After failing the college entrance examination, I relied on fishing to reach the top of my life

The sky was clear and on the blue sea, a fishing boat was driving forward through the wind and waves.

After sailing at full speed for most of the day, Qiyuan 01 has been more than 100 nautical miles away from the mainland and arrived at the domestic maritime exclusive economic zone. Another 100 nautical miles further will be the high seas.

Su Mo's ship is a single bottom stern trawler, which is also the mainstream of trawlers in the world.

Single bottom and stern trawl, as the name suggests, is a single bottom and stern bottom trawl.

Its principle is to use a fishing boat to drag a large net to catch bottom fish in the ocean.

The principle seems simple, but the actual operation requires the cooperation of the crew and the captain's driving skills.

When it comes to cooperation, who can compare to soldiers who train together all year round?

As for driving skills, Jianghu is even more top-notch.

At noon, except Jiang Hu who was driving the fishing boat and the person who was preparing lunch, the remaining four crew members came to the backstage deck at the stern of the ship.

As the large trawl filled with floats and sinkers was moved to the deck, all preparations were completed, and Su Mo's first trawl operation was about to begin.

"Get ready, get off the net!"

At Su Mo's order, two strong crew members lifted up the heavy mesh bag and threw it into the sea.

Immediately, the 60-meter-long net snaked into the roaring sea like a python.

As time passed by, a strong wind of about level 6 blew on the sea, and the fishing boat began to rock up and down.

If you are not a person who goes to sea all year round, you will definitely be unbearable at this time. Not to mention working, you may not be able to stand firmly.

Even though Su Mo had undergone systematic transformation and his physical fitness was far better than that of ordinary people, he still felt a slight discomfort in his stomach at this time.

But in order to become Neptune, he would have to adapt to these sooner or later.

Soon, all the big nets were lowered into the sea, and the two steel wire ropes as thick as children's arms, connected to the fishing net at one end and the winch at the other, were gradually straightened under the action of the pulleys.

At this time, the other two crew members quickly untied the two thick hemp ropes on the side of the ship, and then pushed the two water dividing boards that had been adjusted to the deck.

Trawl water board, also called trawl board.

It can adjust the mouth size, tension and bottom depth of the fishing net in the sea. It can be said to be the core component of the trawl operation.

"thump"!

As the two diverting boards mounted on the cables were launched, the steel cables continued to be lowered into the sea, and the fishing boats began to increase their power to trawl.

Generally speaking, there is no clear standard for the time of each trawl operation, and it is entirely up to the fishermen themselves.

When it feels almost done, you can close the net.

But will we definitely be able to catch a lot of fish?

of course not!

Although the boat was equipped with a fish finder, in this era, this equipment was far from as advanced as it would be a dozen years later.

It can only play a supporting role and relies more on the captain's judgment of the fish school.

You don’t know how many fish you can catch with this net and what kind of fish it will be.

Maybe one net can catch tens of thousands of catties of fish, including expensive catches such as large yellow croakers, or maybe there are just some small fish and shrimps in the net, which are not worth much at all.

This requires experience and even more luck.

With the work of lowering the net completed, the 60-meter large net was successfully rolled out in the sea, and then all we had to do was wait for the fish to get into the net.

Then Su Mo took the crew back to the cabin.

The sun on the sea was so harsh that even if they all wore sun hats, they were all sweating profusely.

Fortunately, the boat was equipped with a shower room and air conditioning. They took a bath comfortably and then waited for their meal in the air-conditioned room.

The lunch was very sumptuous. In addition to meat and vegetables, each person was given two oranges.

This can supplement the vitamins needed by the body and is a must-have item for ocean voyages. Zhang Yuemeng purchased it very carefully.

At the dinner table, these retired soldiers were a little excited. They had served in the navy for many years and had long been accustomed to life at sea. As a result, they returned to work on land as soon as they retired, and they were very uncomfortable.

Now that Su Mo has recruited them, not only the salary is high, but also commission.

Moreover, the living standard on board is not very good compared to other fishing companies, so they are very motivated and hope that everyone in Sumo will have a good harvest.

After lunch, the crew members began to take turns replacing Jianghu and returning to rest in order to maintain sufficient energy for the afternoon net collection work.

After a sufficient lunch break, around two o'clock in the afternoon, Su Mo began to direct the crew to close the net.

"Boom!"

As the huge winch started working, within a short while, the several hundred meters long wire rope was gradually pulled back.

Soon, the two water-dividing boards were pulled back to the ship, one on the left and the other on the right. Two crew members immediately climbed onto the side of the ship, carefully fixed them, and then worked together to lift them back to the ship.

This thing isn't cheap, but you can't break it.

After the water-dividing board was removed and the net bag ropes were pulled onto the boat, the six crew members plus Su Mo began to get busy. They gradually flipped the nets over the side of the ship and fixed them to prevent them from getting tangled together. Oh no.

After several back and forths, the big net was basically pulled onto the boat.

As for how many fish can be caught in the first net, it will be known soon.

For a moment, the hearts of all the crew members were lifted up.

They really want to know how many fish are in this net bag, which is related to how much commission they can get.

At this time, a heavy net bag was lifted out of the water and placed on the boat.

As the mouth of the net was untied, the catch inside was scattered on the deck.

There are all kinds of eels, sea bream, swimming crabs, nine-segmented shrimps, some of which are hard to name, and there is even an oversized manta fish...

These add up to about one or two thousand kilograms.

Not much, considered a low-level gain.

Moreover, these fish are of average variety and not much valuable.

This is the result of fishing by luck, and everything depends on your appearance.

Su Mo has long understood that just relying on luck to make money is not enough.

As long as he can find a suitable sea life and sign a contract, he can share the other person's five visions, and it will be much easier to find fish schools at that time.

He can even command the contracted creatures to drive fish into the net, which is so cool!

So he refused the crew's proposal to catch another net, and just asked them to sort the fish and put them in the cold cabin to keep them fresh, and then they could rest.

It seems like this is how the first day at sea will be spent.

At ten o'clock in the evening, according to the satellite navigation, there happened to be a very small uninhabited island nearby, so Su Mo decided to anchor there for a night's rest.

And just after dinner, Su Mo was relaxing on the deck, but he saw something that made him overjoyed.

I saw a killer whale chasing a shark on the blue sea!

"Is this an opportunity?"

Su Mo immediately became interested!