Chen Yuan sent the fish dried last night, as well as several kilograms of grouper and Shi Jiugong to Yan Xiaoxi. Then he went to the shipyard...
Lin Xinhai's fishing boat is installing a sliding mast, which is a mast lying vertically in the middle of the back deck of the fishing boat. It is mainly used to place and collect the net.
The 1,700-meter tuna seine net weighs 21 tons. When fully assembled, it should weigh 25 tons.
If this fishing net were to be retracted and released entirely by manpower, a person would be exhausted.
"Master." Chen Yuan saw Lin Xinhai and shouted.
"Hey." Lin Xinhai responded.
"Have the fishing nets come back?"
"Not yet. I'll send it over when the mast is installed," Lin Xinhai said.
Chen Yuan had nothing to do, so he helped here all morning, had lunch, took a shower when he got home, and was lying on the bed getting ready to go to bed when Yan Xiaoxi made a video call.
"What are you doing?" In the video, Yan Xiaoxi was wearing light pink pajamas, low-cut, revealing a bit of white roundness.
"I'm getting ready to take a nap. What about you?" Chen Yuan's eyes were straight, and Yan Xiaoxi's figure was so good.
Yan Xiaoxi puffed out her cheeks and covered her chest: "Where are you looking at?"
"You dress so sexy yourself, you can't blame me."
Yan Xiaoxi made a fierce face, lay down on the bed and pulled up the quilt: "I haven't received the fish you sent yet."
"We'll be there at two or three o'clock in the afternoon." Chen Yuan said, "Have you started classes?"
"Classes have started."
"College life is not comfortable because I have never gone to college," Chen Yuan said.
"An Yi. College is much easier than high school." Yan Xiaoxi said, "There are fewer courses in college and the school's management is also very relaxed."
Chen Yuan lay down and turned sideways: "I only have a high school diploma, will you dislike me?"
"What do you think?"
"have no idea……"
Yan Xiaoxi pouted: "No, I'm not interested in your academic qualifications. You didn't go to college. Did you play with your girlfriend in high school?"
"I just don't study well."
"What were you doing this morning? I didn't answer my phone calls."
"He was helping in the shipyard. Maybe the machine was making noise and I didn't hear it."
The two chatted for a long time before hanging up the phone.
Chen Yuan slept until after two o'clock. Before he woke up, his cell phone rang: "Hurry up, let's go fishing." The call came from Chen Xin, who was full of energy.
"It's only two o'clock and it's very hot. Do you want to go out now?"
"Hurry up, it's one day at a time, and you are the most nagging. Brother Zhou Sheng is ready to go. I also sent a message to He Fei and the others, and they are preparing fishing bait."
"immediately."
Chen Yuan had only slept for an hour. He had just been chatting with Yan Xiaoxi on the phone for a long time.
Chen Yuan got up, washed his face, changed into sun protection fishing clothes, went downstairs and drove directly to the beach.
Zhou Sheng and Chen Xin have already arrived.
"Do you want to refuel the fishing boat?" Zhou Sheng asked.
"No need. I just added 1 ton yesterday." Chen Yuan said.
"1 ton?" Chen Xin looked at Chen Yuan.
"Huh?" Chen Yuandao said, "It's strange?"
Chen Xin shook his head: "This is the first time I heard that you can add 1 ton of gas."
"I don't know." Chen Yuan went over and untied the rope of the boat. Waiting for He Fei and the others to come over, Chen Yuan started the boat and left the fishing port.
Went to Xifan Rock today.
West sail stone, 22 nautical miles.
It took an hour at cruising speed.
It was a bit hot today, so Chen Yuan didn't run too fast. He passed by slowly and leisurely while the air conditioner was blowing on in the cabin.
There are two types of Xifan Stone: Small Xifan Stone and Big Xifan Stone. The big Xifan Stone we went to before is the East sail stone.
There is a fishing boat parked near Xifan Rock.
Chen Yuan found a fishing spot on the edge of the reef. The water here was relatively deep and he needed to manually control the boat.
"There were only two live octopuses today, but I bought a few crabs, three bottom fishing rods, an octopus, a crab, and a large live shrimp," He Fei said.
