Chapter 345: The Fish of My Dreams

Lao Fu Tou watched them frantically cleaning a fish, taking half a day to get it off, and he was anxious.

Especially when seeing a perfectly good spring fish, with A Qing clumsily pulling off half its scales, he huffed angrily: "Stop, stop."

I just talked for a while, and it was all for nothing.

If you clean it like that, the fish is ruined and the net is ruined—look...

A Qing was so scolded he couldn't lift his head.

Wu Ping and Mei Wu stood aside, also feeling a bit embarrassed, because they weren't much better than A Qing.

Going further down makes it easy to reel in, but it's indeed quite strenuous.

A three-layer net.

The fish were still tangled up in a mess with?.

After removing the fish, the net must be tidied;? if not tidied, it must be taken home to untangle and repair before it can go back in the water.

Wu An said the adhesive net still needed to be redeployed at sea, and only Lao Fu Tou could do this job well.

The adhesive net is actually quite troublesome.

Old fishermen generally don't bother with it; even if they do, they don't understand it, and newcomers who buy it use it once and then quit.

Why?

The adhesive net breaks easily and is hard to handle.

Although the adhesive net isn't expensive, if used as disposable, its cost still needs consideration.

Not everyone's luck is that good—just dropping the net doesn't guarantee a good catch.

? Lao Fu Tou said, in a few quick moves, he cleaned the fish, tidied the net, and pressed the winch's run button again.

After a pause of work, Lao Fu Tou bustled about, and? in a short while he was already sweating profusely.

People can't teach others to learn, but experiencing something makes them understand instantly.

? Seeing Lao Fu Tou exhausted enough to choke, A Qing and the three others, after reflecting on their pain, studied earnestly and gradually got the hang of it.

"Right, this is correct."

"Fortunately they're all spring fish; if they were large yellow fish, with your method just now, how could you sell the large yellow fish?" Lao Fu Tou said cheerfully.

Clearly it was praise, but hearing it, everyone felt a bit flat.?

Just then.

A Qing was cleaning the fish on the net and said: "This spring fish is quite big."

"It's as long as my arm."

He said this while removing the fish and comparing it to his arm.

Lao Fu Tou tidied the net, glanced at it unconsciously, then his gaze swept past.

Then he moved it back.

He widened his eyes, staring fixedly at the "big spring fish" in A Qing's hand, and shouted: "What spring fish? This is a large yellow fish!"

Hearing the words "large yellow fish", Wu Ping and Mei Wu, who were intently watching the adhesive net, turned their heads in unison.

Wu An, who was steering the boat, also leaned sideways, poked his head out, and shouted: "What?"

"I think I heard someone say large yellow fish?"

"Did we net a large yellow fish?"

A Qing froze; earlier he had been holding the fish by its head with his hand, hearing Lao Fu Tou shout that it was a large yellow fish, he quickly clasped the large yellow fish in his hands with both hands.

He excitedly asked: "Really a large yellow fish?"

"You didn't missee it, did you?"

"Take a close look."

Saying this, he handed the large yellow fish to Lao Fu Tou.

Lao Fu Tou took it, smiled, and said: "No mistake, it's a large yellow fish."

"Look closely, there are actually quite a few differences."

He took a spring fish and a large yellow fish for comparison; upon close inspection, everyone indeed saw the differences.

A Qing immediately shouted at the top of his voice: "Brother, a large yellow fish, really a large yellow fish!"

"We've netted a large yellow fish."

Wu An stopped the boat, quickly walked over to look, and was also very happy: "Large yellow fish."

"Tsk tsk, it's really pretty."?

Since going out to sea, he has always been looking forward to when they could catch a large yellow fish.

Saying it is his dream fish is not an exaggeration.

Nothing else.

Large yellow fish are expensive, and they travel in schools of adults; as long as you encounter a large yellow fish, you're sure to catch a whole nest.

If you encounter a school of large yellow fish, it's far better than catching a few groupers.

The large red fish in Lao Fu Tou's hand weighs about three or four catties; according to Lao Fu Tou's saying, this large yellow fish isn't considered large.

Just an ordinary size.

Wu An looked at the adhesive net that had only been deployed a few tens of meters, his eyes lighting up: "Don't just stand there, hurry up and haul the net."

There are still several hundred meters of adhesive net behind; if we could hook a few large yellow fish……

Dare not imagine, dare not imagine.

The adhesive net is hauled up very slowly, not because of their ink stains, but because too many fish are hanging on it.

As for the spring fish, no need to mention.

They hang in sheets on the net.

Fortunately, Boss Zhao's adhesive net is of good quality; otherwise, the impact of such a large school of fish would have broken many stationary nets, shattering them beyond repair in the sea, making them impossible to pull out.

This would also create another problem: those broken adhesive nets would become marine litter.

For now, this isn't a problem Wu An needs to worry about; the biggest issue right now is that, besides many fish, the adhesive net also has shrimp and crabs caught on it.

Adhesive nets are mainly used for bottom-dwelling seafood, so shrimp and crabs are naturally abundant on the seabed.

Not to mention A Qing and Mei Wu—even Lao Fu Tou would find it a headache to see so many shrimp and crabs caught.

But there's not much to say about it.

These orchid crabs and shuttle crabs are also seafood worth several dozen yuan per jin—who could dislike them, who would dare to?

A Qing muttered a couple of sentences, and Lao Fu Tou quickly reminded him not to complain.

A Qing angrily shut his mouth.

What if Goddess Mazu hears this and doesn't arrange things for us next time?

Tie them up.

Get busy.

Collecting the adhesive net is already slow, and having to tie it up because of the downstream flow only wastes more time.

After nearly an hour, they'd only managed to collect 100 meters, leaving everyone exhausted to the point of being fed up.

On the open sea, the sun at 2:30 p. m. was terrifyingly large, making the seawater feel scalding hot.

In such conditions, they still had to work with all their strength, which was a considerable trial for each of them.

In this situation, Wu An didn't need to steer the boat; he first took out some Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid, and everyone drank a bottle to prevent heatstroke.

A Qing held the bottle in his mouth, tipped his head back and drank it, then carefully removed the large yellow fish from the adhesive net, hehe laughing: "Brother, this large yellow fish is truly the ultimate heat-relief tool."

"Brother, this is the fourth one."

"This one is the biggest, probably six or seven jin."

All four large yellow fish were removed by him, making him so happy that his back teeth kept showing, and he couldn't stop grinning.

He lifted it up, his hand trembling slightly.

Wu An quickly took it, weighed it in his hand: "There, there."

"Is your hand okay?"

A Qing squatted down to continue removing the fish, casually saying: "It's fine, just tired."

"......" Wu An didn't know what to say, so he said: "Take it easy; if you can't, let A Wu Ge take over."

Mei Wu, whose hand had cramped from tying up orchid crabs, heard his name and instinctively shouted: "You calling me?"

Wu An saw: "...... Just get on with your work."

He looked toward the elder brother.

The elder brother's clothes were soaked through, and his somewhat long hair dripped sweat strand by strand.

A Qing's hand shook; he failed to catch the fish, which slid right to his feet.

Wu An quickly said: "Let me give it a try."

"I've never caught a large yellow fish before."

"My hands are really itchy."