Golden Fishing Village

The village would go out every day to prepare seafood for the wedding. Lao Ao felt at ease, but Lu Zhizi felt embarrassed. At the end of April, he pushed Lao Ao out and asked him to go out to sea with him.

Ao Muyang explained: "I don't need to lead the team. Brother Dong and Uncle Daguo are in charge. They can handle it."

Lu Zhizi glared at him: "That won't work. People call you the village chief, and you really think you are a cadre. Go out and work honestly."

Lao Ao put away the brush helplessly. He has been practicing calligraphy recently, and he feels that he is about to transcend the world.

After he got on Ao Daguo's small fishing boat and talked about the feeling of practicing calligraphy, Ao Mudong said: "It doesn't matter if you transcend the world, but don't sit and die. No, this word is wrong. Don't be angry, Longtou, I mean you don't transcend yourself..."

"Get out, what are you going to catch today?" Ao Muyang rolled his eyes and changed the subject.

Ao Daguo drank a sip of tea and said, "Let's go out and fish for hairtails, mother and son fishing!"

Hongyang's hairtails are well-known throughout the country. Fried hairtails are a must-have dish for local festivals and weddings, and it is naturally indispensable at Ao Muyang's wedding.

Nowadays, hairtails are caught by trawling, and the nets go deep into the sea for dozens or even hundreds of meters to catch all the hairtails.

But you can't catch good hairtails this way. You must know that the body of hairtails is flat and very fragile, and it is easy to scratch the skin. The hairtails caught by fishing nets are almost all damaged, which looks ugly.

Such hairtails are still valuable in the market, but they can't be served on banquets. The hairtails used for exquisite banquets are caught by fishing, and mother and son fishing is the traditional hairtail fishing method.

As far as Ao Muyang knows, the mother and son fishing method of hairtail fishing has existed since the Song Dynasty, but the yield is low. It was eliminated after the emergence of deep-sea trawling technology, so it is rarely seen nowadays.

Fortunately, the village has been passing down the mother-child fishing technique. It is not passed down on purpose, but this fishing method is inherited from longline fishing, and longline fishing is still very effective. Ao Muyang once used it to catch swordfish.

When Ao Daguo heard that he was going to use mother-child fishing to catch hairtail, Ao Muyang suddenly realized that it was no wonder that there were so many people on the boat.

The reason why mother-child fishing is inefficient is that it requires a large number of people. Each fishing boat must include 1 mother boat and 8 child boats, of which there are 10 people on the mother boat and 4 people on the child boat, so 42 fishermen must be dispatched for one operation.

The fishing boat was on the sea for a while, and some fishermen began to sit by the boat and start making bait.

The octopus caught by Ao Muyang a few days ago was cruel and aggressive, but this is nothing compared to hairtail. Hairtail is truly cruel and aggressive, and they like to eat their own kind!

Therefore, the fishermen on the boat used the hairtail caught before to make bait.

The icehouse reserves hairtails all year round. Some hairtails cannot be sold in time. The freshness will be worse after being frozen for a long time. If they are taken out, they cannot be sold at a high price. Ao Daguo uses them as bait.

Fishermen cut hairtails diagonally and into pieces with sharp fish-killing knives, and then hang them on long fishing hooks, and then put the hooks on the edge of the fishing basket.

The people on the boat put on the bait, and Ao Muyang went into the water to find hairtails.

This job was easy for him. After a while in the water, he found a school of hairtails.

He encountered a small school of fish, with a number of probably hundreds or thousands, but these hairtails were floating straight in the sea water, and they raised their heads to the sky as if they were swallowing the essence of the sun and the moon, which was quite shocking.

Ao Muyang watched for a while, then surfaced and sent a signal.

After the fishing boat came over, it began to lower the boat. Ao Mudong took three crew members on board, and then he began to command: "I will be the helmsman, Dapeng you will be the front hand, Erzi you will be the back hand, and let your brother be the third hand."

Ao Mupeng nodded and said: "No problem, let's get started."

The small boats floated on the sea, and they were deployed one after another.

Eight boats entered the water one after another, and they floated on the sea at a distance of about half a nautical mile. The four crew members on the boat cooperated, the front hand released the fishing, the back hand released the buoy sinking stone, the third hand took the basket head rope, and the helmsman steered. The whole process was orderly.

In order to get a better harvest, the fishing line released by the boat was very long, and the longest could be six kilometers.

However, Ao Muyang had already investigated this time. They encountered a small school of hairtail, so there was no need to release a long rope, just lay about four kilometers.

The direction of the fishing line depends on the wind direction, and the key factor is the water depth. Because hairtails live in the deep sea, the released rope often has to be more than 100 meters deep. In this case, mother-child fishing, which is mainly based on manpower, becomes difficult and prone to mistakes.

Ao Muyang stayed in the water to direct. It was a good opportunity to catch hairtails at this time. Hairtails are easy to gather in groups. When the water temperature rises in spring every year, they swim to the shore in groups and migrate from south to north for reproduction. It is a good opportunity to catch mother-child fishing. In winter, when the water temperature drops, hairtails swim to the deep water to avoid the cold. At that time, deep-sea trawling can only be carried out.

In addition, most fish swim from the bottom of the sea to hunt at night, but hairtails are different. They have poor swimming ability and will not chase prey, but wait for food to come to them.

They will float in the middle layer of the seawater during the day and go to the bottom of the sea at night. This is because their natural enemies hide on the bottom of the sea during the day, so they can stay in the middle sea area and wait for food to come to them.

Ao Muyang directed the boat to lower the net, and when the net array was successfully deployed, he dived into the water to overlook the situation in the sea.

Originally, the cutlassfish were still in the water, with their heads facing upwards and their bodies perpendicular to the sea level. Their dorsal and pectoral fins flapped like bird wings, balancing their bodies upright in the water.

As the hooks went deeper and food appeared, these hairtail fish suddenly became excited. Their eyes were always watching the movement above their heads. When the bait appeared, the dorsal fins of the hairtail fish vibrated rapidly, and their silver-white bodies were seen bending. Like a long bow carved from jade, it swooped forward...

Okay, the harvest is here, Ao Muyang took another glance and then surfaced and swam to the mother ship.

Hairtail fish have ferocious eating habits. They will not be polite and will swallow the food they catch, so it is easy to get hooked.

In this way, the cycle of fishing for hairtail is very short. After the long fishing line is put in, the boat can slowly return to the first buoy to catch the fishing line.

Compared with other fishing methods, mother-child fishing is very tiring. It is a continuous rotation job. After the boat returns to the first buoy position, the front hand must quickly collect the fish, and the back hand should fish out the hairtail fish from the water with the front hand. While preserving it in liquid ice, you have to hang the three-hand-made bait on the hook and throw it back into the sea.

The task of the third hand is to make new bait and help unhook and catch fish, while the helmsman adjusts the speed and course of the boat.

As soon as Ao Muyang returned to the boat, he heard Lu Wuyi's cry: "Hey, brother-in-law, look over there, that hairtail fish brought up by Dapeng is so beautiful!"

Ao Mupeng was carrying a large hairtail fish to show to the people around him. This hairtail fish was really beautiful, one meter long and as wide as an adult's hand. Its body was smooth and its skin was as white as silver. The sun shone and as it beat, the silver skin reflected The sunlight actually gave off a rainbow-like luster!