Chapter One Hundred and Three: Pumping Iron Plates

The "Bang Dong ......" carton was thrown in front of Hong Tao's eyes, and judging from the sound coming from inside, the box should contain metal items.

"Mr. Ueno said that your iron plate is too small to use, so let you try his." Zhou Xiaoli conveyed the meaning of the commercial captain to Hong Tao on the side.

"Damn, this is an iron plate? Isn't this a machete!! Hong Tao opened the cardboard box, startled, between the box contained a large pile of shiny metal strips, he picked up a gesture in his hand, half a meter long, very much like the kind of dog-legged knife used by the underworld to cut people in the movie.

Iron plate fishing is a very commonly used fishing method in sea fishing, the reason why it is called iron plate fishing is mainly because its bait is not our common feed bait, or commonly used small fish, small shrimp, nor the kind of fake bait made of plastic to imitate small fish and shrimp, but a piece of metal strip.

The length of this metal strip ranges from more than ten centimeters to tens of centimeters, and it is generally made into a long strip, with two ends and a wide middle, which is somewhat similar to the body shape of a fish. Its surface is usually colored, and it is very bright and reflective, so that when thrown into the sea, it resembles a small fish, and with the upward and downward lifting of the angler, the small fish comes to life, thus luring the fierce fish in the vicinity to attack it.

At both ends of this iron fish, there are usually 2 or 3 hooks or spear hooks, so that when the fish chasing it bites it, the hook will hook the fish's mouth.

Unlike the timid and easily frightened character of freshwater fish, most of the fish in the sea are very fierce guys due to the living environment, so they will not go back and forth on the side of the bait like their freshwater relatives to test whether the bait is safe and edible, because in this way, it is likely that other fish will rush up and snatch away the food in front of them, and they should be hungry, so as long as they find something similar to food, they will bite the food first at the first time, with the fastest speed and the most ferocious posture. Then you can discern whether the thing in your mouth can be eaten.

And the sea fisher, is to take advantage of the habit of marine fish, through a piece of broken iron, they are caught, even the time to make bait is saved, you say how bad this person is, how wronged these fish are, really can't be blinded to death!

Because it is necessary to imitate the movements of small fish, when fishing with an iron plate, the angler needs to keep pulling the rod up and down to make this iron plate move back and forth in the seawater, and try to imitate the movements of the small fish to increase its temptation, so iron plate fishing is also called "pumping iron plate".

Just looking at the above description, you may think that it is very easy to draw the iron plate, holding the fishing rod to move around, the left hand is tired to change the right hand, the right hand is tired to change the left hand, in fact, everyone thinks wrong, the iron plate is really a strength work, this iron plate alone has dozens of grams or even hundreds of grams of weight, and it has to be put into dozens of hundreds of meters of water, the weight of the pole plus the weight of the iron plate plus the resistance of the water, it is really not just a hand can be lifted.

Hong Tao was looking at the iron plate in his hand at this time and worried, which is this iron plate, he took a closer look and found that the iron plate that Ueno gave him was not the kind of industrial product sold in the fishing tackle store at all, it was a stainless steel bar, the two ends were ground into a sharp round shape, and it was like a big shuttle in his hand, and the weight was probably more than a catty, and there were two huge spear hooks hanging in the middle and tail.

"Will this thing work?" Hong Tao looked at the iron plate, and then at his arm, a little vague. But he can't refute Captain Ueno's face, he only gave this kind of iron plate to Hong Tao, not even Muraichi and Yae, whether it is easy to use or not, he has to try it with his nose.

When the fishing line was about 100 meters, Hong Tao felt a force coming from the pole, and his iron plate was intercepted by the fish in the sea halfway. Before he could quickly determine whether he had really hit the fish, the 400-gram iron rod bent its head, and the huge force almost twisted Hong Tao's wrist.

"I'm X!" Hong Tao scolded the country, quickly put the tail of the pole on his stomach, and then grabbed the shaft with both hands, shouted with both arms, and shouted:

"You get up for me......"