"Okay." Chen Yuandao.
Crabs can also catch groupers. However, generally speaking, large live shrimps have a higher chance of winning. If it is a particularly large grouper, you will be more interested in octopus.
After three o'clock in the afternoon, in the dialect of Chen Yuan's hometown: The sun is now very hot...
Chen Yuan took out a parasol. As soon as he held it up, Zhou Sheng snatched it away: "Xinxin doesn't even have a parasol. You are a grown man, so you have the nerve to use it. Xinxin, give it to you."
Chen Xin looked at Chen Yuan who looked depressed and chuckled: "Thank you, Brother Zhou Sheng."
"My parasol...you thank Zhou Sheng?" Chen Yuan was also speechless.
"So what if you bought it? You won't let me use it." Chen Xin came over and took Chen Yuan's umbrella stand over.
"You are a grown man, so you don't need a parasol." Zhou Sheng said.
"I'll beat you to death, you idiot."
He Fei came over and tied up the bait cage.
The bait cages were strung up yesterday, and Antarctic shrimps were already packed in the cages on the way here.
Antarctic shrimp heads are used to feed fish and are very cheap.
Three ropes were hung, with five cages on each rope.
The fish situation in Xiaofanshi is much worse than that in Dafanshi.
Chen Yuan looked at the fish detection screen. It took more than ten minutes before some small fish came over.
Seeing that there were not many small fish, Chen Yuan took out a lure rod, handed He Fei and the others cigarettes, and lit one himself, then threw the iron plate down, put out the line... and shook the rod.
Zhou Sheng came over and looked at the fish detector, picked up the iron hook and knocked on the guardrail of the fishing boat.
"What are you doing?" Chen Xin asked.
"If there are no fish, knock it to attract fish."
"You're not afraid of scaring the fish away."
"Small fish will be scared away. Big fish are bolder and will run over to see if they hear any noise." Zhou Sheng said with a smile.
After a while, there was movement on the bottom fishing rod for grouper. Zhou Sheng waited for a while, and after watching the rod bend, he suddenly said: "I hit it."
"Is it big?" He Fei asked.
"Not big. Within ten pounds..." Zhou Sheng said.
Zhou Zhou's lifting of the pole slowed down. What was hanging on this pole was a crab, most likely a grouper. It took several minutes to pull the fish out of the water. There was a diagonal band of grouper, which is also called blue grouper in some places. No.
Rat spots…
The size is okay, weighing six or seven pounds.
Zhou Sheng took out a needle to deflate the grouper and raised it in the living water tank.
Catching grouper is not as difficult as you think. The important thing is to find a good location. If there is a reef area below, the probability of hiding grouper is relatively high.
Moreover, grouper is very aggressive and cannot stand it if you use live fish bait to tease it.
The fish are not so irritable today.
It's been more than ten minutes and Chen Yuan hasn't caught a fish yet.
Chen Xin switched to live shrimp and fished for yellow snapper, black snapper, etc.
After more than half an hour, Chen Yuan anchored and caught a miscellaneous fish, but not a real one. He also changed his pole and hung live shrimp to catch bream.
There were still some snappers below. After changing the pole, Chen Yuan caught a yellow snapper in just over a minute. It was a decent size, nearly 1 pound.
Chen Yuan caught three fish, and the tide came in.
One black snapper, two yellow snapper, any size is fine.
When the tide came in, we caught fish one after another, especially the three bottom fishing rods. We caught nine groupers in half an hour, and they were quite big. The largest weighed more than ten kilograms.
We've run out of octopus and we've run out of crabs.
"Today, this grouper likes to eat crabs. I caught five crabs, but only one live shrimp," He Fei said.
"I just told you to buy some more crabs, but you said groupers don't particularly like crabs," Yang Xun said.
In most cases, groupers do prefer to eat live shrimp.
But I don’t know what happened today, but the grouper started to like crabs.
After the tide rises, there are not many fish gathered under the fishing boat, but they leave especially when they open their mouths.
I brought out more than four and nearly five kilograms of live shrimp today, and I caught 5.10 and then used them all.