"Do you see?" Babu didn't know when he also got on the flybridge, and he stood behind Hong Tao.

"I can probably see that they are surrounding the schools of sardines, but I have a question, why don't these schools of sardines break through? The dolphin encirclement is not very tight, is it? Hong Tao only understood part of it.

"That's the smartest thing about the dolphins, do you see any special changes in the water after they go underwater?" Babu asked, pointing to a small group of dolphins on the left.

"Change? …… There's a lot of foam coming out of the sea, which is made by dolphins? Are sardines afraid of these white foams? Hong Tao looked in the direction pointed by Babu, and the group of dolphins made a small circle on the surface of the sea, and then dived into the water, and after a while they floated up from dozens of meters away, and a lot of foam came out of the sea behind them.

"These bubbles are the air they spit out, these dolphins dive underwater, and then spit out air around the sardine school, forming a wall of bubbles, they form a circle in small groups, and shrink the encirclement while exhaling the bubbles, the sardine school does not dare to break through these bubbles, this is their nature, and eventually they will be compressed into a ball, and then it will be the dolphins' meal time." Babu explained the way the dolphins caught sardines, and he admired the spirits of the sea.

"Is there such a god? No wonder dolphins are the smartest creatures, these guys can use tools, amazing. Hong Tao observed for a while as Babu had said, and sure enough, the dolphins were diving and floating in circles, and the white foam formed an encirclement, and it was getting smaller and smaller.

"You can see it in the South Atlantic, and sometimes there are colonies of seals and sharks that come in and besiege the sardines, and it's very lively."

"Then they don't fight each other? Don't sharks eat seals too? Hong Tao felt that Babu had gone a little too far and didn't believe it.

"These predators don't kill each other when there's more readily available food. Eating sardines is certainly a lot less effort than catching seals. ”

As Hong Tao and Babu chatted, the dolphins finally shrunk the encirclement to what they thought was suitable, and at this time the dolphins began to take turns rushing into the school of sardines to prey on small fish, which were so dense that they had nowhere to hide, and many of them poured to the surface of the sea, a large area of white flowers.

"Alas, it would be nice if there was a fishing net, and this net would cost at least a few tens of tons. How many cans you have to make! Hong Tao looked at the secret sardines and felt a little sorry.

"Holy! ……”

"Oh God! Gam! Gam! ”

God seemed to hear the prayer of the waves, and as soon as the words fell, the central surface of the sardines suddenly churned like a boiling pot, and in an instant, three huge mouths emerged from the sea, and then the swarthy body, and then slammed into the sea, smashing the encirclement that the dolphins had worked so hard to build.

Then came several large mouths, almost the size of half a boat, that opened open from beneath the surface of the sea. Even the fish swallowed it with the seawater, and when the large-mouthed monsters disappeared, there were no dense schools of sardines on the sea, only a few small fish were still scurrying around in panic.

"It's over. It's over, these dolphins are busy, let this group of blue whales sneak attack, it seems that the smartest is not the dolphins. The whales probably had their eyes on the sardines for a long time, and it wasn't until the dolphins clumped them together that they rushed up from the depths. Steal all the prey. "Barb clearly doesn't like these whales, he prefers the industrious dolphins.

"It's huge! Where is this stealing, this is a robbery! Hahahaha, I like these whales, they are so individual, and they are so technical in grabbing, and there is probably nothing left of that group of sardines. Hong Tao didn't feel that the dolphins were wronged, but appreciated these huge robbers even more.

This group of whales is really blatant, after snatching the sardines, they do not run away, and there is no sense of guilt, but they rise to the surface of the sea to breathe, spray a column of water several meters high, and slap on the sea surface with their big tails, as if they are celebrating the success of the robbery with each other, and by the way, taunt the dolphins who have worked hard for a long time but have found nothing.

Those dolphins can't do anything with these behemoths, although they don't have sharp teeth, but the skin is rough and the flesh is thick, it is estimated that people don't care if they rush up to bite a few bites, it is really not a breath to sink into the deep sea, no one can take it. Predators such as dolphins and sharks can toss and turn in shallow waters, diving into hundreds of meters of water, their bodies can't stand it, and the low temperature alone can freeze them all to death.

"It's a pity that I didn't shoot it, if I can take pictures of everything that happened just now, it can be regarded as a very precious material." Hong Tao suddenly remembered that he hadn't brought the camera with him.

