Chapter 308 Yellow Fish Old 2

Chapter 308 Yellow Fish Old 2

Chapter 308 Yellow Fish Second
Li Changle was very excited after catching a good fish on the first hook. He pulled up the main line and started to pull the second hook. As soon as he grabbed the sub-line, he felt that the underwater resistance was obviously much greater than the first hook.

The hands that were pulling the fishing line were also hurt. Fortunately, I was wearing gloves, otherwise my hands would have been cut by the fishing line.

Chen Yongwei saw beads of sweat on his face and asked hurriedly, "Brother, are you delivering the big cargo?"

Li Changle nodded, gritted his teeth and pulled the line up hard. As the fishing line was slowly pulled closer, the two saw a dark figure in the water, struggling constantly, and the splashes on the water surface were very high.

"Brother, take a walk, don't pull it off the hook."

Li Changle slowed down for a moment, and pulled the fish out of the water. The two could see clearly that the fish was not black, but a dark purple-black color. "Haha! Big black hair!"

Chen Yongwei looked at the fish still struggling in the water excitedly, "Brother, it must be at least 8 or 9 kilograms, right?"

Brother Li, who was tying the hook nearby, heard the cheers and hurriedly put down the hook and came over. His eyes lit up after seeing it. "Oh my! What a big black hair. It should weigh about 8 or 9 kilograms."

Although they had caught black fish several times, this was the first time they caught such a big one. The three of them were very excited after seeing it.

"At least nine pounds!" Li Changle feels that longline fishing is like opening a blind box. You don't know what kind of surprise is waiting for you in the next moment. It is much more interesting than trawling.

When Chen Yongwei saw the fish being pulled up, he quickly handed over the scoop net, scooped up the fish, and weighed it twice. "You guys are right. It's at least 10 pounds."

Brother Li went up happily to get the hook, "Ah Le, pack up the boat early tomorrow and come back to dive and take a look."

"Yes, yes, let's go down and see if there are any sea cucumbers?" Chen Yongwei excitedly held the fish and went to deflate it.

"We won't be back until the day after tomorrow. Even if we keep it, it won't live long enough to survive until then." Brother Li said with a look of regret.

"Yeah, there are two dead ones in the living cabin that we caught this morning."

Li Changle rubbed his painfully strangled hand, "The bigger the black-haired fish is, the more expensive it is. Even if I can't raise it and it dies when I get home, I can freeze it and sell it to a restaurant for thirty or forty yuan."

"Such a big one, I can sell it for thirty or forty." Brother Li sat down happily and sorted out the wire group.

Li Changle felt that it had been a long time since he caught two big fish in a row, so he pulled up the third hook with full confidence. As soon as his hand held the line, he felt it was light and powerless.

When I pulled it up, there was nothing on the sub-line. I had no idea what kind of fish it was, but it swallowed the bait, cut the line and ran away.

The two stared at the bare sub-line in amazement. "Wow! The black-haired fish's teeth are not bad. Even it failed to bite through the fishing line and escape. Could it be that the teeth of this fish are more powerful than the black-haired fish?"

"It might be a white-haired fish. That guy has pretty sharp teeth." Brother Li handed the job of organizing the line group to Chen Yongwei, and went back to get the sub-line that had been tied with a fish hook, ready to replace it with a new one.

"Brother, use the thread I bought the day before yesterday. That kind of thread is stronger."

"Okay!" Brother Li strode to the cabin to get the fishhook, and Li Changle began to pull up the next hook, which was pulled up without much effort.

When the bright blue fish emerged from the water, he was stunned. "Why is it this guy? Aren't you too greedy? How could it swallow the hook when it's so small?"

What came out of the water was a fish that was slightly larger than his palm and looked like a plastic product.

It has a small cherry-like mouth and a bright royal blue body. The dorsal and anal fins are both royal blue with wide black edges, and the bright yellow tail is also bordered with a circle of black. It would be absolutely pleasing to the eye if kept in a fish tank.

"Even the fish are so flashy!" Chen Yongwei blinked, "Blue and black, and the tail is yellow. The color is a bit flashy, but it looks pretty good!"

Li Changle also thought it was beautiful. "This is a rough-skinned sea bream. The fish skin is like coarse sandpaper, and the hard spines on the fish tail are sharper than a fish knife. If you don't pay attention, you will get cut. Some people call it a surgeonfish."

"Brother, it's so small, not only is it worthless, but it's also impossible to keep alive. Let's just let it live!"

"Hmm!" Li Changle carefully took the fish off. "Don't be so greedy next time. We are kindhearted and let you go. If others saw you as so pretty, they would definitely fry you and eat you with wine."

Chen Yongwei looked at him with amusement, "Instead of telling it this, it would be better to let it go down and help us catch some big fish."

