1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 411 Squid fishing

 The fleet set off from Ludao Island and traveled for about five hours to reach the fishing ground for squid fishing.

In his previous life, Li Duoyu had visited this fishing ground several times. The locals called this fishing ground Minnan Fishing Ground.

Many ships from southern Fujian and fishing boats from Nan'ao Island will come to this fishing ground for operations.

Looking at the two small islands with cliffs in front of him, Li Duoyu knew where they were without even looking at a map.

 Dongshan Island, Brother Island.

Not only is it rich in fishery resources, it is also a very important shipping route. Because of the central line, all domestic fishing boats and transport ships that want to go north must pass through this route.

However, this route is not easy to travel because there are many reefs near Brother Island. I heard from people that there are at least 30 sunken ships near Brother Island, and many of them are cargo ships that used to go to the South China Sea.

After arriving at the squid fishing spot, Lao Zhuang, the head chef, started cooking dinner. Everyone could not help but salivate as they smelled the aroma of the pork rib soup.

"dinner time."

 Lao Zhuang knocked on the iron basin.

  turned on the ship's lights again.

 Soon, everyone took out their enamel basins and lined up to get food from Lao Zhuang.

 As long as it is not in the deep sea, fishing with hand lines may be more efficient than fishing with fishing rods.

 The crew began to help install searchlights.

 And just when they turned on the searchlights, many lights lit up on the dark sea at about the same time.

 Li Duoyu took the lead in throwing the string hook in. In fact, he still had four fishing rods on his fishing boat, which could be used for fishing.

Li Duoyu’s string hook was thrown down, and less than twenty seconds later, the fishing line on his fingertips began to tremble.

At this moment, Li Duoyu used his hands to lift the fishing line directly.

 After seeing this fish, the fleet did not change positions anymore, because this fish is also one of the main foods of the marlin squid.

 After seeing the Balang Fish, everyone looked disgusted. When it comes to this fish, bigger is not always better.

 The squid will be here soon too.

The moment he lifted it up, Li Duoyu could clearly feel that something was struggling at the end of the fishing line.

Not long after the searchlight was turned on, many "light fish" gathered around the boat.

 “Damn it, it’s Balang who’s coming.”

If they gather here.

Nearly ten minutes later, another school of fish gathered. This time it was not a Balang fish, but a kind of light fish smaller than the Balang fish.

Once the fish finder was turned on, they were all densely packed with dots, and it was impossible to tell whether they were squid or Balang fish.

Large Balang fish is not easy to dry, and its taste is not as good as that of small Balang fish.

It is also very simple to catch squid, that is, just change the spot and continue to turn on the light to lure the fish.

 Many of the small miscellaneous fish that Li Duoyu just bought at Ludao Pier are baby fish.

 When fishing for squid, don’t use too much force.

 Generally, the fish is dried and matured and sold to the mainland. However, the fresh Balang fish is quite delicious when fried, but it consumes a lot of fuel. Many fishermen are reluctant to eat it like that.

By this time, the sky had almost darkened, the setting sun had completely fallen into the sea, the sea instantly turned dark, and the sky turned blue.

The fishing boat stayed in place for about ten minutes, and the little fish that were circling around the fishing boat suddenly became restless.

 But it doesn’t seem necessary when you think about it. Handline fishing is the most traditional fishing method and is the most familiar to fishermen like them.

 Soon, the fishing line straightened.

 But Li Duoyu did not rush to reel in the line, but pulled it up at a constant speed, occasionally giving way to the line.

Li Duoyu looked at the sea surface and found some slender marine creatures in the water, chasing the little fish.

 The locals call it Xiaoguyu.

 Fishermen generally refer to these phototaxis fish as light fish.

 Keep jumping out of the water.

 After dinner.

At this time, everyone realized that there were so many squid fishing boats in the nearby waters.

 Li Duoyu said to everyone: "Everyone can hang up the bait and get ready to start fishing for squid."

 After the fleet changed location.

In this kind of fishing ground, the fish finder of Li Duoyu's fishing boat is basically useless because there are so many small fish in this fishing ground.

Large glass lamps were hung on both sides of the fishing boat. When the lamps were turned on, they were very dazzling, making it difficult for everyone to open their eyes.

 “Fuck, these ribs are so **** delicious.”

　　Everyone squatted on the deck to eat. Chen Liang, who had not eaten meat for more than a month, wished he could imitate a dog and chew up all the bones.

 It is a kind of sea fish that is cheaper than Balang fish. Because of its fishy smell, no one even wants to dry the fishing rod.

 It is usually used as fishing bait or sold to feed mills to make fish meal.

 Because the squid burst is instantaneous.

 When the squid erupts, if you happen to exert force, there is only one result, which is that the fishhook cuts the barrel of the squid, allowing the squid to escape.

