Chapter 195 Sardine Storm
Ye Yaodong drove the boat towards the sea in the distance. When he first set off, there were various headlights flashing on the sea. After driving a little further, there were fewer of them. All the ships headed to the sea area they were familiar with.
Father Ye also took advantage of the slack in the boat to start chopping and hanging bait, all kinds of small fish, small shrimps, and small tubes. Just now, Ah Cai gave him 5 dead small moray eels as baits. They were all chopped off by Father Ye and hung up.
The boat has been sailing for more than an hour, and the bait has not been hung yet. There are too many hooks, and it takes time to cut and hang again.
Ye Yaodong deliberately changed to a new fishing spot today, away from the sea area where he worked yesterday.
He focused on the front and controlled the driving direction. In order to avoid being unable to see clearly in the dark and causing the hull to hit the rocks, his headlights shine on the left and right from time to time on the sea level.
At this moment, he saw a large number of seabirds appearing in his field of vision on the sea ahead, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, and the entire long coastline was almost full of seabirds. It felt like there were countless seabirds.
All fishermen know that there are often schools of fish where a large number of seabirds gather. Before the sea in front of them appears in sight, there are so many seabirds flying in the air continuously. The fish schools in the sea are definitely not small.
He stared at the sea with wide eyes in surprise, and accelerated his horsepower, only to see more and more seabirds appearing in his field of vision.
The coastline was getting closer and closer, and he could clearly see the distant sea surface barely illuminated by the headlights, with countless white foams turning up, and the seabirds on the sea surface swooping down to the sea surface one after another.
He quickly slowed down the boat again, let it drive slowly, and then observed carefully to confirm that there were indeed a lot of fish churning there in the sea, and his heart was beating wildly.
"Father, put down what you're doing first, and come over to have a look."
Father Ye has been lowering his head to cut fish and hang bait. He didn't pay attention to the sea surface. He just felt that the speed of the boat had slowed down just now, and thought that the third child was going to set a hook here.
Hearing his prudent call at this moment, I thought something happened, so I hurried over.
"What's the matter? What's the matter...is it..." Father Ye put down his work, and as soon as he stood up, he saw a large number of white seabirds gathered on the sea in the distance, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark night.
His voice stopped suddenly, and he hurried to the bow of the ship, using his headlight to carefully shine into the distance.
I saw a large number of seabirds gathering in the air ahead, and the water splashed violently on the sea surface, and not only one area, but the entire continuous coastline was covered with tumbling water splashes, and the area was not small.
Father Ye said in surprise: "There is a school of fish under the sea ahead, so there are so many seabirds gathered in mid-air. Looking at the distribution of seabirds, the school of fish should be several kilometers long. I don't know what happened under the sea? This school of fish is not Small."
"I just saw a large group of seabirds appearing on the coastline from a distance, and I was shocked, so I slowed down and called you."
"Look a little closer!"
Ye Yaodong nodded excitedly.
Such a large school of fish, distributed along such a long coastline, why don’t you have to follow it and cast a net today?
I don’t know what kind of fish it is?
He cranked up the horsepower again.
After getting closer, the sea surface is even more spectacular!
"It turned out to be a school of sardines!"
"They are migrating from north to south!" Ye Yaodong confirmed with just one glance.
Sardines migrate collectively every autumn and winter. If they are encountered by fishing boats at sea, they are no less than winning the jackpot!
They really hit the jackpot today.
Father Ye was a little excited. The scale of the sardine migration was astonishing. I couldn’t see it carefully in the dark, but it was several kilometers long and 1 kilometer wide. I didn’t know the situation on the bottom of the sea.
"Dongzi, come closer."
"good."
Ye Yaodong had a big smile on his face. The sardine school is known as "the largest fish school on earth". He knows that every time a sardine school migrates, the data is no less than billions.
The fishing boats operating in this sea area today are going to make a fortune.
The boat continued to move forward, and the waves rolled more and more as it went forward, and the hull of the boat also heaved and swayed violently, all because of the fish.
After traveling almost a distance, Ye Yaodong stopped, and said excitedly: "It's a storm of sardines! A school of sardines that can't be seen!"
Father Ye stared at the school of fish in front of him with bright eyes, without blinking, and said with saliva, "Fill, fish hard."
"Standing on the horse, fortunately, I borrowed a hand to throw the net yesterday, otherwise I would slap my thigh and cry to death!"
"The baits for the longline fishing are almost enough, and we can't waste it. I will release the longline later, and you can cast the net. With such a large school of sardines migrating, there must be big fish hunting for them."
"There must be big fish, but they won't bite the hook. These sardines are ready-made live bait. Let's put the hook to catch the small fish that can't eat sardines."
"Well, that's right."
Ye Yaodong quickly ran to the cabin to throw the net with his hands, tidying up while walking, the rickety hull did not affect his efficiency at all.