"That's right!" Li Changle smiled and waved his beautiful yellow fish tail, then dived into the water and shouted to the fish, "Did you hear me? Go down and lure a few big ones to repay us."

"What a pair of lunatics!" Brother Li, who came out with the fishing line, smiled and rolled his eyes at the two of them.

After releasing one, two more empty hooks were pulled up. The baits were bitten off by cunning creatures, leaving only a shrimp head for one and a hairtail head for the other.

Li Changle thought that the fish that stole the food was the big grouper that cut off the fishing line and ran away. If the sun had not set, he would have put on his diving equipment and gone into the water to take a look.

Next, a black sea bream weighing two or three pounds was pulled up, followed by a white eel, yellow croaker, red sea bream, yellowfin croaker... After pulling up twenty or thirty hooks in a row, only four were empty, and the others were all filled.

In addition to the eels, the fish caught included some large ones weighing more than four kilograms and some small ones weighing two kilograms. Li Changle felt that the catch in this area was really good, and it was comparable to the catch he got the first time he fished off Mantou Island.

After pulling in two sets of lines in a row, the average fish catching rate was 60%. Li Changle was a little tired and thought about pulling in another set of lines and then letting Chen Yongwei take over.

When the boat arrived in front of the third group of longline fishing, Li Changle picked up the iron hook, hooked up the float and handed it to Chen Yongwei. He turned around and pulled the main line, but felt something was wrong as soon as he pulled it.

It was too heavy, and before I could exert any force, I suddenly felt a huge pulling force from underwater. I was caught off guard and was shaken, and almost fell headfirst into the sea.

Li Changle hurriedly dropped his buttocks, leaned back, and put his feet against the side of the boat. Judging from the force transmitted from his hands, this fish was bigger than any fish he had ever pulled before, and several times more powerful than the last time he pulled the red snapper.

“It’s definitely a super big deal!”

He said to himself, clenched his teeth, held on to the main line tightly, and slowly reeled it in, struggling with the big fish at the bottom of the water, beads of sweat sliding down his cheeks.

Brother Li and Chen Yongwei, who were tying fish hooks nearby, turned their heads and saw his look, and excitedly leaned out to look into the sea.

"Ah Le, it must be a big one. Don't be anxious. Pull it slowly. Once it uses up all its strength, it will be easier to pull up."

Before Li Changle could respond, another great force came from his hand, and the waves on the water surface splashed high, and the gray body of the fish could be vaguely seen under the water.

Before he could take a closer look, he saw the fish tail as big as a palm-leaf fan swinging, and his body swayed, and he was almost pulled into the water again.

"A Le, it looks like a big fish, a big hairy catfish." Brother Li and Chen Yongwei reached out and hugged him at the same time, their faces flushed with excitement.

"No wonder I saw such a big fish underwater. I only heard them say that they used to catch big fish at sea, and some were taller than a man. I've never seen one before!"

"The village hasn't caught a big fish in years. I saw one with my eldest brother at the Zhoushan fishing grounds. That fish weighed more than 90 kilograms!"

Because the most obvious feature of the hairy catfish is its size, the hairy catfish they caught before were basically about 100 kilograms, and the smallest were 40 to 50 kilograms. Li Changle had just seen it and thought it looked a bit like a rice fish, but he didn't expect it to be a hairy catfish that was more valuable than a rice fish.

Come on, come on, if it really is a hairy catfish, that would be great.

The seven brothers of yellow croaker are yellow croaker, hairy catfish, large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, plum fish, rice fish...

The big yellow croaker and the second hairy catfish were considered rare species in those days. Old fishermen like him in later generations never caught one in their entire lives.

Hairy catfish is a migratory fish. It is said that from May to July every year, hairy catfish weighing more than 5 kilograms will migrate from the open ocean to the reefs near the coast of eastern Zhejiang to spawn and reproduce.

It’s already August, the golden season, and I can still come across such a large shipment. What great luck!

No wonder people say that the child who is reborn is God’s own son.

Li Changle's cheek muscles twitched with excitement. He didn't know where the strength came from, but he held on to the main line tightly and fought a tug-of-war with the big fish.

Chen Yongwei also let go of him and stepped forward to help, "Brother, this is much stronger than the red sweetfish last time."

With his help, Li Changle felt a little more relaxed. The two of them worked together to fight the big fish underwater. They were in a stalemate for about half an hour and felt that the strength of the big fish's struggle was gradually weakening.

"Brother, get out of the way, I'll pull it!"

"Okay!" Li Changle stepped aside, rubbing his sore wrists and palms, breathing heavily from exhaustion, but the smile on his face never faded.

Chen Yongwei kept pulling in the fishing line, and when the big fish floated to the surface, he grinned like a child, "Brother, it's a hairtail! I haven't seen one in a long time."

Brother Li, who was holding the big scoop net, shouted excitedly, "Ah Le, it's a big fish, a big hairy catfish, at least 60 or 70 kilograms."

