Of the three hundred hooks, fish had taken them one after another, leaving only thirty or forty empty. By the time Ye Yaodong hauled them all in, his lower back ached, but the catch was impressive.
Apart from the Blue Melon Grouper, he had caught ten Red Conger Eels, along with some Black Seabream, Sea Bass, Yellow Drum, and Spanish Mackerel weighing one or two jin apiece. Just as he had expected, 𩾃 Fish made up the largest share.
But steering the boat, hauling in the line, and rebaiting the hooks before lowering them again was far too much for one person to juggle. It was too inefficient.
He glanced toward A-Zheng and Xiao Xiao, who were working in the distance. They were too far away to see clearly, but he could still make out one steering while the other set the line. They were working at an easy pace.
He shook his head. There was no comparison. Those two had to split their earnings, while he kept everything himself. Once he got a bigger boat, he could hire someone.
After hauling in the line, he immediately took the two baskets of mainline aboard and joined them to the tail end of the mainline in the sea, attaching the buoy ropes and stone-weight ropes as well before lowering them into the water. Once both baskets of mainline he had brought today were in the sea, he tossed out the tail anchor and buoy.
With those extra two hundred hooks, he now had five hundred in the sea. He still used small shrimp as bait on the first three hundred, but baited the last two hundred with Sea Centipedes. When some were too long, he cut them into sections with scissors before hooking them.
He had heard Sea Centipedes were an