zi also breathe a sigh of relief, after all, it is rare to run out to catch a sea fish like this, and he doesn't want to end up like this.
In the next time, Yang Zi and Xiao Bing fished on the boat for half an afternoon, although they didn't encounter any super big fish, but the addiction was still too much. Especially his collection task, the progress has increased a lot.
Seeing that the sky was getting darker, he visited Yang Zi, who was in a happy mood after learning that Qian Gang and their condition had improved, and beckoned Xiao Bing to start preparing today's dinner together.
They prepared the sea fish they had caught in the afternoon, and then steamed or boiled seven or eight seafood dishes. The entrails of the fish are not wasted, and they are placed in the crab pot next to them and are intended to be used for crab fishing at night.
After everything was cleaned up, Yang Zi walked to the cabin and asked Qian Gang and a few of them to come up for dinner, but when they went down, their noses almost crooked. The four sick people who were still sighing in front of him actually got together and played cards, and the ghost in front of them was afraid that he would ask them to go up and help cook and pretend to be out.
A few people who were having fun saw that Yang Zi was not embarrassed at all, threw the cards in their hands one by one, smelled them one by one, and went to the table on the deck.
Yang Zi, who was moved aside by them, couldn't do anything after despising them, shook his head and came out, took out two bottles of rice wine from the wine cabinet on the side, and returned to the dining table to sit with a few people and feast around the delicious dishes.
Eating a delicious meal and drinking the rich and nourishing rice wine, a few people felt how comfortable, and with the rise of a bright moon, the atmosphere of the scene reached a new climax.
The sparkling sea reflected the clear moonlight, and everyone was intoxicated by the quiet atmosphere after a warm evening breeze. The infinite starry sky and the vast sea surface gave them a small but real sense of existence, which made several people hate themselves for not having enough literary talent to describe this full emotion, and they could only cry wolf and howl a few times on the boat to calm themselves down.
As the wine bottles on the table slowly emptied, the first day of fishing for several people was also coming to an end. After eating and drinking, everyone did not talk as much as usual, but found a place to lie down and look up at the starry sky quietly, as if they were thinking about something.
What could it be? The author does not know. The only thing that is certain is that tonight is destined to be unforgettable for the rest of their lives......
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