My fishing raft will ask for help.

Chapter 11: Stone 9 was an accident, the red snapper was the true love.

Zhou Miao glanced at the Antarctic shrimp in the bait cage. They had only been soaking for a short while, so the flavor hadn't completely dissipated.

He looked back again and noticed that the anchor rope had been pulled taut at some point, indicating that the small sampan had been pushed away by the waves, at least twenty meters away from the fishing spot. No wonder he couldn't catch any fish.

This was a bit of a problem, so Zhou Miao had no choice but to put the anchor back in place.

Today's waves are moving towards the coast from the southeast, so he used the fishing spot as an anchor point and sailed about twenty meters in the southeast direction before lowering the anchor.

In this way, the boat is pushed by the waves and can get to the upper part of the fishing spot.

Zhou Miao rebaited his fish and tried fishing.

Sure enough, after the bait sank to the bottom and I waited for about two minutes, I got another signal that a fish had taken the bait.

As I lifted the fishing rod, I felt a stronger force than when I was fishing for rock snapper. Could it be another mitten snapper?

He brought the fish up with a bad feeling, but he was a little surprised when the fish appeared on the surface of the water. It was a pink sea bream.

"Red sea bream?" Zhou Miao pulled the fish up and saw small blue spots on its pink scales, confirming its identity.

This red snapper isn't very big; it feels like it weighs only about five ounces when I hold it in my hand.

Wild red sea bream are very valuable; even small ones can cost 60 or 70 kilograms, while large ones can cost over 100.

Moreover, the upper limit is very high; a piece weighing three to five kilograms can sell for 120 yuan, and the larger it is, the more valuable it is.

Compared to rock bream, catching one red sea bream is almost equivalent to catching two.

Now Zhou Miao was hoping that the small red fish the fish raft mentioned was actually red sea bream, and that the stone goby was just an accident.

After collecting the fish, he looked at the somewhat crowded fish bucket and decided he should buy a fish basket.

Fortunately, the water tank is also on the boat, so if there are too many fish later, we can put them into the water tank.

With the bait cast, less than two minutes later, another red sea bream was caught, and this one was even bigger, probably weighing around seven ounces.

Alright, alright, so you're the real little red fish after all.

Zhou Miao was happy and fished even more enthusiastically.

However, early in the morning, as he sat on the boat catching fish one after another, he was inevitably seen by the owners of nearby fish farms and the anglers who came here.

Sure enough, after he had caught about ten red sea bream, a small boat came up beside him.

"Hey handsome, how's the catch? I was watching you catch fish from afar, and it made me really want to try it too."

There was a man and a woman on the boat who looked quite alike; they might be siblings.

The man looked to be in his thirties and must have worked at sea for many years, as he was very tanned, but his features were quite attractive.

The woman was also quite good-looking, and looked very young, like she had just graduated from university. I don't know if she was genuinely young or just had a youthful appearance.

However, the legs and buttocks under the jeans were quite nice, one straight and the other perky, and Zhou Miao subconsciously glanced at them a few more times.

He was wearing a loose T-shirt, so you couldn't really tell what he was wearing.

"The fish are biting pretty well this morning, you can try fishing at the spot next door."

Zhou Miao was polite but kept her distance, not wanting to share the resources here with others.

But the sea isn't his own; he can't drive away anyone who tries to force him to stay.

"Okay, thank you."

Luo Hao noticed Zhou Miao's attitude, thanked him, and steered the boat to the side a little, bringing the distance between them to about twenty or thirty meters.

If you're just fishing for small fish along the shore, this distance won't affect each other.

The young woman seemed a little annoyed by Zhou Miao's attitude, muttering under her breath after the boat had sailed away, "What kind of attitude is that!"

"That's normal. If you found a good fishing spot, you wouldn't want to share it either," Luo Hao explained with a smile when he saw that his sister was a little unhappy.