As soon as he arranged the hand-throwing net, he used the light of the headlamp to cast it towards the sea in the distance. The hand-throwing net was stretched to the maximum in his hand, and a large number of fish were caught at once, and he didn't need it. Stay and pull up directly.
The heavy fishing net made his arm muscles bulge, and the veins on his temples were bulging. Father Ye also hurriedly helped to pull it together.
The weight of this net is at least 200 catties, and it is even more difficult to pull it in the water. At this moment, Ye Yaodong thought that it would be great if there was a small net lifting machine? Then the efficiency will be high.
This sardine is cheap, the price is about 9 cents to 1 cent, it is not big, it is about 14 to 25 centimeters long, it is very flat, and it is light in weight. The amount is large!
At this moment, billions of sardines are caught casually in the sea, so it is called a big prize!
Father and son used the boss's strength to pull the sardines into the boat, and they threw them directly on the deck.
Ye Yaodong unfastened the opening of the net, and a large number of slender and flat silver fish poured out of the net directly, covering half of the deck.
"A lot!"
"Keep going!"
Father and son were so happy that they didn’t want to stop. It’s a rare opportunity. If you pull a net, you’ll get dozens of yuan more. There’s no suspense.
Ye Yaodong continued to cast the net, and once he missed his head, he actually caught two seabirds that rushed down to prey.
He continued to drag with Father Ye indifferently, and when a large number of sardines were pulled ashore, the two seabirds were also crushed to death.
All fell to the deck, and he realized that the two big birds didn't look right.
The light in front was not good and he couldn’t see clearly. When he cast the net, his attention was always on the sardines in the sea. When he got close to him, he realized that these two horses were gannets!
"Fuck! Dad!" He directly threw the gannet in his hand towards Father Ye.
This gannet is not small, with a body length of 150-160 cm and a weight of about 10-12 kg.
"Gannet?" Father Ye also recognized it.
They call it Gannet in dialect, but its scientific name is Spot-billed Pelican. It looks like a seagull, big and beautiful. Color, with an orange-yellow skin sac under the mouth.
Ye Yaodong thought it was a seagull at first, but he didn't expect it to be a gannet!
He said happily: "Good thing! I will cast a few more nets and net a few more by the way."
The seabirds are now flooded, all over the sea, usually flying in mid-air is not easy to catch, and they are also vigilant. At this moment, a large number of them are flying in mid-air to hunt for prey, a rare opportunity.
Father Ye’s old face is also full of joy. Fortunately, he brought a fishing net today.
Ye Yaodong aimed his headlamp at the location where he was going to throw the net, while arranging the hand-throwing net. After he was arranging, a large number of sardines gathered on the sea illuminated by the lights again.
He tried to throw the fishing net as high as possible and stretch it to the maximum. This time, he caught three greedy gannets and dragged them ashore together with the sardines.
Borrowing its phototaxis, with his unremitting efforts, more and more sardines on the deck are visible to the naked eye, and the number of gannets is also increasing intermittently.
Human strength is limited, and the strength in the hands of continuously pulling hundreds of catties of fishing nets will also be exhausted.
After pulling the six or seven nets, the father and son lost all strength, and their hands were sore.
At this time, the sky was also glowing with sunshine, and the two of them were tired and leaned against the side of the boat, and decided to stop for a while. If this is a net that has been cast by the fish for a day, they will not be able to lift their arms for a few days.
The father and son kept swinging their arms and looking at the sea in the distance. Both of them were reluctant to take their eyes off and sit down to rest.
Because the sky was bright, they could clearly see that besides some lucky boats that encountered sardines were desperately fishing on the sea, there were also many large fishes chasing sardines for predation.
It was dark before, and visibility was limited. Their attention was all on the sardines in front of them. Occasionally, the headlights would shine on large fish, but they could not see clearly after dawn.
There are a large number of various sharks gathered on the sea in the distance. Whales, dolphins, seals, marlins, ghost-headed swordfish, tuna, sailfish, swordfish, etc. are all rare deep-sea large fish. It's everywhere, emerging from time to time, all chasing and preying on sardines.
All kinds of seabirds also gather on the sea, and there is no end in sight.
Ye Yaodong exclaimed again and again, "Fuck, it's really a famous scene, worthy of being called a sardine storm!"
Father Ye's eyes weren't enough to see, it was the first time he saw such a spectacular sight so clearly.
"Dongzi, I'll go sail the boat, let's chase the fish, let's release the hook by the way, don't waste this great opportunity."
"Although there are many big fish, they are too late to eat sardines. Our bait is probably not very attractive."
"Try it, don't waste it, you can earn money if you catch one or two."
"Okay, those top-quality big fish are not easy to catch, and the smaller ones are probably not a problem. If you catch them, you will get money."
Maybe, maybe, maybe there's another chapter in the night...
As for what time it is, it depends on how old I am...
It is recommended not to wait, maybe a pigeon will be released? ? ?
(end of this chapter)