The sardines were gone, the dolphins were gradually dispersed, and the 7 or 8 blue whales had their full stomachs, and they swam around the sea a few times, and when they saw that there were no spectators, they stopped staying, and their big heads plunged into the deep water, and they never appeared again.

Let the dolphins and whales mix like this, the 4 fishing boats were in vain this morning, and then they left one after another, only the Manhattan was still parked in place and did not go, because Hong Tao said that this is God's arrangement, even if it is changed to another place, it will not be able to catch fish, as for what to do in the afternoon for 3 hours, Hong Tao also gave everyone an idea, everyone no longer goes to trolling, but here to draw iron plates, change the mood, and fight with those big fish all day are tired.

For Hong Tao's proposal, the pot-bellied Philip and Yarborough raised their hands and feet to support, the two of them trolling big fish basically can't help much, they have no physical strength, no technology or no technology, but they can still play with the iron plate, no matter how bad they are, they are often people who go out to sea to fish, and they can't watch others fish for 6 days in a row.

After lunch, everyone went into action, and no one picked up a small rod, changed to the iron plate lure that they were accustomed to, and scattered on the back and foredeck of the fishing boat to start fishing for the bottom fish. The seabed here is right at the junction of the shallow sea and the deep sea, and the shallow place is only 200 meters, so the iron plate is just right.

Not to mention, the coastal areas of Australia are really rich in flowing oil, and all kinds of fish resources are extremely rich, Hong Tao only smoked a dozen times, and his hand immediately felt a sharp sink, and there was a fish bite!

"Paul! What kind of fish is this? It took Hong Tao several minutes to get this fish to the surface of the sea, in fact, the real wrestling time was only 3 minutes, this fish was dragged to a depth of 100, it was no longer struggling, because the depth changed too quickly, the air in its body expanded rapidly, and all the internal organs were swelled, and it had already died.

"Caprodonlongimanus, beautiful and delicious fish, stay, we have one more dish for dinner!" Paul was to the left of Hong Tao, he glanced at the one that Hong Tao was holding in his hand, and extended a thumbs up to congratulate him.

Caprodonlongimanus should be called (Australian and New Zealand albacore) in Chinese, and if you hear the name, you will know that this fish is a specialty of Australia and New Zealand. The fish is not very big, about half a meter, its color can no longer be described as beautiful, the whole body is a beautiful and transparent pink, very pure pink, just as bright as high-grade car paint, only two eyes are black.

Nature is really an artist, and Hong Tao opened his eyes in this afternoon, seeing 7 or 8 species of fish that he had never seen before, most of which were colorful and weird. Among them, Hong Tao remembered the most is a guy called a sunfish, this kind of fish is probably oblong, with pectoral and pelvic fins symmetrically growing at the back of both sides of the body, like the canard wings of an airplane, and then the back is gone, like a fish being cut from the middle of the body.

The reason why it is called sunfish is mainly because it often floats to the surface of the sea and lies on its side to bask in the sun. It is said that this sunfish can grow to weigh up to 3,000 kilograms, but the one caught by Aarrover is not that big, more than 30 kilograms. Hong Tao took a few photos of it, and then put it back, not that Hong Tao is animal protectionist, nor that this fish cannot be eaten, but that its meat is delicious. The problem is that Hong Tao doesn't dare to eat it, this thing looks too penetrating, and it looks a bit like a human face.

This was the end of the third day of the competition, and Hong Tao and the others earned another 300 points, but their ranking dropped from fourth to sixth, and not all the fishing boats encountered dolphins and whales to cause trouble.

On the fourth and fifth days of the competition, Hong Tao once again made a successful catch of more than 900 pounds of marlin, and Cavill, Paul and Big Philip also made the team's results back and rose to fourth place again.

On December 21st, the sixth and final day of the competition was held, but unfortunately it was another bad day, with rain and wind on the sea. The pot-bellied Philip didn't even get on the boat, he didn't want to embarrass his body anymore, let alone mess with his companions. The tall Philip was quite strong, and when he got up in the morning, he took seasickness medicine, and doubled the amount, and expressed his determination in public: swear to live and die with the fishing boat!

I don't know if after the exercise a few days ago, everyone has adapted to the wind and waves, or today's wind and waves are indeed a little smaller, except for Yarborough, although everyone else also has seasickness, but the degree is very light, only a little headache and no appetite, does not affect physical activity. Yarborough really has a taste of not being able to beat Xiaoqiang, his body is the weakest, but he is the strongest, and he stuffs sandwiches into his mouth while spitting, claiming to make his stomach so tired that he doesn't want to vomit. (To be continued......)