Chapter 112: Fishing Officially Begins
Second, you also have to wear non-slip gloves, it not only allows you to fight with the big fish will not slip due to sweaty palms, but also protect your fingers from being scratched by the fishing line.
Thirdly, after the fish is hit, the angler who controls the rod must make a special fishing chair, which is generally called the "combat chair", which is located in the middle of the stern of the dinghy, and there are two slides under it, so that the whole chair can slide back and forth. Once the angler is seated, fasten the harness and then hook the hook to the reel, so that neither the operator nor the rod can be pulled into the water by the big fish. In addition, the angler can use the force of his legs to slide the entire chair by pedaling the side of the boat, and then move the rod back and forth, just like a kayak boat. The purpose of this is the same as that of kayaking, just to make up for the lack of strength of human arms, can the arms not be twisted into the thighs, in order to deal with the big guys in the sea, human beings have to make this decision, hands and feet together.
With all of this ready, you need a very important condition to be able to complete the trolling, and the last condition is your body. Trolling fishing to face the target fish do not have a coward, at every turn is hundreds of pounds or even thousands of pounds of big guys, their strength in the sea can be described as against the sky, the initiation of madness to drag the fishing boat to run away, to slip them exhausted, generally not a few hours is impossible, so to compete with them, you must have a good body bones, otherwise you may not even be able to lift the fishing rod.
“@¥! ##"Just as several people in the cabin were discussing the details of trolling with a demonstration, a Japanese voice came from the door of the cabin, and I don't know if it was my brother or my younger brother, who was standing there wearing a life jacket, as if it meant to let everyone come out.
"Let's go, don't just ask questions, it's time for you to practice." Zhou Xiaoli kicked Hong Tao, urging him to hurry up and roll out of the fishing gear, she was annoyed by this studious guy along the way, and her saliva was dry.
The fishing boat had slowed down by this time, and one of the two Maruyama brothers was standing on the high helm tower, holding the rudder in one hand and a high-powered binoculars in the other. The other one was gesturing with Mr. Yae, and from time to time he pointed to the sea, probably discussing the specific fishing spot with Mr. Yae.
"Let's start casting the bait now, Hong Tao, you are in the middle of the stern, and stick the pole into the rod base." Zhou Xiaoli is now Hong Tao's commander, she translates Mr. Yae's words to Hong Tao, and then Hong Tao is like a robot, doing what she commands step by step.
"Alright, let's take the bait." With Zhou Xiaoli's order, Hong Tao trembled and carefully threw his fishing rig into the water at the stern, and then turned on the brake device on the reel, so that the resistance generated by the fishing rig in the sea water pulled the fishing line out of the reel.
At this time, the speed of the boat was still moving at a constant speed, and Hong Tao watched his fake bait get farther and farther away, and then he couldn't see it, and could only feel its existence from the fishing line that never stopped.
After putting his own fake bait, Hong Tao inserted the fishing rod into the rod base at the stern, and then adjusted the brake of the reel to a tensile force of about 30 kilograms, so that it was slightly less than the tensile value of his own busbar, so that even if there was a fish bite, it would not tear off the busbar, and the winder would automatically start to release the line.
"I see, it's what these big poles are for." Originally, Hong Tao planned to help the others to do something together, but looking at the skillful appearance of others, he still didn't go over to make trouble, but he figured out one more thing, that is, what the big poles erected on the ship were for.
The fishing boat originally had four long rods standing on either side of the helm, but now they have been lowered, and they stretch diagonally upwards on both sides of the hull in pairs, as if they were longer than before. At this moment, one or two anglers from Ueno Kazumura, who were arranged on the port side of the boat, were hanging their busbars on the poles, and there seemed to be a small device on the tips of the poles that allowed the busbars to pass through the middle.
"It's to separate the line and prevent it from getting tangled, right?" Hong Tao began to harass Zhou Xiaoli again, he pointed to the pole and asked, and then Zhou Xiaoli had to run around and ask others, and he had to come back and tell him after asking.
"Well, Mr. Ueno said that it is now high-speed trolling, the speed is about 10 nautical miles, in order to avoid the entanglement of the fishing line, so only one fishing rod is placed in the stern, and two fishing rods can be placed on the side of the boat on both sides, these poles are called struts, and the fishing line can be separated from both sides as much as possible, and there is a small clip on the rod head, once there is a fish bite, the bus wire will be torn off the clip." Zhou Xiaoli translated the role of the pole to Hong Tao in as much detail as possible.
"Yes, as I thought." Hong Tao did not suddenly realize it, but made himself look as if he was smart.
Muraichi, Yae, Ueno and Hong Tao, a total of 4 people, put down 4 fishing rods, and then everyone had nothing to do, they all sat around the stern of the boat, listening to Yae continue to explain some knowledge of trolling to Hong Tao.
According to Mr. Yae, now is fast trolling, the speed of the trolling boat is about 10 nautical miles, if you want to use live fish as bait, then the speed should be slower, about 6 knots, but if the speed is slow, it is easy to attract sharks, they will eat your real bait, and even intercept the target fish that has been hooked, in the process of trolling, encountering sharks is the most headache for anglers, and the blood flowing out of the hooked injured fish will stimulate the ferocity of the sharks, making them as excited as a drug, I haven't followed your boat for a long time.
"#¥¥%" A few people were chatting enthusiastically, when suddenly Captain Maruyama, who was standing on the helm, shouted below, and then turned the boat slightly to the left a few degrees, and drove towards the place he pointed, and several Japanese anglers on the deck also stopped chatting, and ran to the port side, put up a pergola on his forehead with his hand, and looked at the place where Maruyama fingered.
"Captain Maruyama said he found a school of fish." Zhou Xiaoli also ran over with Hong Tao, but after looking at it for a long time, she didn't see anything, there was nothing on the sea, only a few seabirds hovering in the distance.
"I don't see anything, where are the fish?" Hong Tao looked up at the captain suspiciously, and at this time he was still standing in front of the steering wheel, holding the telescope to look at it.
“¥@¥! ............" Suddenly, someone behind him tapped him on the shoulder, and Hong Tao turned around to find that another Maruyama was holding a pair of binoculars, and motioned for Hong Tao to take it.
"Thank you, thank you......" Hong Tao understood what Maruyama meant, it should be to let it look through a telescope, but he didn't know Japanese, so he had to bow to him and express his gratitude.
"I still haven't seen any fish, but there are a lot of seabirds in that place, are they catching fish?" Hong Tao also held the binoculars and tried to look at it, but he still didn't see any fish, but on the sea in front of him, there were more than a dozen seabirds floating, and a few were hovering in the sky.
"Mr. Yae said that as long as there are seabirds in the sea, there must be schools of fish below, and those schools of fish are chased by the big fish in the sea, so they run to the surface, so this means that there must be big fish in the sea." After consulting Yae, Zhou Xiaoli gave Hong Tao a general explanation.
"Well, then I'll just wait." Hong Tao handed the telescope to the mountain field beside him, walked to the stern of the boat, sat on the combat chair against the big sun, and waited for the big fish to take the bait, but after waiting for a long time, the fishing rod still did not move, and the water infested with seabirds just now had been thrown behind him hundreds of meters.
"This is breaking the sun, it's really TM sunning." Seeing that there was no hope, Hong Tao couldn't sit still in his chair, the sun here was very poisonous, it seemed to be more dazzling and fiery than the sun on land, he only sat for less than 10 minutes, and then he felt a little thirsty.