At the cruising speed of the fishing boat, Zhou Sheng fished out the conches he had caught from the bottom of the sea in the afternoon. He found a brush from somewhere and brushed the conch shells.
"I will dive to the bottom of the sea later and catch some fish for dinner." Zhou Sheng said.
Chen Yuan glared at Zhou Sheng and said, "This is the deep sea. It's dangerous to go down at night."
Zhou Sheng is not an ordinary person and has good water skills, but night diving is risky after all.
"What about dinner?"
"Safety is the most important thing." Lin Xinhai also said: "Eat whatever you have."
Night sailing is somewhat boring.
Lin Xinhai handed the driving seat to Chen Yuan and returned to the cabin to sleep.
Zhang Cheng, Meng Jianshan, He Fei and Yang Xun also returned to the cabin.
Zhou Sheng washed the conch, put it in a net bag, and threw it into the freezer: "I'll take a nap too, and I'll change my shift tonight."
Chen Yuan said "Hmm" and he was alone in the cockpit. He took out a lighter, lit a cigarette and took a puff.
Two hours later, the fishing boat arrived at the northwest corner of the Shenhu Sea, and when the stabilizer was turned on again, the boat barely felt any shaking.
Chen Yuan first washed the rice and cooked it, then took out the conch that Zhou Sheng had cleaned and washed it again with fresh water, then threw it into the pot, cut a few slices of ginger, poured in mineral water and boiled it.
The generator is working.
The light on the top of the cabin was on, and Chen Yuan turned on the fish luring lights around the hull.
Chen Yuan and the others are not alone in this sea area. After counting, there are still 6 fishing boats whose lights can be seen. Those are squid boats.
Now is the closed season, but fishing boats with permission can go out to sea to catch squid. July and August are good times for squid fishing...
This time Chen Yuan went out to sea and brought a string of hooks specially designed for squid fishing. There are 12 hooks in each string.
The lights on the fishing boat were bright, and Chen Yuan took out a squid string hook. The length of a string was nearly ten meters. He still used the 3.7-meter heavy-duty fishing rod, took off the bait on it, and tied the squid hook up.
Tie on a 3kg lead weight...and then shine a high-gloss flashlight on the squid hook.
The squid hook is luminous. If you shine it with a flashlight, the light will be brighter.
After arranging the fishing line, first lower the lead weight, and then lower the squid hooks one by one.
Squid have very good phototaxis. As long as there is light, the surrounding squid will come to you on their own without the need to spread bait or anything.
Generally speaking, squid are active in the deep water area in the first half of the night, and in the middle and upper waters in the second half of the night... If you have a fish finder, you can see the area where the squid moves at a glance. And when the light is turned on, the squid will gather around the hull.
Chen Yuan looked at the fish detector and found out that the fishing line was about fifty, so he went back to control the boat and looked at the conches cooking in the pot.
"It smells so good." He Fei came out and said, "Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Boil a pot of water and I'm fishing for a pipe blower." Chen Yuan said.
"OK." He Fei said as he poured mineral water into the pot and put it on the induction cooker.
Yang Xun also got up. He first looked at the fish detector and said, "There are a lot of fish here."
"Most of them are pipe players." Chen Yuan said: "There are many squid fishing boats around."
"How long has the fishing rod been down?"
"It's been five or six minutes," Chen Yuan said.
"I'll get up and take a look." Yang Xun went over and helped lift the fishing rod, which was just a matter of pressing the switch.
The electric wheel takes up the line very quickly, and the fishing line is taken up in less than a minute.
"There are fishes." Yang Xun said and wanted to lift the pole. He used both hands to lift the pole reluctantly.
He Fei took a bucket, grabbed the fishing line, and pulled up the fishhook. There were 12 hooks in a string, and 8 fish were caught.
The blower boy, that is the little blowtorch, the little squid...
Chen Yuan's fishing boat is on the outside, and the squids on the outside are relatively small. And it is early July, so the squid are not particularly fat yet. But these small squids are very tender.
"The harvest is good, there are 8 of them." He Fei threw the squid hook down and said with a smile.
Yang Xun said: "Are these squid boiled or sashimied?"
"Boil it." Chen Yuandao: "The water is ready. The swimming squid..."
"We caught squid." Zhang Cheng and Meng Jianshan walked out.
Chen Yuan said 'hmm' and shouted: "Zhou Sheng."
"Get up." Zhou Sheng had just fallen asleep for a while, and now he looked sleepy.
