Chapter 147 Pulling fish causes hand cramps
Li Changle felt that the line in his hand was very heavy, and it was much more laborious than when pulling the second hook of the blue-spotted Spanish mackerel.
Sweat flowed from his body along his ears, his cotton shirt was soaked with sweat, and the flesh of his hands was dented by the threads. Only then did the slightly pink body of the fish emerge from the water.
Brother Li shouted, "It's not tuna, it's red anchovies."
Some red anchovies are also called octopus. The big ones are one and a half meters long, and the small ones are one or two feet long. The scales are thin and soft, and the meat is delicious. It can be made into sashimi and has a great taste when stewed with tofu.
It also has the effects of warming the stomach and soothing the heart, calming the liver yang, dispelling wind, treating paralysis, intercepting malaria, replenishing the intestines and brightening the eyes.
"Brother, let me help you." Chen Yongwei hurriedly helped Li Changle fish the fish to the deck, "Fuck, it's already up to my thighs, at least 14 or 5 pounds."
"Tired!" Li Changle gasped, breathing heavily, and wiped the sweat that was about to flow into his eyes, "Awei, you come downstairs, I need to rest for a while."
There was a deep red mark on his hand from the thread. Pulling the fish made his hand cramp and he could not straighten his palm.
"I've wanted to replace you for a long time."
Chen Yongwei and Brother Li carefully took the hook out of the fish's mouth. Instead of carrying the fish to the live cabin, they pinched the lower mouth shell of the red sweet carp and dragged it directly along the deck into the live cabin.
Brother Li looked back, wrinkles appearing at the corners of his eyes with joy, "Haha, this live cabin is full, and the one next to it will be filled with the one next to it."
Chen Yongwei said with a pity look on his face: "Brother, if we had known earlier, we would have brought more bait. After harvesting, we will hang the bait again and put it down. We can come again tomorrow morning to harvest."
Brother Li said: "Longline fishing is different from fishing in underground cages. The underground cages can be harvested every two days, and the fish caught in the fish collection bag will not be damaged and will not die.
The fish that are hooked in longline fishing will die after struggling for a while. The weather is so bad and it takes a long time to collect the fish, and the fish will not be fresh."
"Then let's bring more bait when it's cold." Chen Yongwei straightened out the line group and put it away, walked to the side of the boat and started pulling the line.
"Brother, how much can a catty of red sweettail be sold for?" Li Changle remembered that in his previous life, he brought it to the dock and sold it to a seafood shop for fifty or sixty yuan per catty. The price in the market was even higher.
"Such a big fresh product should be sold for two yuan a pound."
The price was not high and the weight was sufficient. A dozen kilograms could be sold for 20 to 30 yuan. Li Changle felt that it was not a waste of effort to pull it up, and he sat down with satisfaction to help organize the thread group.
Chen Yongwei was also lucky. The first hook brought up a tuna weighing three to four kilograms. The second and third hooks were all empty hooks. The fourth hook pulled up a tuna weighing three to four kilograms.
Brother Li took it and bled it and put it into the cabin. "Ah Le, I'll pull up the third line. Ah Wei will pull up the next line and I'll teach you how to deflate it."
"Okay!" Li Changle put the thread group away and saw that Chen Yongwei had already lifted the thread, "Holy crap, you're faster than a machine!"
Chen Yongwei looked at the fish he pulled up with a look of disgust, "It's a smelly yellow fish, it's good for you to try the needle."
"Yes, it is best to use Huang Zhan to test the needle."
Brother Li was lucky that it was a worthless Huang Zhan, otherwise Ah Le would have been killed by a needle. The price of live and dead seafood was more than half the difference.
Li Changle didn't know what he was thinking, so he took the fish with a smile and said with a playful smile: "Brother, don't worry, I'll know it after just one look."
Brother Li rolled his eyes at him and said, "I'm so proud of you! I'm telling you, you have to study hard. We who sell our catch are all about freshness. The fish can live a few hours longer after it deflates. We
You can sell it for more money.”
"Oh, that's it! I remember it." Li Changle pretended to listen attentively, watching the movements of his hands, and nodded repeatedly.
"Looking at how old you are, you don't listen well."
"That's definitely good to hear, my good second brother." Li Changle took him over to watch Chen Yongwei pull fish.
"Damn it, it's another Huang Zhan. How come I can pull a pound per pound?" Chen Yongwei looked at him, "Brother, why don't I do it with you instead?"
"Pull quickly, I still need to learn to deflate, don't be lazy!"
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei handed him the fish, but he didn't know that it was Huang Zhan who pulled the hook three times in a row.
It wasn't until I pulled up a black sea bream and a conger eel weighing more than two kilograms that I regained my confidence and started pulling up two more sea bass, several bluefish and mullet.
The funniest thing was that a cuttlefish weighing more than two kilograms was pulled up. When the hook was taken out, the shrimp head used as bait was still in its mouth and it had no time to swallow it.
After receiving the third row of long lines, I switched to Brother Li, and the first hook pulled up a sole skin weighing two kilograms.
Then there were black sea bream, sea bass, and eels. He pulled four or five hooks one after another and all were in stock. He was so excited that his hand speed in pulling the line could catch up with the machine.
Chen Yongwei put the fish in the live cabin and came back, and said cheerfully: "Brother, it's better to put the longline fishing, all the fish that come up are big fish."
