After the three gillnets are down, I am ready to come back tomorrow to collect them.

Fishermen have some fishing nets, or crab cages and other fishing tools, many of which are not released on the same day, but harvested on the same day.

It's not uncommon for some to happen every other day, or even every other week!

After putting the gillnets in place, I had to find a suitable place to put the three baskets of longline fishing that I brought over today into the sea.

Li Xiaofeng searched carefully on the map before finding a suitable sea area.

It's also a sea full of life.

There is a large patch of seaweed growing under the seabed, as well as some corals.

A school of silver pomfret is swimming to and fro at the surface of the sea, and in the coral thickets, there are a few rice fish and groupers that appear from time to time.

On the sand at the bottom of the sea, there are still a few crabs crawling around.

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According to Li Xiaofeng's suggestion, Li Yonglin drove the boat smoothly.

Downline fishing is a very cooperative job, which requires two people to cooperate well.

The person in charge of driving the boat should drive the boat as smoothly as possible at a uniform speed.

The person in charge of releasing the hook is more of a test of speed and skill.

This person needs to quickly put the bait on the hook while also throwing the bait hook into the water in time.

It's a great test of hand speed!

If two people don't work well together, the person responsible for releasing the hook can easily get caught in the hook.

Such a big hook, if it is pierced in the hand, it must be a bloody gap.

Think about the dense hooks on the basket, the cold light is shining, there are thousands of them, it is simply chilling!

Many fishermen have had the experience of being pierced by a longline hook.

What level he is, Li Xiaofeng still knows, he will definitely not be able to keep up with the rhythm, so don't go over to make trouble.

Hurriedly said: "Mom, I still want you to release this longline, I can't keep up with this speed!" I'll give you a hand. ”

Hearing her son's words, Liu Xuexia sat on the edge of the boat with a smile and said to Li Xiaofeng: "If you want to fish at home in the future, this technique must be practiced!" ”

After getting along for a period of time, Liu Xuexia and her family also knew their son's plans to some extent.

"Okay, Mom!" Li Xiaofeng agreed.

This is indeed a common skill for fishermen to survive, a must-have skill!

Even later, when you really buy a big fishing boat, you often need to go down the longline fishing.

If you want to be a qualified fisherman, you must know this.

Then I saw that Li Yonglin was driving the fishing boat, moving forward at a steady speed;

Liu Xuexia is very skillful at putting bait on the hook of the longline while quickly throwing the hook into the sea.

At this speed, Li Xiaofeng was really dazzled.

It took more than ten minutes for the two of them to finish a basket of longline fishing.

Generally, a basket of longline fishing is one or two kilometers long and has thousands of hooks.

I drove forward for another ten minutes, and then put the second frame.

The two baskets should not be too close to each other, so as to prevent wind and waves, they will be entangled together.

At this time, Li Xiaofeng was watching his mother busy with his work, and at the same time helping to wear the third basket of longline fishing bait.

I didn't wear the second basket because I couldn't disrupt my mother's rhythm.

Once the rhythm is out of order, people can easily get hurt.

Soon the three-frame longline was finished.

These longlines are also going to come back tomorrow to collect them.

At this time, it was already more than 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and the three of them were so busy that they didn't care about eating.

I simply ate some of the things I brought with me on the boat and drank some water.

After a short rest, the three of them still have to find a place to get off the crab pot they brought over today.

There are more than 70 crab pots in total, which is enough to be busy for a while!

All I brought were those cylindrical crab pots.

It is welded into a skeleton with a diameter of about one meter with steel bars, and then covered with a net.

Each crab pot has 3 cage openings that crabs can enter.

There is also a special place for the bait box in the cage, and the bait box needs to be put into the bait.

Crabs like fishy smells, so the bait is generally some fishy small fish, shrimp, chicken and duck intestines and the like.

Today I brought a pot of mullet over as bait.

When the crab smells it, it circles around the crab pot.

When you find that there is a cage opening on the cage, you will follow the cage opening, climb into the passage, and finally climb into the cage.

It's easy to get in, but it's hard to get out!

Because the cage mouth on the crab pot is large on the outside and small on the inside.

When they climb along the cage, they will automatically open the nets that hang down, but when they get in, the nets will hang down automatically!

Only a very small hole will be left.

And the cage mouth is generally opened in the middle of the crab pot, which increases the difficulty of the crab crawling out!

Once the crab is in the crab pot, it is basically catching turtles in the urn.

At the top of each crab pot, a subline more than 1 centimeter thick will be connected, and then every 10 crab pots will be connected together by a 3 centimeter thick main line.

The two ends of the main line are connected to floats, so that a group of crab pots is formed.

When the crab pots are lowered, a cage will be placed about every 10 meters or so, so that a group of crab pots is 100 meters.

After a careful search on the map, Li Xiaofeng finally chose to put the crab pot near a reef.

Under the reef, there are a lot of crabs moving.

Actually, it's not exactly a reef either.

This is a time of high tide when it sinks below the surface of the sea, and at low tide there are some reefs that are exposed to the water.

After determining the location of the crab pot, Li Xiaofeng will be replaced to drive the boat this time.

The boat drove for about half an hour before it arrived at the place.

Seeing that a large area of reef islands had surfaced on the water, Liu Xuexia and Li Yonglin also felt that this was a good place to put down crab pots.

Fishermen have their own experiences.

Schools of fish and crabs usually form near the reef because the current is slower and it is easier for them to find food and hide from predators.

Nowadays, in order to protect fish stocks, some artificial islands and reefs are built, and sometimes some scrapped boats are even sunk directly to the bottom.

Once the boat is parked, start filling the crab's bait box!

When they brought it over, it was a dead fish, and after being exposed to the sun for a long time, the bait in the pot had become fishy and smelly.

Looking at his parents who were busy loading bait, Li Xiaofeng said: "Dad, Mom, you guys are busy first, I'll put on my diving equipment and go to the reef over there to see if I can catch a few fish!" ”

The reef Li Xiaofeng said is a reef 50~60 meters away from here. Although the tide has receded a lot, most of the reef is still below the surface of the water, with only its head exposed.

On the map, Li Xiaofeng had already seen several large fish appear there.

At this time, his speargun was already hungry and thirsty!