"It's a big fish," Li Changle nodded heavily. He was lucky enough to see a fish once in his previous life that was nearly twice as big as this one.

The big fish was about 1.67 meters long and weighed about 100 kilograms. It was caught by Li Xiaoyang, who wanted to go fishing all the time. He used the money from the sale of the fish to buy a boat.

That kid was so proud for a long time that he even walked with the wind!

Brother Li waited until the fish reached the side of the boat, then quickly caught it with a large scoop net.

Li Changle and Chen Yongwei leaned forward to grab the iron ring, and the three of them worked together to easily lift the fish onto the deck.

“Hahaha!” The three of them hugged each other happily. “Damn it! We caught the second yellow croaker.”

"I'll go call Dad and Big Brother to come and have a look." Li Changle shouted excitedly towards the cabin, "Dad, Big Brother, hurry up and come out to see the big fish."

When Li's father and his two companions heard the shouting, they ran out of the cabin and said, "Why are you shouting so loudly? What big fish did you catch?"

"Dad, look! A big fish, the second yellow croaker!" Brother Li and Chen Yongwei pulled open the scoop net, revealing the dying hairy catfish.

The hairy catfish is an animal of the genus Hairy Catfish of the family Sciaenidae. It has a blunt and pointed head and very large gill openings. The body of the fish is gray-brown with a silvery hue. It is the largest among the seven brothers, and the largest can grow to about 130 kilograms.

The most obvious feature is its tail fin, which is not a wedge-shaped tail fin but a double-concave one, which is significantly different from the wedge-shaped tail fins of yellow croaker, large yellow croaker and rice fish.

The nutritional value of hairy catfish is very high, but the most precious part is the fish maw. The value of a piece of fish maw is even more precious than the meat of a hairy catfish weighing hundreds of kilograms.

It is said that if teenagers who are in the growth and development period eat a piece of hairy catfish maw, they will grow taller and stronger within half a year.

"Okay, okay!" Father Li was so happy that he didn't know what to say. After holding it in for a long time, he said, "Thank you, Lord Hailong, for your blessing!!"

My son is lucky. He has never caught any big fish in his entire life.

Brother Li excitedly stepped forward and pulled up a meter-long fish. "It's at least 60 kilograms. It's already late August and we can still catch big fish. No wonder dad said there are so many good fish here!"

Father Li smiled and nodded, "There are three islands nearby, with many reefs and many groupers and eels underwater."

"This is the first time I've seen such a big fish!" Wang Xincheng touched the catfish curiously and looked up at Father Li. "Grandpa, I heard that this kind of fish, like the yellow croaker, can make katydid sounds?"

"Yes! Big fish are just like big yellow croakers. When the fishing season arrives, they will gather together and chirp. When the fishing team lies in the cabin and hears the chirping, they know it's time to drop the net.

When the fishing season arrives in May, we find a good location near the islands and reefs, cast the nets when the tide is low, and pull them in when the tide is high. If we are lucky, we can catch a dozen big fish in one tide.

The maw of a big fish is valuable, and the most valuable is the big yellow croaker. The fish meat is delicious, and the maw is also valuable. I haven’t seen a big yellow croaker for many years!"

Li Changle smiled and said, "Dad, we have caught the second, third, fourth... the only one left is the eldest. When will we catch the eldest and bring all seven brothers together?"

"Okay, I'll wait for you to bring back a yellow croaker." Father Li patted the big fish happily, "Hurry up and take it over to bleed it. If you take too long, the fish maw won't look good."

"I'll go and bleed it." Chen Yongwei grinned, picked up the big fish and left.

"A Le, you drive the boat, and An and I will go longline fishing." Brother Li also wanted to go and fish with a group to have some fun.

"Okay!" Li Changle was also tired, so he started the boat to take a rest.

"Grandpa, I want to go and pull some hooks, too!"

"Okay, I'll take care of the rest." Father Li smiled and waved his hand. What teenage boy doesn't like to play?

Li Changle and his father walked towards the cabin together. "Dad, I heard them say that if you dry isinglass and put it in a rice jar, it can be kept for many years. Is that true?"

"Really!" Father Li said cheerfully, "It's better to air-dry the fish maw and store it in the rice jar. When you eat it, use a hammer to flatten and chop it up, and use it to make porridge. It's very nutritious!
Ten pounds of fish weighs one ounce of fish maw. A big fish weighing more than sixty pounds can produce more than six ounces of fish maw if it is good.

In the old days, there was a saying that “If you have money, you can eat sturgeons, if you don’t have money, you don’t have to eat them!” This thing is eaten by people with money!

Li Changle embraced Father Li and said, "Whenever we catch a big one, we will save the fish maw and we can be rich for once."

Father Li was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. "Okay, Dad will wait for you to make money, and your mother and I will also be rich people."

(End of this chapter)