Chapter 208: Chub mackerel

Ye Yaodong told his father to stand far away and not get too close, then went to drive the boat towards the float where the longline was put.

It was dragging the net and scooping fish again. At this time, it had been almost five hours since the longline was put into the sea.

He collected the float, and then pulled the stone, but tried several times and couldn't pull it up, he couldn't help but frown. He had put a bottom longline once before, but didn't encounter a stone that couldn't be pulled up.

Ye's father saw him standing there pulling the rope, but didn't see any fish pulled up for a long time, so he went over to look.

"What's going on?"

"The stone can't be pulled up, I figure it might be stuck in the reef on the seabed?"

Ye's father frowned, "Then what to do, you didn't put a float today."

"I'll go down to the water to see."

"Don't go down too deep, come up if you are uncomfortable."

Ye Yaodong nodded, then simply took off his clothes, pants, and arms, did a simple warm-up, took a breath and jumped into the water.

It was already late autumn, just jumped down and felt the seawater was very cold, he didn't rush to dive down, moved on the sea surface, adapted and felt okay, and then dived down.

He didn't dive very deep, the visibility was still quite high.

At this time, the ocean had not been polluted, and the water was very clear, and there was no dark current today.

Relying on the weight of his body, he sank little by little along the straight line. At a depth of about 3 meters, he saw a small group of prawns swimming, his attention was immediately diverted, and he was pleasantly surprised to reach out and catch one.

He looked around curiously. Just right, at this time, a black sea bream swam past him, swinging its tail, and he caught it by the way.

This black sea bream was only a little over one jin, he could ignore the struggle.

Holding breath for too long, feeling a bit unbearable, after catching a black sea bream, although he was envious of that small group of prawns, he still decisively floated to the water surface, planning to change his breath first.

"What's wrong, how deep did you dive? Did you see the stone?"

"No, I went down about three meters deep, saw prawns and a black sea bream, so I caught it first, and changed my breath by the way."

Ye's father took the black sea bream he handed over, and a big prawn of about three or four taels, a bit puzzled, "Is it so easy to catch?"

"It's okay, I'll go down and see again, find the stone to see where it's stuck?"

"Too deep, if you can't go, find the line at the other end, directly bite the line off, and pull the line at the other end up."

"Hmm, I know."

After taking a breath, Ye Yaodong sank down along the straight line again. This time he was not curious, still solved the matter of the stone stuck first, and he could touch the fish slowly later.

A small group of prawns swam back and forth beside him, and there were a few small fish swallowing and swinging their tails leisurely in the distance, he only glanced at it and continued to sink along the rope.

But don't know how deep he dived. When he saw the stone stuck in the crevice of the reef, he also saw several big conchs adsorbed on the reef, and abalone, and several sea cucumbers swimming underneath.

His heart was happy, planning to dive a little deeper to solve it, but felt his ears were not working, the air pressure was too strong, and he didn't bring any diving equipment.

Feeling uncomfortable, he decisively let his body float up and rushed to the water surface quickly.

Ye's father had been watching the movement under the sea with his heart, seeing him rush up from the water, hurriedly asked: "How is it?"

"Found it, the sinker rope is stuck in the reef, I also saw many abalones and big conchs adsorbed around, there are several sea cucumbers, but can't go down, the air pressure is too strong, without equipment, I figure I dived at most ten meters deep, the bottom is still a few meters away from my position just now, can't go down."

Ye's father was happy, but frowned when he heard the back, "Pity, if you can't go down, don't want it, just find the line at the other end of the stone rope."

"Hmm."

Ye Yaodong also felt it was a pity, clearly good things were right in front of him, now can only temporarily put it behind his head.

He relaxed on the water surface and adjusted his breathing again, then dived in.

This time he specially paid attention to the depth of his descent, about five meters, he swam around to search, encountered small fish and he avoided them specially.

After searching around in the sea, he saw the other end of the rope, and then swam over to hold the fishing line, only to see two flatfish hanging on the hook of the branch line, he hurriedly grabbed the main line at this end and floated up.

Ye's father saw him bring the main line up and was relieved, just about to take scissors to cut the main line at the other end, but heard Ye Yaodong say: "There are three branch lines tied to that section of the main line in the sea, there are three hooks on it, two flatfish are hanging, I'll go and pick those two fish first, then you cut."

After he unhooked the flatfish in the sea and threw it onto the boat, Ye's father used scissors to cut the end stuck at the bottom, let it sink in the sea, and wait until going back at night to ask someone to repair and connect a section.

He held the main line and puzzledly said to Ye Yaodong who was still swimming in the sea: "You still don't come up, what are you doing soaking there? Not cold? Don't catch a cold, hurry up and come up."

"Dad, I want to go down and see again, just saw a small group of prawns, didn't scoop them up, feeling a bit pity, you collect these lines above?"

Ye's father stared, "Don't mess around, how deep can you swim? Catching a cold is small, don't get ear and nose bleeding and leave sequelae."

"I won't go too deep, I'll just be at the bottom about five or six meters, can't hold my breath, I'll come up."

