Everyone sat at the door to bind firewood. The straw ropes were freshly twisted, and the thin branches were broken and bundled into small bundles, and then put aside.
Then Ye father and Ye mother tie the fishing net on three fixed bamboo pole supports, leaving only a tapered opening on the outside of the fishing net, and hanging a bunch of branches in the center of the net as an ovipositor.
Cage type or branch type has better egg attachment effect.
The cage type can effectively prevent a large number of squid eggs from stacking together without affecting the spawning of squid. And it can effectively protect squid eggs from being destroyed by other marine organisms.
In fact, if you want to breed squid, now is the best time.
After catching the squid, you can also take back the branches with eggs attached to them for incubation and cultivation, maximizing the benefits.
But at this time, there was no concept of breeding, and no one knew how to breed, neither did Ye Yaodong. He planned to take back the attached branches after the spawning period passed.
Squid eggs are also called squid eggs, and they are also good things.
Several children were there to help carry, put the bundled branches on the cart and pile them up, and some also helped to fold the branches.
Bored, Lin Guangyuan was dragging a bunch of branches to him and folding them, "Why do you need to tie so many branches to catch squid?"
Ye Chengyang asked innocently: "Do squids eat branches?"
"It will hang the rice in its stomach on the branch, we can catch more squid by taking the opportunity."
Squid and the seeds in the squid’s stomach are called rice because they are similar to rice.
The children seemed to understand but half understood, and Ye Yaodong didn't explain much.
After a while, Mother Ye asked them to eat. After eating, they continued to work until it was dark and they were still working with the lamps on.
Father Ye and mother Ye finished helping Ye Yaodong and then went to help Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua. They didn't go back to the old house to sleep until they were all done and cleaned up.
At night, the father and son, the four, and the two boats all headed for their familiar sea areas.
Squids like to lay eggs near the outlying islands. Ye Yaodong still drove the boat to Oarfish Island, which is the outlying island he visited most often. Moreover, he found a large number of dead squid that had laid eggs outside this island the day before yesterday. .
This shows that the water quality around the island is very suitable for squid spawning, which is of course the first choice.
Ye Yaodong looked around with the faint light of his headlamp and flashlight, and stopped within 50 meters around the island.
Just when he was about to put in the sprig, Father Ye stopped him, took a bucket of seawater, and poured about two catties into the soup pot. He also patted the pot twice with his hand, only to see some There were five or six spots of light.
Ye Yaodong was surprised, "What are you doing, Dad?"
"This is an old method. The light spots inside are noctilucent insects, which can judge the fishing season of squid. When 2 to 5 light spots emitted by nocturnal insects, the squid flood season begins. When the number of light spots reaches 10 to 15, it means that the squid is prosperous. The flood season is here."
Sure enough, the **** is still old and spicy.
"It means that the flood season has just begun, and it's not yet at its peak."
"Yes, the goods will only increase day by day."
"Ginger is still old and hot, I learned."
Father Ye was a little complacent, "You still don't understand a lot."
"Well, I started to play?"
"Let's put it, don't put it too deep, the effect is better within ten meters from the sea surface, and when the squid swims over, we can see it clearly on the sea surface, remember to put it evenly."
"okay."
If you should listen to the old man's words, you have to listen to the old man's words.
Ye Yaodong took out a bundle of attachments, connected and fixed them with ropes, and tied sinker ropes and floats, and threw them into the sea evenly, keeping them about five meters below the water surface.
After all the votes were finished, he cast a buoy to mark.
It is necessary to mark these things in the sea, otherwise it will be difficult to find, and having marks can prevent you from becoming a headless chicken.
Father Ye watched from the side, feeling very satisfied, and felt that his effect was great again, "Just put it down, the effect is not so fast, come back after noon, the squid spawning time is usually from noon to evening, and the harvest is relatively large during this time period , This is everyone’s fishing experience for many years.”
"Understood, then go to drag the net and come back after 12 o'clock."
Because he wanted to catch squid today, he didn't collect bait. Anyway, the trawling net has been good recently, and he has to collect the ground cage. Has anyone been hit by the waves and stuck in the crevice of the reef?
It will be less than four o'clock in the morning, and the sky is still pitch black. Although it is close to the reef, it is not suitable for entering the water.
After the boat sailed for a certain distance, Father Ye dragged the prepared fishing net to the tail slide and slowly lowered it.
Generally people are pretty good, as long as they don’t deliberately find fault, most of them avoid it, and no one wants to deliberately find trouble.
After Ye Yaodong saw it, he also kept his distance. Several lessons taught him to keep in mind, stay away from fishing boats at sea without any accidents.
Wait until the sky is bright before they plan to play the first net.
