Chapter 194

Ye Yaodong sailed the boat toward the distant sea. When they just set off, there were all kinds of headlamps flashing on the sea. After sailing a bit further, there were fewer, and each boat sailed to the sea area they were familiar with.

Ye Fu also took advantage of the boat's sailing gap to start chopping bait, baiting hooks, all kinds of small fish, and small shrimp, also small tubes. Adong just handed him 5 dead small sea eels to use as bait, which were also chopped by Ye Fu and hooked on.

The boat sailed for more than an hour, and the bait hadn't been finished yet. It was really because there were too many hooks, and they had to be cut and hooked, which was time-consuming.

Ye Yaodong specifically changed to a new fishing spot today, far away from the sea area where they worked yesterday.

He focused on looking ahead, controlling the sailing direction. To avoid not seeing clearly in the dark night, leading to the boat hitting a reef, his headlamp shone on the sea level from time to time, left and right.

Just at this moment, he saw a large number of seabirds appearing in his field of vision on the sea surface ahead, covering the sky and the sun. Almost the entire long coastline was seabirds, feeling like they were countless.

All fishermen know that places where a large number of seabirds gather often have schools of fish. The sea surface ahead hadn't appeared in the field of vision yet, but there were so many seabirds flying continuously in the mid-air. The school of fish in the sea was definitely not small.

He widened his eyes in surprise and looked at the sea surface, and accelerated the horsepower. He saw that the number of seabirds appearing in the field of vision was increasing.

The coastline was getting closer and closer, and he also clearly saw the distant sea surface that the headlamp could barely shine on, turning up countless white bubbles. The seabirds on the sea surface continuously dived toward the sea surface.

He hurriedly slowed down the boat again, let it sail slowly, and then observed carefully. Determining that there were indeed many fish tumbling there in the sea, his heart thumped wildly.

"Dad, put down the work in your hand first, come and see."

Ye Fu had been lowering his head to cut bait and hook bait, not paying attention to the sea surface, just feeling that the boat's sailing speed had slowed down, and thought Old San was going to put down hooks here.

Hearing his cautious call just now, he thought something had happened, so he hurriedly ran over.

"What's the matter? Encountered something... or...?" Ye Fu put down the work in his hand, just raised his head and stood up, and saw a large number of white seabirds gathering on the distant sea surface, which were particularly eye-catching in the dark night.

His voice stopped abruptly, and he hurriedly ran to the bow, using his headlamp to carefully shine toward the distant sea surface.

Only to see a large number of seabirds gathering in the air ahead, the water surface tumbling violently, and it wasn't just one area, but a whole long continuous coastline was tumbling with water splashes, and the area wasn't small.

Ye Fu said happily: "The school of fish is under the sea surface ahead, that's why so many seabirds gathered in the mid-air. Looking at the distribution of seabirds, the school of fish should be several kilometers long. Don't know how it is under the sea? This school of fish is not small."

"I also jumped when I saw a large piece of seabirds appearing on the coastline from afar, that's why I slowed down and called you."

"Get closer and see!"

Ye Yaodong nodded heavily in excitement.

Such a big school of fish, distributed along such a long coastline. What else to do today but follow behind it and cast nets?

Don't know what kind of school of fish it is?

He increased the horsepower again.

After getting closer, the sea surface was even more spectacular!

"It turns out to be a school of sardines!"

"They are migrating from north to south!" Ye Yaodong said affirmatively at a glance.

Sardines migrate collectively every autumn and winter. If a fishing boat at sea encounters it, it's no less than winning a big prize!

They really won a big prize today.

Ye Fu was a bit excited. The scale of this sardine migration was shockingly large. It couldn't be seen clearly in the dark night, but it was estimated to be several kilometers long and 1 kilometer wide. The situation under the sea wasn't understood.

"Dongzi, get closer."

"Good."

Ye Yaodong had a big smile on his face. Sardine schools are known as the "largest school of fish on Earth." He knew that every time a sardine school migrates, the data is no less than billions. Whether you encounter it or not depends entirely on luck.

The fishing boats working in this sea area today are all going to get rich.

The boat continued to sail forward. The further forward, the bigger the waves tumbled, and the boat also shook violently, all because of the school of fish.

After sailing to about the distance, Ye Yaodong stopped and said excitedly: "It's a sardine storm! A sardine school that can't see the end at a glance!"

Ye Fu looked at the school of fish ahead with glowing eyes, didn't blink, and said with saliva flying: "Fish, fish hard."

"Damn, fortunately I borrowed a cast net yesterday, otherwise I would cry to death by slapping my thighs!"

"The bait for longline fishing is almost hooked, can't waste it. Later I'll put down longline fishing, you come to cast the net. Such a big sardine school is migrating, there must be big fish hunting."

"Big fish must be there, but they won't take the hook. These sardines are ready-made live bait. We put down hooks to catch small fish at the bottom that can't eat sardines."

"Hmm, also right."

Ye Yaodong hurriedly ran to the cabin to get the cast net, organizing it while walking, and the swaying boat didn't affect his efficiency at all.