"You have been back and forth so many times, want to come up and rest for a while?"

"It's okay, young people have good physical strength, I'm still okay, give me that small hand net."

"What do you want to catch?"

Ye Yaodong had a big head, his father was really too slow, "You give me the hand net first."

The son is not controlled by the father, not to mention he is just a worker, this third son also has more and more ideas, want not to listen to him is impossible, Ye's father had to hand the hand net by his feet to him.

After he got the hand net, he didn't talk nonsense, directly swam towards the sea. Just now he saw prawns several times, if he didn't scoop them ashore, he would feel uncomfortable.

That group of prawns is also stupid, back and forth, swimming in this circle, he went down without specially looking for it and saw it again.

Holding the hand net, he unceremoniously netted towards that small group of prawns. Because the net mouth is not big, this scoop only caught half, others scattered, he had to give up, hurriedly closed the net, swam up, saw a small group of chub mackerel swimming over in the distance, he couldn't care about catching, anyway, the fish is cheap.

Coming back and forth in the water too many times today, didn't bring goggles, he was afraid his eyes would be infected, couldn't dive too deep, and his physical strength was a bit unbearable, today can only stop here.

When swimming up, he just happened to see a yellow-finned sea bream biting the fish hook under the sea, swinging its body, floating up with the pulling of the fishing line.

Not bad, this yellow-finned sea bream looks like more than two jin.

When he floated out of the water, Ye's father just happened to take that yellow-finned sea bream off happily.

"Dad, help me catch this."

"What did you scoop?" Ye's father saw that the net bag mouth of the hand net was pinched tight by him, held the handle and took it over, curiously looking into it, "So many prawns?"

He was pleasantly surprised, the big prawns inside were still jumping and bouncing, each one was not small, he hurriedly poured the shrimp into the bucket and packed them separately.

"You just took the hand net down, just to catch these prawns?"

Ye Yaodong climbed up with hands and feet, after going up, wiped the seawater on his face and said: "Hmm, saw it several times back and forth before, just didn't have a handy tool to catch it, so I thought of trying with a hand net, only caught half, others scattered and didn't dare to catch."

"Okay, these also have five or six jin, there is no towel on the boat, you just take a piece of cloth and wipe your body, hurry up and put on clothes, don't catch a cold. Just leave these lines to me to collect."

"Hmm."

He sneezed twice, shook his wet hair, a bit disgusted that the cloth on the boat was too dirty, simply took the autumn clothes to wipe, anyway, it should be back after collecting the rope.

Those small yellow croaker on the boat can't be exposed to the sun for too long, and those electric rays don't know how much they are worth, estimated that the big one is more valuable.

Ye Yaodong put on clothes and pants and went up to help, but don't know if their luck was over, or if it was the season of chub mackerel recently, there were more than half of chub mackerel on the hook when they collected the line.

Actually caught one again, he was depressed, isn't this wasting fish bait?

The cheapness of chub mackerel is on par with saury and balang fish, acquisition is only 3 cents per jin.

"Why are there so many of this broken fish?"

He just saw it in the sea.

"September～December is its fishing season, it's normal to have more." Ye's father was not very disappointed, better than empty hooks, and full of small yellow croaker, today's earnings were not small, if you don't want to sell, take it back and keep it as fish bait for the next day.

The fishing season of chub mackerel is generally spring fishing from April to July; autumn fishing from September to December, and can be caught all year round along the coast.

Ye Yaodong felt more and more depressed as he collected, collected more than half, actually only 3 black sea breams, and 1 yellow-finned sea bream, 3 flatfish, and eight or nine soft silk, others were actually chub mackerel, really damn.

Not as good as dragging the net, when dragging the net to electric ray, there were many other fish catches mixed in.

Actually, chub mackerel is also nutritious and healthy. As for why it is so cheap, it is because its meat is old, the taste is poor, and the fishy smell is heavy, not popular, plus it has high output and can be caught all year round.

After all the longlines were collected, the sun was already high in the sky, and there were three baskets of cheap chub mackerel on the boat, looking like about 200 jin, and about ten jin of soft silk, 5 flatfish, three sea bass, five black sea breams, one yellow-finned sea bream.

"Looks like can only take a part to dry, a part as fish bait."

"Keep it, don't sell it, dried and put there won't be bad, keep it and eat slowly, when the time comes, send more to your father-in-law's side, there are many people there."

"Hmm."

"Go back directly, the sun is a bit big today, a bit hot."

"Okay."

Can't lose big because of small.

He directly gave up the idea of going back to net electric rays, who knows if there are any underneath, how many? In case it wastes time?

Returning early, he can also take a nap. Yesterday they drank until almost ten o'clock before dispersing, he got up at two o'clock in the night, and now he feels a bit unable to hold on. ===== CHAPTER 209 =====

Returning early would allow him to take a nap. Yesterday, they didn't finish drinking until nearly ten o'clock, and he had gotten up at two in the morning. He was feeling like he couldn't hold out much longer.