My fishing raft will ask for help.

Chapter 194 Spring is noble and Autumn is cheap

Lunch was simple today, but Zhou Miao enjoyed it very much.

He never expected that yellowtail, which he thought was only suitable for sashimi, would taste so good when cooked, and even wondered if only yellowtail was this delicious.

However, the braised dish, due to its rich sauce, causes the ingredients to lose their original freshness, leaving only the aroma of oil.

After filling his stomach, Yu Muzhou continued sailing towards his destination.

This time, the yellowtail amberjack moved quite a distance out to sea, and he couldn't catch up even after sailing for three hours.

Just over ten minutes after setting sail again, a huge school of fish suddenly appeared in the fish finder, and Yu Muzhou immediately slammed on the brakes.

"Quick, quick, quick! There's a school of fish in the upper water layer."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Miao jumped up from the sofa, grabbed his fishing rod, and began to prepare.

I pressed the small electric reel against the side of the boat and quickly hooked up a small squid to start fishing.

The moment the bait hit the hook, the rod gave a signal that a fish had taken the bait.

Because the fish were in the upper water layer, the electric winch brought the fish to the surface in just one minute after it was started.

Yu Muzhou didn't fish; instead, he waited beside Zhou Miao.

When I discovered it was a blue-spotted mackerel, I immediately lost interest.

"Mackerel? No, no, let's keep sailing and chase the yellowtail school."

"This is a blue-spotted mackerel, right? This fish looks pretty good!" Zhou Miao asked doubtfully.

"This stuff is expensive in spring and cheap in autumn. In summer and autumn, the seawater temperature is high, and mackerel grow quickly, but the meat is loose and has a stronger fishy smell, so it doesn't taste good."

"Mackerel should be eaten in the spring; fish raised in cold water have a milky flavor."

"Mackerel only costs a dozen yuan per kilogram on the market now, so there's no need to fish for them if you want to make money. Unless you have a trawler and can bring back several tons."

After explaining, Yu Muzhou quickly went into the cabin and continued sailing.

More than ten yuan per kilogram?

There was indeed no need to sell, but Zhou Miao still chose to continue fishing.

These mackerel are not large, weighing only about three pounds, making them perfect as bait.

So, before the fishing boat had completely left the area of ​​the fish, Zhou Miao took the opportunity to catch more than a dozen fish.

Unfortunately, the fish migrate with a purpose and do not follow the boat as usual.

After Zhou Miao stopped catching fish, he turned his rod further inside and went back into the cabin.

"Brother Zhou, since we're already out to sea, if we can't find yellowtail amberjack, we can go oil fishing!"

"What oil belt? That's a Bohai knife!" Yu Muzhou corrected again without turning his head.

Zhou Miao nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes, fishing for Bohai knife fish. This stuff retails for five or six hundred yuan a kilogram, and good quality ones can sell for over a thousand, which is much more outrageous than the price of oil belts. When we go fishing, we have to fish for this."

"Bohai knife fish are rare, so don't count on that. You're better off fishing for yellowtail instead."

Although the Bohai knife fish is expensive, it is naturally not as attractive to Yu Muzhou, a fishing enthusiast, as the yellowtail amberjack. Therefore, he never even considered fishing for this kind of small and weak fish.

When he goes out to sea, the fish he most wants to catch are tuna, swordfish, marlin, and yellowtail.

GT is fine too. It may not taste good, but it's powerful and feels good in the hand!

It's just that the Yellow Sea is too cold to encounter it.

Zhou Miao didn't care about being rejected. If he could find the yellowtail amberjack again, he would actually earn even more.

"Holy crap, what's going on today? Why am I running into a school of fish again?"

A dozen minutes later, Yu Muzhou spotted another school of fish.

"Could it be a yellowtail amberjack?" Zhou Miao quickly went over.

"Impossible, these fish are all concentrated at the bottom of the water and are not active enough," Yu Muzhou said, pointing to the bottom of the fish finder screen.