Even if you use a fishing rod to catch squid, you must adjust the leakage force of the fishing reel to be very low. The reason why many novices let the squid run away is that the leakage force is not done well.

 The whole boat was looking at Li Duoyu intently. As he pulled up the string hooks, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up. There were only five string hooks in total, but there were actually three gun barrel squids hanging on the hooks.

The moment the squid came out of the water, three jets of black water of different sizes shot out. Chen Liang, who was watching from the sidelines, was sprayed all over.

 “Damn it, sir, why is there so much water?”

On the string hook, there was a gun barrel squid that was as long as a small arm. Li Duoyu quickly said: "Take the net, this one is too big, if you pull it up, it may run away."

 Small squid can be dragged directly to the shore, but for large squid it is best to use a dip net. Many novices fish away at this stage.

It took Li Duoyu less than two minutes from throwing the hook to catching the squid, and the squid that came up were all alive and kicking.

 After catching the squid, Li Duoyu temporarily threw the squid into the bucket. The purpose of doing this was to make the squid spit out ink and also keep the squid alive longer.

Otherwise, if you throw them directly into the ice cabin, if these squid spit ink together in the ice cabin, the ice cubes will probably be stained black.

 The old fisherman on the boat saw that Li Duoyu caught three squid so quickly, and couldn't help but start throwing the hook to fish.

The squid hook that Li Duoyu taught you to make is so exaggerated that squid bite the hook immediately before the hook sinks to the bottom.

But when many crew members pulled up the string hook, they found that it was empty, and there were several more. When they left the water, the squid ran away, and they only caught a few small tentacles.

“There are so many fish, why don’t the squids run away when you catch them, but all the squids we catch run away.”

Li Duoyu joked: "I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. The squid is so soft. Don't be too violent. Be gentle and it will be easy to catch."

The old fisherman suddenly realized that only Chen Liang, a single man, was there. He said with a grimace, "How can I catch a fish and be gentle at the same time?"

Heigou, who had just been married not long ago, smiled and said: "When you find someone, you will know how gentle you have to be."

“Ganny’s black dog, it’s great to have a wife, isn’t it? Believe it or not, before the end of the year, I will also marry a scumbag.”

Black Dog smiled and said: "Hurry up, if you get married this year, I will give you a big red envelope."

Chen Liang's father shook his head in disgust and said, "It would be great if he had this ability. All the money he earned in the first half of the year was spent on treating his group of gangster friends to dinner. Now he can't even find a coin in his pocket." Chen Liang was embarrassed. Scratching his head: "Those are all brothers. They keep calling me, so I'm embarrassed not to treat them."

 Chen Youquan couldn't help but patted his head: "I treat your brother to dinner every day, but my brother's wife won't sleep with you."

Everyone followed Li Duoyu’s method and stopped pulling the fish so violently. Sure enough, the gun barrel squid was easily caught.

 The second uncle could not help but ask: "Duoyu, I have always had a question that I can't figure out. How do you know so much?"

Faced with this problem, Li Duoyu had at least a dozen solutions to deal with it, and he casually replied: "It was introduced in a fishery magazine. I have never fished before, and I didn't expect the effect to be so good."

 The second uncle sighed.

“It seems that we have all suffered from lack of education.”

If more than ten people fish for squid together, the catch will be very exaggerated.

 On average, more than 20 barrel squid are caught on the boat every two minutes.

 Due to the huge number of squid gathered by the lights, everyone caught more than 600 fresh squid in about an hour.

 At the beginning, everyone felt it was very fresh and very interesting. They kept pulling on the fishing line and even competed with who could catch more.

 After two hours of continuous fishing, the crew members began to move slower and slower. Some people had already begun to hammer their shoulders, because they kept repeating the same movement, causing their shoulders and arms to be very sore.

Especially the index finger, which has become numb and even a little sore from shaking the fishing line all the time.

“Grandpa, there are so many thorns on this fishhook, and I got stung again.” Chen Liang couldn’t help cursing.

 “You wear gloves.”

“If you wear gloves, you won’t feel that way, and the fish won’t even know it.”

 Li Duoyu looked at Chen Liang and agreed very much with what he said.

“Now that thing is really too thick. When I put it on, I really don’t feel anything. It takes me at least two hours every time I use it, and I’m almost exhausted.”

 Chen Liang was stunned for a moment.

Then he reacted and cursed with a dark face: "Fuck, you just caught me and bullied me, right?"

 The old fisherman on the boat couldn't help but laugh: "If I didn't bully you, then who would I bully? You are the only one on the boat who has no partner yet."

 “Ganniang.”

Li Duoyu, who had caught nearly a hundred squid, stretched his shoulders and moved his body. Fishing for squid is indeed a pleasure, but once the line is finished, the only thing left is boredom.

