Fisherman Fubao made his fortune by fishing

Chapter 228: Summarizing Experiences to Make Progress

"Why are they all broken fish?" Erdan complained.

Nao Nao picked up a female bighead carp with a ribbon and threw it back into the water. "Where are there so many big ones? If big ones can be caught easily, would they still be valuable?"

Biaozi agreed and said, "The water here is shallow, there are not many good fish, and even those who go out to sea can only encounter big fish occasionally."

The sun rose to mid-sky, and the sea was sparkling, dazzling people. No wonder people who fished in the previous life all wore sunglasses.

Calculating that the time was about right, Li Yuer began to collect the crab cages.

It feels heavy when I put it in my hand and I can't pull it up. What's going on?

Naonao, who was standing nearby, saw this and came over to help. “I’m a boy. I’m stronger than you. Let me help you.”

Li Yuer handed the rope to Naonao, "Thank you, brother Naonao."

“Hey?” Nao Nao pulled it and found it very heavy. His body swayed a bit. He changed the angle and began to pull slowly and hard. “There must be a lot of stuff in there. We can’t pull it too hard. It’s easy to break it and drop the rope and the person in it.”

Biaozi and Erdan looked over and said, "What's that heavy? Could it be that it got caught on a jellyfish? Those are the most annoying things!"

After pulling for a while, the crab cage finally floated to the surface.

"Oh my god! Green shell! I saw Green Shell." Erdan shouted with sharp eyes.

Biaozi handed the fishing rod to Erdan and started to help Naonao pull the crab cage. Erdan also wanted to come over and take a look, but he couldn't move with two fishing rods in his hands.

The seafood in the crab cage jumped around so much that you could hear a crackling sound, like the sound of crab claws.

This cage of seafood was very heavy and almost broke the crab cage apart. This dynasty did not have the strong nylon ropes of later generations. Most of them were hemp ropes with limited load-bearing capacity.

The crab cage has started to come untied in many places, some of the hemp ropes have been caught by the iron clamps, and some have been deformed by being pulled. In short, this crab cage is basically scrapped.

There were a lot of miscellaneous seafood in the crab cage, including oysters, snails, a giant sea eel, and a big green shell.

They were all attracted by the fishy smell of the pig skin, and went in to grab the food and couldn't get out.

"Open it later. There are some ferocious things inside. Wait until they have exhausted their strength before opening it." Nao Nao reminded.

Erdan said enviously, "Yubaoer, you are so lucky. You caught a green crab in one cage. If we had known earlier, we would have brought a crab cage with us."

Biaozi said: "That's not necessarily the case. All crab cages can catch green shells. It depends on luck. You get what you can."

Nao Nao said: "The green shell likes to hide among the reefs under the water. It was probably attracted by the pig skin. The crab cage happened to be sunk to the reef area under the water, so it went in."

"Yes, moray eels also like to hunt among the reefs." Biaozi looked at the moray eel that was as thick as an adult's arm. "This moray eel is not small, probably no less than five kilograms. How did it get in there?"

Erdan said: "The moray eel has a soft body, similar to a snake, and can get into a hole as big as a fist. It likes to eat meat the most, and will eat any rotten fish or shrimp."

After a while, the crab cage finally became quiet. Naonao started to open the crab cage and take out the seafood inside. He put the good ones into the bucket and threw the unwanted ones back into the sea.

A few wild pigeons flew quickly over their heads. Li Yuer said enviously, "It would be great if we could catch one."

Nao Nao looked up at the wild pigeons circling in the sky and said, "It's hard to catch them, but we can go to the pigeon pond to get the eggs. I don't know if they can hatch."

Li Yuer thought, when he gets the chance, he will go to the pigeon pond to get the pigeon eggs, and then go home and let his cousin's old hen Huahua hatch the eggs. He will give it a try, and what if he succeeds?

By then, she will have a carrier pigeon.

She asked Nao Nao and the others, "Do you usually have a designated spot for fishing?"

Erdan shook his head, "Yes and no, it's just a few places I'm used to going to, there's no specific location."

Li Yuer thought, it's true, and asked again: "When do you guys go out fishing?"

Biaozi said casually: "It depends on my mood and the weather. I can go fishing whenever I want."

Li Yuer nodded, once again confirming her guess.

In fact, there are methods and tricks to do anything, whether it is farming, fishing or sea fishing, but the person doing the work needs to be good at summarizing experience and thinking.

Any skill in this world is a science. For example, an experienced fisherman can tell the future weather by looking at the sky.

In the coastal areas of Northeast China, there is a saying that goes, "Clouds move westward and drown old hens." This is an empirical saying based on observing clouds and predicting the weather, and it contains a wealth of scientific knowledge.

As the clouds move westward, moisture and cold air from the ocean in the east pass through the inland, where cold and warm currents converge to form severe convective weather, bringing heavy rainfall.

Although the ancients who summarized this sentence did not know this scientific principle, it did not affect their use of it to predict the weather and avoid risks at sea.

Similarly, fishing is also a science.

The ocean seems to have no boundaries, but marine creatures have a strong sense of territory. It is important to know which marine creatures live in which sea area and how they live.

For example, the giant grouper, also known as the spotted grouper, likes to live in coral areas or reef areas. It hides during the day and comes out at night. It likes to live in burrows, and adult fish generally do not live in schools.

If you want to catch groupers, you have to follow their habitat habits. Night fishing in the reef area is the best way to catch them.

Giant groupers like to live in burrows and do not live in groups, so the probability of catching them by casting a net during the day is very small.

Therefore, it is difficult to accurately catch the desired fish by fishing casually like Nao Nao and his friends.

Li Yuer watched Erdan throw a sharp-headed fish back into the sea dejectedly and asked, "Have you ever fished at night?"

"Night fishing? Fishing at night?" Erdan asked in surprise, "Isn't it dangerous to fish at night?"

Li Yuer asked: "What's the danger?"

Biaozi said: "It's easy to fall into the water if you can't see clearly. There may be wild animals on the beach at night."

Li Yuer said: "This shouldn't be a problem. If you are familiar with the tides and you fish at night on the reefs in the water, it shouldn't be a problem."

Nao Nao thought for a while and said, "There is a reef area very close to the shore to the east. It won't be submerged even when the tide is high. It's very large and spacious, and it's not connected to the land. We can go up to the reef in the evening in a small boat. It's dark now, and there won't be any wild animals on the beach that can swim to the reef. When it's daybreak, we can go back."

Biaozi asked in confusion: "Isn't there enough fish for us during the day? Why do we have to fish at night?"

This time, Erdan agreed with Biaozi's idea and nodded, "That's right. Wouldn't it be nice to sleep at home at night?"

Li Yuer smiled and said, "But the giant grouper likes to hide during the day and come out at night."

"How do you know that groupers hide during the day and come out at night?" Erdan didn't believe it.

"My grandparents said so. If you don't believe me, let's go fishing at night and find out."

"Then... I'll go!" Nao Nao was the first to agree. He felt that Li Yu'er was always very smart and her ideas were always successful.

Seeing Naonao leaving, Erdan and Biaozi expressed their willingness to give it a try.

So, a few people agreed to go night fishing tomorrow night.