1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 70 Fishing with Fixed Pile Nets

 Zhao Dahai and Zhao Erniu were completely red-eyed after seeing Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao catch the big bass.

They have been staying at Xijia Reef for two full days and nights, eating and sleeping on the reef. They have set up two circles of sticky nets on the outside and one circle of longline fishing on the inside.

As a result, after two days, the boat hit a rock and broke a hole, the sticky net was scratched several times, and the longline got stuck on the bottom several times.

There is no large bass skating figure. The biggest one is only twenty pounds. After the fishing nets are deducted, the two brothers find that they may have to put some money.

 But they have already invested so much, and the two brothers don’t want to give up just like this. They want to fight the big bass to the end.

　　On the third day of their stay.

The news that Li Duoyu caught more than 100 kilograms of slippery bass at Xijia Reef and sold it for more than 100 yuan suddenly spread throughout the island.

Genius is bright.

 The Zhao brothers, who were sleeping in a cave in the Xijia Reef, were woken up by the thump of the horizontal-bar diesel engine.

 After the two of them opened their eyes.

 I found that the area near the reef was very lively, with eight or nine fishing boats.

There are small sampans with sculling oars, diesel fishing boats, and even motor-driven sailing boats more than 20 meters long. They have come over and surrounded the entire Xijia Reef with water.

 See this behind the scenes.

The two brothers were so angry that they slapped their thighs. What was even more outrageous was that an old fisherman placed the net directly near the sticky net they had set before.

Zhao Dahai couldn't help but cursed angrily: "Lei Laoliu, **** you, go to other places to lower the net, don't lower the net next to me."

Lei Laoliu rolled his eyes at him.

"This is not your home. You can control where I like to set my net."

 “I’m going to **** you.”

 “You’re still unreasonable, aren’t you?”

However, there were too many fishermen near the reef, so Zhao Dahai did not dare to do anything extraordinary.

What they didn't expect was that a fisherman named Zhou Dayou caught a large bass weighing more than a hundred pounds in front of everyone within half an hour of arriving at Xijia Reef.

 Make everyone jealous.

And the Zhao brothers were so angry that their internal organs ached. They waited for two days without catching any fish. As a result, the big fish was taken away as soon as they arrived.

 Chen Wenchao was also very depressed when he looked at the three layers of fishing nets and long lines near Xijia Reef.

“Brother Yu, who are you talking about, who spread the news that we caught a big bass and sold it for more than 100 yuan? There are so many people now, we probably won’t be able to catch it.”

 “I don’t know who passed it on either.”

“Maybe it’s the group of pile drivers, or maybe someone in our village knows the fishmongers at Qingkou Wharf.”

 Chen Wenchao would never have imagined that the brother next to him would learn that the two brothers from the Zhao family were guarding Xijia Reef.

So he deliberately handed over all the fish money he earned that day to Zhou Xiaoying in the courtyard, and showed off a lot of dog food.

 Then he told the story of how to catch a big fish on Xijia Reef.

 The result, the next day.

Half the village's aunts knew about it, and they all informed their families to go to Xijia Reef to catch big fish.

 This is the scene where brother Zhao Dahai woke up and saw fishing boats all around the islands.

Li Duoyu originally didn’t want to do this, but this kind of big bass lives in groups.

  usually consists of one male fish and several female fish living together, which is a typical polygynous system.

The one Li Duoyu caught two days ago was a male fish. If I guessed correctly, there should be a few female fish near Xijia Reef.

In order to increase Chen Wenchao's success rate in chasing Liu Xiaolan, Li Duoyu decided to attack the Zhao brothers.

 After seeing other fishermen catching big bass.

Li Duoyu was not jealous at all. Instead, he laughed happily and drove away on the sampan boat humming a ditty that Chen Wenchao had never heard.

 He planned to do a meaningful thing today, which was to build a double-pile fixed fishing net. Fishing doesn’t have to be tiring.

 There is also a very salty fish fishing method, and it is very interesting.

But before that, you must buy a trawl net, but new trawl nets are very expensive, and it is not cost-effective to use them as fixed fishing nets.

So, Li Duoyu found his third uncle Li Zhengfa, and spent only more than one hundred, and got a recently retired trawl net from him. The net body was all patched, and its strength was no longer enough.

 It can be used as a fixed fishing net, which is completely sufficient. When he bought this trawl net, his third uncle and the native dog didn't understand it at all.

 What is he going to do with the trawl?

Li Duoyu smiled and didn't explain much. He just said, "You will know when the time comes."

The third uncle smiled and scolded: "I found that you, kid, have become more and more capable recently. You caught such a big bass and sold it for so much money, but you didn't even treat your third uncle to a nice drink."

 “I’ll definitely invite you next time I catch something.”

Li Zhengfa looked at Li Duoyu pulling the fishing net away and couldn't help but sigh. Two months ago, Duoyu was just as good as their Yujun.

 But now things are completely different. He is always thinking of ways to make money every day.

 The other one is squatting in the cell.

 Next, Li Duoyu beat all the big bamboos left over from the fishing rafts he made some time ago near his father's oyster field.

 Then, fix the mouth of the trawl net on the big moso bamboo, and fix the entire trawl net on the sea along the direction of the tide.

 Chen Wenchao, who had been working hard for two days, didn't understand. Brother Yu put the trawl net here, how to catch fish?

 The day the trawl was completed.

 At low tide.

Li Duoyu parked the sampan at the net pocket at the tail of the trawl net, opened the net bag, and fixed it to the left side of the sampan boat.

 As the sea begins to recede.

From their stationary fishing boat, they could clearly feel the tide flowing rapidly behind them, and at the same time, a large amount of seawater washed away the trawl net bags.

 After opening the net bag, within half a minute, a large number of small fish and shrimps rushed out of the net bag.

 Chen Wenchao now understood how this kind of fixed trawl net fished. The trawler relied on power to drag the net away, while the fixed net like Yu Ge relied on tides.

 At low tide, when the fish swim into the deep sea and enter the trawl net, they will come to the net bag.

Chen Wenchao held a round-mouth fishing net and stood guard at the exit of the net bag. Looking at the dozen shrimps that had just jumped out, he said excitedly:

 “Damn, there are so many nine-segmented shrimps.”

 “Here we go again, such a big barrel squid, this is so exciting!”

 Chen Wenchao had just picked up the nine-section shrimp and squid, and seven or eight shining silver hairtails rushed out of the net mouth.

This is the first time he fishes like this,

 Happy like a child.

 But as the tide recedes faster and faster, the fish coming out of the net are getting bigger and bigger.

And just like what is caught by trawlers, there are all kinds of varieties.

Yellow-finned fish, black snapper, butterfly fish, needle fish, squid, and a large number of sea bass, including a lot of large yellow croaker.

  Chen Wenchao, who was very happy at first, gradually realized that he could not handle the work alone.

Just after he caught a five-pound sea bass, a three- to four-pound large yellow croaker escaped in the blink of an eye. This made Chen Wenchao very heartbroken.

Li Duoyu, who originally wanted to be lazy, saw more and more fish and started to help.

To be honest, Li Duoyu didn’t expect to catch so many fish at first. His fishing method is called fixed pile net fishing.

 It can be regarded as a relatively Buddhist fishing method, and it is very easy and simple. You only need to stop the boat and wait for the fish to come.

 In later generations, due to the continuous shrinking of fishery resources, this fishing method has long been abandoned by fishermen due to its low fishing efficiency.

　　Unexpectedly, in this era, he could actually catch so many fish. It can only be said that the fishing resources in this era are so abundant that he was a little surprised.

 (End of this chapter)