Li Duoyu suddenly remembered that in his previous life, there were fishermen on Dandan Island who were deceived into working on an offshore squid fishing boat.

 Originally it was agreed that it would be one year, but as soon as the contract was signed, it became two years.

　　When he went out, he was still a young and energetic guy. When he came back, he was so dark and thin that everyone almost didn't recognize him.

The first thing he did after returning to the island was to take a knife and kill the villager who introduced him to work on the squid fishing boat.

　　The introducer was so frightened that he ran away all night. Later, after everyone's persuasion, he gave up his obsession with killing people.

 According to him, the squid fishing boat is a more terrifying place than digging coal in the black brick kiln. There is almost no rest during the day and you have to work at night. On average, you have to work at least fifteen hours a day.

 Floating on the water all year round.

 The food we eat is not good either.

 When you get sick, your medical conditions are still limited. You only need to take antibiotics. If you can’t resist it, you have to rely on your own body to carry it on.

 Human relationships are also extremely complex, and things like picking up soap, forming cliques, and being isolated often happen.

And some who are particularly disobedient are more likely to have a shipwreck and "accidentally" fall into the sea. A more conscientious captain may put the body in the cold storage and pull it back together.

Those who are evil-hearted can just say they were smuggled away.

Moreover, the squid fishing boat is dirty, messy and poor. If it encounters strong waves, it can shake out a person's internal organs. According to his words, even going to jail is ten times better than working on the squid fishing boat.

While they were fishing for squid, the third uncle poured the squid that had been sprayed with ink in the bucket onto the fish sieve and rinsed the squid clean with sea water.

 At first, Li Zhengfa felt that even if he could catch squid with a handline, he would not catch a lot of fish.

Unexpectedly, it took only two hours to catch thousands of squids. Some large squids weighed a kilogram each, and the smallest ones weighed four kilograms in total.

 Taken together, the squid caught in these two hours weighed about three hundred kilograms.

Li Zhengfa did a simple calculation. If calculated based on the purchase price at the dock, the purchase price of this grade of squid (caught squid) is 30 cents.

 In other words, you can earn nine Unity cards in two hours.

Li Zhengfa glanced at his watch. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. If he fished all night, he would fish until seven o'clock tomorrow morning.

You can do at least five more Jiuzhang Great Unity, and you can offset this month's debt in one trip.

Li Zhengfa shouted: "Don't be lazy, keep going. If we continue doing it for a few more days, everyone will get dividends this month."

Chen Liang had a dark face.

 “I’m not going back, why are I still doing this?”

 “Now we have found a way to catch squid, what the heck are we going to do?”

Chen Liang collapsed instantly and almost shed tears, because this was the longest trip he had ever taken to sea, and he had an intuition that it would take at least two months before he could return home.

 Some old fishermen have long been accustomed to such intensity and think it is quite normal.

The second uncle shouted: "Boss, we seem to have caught all the squid around here. We are out of stock. We can change places."

“Okay, let’s continue fishing in another place.”

Li Duoyu looked at the row of squid fishing crewmen in front of him. This squid fishing pattern was the initial form of the squid fishing boat.

 Glancing at Third Uncle, whose face was full of excitement, Li Duoyu frowned slightly. He didn't know why, but he had an intuition.

If the third uncle is allowed to develop, he might really become the boss of an offshore squid fishing boat.

"well."

Li Duoyu sighed. The ultimate goal of a ship's boss is not how much fish he catches, but how much oil and water he can squeeze out of the crew.

 The night is getting deeper and deeper.

The number of squid fishing boats on the fishing ground gradually decreased. In the second half of the night, several crew members were so tired that they were lying on the deck. Some old fishermen were still fishing for squid.

In this way, everyone fished until the moment the sun came up the next day.

At this time, the effect of concentrated fishing by light has been lost, and the fish catch has also been reduced visibly to the naked eye. Sometimes, I can’t catch a single squid in five minutes.

In the cabin, the boss of the ship, Li Zhengfa, looked at the baskets of fresh squid in front of him. His eyes were not sleepy at all, but rather excited.

Now, he can't wait to fly to the fishing port of Ludao immediately to show those who once ridiculed him.

 At dawn.

 After everyone had breakfast, the crew members who had been fishing all night didn’t even want to take a shower and ran back to the cabin to sleep.

Li Duoyu discussed it with his third uncle and his uncle, and the fleet planned to continue fishing for squid until out of season.

Li Duoyu still has many things on his hands. He is still the village director, so naturally he cannot accompany them to continue fishing for squid.

The first cousin Li Shuguang also had to go back to prepare the kelp seedlings. The two took turns driving the fishing boat back to Dandan Island.

 (End of this chapter)