Chapter 200: The three brothers go together (Bonus chapter for 1500 monthly votes)

After confirming this was the float, Ye Yaohua was the first to pull it up, then he hauled up the sinker line and began to retrieve it.

The other two watched from the side, both curious about what good things could be pulled up, after all, there was a sardine storm yesterday.

Ye Yaodong didn't have high expectations; after all, sardines were ready-made live bait, and those big fish couldn't eat them fast enough.

He figured these hooks could only catch smaller ones that couldn't swallow the sardines, but it was hard to say, what if there were some foolish ones?

"Is it heavy?" Ye Yaopeng asked while watching him retrieve the line from the side.

"Not heavy, very easy to pull," Ye Yaohua said.

Ye Yaodong wasn't disappointed either, "Then it shouldn't be very big."

Ye Yaohua continued to retrieve the line, and the three brothers saw the fish being pulled out of the water at this moment.

"It's a 'Lalun' fish."

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua were both quite happy; the first one up was a Lalun fish, and it didn't look small.

After unhooking it, Ye Yaohua weighed it in his hand and said with a smile, "Pretty good luck, it's 3 jin."

The Lalun fish has a spindle-shaped body, the back is blue-black, the belly is silvery-white with a light blue tint, and there are two parallel light blue longitudinal stripes on the sides, which look quite beautiful.

Ye Yaodong was quite satisfied; he wasn't counting on big fish, as long as there was a harvest. Lalun fish is a top-tier sashimi material, and this one alone was worth two or three yuan.

Ye Yaopeng looked a bit restless, wanting to try it himself. After Ye Yaohua pulled up two more black sea breams weighing over 1 jin and 3 Dinggong fish weighing about 1 jin in succession, he couldn't hold back anymore.

"I'll do it, I'll do it, let me retrieve some too..."

Who could resist the charm of longline fishing, which constantly opens blind boxes of fish? You never know what kind of surprise the next second will bring~

Ye Yaodong chuckled, they were actually fighting to do the work.

Those 3 Dinggong fish were also quite good. Dinggong fish are small fish, usually only 2-3 taels in size. It was not easy for these 3 to reach a total of one jin, and one could be worth about a yuan.

Dinggong fish is a typical carnivorous saltwater fish. It is also called the painted chicken fish. It is widely distributed in many sea areas and belongs to tropical and subtropical warm-water near-bottom fish.

They often live in coastal shallow sea areas with gravel bottoms, sandy bottoms, or near reefs, and can also live in seawater or brackish water.

I don't know if Ye Yaopeng had bad luck, or if the next few hooks were all baited with shrimp. After passing through his hands, they were either empty hooks or continuous catches of chub mackerel, and they were only about one jin in size.

It's just that Ye Yaopeng was still very excited.

When he pulled up a barracuda weighing about ten jin, he was even happier, "Dongzi, this longline fishing of yours is not bad."

"Indeed, I think so too. It's quite good to only catch big fish. Putting down a thousand hooks at once is equivalent to using a thousand fishing rods to fish at the same time. The efficiency is quite high, it's just easy to have empty hooks."

"It's alright, after retrieving the line for so long, there haven't been many empty hooks."

"That's because I put them down yesterday morning, and it's been a day now, so there are fewer empty hooks."

"That's true..."

Ye Yaopeng continued to ask him more about longline fishing, and Ye Yaodong told him everything he knew without reservation. As for whether they would also make some longlines to put down, that was up to them.

Everyone has their own views. He thinks it's good, but others might not necessarily think so.

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua took turns retrieving the line with great interest, unhooking the fish while putting the fishing line into the basket. At this moment, a green grouper was actually hanging on the hook, which made the two brothers very happy.

"Damn, actually caught a green grouper, not bad..."

Ye Yaohua was eager to try, "Big brother, shall we ask someone to make a few hundred when we go back and try?"

"Okay, let's ask someone to make them when we go back."

Ye Yaodong wasn't surprised. Green grouper is not considered expensive among groupers, only better than tiger grouper, and this one wasn't very big, probably about one and a half jin.

But it was still worth being happy about. He had caught a lot of groupers and top-tier fish in the past few months, but this was the first time a green grouper had been hooked.