"I helped with the small fish in the refrigerator, and there are a few big octopuses. Let's make a pot of fish soup, fry a plate of octopus, and blow the fish. It's already nine o'clock, so let's get some dinner first." Chen
Long distance.
"Well..." Zhou Sheng rubbed his face and stretched hard.
Lin Xinhai also came out: "I caught the pipe blower."
"There are so many." Chen Yuan said, "Why don't your fishing boats come out to catch the pipe-playing boys?"
"There are not many pipe blowers in the offshore, and it costs a lot to go out to sea. The weather at sea is changeable now, and you have to go back in the sea for a few days at most. If you are not lucky, it is easy to lose money." Lin Xinhai said, spreading his hands, and then said
: “It’s important that fishing boats now need a license to leave port.”
Lin Xinhai took over Chen Yuan's position.
Chen Yuan took out another pair of squid hooks, tied them to Zhou Sheng's fishing rod, and threw them into the sea.
Zhang Cheng and others helped prepare dinner...
Wash the processed blow tube with fresh water, throw it into a boiling ferromagnetic pot, fish it out in less than ten seconds, cut it into pieces, and put it in a basin.
Meng Jianshan is ready to dip in the water.
The dipping water includes light soy sauce, ginger water, mustard, lemon...
Chen Yuan brought a small bowl to the master. He tasted the taste first: "Fresh and tender... To eat this pipe blower, you still have to catch it at sea, cook it and eat it freshly."
Zhou Sheng got Chen Yuan a piece of blowpipe that he rolled in water and brought it to Chen Yuan's mouth: "Try it."
Wo Nima...
When Chen Yuan took a bite, it was full of mustard, and a breath of cold air rushed directly to his forehead and heart: "Wonima..."
Zhou Sheng laughed loudly.
There were eight tube blowers on one pole, and they were all eaten in just a few seconds.
The seafood that has just come out of the water is fresh, and the little tubes are very tender. After rolling it in the boiling water for a while, it is just right when you take it out, and it tastes crisp and tender.
After this thing is frozen, it won't taste like it does now.
Talk, laugh, and have fun.
The conch is out of the pot.
There are more than a dozen conches, an average of two per person.
The boiled conch tastes very good when dipped in water. It's just that it was a bit overcooked just now.
Zhou Sheng cooked a large pot of fish soup with a few lobsters and fish.
Yang Xun and the others took up another pole. This pole had 9 pipe blowers. After taking them all out, they washed them with fresh water and threw them into the fish soup to cook them together.
"Tonight we'll be fishing for tube blowers," He Fei said.
"I didn't bring a squid hook..." Zhang Cheng said.
"I have a string here for 100 yuan." Chen Yuan said with a smile: "A string of hooks will earn you five yuan."
"Okay." Zhang Cheng smiled and nodded.
Zhang Cheng is also a fisherman, and he knows the price of squid hooks. A string of 12 covered light-absorbing fishhooks sells for 95 yuan per string at Zhapo.
Zhang Cheng then gave Chen Yuan two hundred yuan, and Chen Yuan gave them two strings.
Zhang Cheng and Meng Jianshan came to the fishing position and set up the fishing rod...
He Fei and the others were well prepared. They had already set up the fishing rods and started working after dinner.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng collected another fishing rod.
The two poles hit 23 tube blowers at once, only one short of the full bow.
"It's time to eat." Zhou Sheng shouted.
Snow-white fish soup, sprinkle with some chopped green onion and a little salt.
Chen Yuan and the others brought with them half a catty of chives. If they were kept in the cabin of the ship, they would not go bad for two or three days.
The rice is also cooked...
Chen Yuan served rice to everyone and said: "Tonight will be simpler. If we catch fish tomorrow, we will have a big meal."
"This meal is not simple." He Fei said: "The big lobster, conch, fish...the pipe blower are all alive."
"That's it...if we had a meal tonight on the island, there wouldn't be a thousand or two thousand people who wouldn't be able to come to the table." Zhang Cheng also said with a smile.
Nowadays, the price of blowing tubes is also very expensive, selling for 50 or 60 yuan in the market. If you eat it in a seafood restaurant, it will cost about 70 yuan per catty.
A pot of chowder, including fish, lobster, octopus, pipefish, and two crabs.
After frying it in oil, the soup has only a little fishy smell, and the umami flavor is so rich that it melts the tongue.