Sardines are near-shore warm-water fish, with phototaxis. The position illuminated by the headlamp immediately gathered a large number of sardines.

After he organized the cast net, he used the light of the headlamp to cast it toward the distant sea surface. The cast net was stretched to the maximum in his hand, and he netted a large number of fish schools at once. He didn't need to stop and could pull it up directly.

The heavy fishing net made the muscles of his arms bulge, the blue veins on his temples bulged, and Ye Fu also hurriedly helped pull it together.

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The weight of this net was at least 200 jin, and it was even harder to pull in the water. At this moment, Ye Yaodong thought, if only there were a small net-lifting machine, how good would that be? That way the efficiency would be high.

These sardines are cheap, the price is about 9 fen to 1 mao, the size is not big, about 14 to 25 cm long, the body is very flat, the weight is light, six, seven, or eight are enough for one jin, but can't stand the large quantity!

Billions of sardines on the sea are caught at will, that's why it's called winning a big prize!

The father and son used all their strength to pull this net of sardines onto the boat, and they threw them directly on the deck.

Ye Yaodong untied the net mouth, and a large number of slender, flat, silver small fish poured out of the net, covering half of the deck.

"So many!"

"Continue, continue!"

The father and son were happy and didn't want to stop. A rare opportunity, pulling one more net is several tens of yuan more. There is no suspense at all. There is no better way to make money than today.

Ye Yaodong continued to cast the net. Once the accuracy was a bit off, he actually netted two seabirds that dived down to hunt.

He didn't pay attention and continued to drag with Ye Fu. After a large amount of sardines were pulled ashore, he discovered that those two seabirds were crushed to death.

After pouring them all onto the deck, he discovered that those two big seabirds didn't look right.

The light was not good earlier and he didn't see clearly. When casting the net, his attention was always on the sardines in the sea. Only after stepping forward did he discover that these two damn things were pelicans!

"Damn! Dad!" He directly threw the pelican in his hand toward Ye Fu.

This pelican is not small, body length 150-160 cm, weight about 10-12 kg.

"Pelican?" Ye Fu also recognized it.

Their dialect calls it a pelican, but its scientific name is spot-billed pelican. It looks like a big seagull, big and beautiful. Its body is short and fat, its neck is slender, its whole body is white, its mouth is long and straight, lead blue, and there is an orange-yellow skin sac under the mouth.

Ye Yaodong also thought it was a seagull at first, didn't expect it to be a pelican!

He said happily: "Good stuff! I'll cast a few more nets and net a few more."

This seabird is rampant now, all over the sea surface. It's not easy to catch when flying in the mid-air, and it's vigilant. Didn't expect it to fly in the mid-air in large numbers to hunt, a rare opportunity.

Ye Fu's old face also bloomed with joy. Fortunately, he brought a fishing net today.

Ye Yaodong aimed the headlamp at the position to be cast, and organized the cast net while waiting. After he organized it, the sea surface illuminated by the lamp gathered a large number of sardines again.

He tried to throw the fishing net a bit higher and stretch it to the maximum. This time he netted three greedy pelicans and dragged them ashore together with the sardines.

Using its phototaxis, the sardines on the deck increased visibly under his unremitting efforts, and the pelicans also increased intermittently.

Human strength is limited. Continuing to pull hundreds of jin of fishing nets, the strength in the hands will also be exhausted.

After pulling six or seven nets, the father and son also had no strength, and their hands were aching painfully.

At this time, the sky also had rosy clouds, and the two were paralyzed on the gunwale, deciding to stop and rest for a while. If they followed the school of fish and cast nets all day, their arms would not be able to be lifted for a few days.

The father and son kept swinging their arms, and looked at the distant sea surface. Both of them couldn't bear to move their eyes away, and couldn't bear to sit down and rest.

Because the sky was bright, they could clearly see that besides some boats that were lucky enough to encounter the sardine school at the same time and were fishing desperately, there were also many large fish chasing and hunting sardines.

It was dark before, visibility was limited, and their attention was all on the sardines in front of them. Occasionally the headlamp would shine on large fish, but it wasn't as clear as after dawn.

On the distant sea surface, a large number of various sharks, whales, dolphins, seals, marlin, mahi-mahi, tuna, sailfish, swordfish, etc., were all rare deep-sea large fish. At this moment, they were everywhere on the sea surface, poking out of the sea surface from time to time, all chasing and hunting sardines.

Various seabirds also gathered on the sea surface, and couldn't see the end at a glance.

Ye Yaodong exclaimed repeatedly, "Damn, it's really a famous scene, worthy of being a sardine storm!"

Ye Fu's eyes weren't enough to see, he saw such a spectacular scene clearly for the first time.

"Dongzi, I'll go sail the boat, we'll follow the school of fish, you put down longline fishing by the way, don't waste the good opportunity."

"Although there are many big fish, they are too busy eating sardines, our bait's attraction is estimated to be not big."

"Try it, don't waste it. Catching one or two is also earning."

"Good, those top-tier big fish are hard to catch, small ones are estimated to be no problem. Catching them is money."