Chapter 225 Toadfish
"Huh? It has a small one on its back."
Ye Yaodong put it on the ground, looked at it with its mouth still open, how familiar does it look?
"Fuck, this is a toad fish!"
He took a closer look, and instantly thought of what it was. No wonder he felt that the pole on its head was so familiar, and it looked so similar to the face of a toadfish. This horse is a toadfish.
Common toadfish are brown, but this one is suddenly black, no wonder they didn't recognize it for a while.
"Toadfish? Aren't all toadfish brown?"
"There are also black ones, which are relatively rare and of different species. It's disgusting, the big mouth is still moving there, and it's not dead yet. I'll give it a stick and let it die first."
Generally, they will kill the big fish that are pulled up first, lest some fish that are not completely dead will explode and hurt people.
The fish hadn't been recognized before, so they were curious and didn't move for a while.
After killing it, Father Ye wanted to take off the small one on its back, but found that it was stuck on it and couldn't be taken off. The small one was only three to four centimeters in size by visual inspection.
Ye Yaodong explained: "The one a little bit bigger is the male one, and the big one underneath is the female one."
Male toad fish will parasitize when they meet a female, and they will cling to each other until death, commonly known as eating soft rice!
Clamfish is the name of their local people. Its official name is anglerfish and anglerfish. It is a carnivorous fish at the bottom of the sea, and it is usually the most in winter and spring.
Their bodies are short and conical, but their heads are wide and flat, like a toad, with a big mouth filled with jagged sharp teeth, eyes on the back of their heads, and no scales on their bodies.
But there are low and round tumors on their foreheads, and it is these tumors that make them look "improper" and ugly.
The longline fishing he played last time did not use a float, but sank to the bottom to catch low-level fish, so he was able to catch this black frogfish.
The characteristic of this fish is that there is a fleshy protrusion above the head, like a small lantern, which is formed by the gradual upward extension of the first dorsal fin of the anglerfish. The reason why the small lanterns glow is because there are glandular cells in the lanterns.
Many fish in the sea are phototaxis, so they often use their small lanterns to hunt for food.
It has a lot of sticky mucus on its body, which makes people feel disgusting, but it is a kind of colloid. The fibers of the meat bubbles inside are very elastic. The skin is rich in colloid, which can beautify the skin and increase skin elasticity.
But also because it looks ugly and feels disgusting, so the price is very cheap.
"Ugly fish do more mischief, waste time, continue to reel in."
This one is so big, it will not cost more than five cents a catty at most, and the small one may only cost two or three cents a catty.
Ye Yaodong continued to reel in the line after muttering a sentence, but it turned out to be an empty hook, and the bait on it was long gone.
He didn't have much hope at first, it would be great to get these threads back.
Continue to draw in the thread, but found that another frogfish has been caught, this one is normal and brown.
It may be because of fishing for low-level goods. Except for most of the empty hooks, the remaining hooks are loaded one after another, and the freshness is quite good.
Although it is cheap, it is better than nothing.
He closed it, but found that the hook was a bit heavy, and he regained his energy immediately. As the line became shorter and shorter, both father and son saw a long white fish, which was pulled out by the shaking water. figure.
Father Ye was also surprised, "Tarpon!"
This fish can be caught not only in the sea, but also in some freshwater rivers. Tarpon has a migratory habit. It is distributed in the coastal waters of the ocean and the waters where the freshwater borders
Ye Yaodong grinned, and finally found a big fish, "Father, help me get a net here, this one weighs dozens of catties, so it's not easy to pull."
It may be because the time of taking the bait is too long, the activity of the big silver carp is not so good, and it feels a little bit more air out and less air in.
In the past, he had heard that when the big silver carp took the bait, it could easily jump 2-3 meters out of the water.
Just as he shortened the distance of pulling the line so that the fish was closer to the side of the boat for his father to catch, he saw a large group of tarpon jumping on the sea not far away, rising and falling one after another.
"Dad, look there."
Father Ye was holding a net in his hand and was about to lean over to catch fish, but when he heard his call, he looked in the direction of his finger in doubt, and was also surprised, "It's all tarpon?"
I saw that they jumped out of tricks, and they kept changing directions while leaping.
The tarpon's body is slender and flattened, like a heavy saber, with a silvery light and a chill all over its body.
This slender fish is good at jumping, and can change direction from time to time during the jump with the help of the extended fin rays on the trailing edge of its dorsal fin.
"Fill this one up first, and I'll put the buoy back on. Just as this fish is brought up, it just reaches the interface of a basket of branch lines. Untie the line and take it back. Tie the upper buoy back and throw it down to make a mark. Let's start the boat. Go over there and have a look."