Luo Qianqian pouted: "Honestly, you had to come and join in the fun. I watched for a long time and still couldn't see what kind of fish he was fishing for. They were obviously just small, worthless fish. What's so great about catching them?"

"The fish are a bit small, but they're not small fry!" Luo Hao pointed in Zhou Miao's direction.

Luo Qianqian looked over there and saw Zhou Miao carrying a pink sea bream. She was slightly surprised: "Is it a red sea bream or a snapper?"

"It should be a red sea bream. I didn't see two particularly long dorsal fins on its back," Luo Hao said after squinting for a while.

The term "jiaji fish" used by Luo Qianqian is a general term for several types of sea bream. In fact, black sea bream can also be called black jiaji fish, and red sea bream is called red jiaji fish.

However, here they refer to the red sea bream as a separate species, and the two-spined prawn sea bream as the red snapper.

This type of fish has a less delicate texture than red sea bream, and it is also much cheaper.

Moreover, this type of fish doesn't grow very large, unlike red sea bream which can grow to over 20 pounds.

"Then we really came to the right place! Quick, quick, brother, get ready to start fishing, I'll film you." Luo Qianqian immediately picked up her digital camera.

After graduating from university, she worked as a laborer for a year, but couldn't keep it up, so she came back to help her older brother run a fish raft. She usually does live streams and posts videos to attract viewers, which is what is known as a post-2000s generation returning to their hometown to start a business.

Today is Monday, and there's no business at the fish farm, so Luo Hao brought me here to fish. I never expected to find a spot for red sea bream in the waters along the shore.

If she catches a lot of fish and sells them, she can earn some extra pocket money.

Zhou Miao also noticed that Luo Qianqian was filming a video, which reminded him of what he had seen and heard in the past few days.

Given similar overall conditions, it seems that fish rafts where young girls take selfies or work tend to have better business than others.

Of course, this is just the conclusion he drew from his observations over the weekend; the specific situation still needs to be observed over a longer period of time.

However, when it comes to attracting traffic online, pretty young girls do have an advantage.

Tsk tsk, I wonder how much it would cost to hire some minor internet celebrities to dance suggestive dances on the fishing raft. If it's cheap, I could hire a few to attract traffic in the future.

Regaining his attention, Zhou Miao continued fishing, but as the temperature gradually rose, the fish's bite became unstable, sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Sometimes you can catch fish one after another within ten minutes, and other times you won't catch any fish for most of the time.

In addition, small fish and pufferfish occasionally joined in the fun, so Zhou Miao did not manage to fill his basket by 11 o'clock.

The fish are too small, so it's quite difficult to fill both the bucket and the tank.

Now that the time has come, the fish should have stopped biting completely.

Zhou Miao put away his fishing rod and roughly counted the number of red sea bream.

There were twenty-three fish in the water tank, all between five and eight ounces in size, none of them weighing more than one pound.

Although the quantity wasn't overflowing, visually it looked like there were quite a few fish in the box.

Apart from the five-ounce red sea bream that was thrown in first, the rest of the fish in the bucket were all rockfish.

Zhou Miao didn't count it, and it was difficult to count.

He stowed the anchor and then sailed back to the fishing raft in his small sampan.

It's not a good time to sell fish at midday; it's better to go to the market after 4 PM to sell them, so I'll just keep them here for now.

After confirming that the oxygen in the water tank and fish bucket was running, Zhou Miao locked the door and returned to shore.

While there were still people at the market, he quickly rode his tricycle over there.

I bought a piece of pork belly first, then some vegetables, as well as ingredients like scallions, ginger, and garlic.

Zhou Miao decided to use the kitchen in the house.

Moreover, he's a decent cook and prefers to cook for himself.

While buying groceries, he also went to the seafood section pretending to buy fish and inquired about the prices of seafood.

Especially the rock bream and red sea bream, which will be sold in the afternoon, so you must find out the details beforehand.

After getting a general idea of ​​the market prices, he bought rice and noodles, put them in the back of his tricycle, and took them home with him.