"The only good thing about longline fishing is that it can save the big fish and let the small ones go, unlike trawling and catching them all in one go."
Li Changle believes that longline fishing requires good luck. He used to go out fishing during the fishing moratorium and put down half a bucket of bait. He couldn't catch anything good even after a long day of work. He even earned money for bait and diesel.
Not coming back.
"The trawl net is not very powerful, but those who use Juehu nets in the village are annoying. Even fish no bigger than a pinky finger are caught in the net, and they are not eaten. They are all fed to chickens and ducks."
"Yes, no one cares about it. If they do this, sooner or later they won't even be able to catch any fish."
Li Changle thought that this would be true in later generations. Take crabs and croakers for example. If the country did not release crab fry and fish fry into the sea, fishermen would not even be able to earn back their diesel money.
The fishing boat moved forward slowly. When Brother Li received the last hook, he felt a strong force coming from his hand. The fishing line seemed to be hanging on the reef, and his hand was so painful that he could not pull it.
Based on his past experience, he felt that this fish was probably a red snapper. "Ale, hurry up and get the fishing net. This fish may be a big deal."
Li Changle quickly lifted the net and climbed to the side of the boat to catch the fish. He saw a red shadow swinging under the water and said, "Brother, it might be another red snapper."
Brother Li nodded, ignoring the beads of sweat that kept falling down, enduring the pain in his hands, and kept pulling up the line. When the fish almost reached the water surface, he felt that the strength in his hands was weakening.
"Let me take a look." Chen Yongwei also rushed over. Brother Li heard the shouts of the two people and wanted to take a look but couldn't move away. He could only look at the three people anxiously.
"Here it comes!" Brother Li slowly pulled the fish out of the water.
Li Changle and Awei exclaimed, "Fuck~ Such a big red sea bream!"
"It weighs more than ten kilograms!" Brother Li saw that the fish had entered the net, so he stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat and sat on a small stool to catch his breath.
"Ale, be careful when deflating, don't burp it out." Brother Li stretched his neck and shouted to Li Changle who was holding the fish.
"Don't worry, my hand is the steadiest." Li Changle picked up the deflation needle and pricked it. After the fish's belly looked normal, he pulled out the needle, put the fish into the live cabin, and went back to help clean it up happily.
Brother Li took a few sips of water and wiped his mouth happily, "Ale, today's hook rate is at least 50%."
Li Changle did the math and said, "I've got 50%."
There are more than 150 hooks in three rows of longlines, and the fish caught on them range from the smallest weighing more than a kilogram to the largest red gannet weighing 14 to 15 kilograms.
Compared with the hooking rate of less than 20% in his previous life, he feels that the fishing resources are sufficient these days.
Brother Li smiled and said, "I see how happy you are. When we were traveling across the ocean, we picked up a lot of big cargo in the deserted sea, but we never saw you so happy."
"I used to work for others, and it was a very tiring job for only a small amount of money, and I had to be squeezed out by Agui. I had long been impatient." Brother Li said and glanced at him, "Brother, you have this too.
Feel it!"
Brother Li sighed, "What can I do? I used to go to sea with my father. The three of us worked hard for a year and couldn't even earn money to help the ship. There was no other way out except hard work.
Li Changle smiled and patted Brother Li, "Brother, the cabin is full of big fish on the first voyage today, and there are even tigers sending fish. Don't say this, say something happy."
"Yes, yes!" Chen Yongwei took it and said, "Brother, no matter how much we earn in the future, it will be ours. No one will take advantage of us."
"Well!" Brother Li put his arms around the two of them and walked to Brother Li together. "Brothers, work together and do a good job!"
"Brothers, let's work together!" The four of them said in unison, patting each other's shoulders heavily and looking at each other and laughing.
"Work, work, we will be docking soon." Li Changle rubbed his face in embarrassment and turned around to move the bamboo basket.
Brother Li put away the buoys and sunken stones, took a look at the strings in the bamboo basket carried by the two men, and saw that they were all neatly stacked, and nodded with satisfaction.
"In the future, just like today, when fishing next time, just pull it out and hang the bait, which saves time and effort."
"Got it, my second brother." Li Changle took out a cigarette and handed it to his mouth, "You get over your addiction first, and Ah Wei and I will do it."
"Okay!" Brother Li held a cigarette in his mouth, "I'm going to fish out those Qing Zhan and Huang Zhan and put them in a live cabin. I'll get the others when we get to the shore to load the fish."
"No, I've put them together a long time ago." Li Changle and Chen Yongwei put the bamboo baskets away and walked to Brother Li, "Brother, I'll take the helm."
"No, we will arrive at the pier in a while." Brother Li thought for a moment and then said, "Should we dock directly at the pier or go to Tuxiaqiao Pier?"
Li Changle thought for a while, "Brother, I think it would be better to send Tu off the bridge. The cabin is full again today. When we docked at the pier, those people saw it and became jealous."
He doesn't want to be followed by the fleet every time he sets sail in the future. In that case, he will make a lot of money!
Chen Yongwei thinks so, "Yes, we drive directly to Tuxiaqiao Pier, we pick out the catch and send it to the restaurant to sell, and then return to the Pier!"
Chen Yongwei sat down on the deck and lay down holding his head, "Brother, today's income has broken another record."
Chapter completed!