So what is Hong Tao going to do during this time? He doesn't plan to continue fishing in a cage, because he can't feed for a long time when he catches it, and he can't keep it fresh when he dies, so he plans to try the effect of the rolling hook and the crab dragon first, and the crab is easier to raise when it is caught, and it can live for more than ten days without eating or drinking. Big fish, if you really catch a big fish, Hong Tao can go to Zhenzhou again and send the big fish to Chen Mingen without delaying sales.

If you want to go out to sea, you must first have a sail, which is already available, and before the afternoon, the third new sail can be completed, so that there are two small wooden boats equipped with new sails, and the safety problem is basically solved. If you want to catch big fish, you have to go to the open sea, and you have to go back and forth plus the fishing operation time, how can it take four or five days, and you have to prepare enough food and drink, especially fresh water.

The main problem is not the boat and provisions, but the weather! If you don't know how to predict the weather, no matter how good the sails, no matter how good the boats, no matter how many supplies, the farther you run, the faster you will die. Catch up with a typhoon or something, and even those high-tech sailing ships in later generations will have to be muddy, let alone such broken wood ships.

Relying on experience to judge the weather this work Hong Tao can't do, a sea area has a sea area of weather change law, Hong Tao through the sun, stars, moon and tide changes, you can roughly know the weather changes of the next day, at most no more than two days, and he can not do anything longer. However, Bo Xiaoer and Bo Xiaosan can, they have followed their father to the sea since they were more than ten years old, and they have to go to the sea at least twice a year to catch the fishing and flooding, how to judge the weather conditions, it is passed down from their ancestors, if they don't even know this, then the Tan family will not live, and the mortality rate will be higher.

"There won't be a lot of wind and rain these days, but do you really want to go to the open sea?" Bo Xiaoer received Hong Tao's order, stood on the bow of the boat and watched for a long time, and then climbed up the nearby hill to see the afternoon, before giving Hong Tao a definite answer. But he was a little hesitant about Hong Tao's plan to go to the sea, mainly because he didn't get the approval of his grandfather, and he didn't dare to do it.

"Didn't Fuber say it when he left, let you listen to me!" Hong Tao is secretly changing the concept, Bo Fu's sentence obviously does not include going to the far sea, but he also does not say that he will not let it go.

"But ......" Bo Xiaoer, a man in his 30s, made Hong Tao a little dizzy with his words, but he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Second brother, you can't just think about your row, the third brother has children, but you still have to squeeze a row with grandpa, aren't you in a hurry? We didn't run too far, more than half a day's journey, and then we hooked the cage, if the harvest is good, we will go a few more times in the future, and we can also let the third brother have his own new row of boats as soon as possible. And Qihong, he is about to get married, so he can't let him squeeze into the same cabin with me and my grandfather, right? Hong Tao changed his words this time and began to talk about the most anxious things of these men.

"Second brother, it's okay to travel for more than half a day, and what about Huang Lang and Huang Tao, can so many of us come back?" Bo Xiaosan listened to the row, and really didn't calm down, and began to help Hong Tao speak.

"That's it, second brother, go try it! Huang Tao and I went to the mountain to cut bamboo tubes, prepare more water, and set off tomorrow! "The one who is still anxious for a new row of boats is Chen Qihong, he and Huangsha are going to get married in the New Year, it would be great if he could have his own new boat.

Bo Xiaoer was originally an honest pimple, so he was instigated by several younger brothers, and with Hong Tao's broken mouth, he no longer insisted. In fact, he also wants to go out to the sea to catch big fish and make more money, not to mention the new row of boats for his younger brothers, his eldest son Bo Jiao is almost 12 years old, and he will have to marry a daughter-in-law in a few years, and he will have to prepare a row boat for his children when the time comes! If you don't take risks, where will the big fish come from?

So, everyone got busy, those who should go to prepare bamboo tubes and carry machetes up the mountain, those who should use shell powder and tung oil to plug the leaks in the boats go to the beach, and those who should clean the fishing gear are also busy putting the crab pots in the sea water to soak and remove the peculiar smell on them. Hong Tao also has work to do, so he dragged Bo Jiao and a few children to the beach to tie fish hooks.

These hooks are more unsightly than Hong Tao imagined, where are the fish hooks, if they are put in the future generations, Hong Tao will definitely not dare to think about the fish hooks, they are more like hooks under the rod scale. The hook body with the thickness of the thumb is black and rough, and one can weigh half a catty. There is an iron ring with a rope on the hook handle, and the hook tip is polished very sharp, Hong Tao tried it with a wooden board, and then took it out, the hook tip was paused, and the steel mouth was not good. However, the barbs on the tip of the hook are more finely done, not one, but one on the top and two on the other. It's better than nothing, fishing for sea fish is also easier than fishing for freshwater fish, as long as it is strong enough, what is sharp or not, the fierce sea fish see what seems to be something to eat, will go over and bite it, it is estimated that there is no hook tip can still catch fish.

What Hong Tao needs to do now is to tie these 20 large fish hooks to strands made of three strands of fine hemp rope, and then tie these strands more than a meter long to the large rope with the thickness of a pickaxe, and each joint must be tied firmly. Ten large hooks are tied to each cable, and then four floats made of several one-meter-long bamboo tubes are tied to the cable. This work is not light, the rough hemp rope is very astringent after being stained with water, and after a while, Hong Tao's hands that are as delicate as a native woman are grinded to pain. The evaluation of his hands is unanimously agreed by everyone, and Bo Fu has always wondered how Hong Tao, who is proficient in fishing and claims to have fished since he was a child, has grown such a pair of hands.

Finally tied the hooks, Hong Tao had to go to the reef to sharpen the three hooks, and this thing was also made by Hong Tao to draw a pattern for Chen Mingen to take to Yacheng Town to find a blacksmith. It is like the ancient Ge, the tip is a four-sided pyramid with barbs, more than a foot long, and a branch sticks out of the back, which is a backward hook, and the back is an iron sleeve, which is directly set on a two-meter-long wooden stick, and then through the holes above and the holes drilled out of the stick, it is tightly wound one by one with fine hemp rope. Behind the wooden stick is a twine dozens of meters long, and the end of the hemp rope is fixed to a large pile of tied bamboo tubes.

This is a harpoon designed by Hong Tao, it can usually be used as a hook, when encountering a large marine fish, directly to the fish, the hook at the back hooks the fish, can prevent the big fish from struggling to hurt people. If you encounter a particularly large fish, then use it as a harpoon, directly insert the quadrangular pyramid with barbs into the body of the fish and let go, let the big fish run with hemp rope, and finally take the pontoon away, when it has no strength to toss, it will float up, and then everyone finds the pontoon and finds the big fish.