Maybe there was a bit of a card-collecting mentality, the green grouper card in his heart was lit up.

Tiger grouper, giant grouper, leopard coral grouper, red grouper, blue-spotted grouper, plus today's green grouper, he felt that he might have a chance to collect all known grouper varieties in his lifetime.

Thinking about it made him feel wonderful, feeling that his life resume had added another entry.

"Another big Spanish mackerel..."

"This one is not small either, it's over two jin..."

"Empty hook, nothing..."

Ye Yaodong leaned against the ship's side, leisurely watching his two brothers' high spirits. Today's harvest was good, there were relatively few empty hooks, and frequent catches were indeed worth being happy about.

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However, just at this moment, he frowned, "Did you hear any sound?"

"What sound?"

Both brothers stopped their work and talking in a daze.

"Sounds like a dog barking?"

"Can't be? Where would a dog come from on the sea?"

Ye Yaodong also frowned and said, "I also heard a dog barking?"

"Wouldn't be that supernatural, right?"

Ye Yaodong scanned everywhere strangely, and shone his flashlight toward the sea surface, only to see a small fish flapping there by the ship's side.

He looked for a hand net, aimed the flashlight at it, and scooped it up. As a result, the dog barking sound became more obvious. Instantly, Ye Yaodong hurriedly put it back into the sea.

He remembered.

"Dongzi? Didn't you scoop it up? Why did you put it back?"

"Didn't look closely yet, is that dog barking sound made by this fish? So strange?"

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua were both a bit curious.

"This small fish is called a boxfish, one of the ten strangest species in the world. It is poisonous on the surface, the toxin is very powerful, and it has a bad temper. If it disagrees or is caught or touched, it will release poison, and then poison itself to death. If it's in the sea, it's fine, there is seawater to dilute it."

"So the dog barking sound is made by it?" Ye Yaohua felt it was too incredible, a fish could actually make a dog barking sound.

"Yes, that's right."

"This... this is really strange..."

"Don't worry about it, put it back and it won't poison itself. You guys hurry up and retrieve the line, it's almost dawn. Once you finish, you can drag the net immediately, so as not to delay your work."

The ocean is vast, and there are all kinds of things. Some you will recognize when you encounter them and find them quite interesting, but most of the time you won't recognize them when you encounter them.

The sky gradually turned white, and the two brothers didn't talk nonsense either, all seizing the time to collect fish and lines. But one was careless, and a big squid was caught. Ye Yaohua didn't pay attention when unhooking it, and was sprayed with ink all over his face, unable to even open his eyes.

"Damn, so ruthless..."

Ye Yaodong watched with a wry smile. The previous few squids either didn't spray ink, or sprayed it when they were pulled up, none had such good accuracy as this one.

Ye Yaohua touched it casually, good fellow, it was even more uniform...

"You go wash up, I'll retrieve it here." Ye Yaopeng took the opportunity to take over the main line and continue to retrieve the harvest.

It took nearly two hours to finish retrieving all the longlines. The three brothers watched excitedly. One of the last few hooks actually had a tuna hanging on it, which made the three of them very happy, thinking that there was no hope for big fish today.

Although this tuna wasn't very big, probably a little less than 30 jin, it was still a tuna, the biggest fish caught by longline fishing today.

Other fish catches were chub mackerel, barracuda, Spanish mackerel, black sea bream, eel, sea bass, etc., among which chub mackerel accounted for one-third, the largest quantity.

And there were only a few Dinggong fish and Lalun fish caught at the beginning, only one green grouper and one tuna, but more than twenty squids were caught, which might be more than ten jin.

Although there was nothing particularly valuable today, the quantity was high, which Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua were tempted by, planning to make a few hundred when they go back to try.

They specially packed his fish catch separately and put it in a corner to facilitate distinguishing it later.

After retrieving all the longlines, Ye Yaodong found a corner to lie down and sleep, having nothing to do. He was really too tired yesterday, and he had been yawning repeatedly before.

Now that things were done, he tilted his head and fell asleep immediately.

Anyway, dragging the net had nothing to do with him, and after the net was put down, it had to be dragged for two or three hours before being lifted. It would be just right to see what they had harvested after waking up. ===== CHAPTER 201 =====