The tip of the rod is not moving! Still bent straight down.

"Rise up, the way! Rise up, the road! Ueno lay on the driver's floor and shouted desperately at the top of Hong Tao's head. Hong Tao understood this sentence, which was one of the few Japanese sentences he learned, which means "to lift the rod, to lift the rod"

"You get up for me......" Hong Tao kicked the side of the boat in front of him with one foot, sat back with all his strength, tightened his forearms desperately, and planned to lift the fishing rod, at this time, if the fishing line was broken, he would hit his head backwards on the driver's floor, and he would have to afford a big bag if he didn't get dizzy.

The fishing rod finally moved, Hong Tao quickly shook the fishing wheel to reel in the line, and then repeated the action just now, lifting the rod a little, and reeling a little line.

“@%¥#@!” Ueno's shouting came from overhead, but this time Hong Tao couldn't understand what he was shouting.

"Kill the brakes! He told you to kill the brakes of the fishing boat! Zhou Xiaoli translated Ueno's meaning to Hong Tao in a timely manner, and in hindsight, this sentence is very important.

"Got it!" Hong Tao freed his left hand, stretched out to the front of the fishing wheel, and tightened the brake of the fishing wheel clockwise for 2 turns, until it could not be screwed, so that the automatic pay-off function of the fishing wheel was gone, and now Hong Tao and the big fish in the hook underwater entered the state of life-and-death decisive battle, either the big fish pulled the fishing line off, or it was pulled up by the flood!

The reason why humans can occupy this earth is mainly because they will use tools, so despite the desperate struggle, the fish under the water did not escape the clutches of Hong Tao in the end, and after nearly ten minutes of confrontation, a slightly dark red figure has approached the surface of the water.

Once this deep-sea fish is pulled out of the water layer where it lives, it basically loses its combat effectiveness, because of the sudden loss of water pressure, their internal organs are greatly damaged, if you catch fish from a deeper water layer, their internal organs will spit out of their mouths, like a big tongue, and their eyes are bulging and exposed, which is very funny.

Pulling the fish down to the side of the boat, Ueno had already run down from the cockpit, holding a hook more than 3 meters long in his hand, skillfully probing into the water, hooking the fish accurately, and then lifting the fish to the deck.

"Damn, don't shake me, I have to rest, I'm so tired." Hong Tao hurriedly stopped Zhou Xiaoli, who was making up for it, and sat down as soon as he didn't care whether there was water on the deck.

Before the warm-up, it was a big fish more than half a meter long, and after ten minutes of all-out fighting, Hong Tao's tongue was spit out of his mouth, snoring like a pug, and he only had to pant when he sat on the ground.

"Hey...... Feed...... 29 pounds, you're so good, get up...... Get up...... Keep fishing. Zhou Xiaoli and Ueno weighed the red sweet fish together, and happily ran back to pull Hong Tao up from the ground.

"No, I'm bored, you go to play, I'll help you when you get on the fish." Hong Tao is actually barely able to fish, but he is afraid that if he gets on such a fish again, then he will really have to throw the pole, and now his two hands are still trembling.

"Okay, I'll try, I'll catch a fish bigger than you." Zhou Xiaoli was obviously infected by the scene of Hong Tao and the big fish fighting just now, picked up Hong Tao's fishing rod, and under Hong Tao's language guidance, she also stood on the side of the boat and began to draw the iron plate in a similar manner.

As soon as Hong Tao's side stopped, on the other side of the boat, Mr. Yae's very characteristic voice sounded, it seemed that they were also fishing on their side, Hong Tao's curiosity overrode the fatigue of his body, and he got up from the deck and ran over to see the excitement. The fish in the middle is Muruichi, at this moment he is holding a rod in one hand and shaking the reel vigorously in the other, looking at the way he controls the rod with one hand, the fish below should not be too big. In a moment, the fish was pulled to the surface, and this fish Hongtao had never seen before, and its body was red and fat. I don't know anything, there is a fish map on the bridge, Hong Tao ran up to look for a long time, and finally determined that this is a red scorpionfish.