Just as they slowed down and were about to pull up the net, they saw many fish carcasses floating on the sea surface at the stern of the fishing boat, and two large fish floating up and down. The dorsal fins exposed on the sea surface seemed to be sharks?
"Dongzi, raise the net again later, go and get your throwing net, and cast a net to see."
"Okay." He also saw those fish in the sea.
One of the father and son took the net, and the other drove the boat back to the side, and then cast the net completely, covering the shark and the fish floating around.
After waiting for a few minutes, I borrowed the rolling wheel to roll up the hand-throwing net effortlessly.
As soon as they were dragged to the front, they saw the fish wrapped in the fishing net.
"They are all skinned fish, only a few small yellow croakers."
"Pull up first."
The two worked together to roll up a large bag of fishing nets with a rolling wheel, dragged them to the deck to untie the fishing nets, and poured them all out, only to find that the fish had cut wounds on their bodies.
Ye Yaodong didn't care about looking at those skinned fish, and took the lead to kill the half-dead shark with a stick, so as not to explode and hurt people when he was dying.
Father Ye squatted down and picked up a few skinned fish, looked through them, and he knew them all, and the shark next to him had more obvious wounds.
He threw the fish in his hand and said: "These fish should have been hit by the propeller at the bottom of the boat. They should have encountered a school of skinned fish just now. When the boat passed by, the propeller at the stern directly cut the fish school under the water at high speed. .”
The fish that fell on the deck not only had wounds cut by the propellers, but also were cut into two halves or several sections, and even cut into minced meat.
Ye Yaodong also picked up a few and looked at them. They really looked like the marks of being cut by the propeller. The skinned fish also had poor eyesight, and could only see 12 meters at most. It was relatively blind. It was normal to hit the propeller.
"Father, cast a few more nets and catch all those in the sea to dry, don't waste it."
"Then cast two more nets and catch that shark by the way."
These fish have cut wounds on their bodies, and they can no longer be sold at a price. They are either used as bait or used to dry. It just so happens that the stock of dried fish at home is almost bottoming out.
Originally, this fish was not popular. There are many good fish in this era. It is more troublesome to peel the skin to eat.
Peeled fish has a rough, frosted, tough and elastic skin that must be peeled off before eating, so it is called peeled fish. The official scientific name is horse-faced fish, but no one calls it. They are all called peeled fish. .
However, decades later, marine resources were gradually depleted, and even dog spitfish was on the table, and the status of skinned fish naturally rose.
Especially the dried peeled fish, which is expensive and delicious!
Father and son have seen it before, and don’t waste it. They cast five or six nets in a row to catch all the fish in the sea, most of which are skinned fish.
These fish are really cut in pieces, and the intact fish also have slight cutting marks.
There is no need to sort them. They are all taken back for their own use anyway. They are all poured into baskets and then pushed to the corner. There are quite a few of these skinned fish. There are 4 baskets piled up, and some of them weigh almost 200 catties.
The two sharks also have cut marks one by one. The cuts are very uniform, just like a fish with a flower knife. It's very beautiful!
The father and son were also carried into the basket and piled together.
After finishing, they have time to start the net lifting machine and drag the fishing net from the seabed up.
With the harvest of skinned fish just now, Ye Yaodong thought that this net would definitely be indispensable, but he didn't expect that when he dragged it up, he found that it was all mackerel, and only a little skinned fish was on the top of the net.
"It should be just met, it's in this area, so there is only a little bit on the network port."
"Mackerel is good, mackerel is worth a little money," Father Ye said as he untied the net mouth and poured it out, "It's also the fishing season for mackerel recently, and your elder brother and second brother have also dragged a lot of mackerel recently. .”
"It's good if you can make money, and the quantity with high price is small. Later, I will drag a net in the surrounding area later. Skinned fish is cheap, but the quantity is large, so it doesn't matter if you net more."
Skinned fish all swim in groups, and large fishes are their natural enemies. When the myopic skinned fish finds their natural enemies, it is too late to escape. To preserve the population, they can only swim in groups.
Enough quantity can make some skinned fish in the group escape, and the population of skinned fish can survive.
This feature is also the reason why the price of skinned fish is close to the people, because once it is caught, it will be a group when it is salvaged. If there is enough output, the price will be cheap.
After the fish arrived, they arranged the fishing nets and put them down. Then they sailed the boat alone and sorted the fish alone.
Walking around the sea area where the propeller hit the skinned fish just now, he saw that the time was almost up, and it was almost noon before he drove to the sea area next to him.
For the last net, he had to use the last bit of time to sail the boat not far from the reef before he was ready to set up the net.
It’s two o’clock the next day, don’t wait to stay up until dawn, and sleep all afternoon, the work and rest are too dark recently