"So, shall we go fishing or not?"

"Go fishing! You need to know what kind of fish it is!"

Encountering a school of fish and not taking a bite to see what's going on is not Yu Muzhou's style.

So he stopped the boat again, came to Zhou Miao's side, and watched him operate the electric winch.

We're still hanging small squid, but this time we're going to sink them to the bottom, to a depth of 120 meters.

After a while, a flounder that was more than half a meter long appeared on the surface of the sea.

Its body is somewhat rhomboid and flat, but it appears quite thick when viewed from the side.

Zhou Miao's eyes lit up; it was actually an emperor fish.

This should be a type of flounder, and it's also the largest flounder in China, growing to over a meter in length.

Zhou Miao had seen them at the market in Nanzhen; they usually weighed seven or eight jin each.

Good quality ones can sell for 81 kilograms at retail, while those that are less fresh can still sell for 50 or 60 kilograms.

Emperor fish is delicious when steamed, and its meat quality is in no way inferior to that of high-quality cod, nor is its nutritional value.

"I didn't expect it to be this kind of fish. I might as well try fishing for it."

Seeing that it was an emperor fish, which he had never caught before, Yu Muzhou immediately became interested and quickly went to the living room to take out his fishing rod and start fishing.

He still used the manual method, just like yesterday.

Although the fish were in a bit deep, he didn't fish much, and this fish wasn't as fierce as the yellowtail.

But for Zhou Miao, one electric winch was too inefficient, so he took out another heavy-duty electric winch as well.

I simply changed the leader and hook, specifically targeting these emperor fish that are over half a meter long.

I simply changed the leader and hook, specifically targeting these emperor fish that are over half a meter long.

Fishing with two rods at the same time is quite efficient.

Although there were no simultaneous catches, they managed to catch one fish after another, albeit one after another.

Like with the yellowtail amberjack, Zhou Miao bleeds the fish.

However, the amount of blood from the emperor fish is small, making it much easier to process.

The density of emperor fish was quite good. Zhou Miao fished until evening and caught a total of thirty-seven fish, each weighing an average of seven or eight pounds, which adds up to nearly three hundred pounds.

Unfortunately, after 5 p.m., his two electric winches stopped working.

Just as Zhou Miao was about to put away his fishing rod, the heavy electric reel suddenly sank, and the angle of the downward bend was significantly greater than before.

His eyes lit up; he hadn't expected there to be fish, and a big one at that.

If it were a meter-long emperor fish, it could be worth three or four thousand.

Zhou Miao quickly pressed the button, allowing the electric reel to reel in the big fish.

Coincidentally, Yu Muzhou, who had gone back to the living room to rest, suddenly remembered what Zhou Miao had mentioned about the cryogenic chamber that morning.

Since I had nothing better to do, I decided to go out and see what he had caught last night.

As soon as he stepped out of the cabin, he saw that he had hit a big one again.

"Wow, you've got another good find!"

"It looks average, maybe 40 or 50 pounds at most!"

"..."

Heavy-duty electric reel reels in the line very quickly, and fish weighing forty or fifty pounds have virtually no chance to resist.

As the number on the screen rapidly decreased to single digits, several thick tentacles intertwined on the water surfaced.

Next up was a head that was as big as a yoga ball.

"Holy crap, you caught a Suluk?" Yu Muzhou's eyes bulged out. He never expected that Zhou Miao would catch such a rare treasure.

"Wow~ What a huge octopus! This is the first time I've ever seen one like this. I heard it's a snack from sperm whales!"

"What the hell are these snacks!" Yu Muzhou said, both amused and exasperated.

But Zhou Miao's words weren't wrong; this deep-sea octopus from the Pacific Ocean is indeed one of the sperm whale's food sources.

However, he was indeed very lucky, at least the octopus was edible. As for another sperm whale snack, the "giant squid," I heard that its meat tastes like toilet cleaner and is not suitable for consumption.

It must be tough on sperm whales, having to eat toilet cleaner every day.