This big silver carp is also very cheap. Although it looks delicious, in fact its meat is soft, rotten and prickly, and the meat tastes poor. It is usually pickled into salted fish.
But something went against our wishes. The father and son dragged the big silver carp ashore together, and when they got the fishing line done, they found that the group of big silver carp had stopped jumping and dived into the water.
Ye Yaodong didn't give up, he increased his horsepower and drove the boat towards the sea where they jumped just now.
Looking at the smaller and smaller figures under the sea, Father Ye quickly opened the hand-throwing net to the maximum. When the boat just sailed over, he had already arranged the fishing nets. When he arrived, he found them diving to the bottom of the water. Just throw it at speed.
After staying for a short while, the two of them pulled up together, and the biceps on their arms bulged.
"Damn it, it's so heavy."
Each one weighs dozens of kilograms, so it’s not easy to grab a few at random.
He felt that he needed a net lifting machine, and he couldn’t bear the strength of his arms to drag such a heavy cargo every two days. Originally, I thought that it would be winter, and the chances of going to sea would be reduced, and it would not be too late to wait until next spring, but now it seems that it is better to prepare in advance and put it there.
In case a big cargo or a big fish comes from time to time, the arm can't stand it.
The father and son bit their back molars and moved the net up little by little. There were only four fish in this net, but each one was more than one meter long, about 1.3 to 1.5 meters. Together, there are two or three hundred catties.
"I'll throw another net to see if there is any more."
"It should be gone, they may have all swam to the bottom of the sea."
Father Ye thought it was better to give it a try, but he didn’t expect it to be gone. This net only caught 4 soft silk and 9 prawns.
"Not bad, it's okay, it didn't fail, I can take it back to eat these few nights." Ye Yaodong happily picked up these few on the deck into the bucket and put them alone.
The soft silk and big prawns are good products for him, and all four of them like it.
Father Ye gave him a disgusted look, thinking about eating!
Ye Yaodong also saw the look in his father's eyes, and didn't take it seriously, how could he understand the joy of simple eating and drinking.
Tried a net and found nothing to catch, they went back to collect the hooks.
As a result, the two sea breams were stinky. They were kept for too long, and the hooks were swallowed deeper, and they died early.
The lines that will be received next are mostly empty hooks, and many fish have been broken free.
After receiving it, a few flatfish also came up, which are flounder and turbot.
Because left flounder and right flounder.
Plaice flounder has both eyes on one side of the head and no eyes on the other side. It has a strange shape and is easy to attract attention.
Lay the fish flat with its belly facing you. The one with the head facing left is the flounder (turkey) and the one with the head facing the right is the plaice, also called opium fish.
Ye Yaodong took two of them one after another and threw them directly into the basket.
1000 hooks only took him more than an hour. It was also because there were too many empty hooks, so today he saved a little effort. He didn't need to fight with big fish, and the speed was faster.
After all the ropes were disassembled, he checked the goods. In addition to the 4 tarpon caught by the hand-throwing net, the longline also caught 3, and there were two baskets of frogfish, a few little devils, and a few flounder. , are all bottom fish, and there are a few soft silks, which are barely enough.
"Father, let's eat first, and it's almost enough to drag two nets after eating."
"what time is it?"
In the past, when they didn’t have a watch, they didn’t check the time. They ate when they were hungry, and returned when the sun went west.
Now that I have a watch to tell the time, it is much more convenient.
"It's 11 o'clock."
"Um."
The two of them went to the cabin to keep out the wind, each took out the already cold lunch box, and ate in big mouthfuls. There was no condition, and they didn't pay attention to it, as long as they could fill their stomachs.
Fortunately, although it is cold, the food is really delicious and the portion is full. Going to sea is hard work, and eating enough is the most basic requirement.
Ye Yaodong began to think again while eating, maybe he could buy a coal stove when he went back, and then put the lunch box on it to heat it up, otherwise it would be uncomfortable to eat cold food in the winter.
You can also bring a small pot, bring a little fresh water on board, and throw some freshly caught shrimp and crabs into it to cook for extra meals. If you bring a small pot of rice wine, heat it up, drink two cups to warm your body, think about it It also feels beautiful.
Suddenly the cold food in his hand was not delicious, but he still had to eat, so he speeded up his eating.
Father Ye also accelerated when he saw this.
After eating, the two rested in the cabin for a while before going out to continue setting nets.
After the weather turns cold, it may be windy when the sea is mentioned, so hurry up and release the nets at this moment, and try to drag two more nets.
My tooth hurts all day, I don’t care to type, there is still a chapter that I haven’t finished yet, one hour late
(end of this chapter)