The sea was continuously calm and the sky was very bright and sparkling.. brilliant. It was a glorious day, with little sign of any storm clouds to come. The water looked like a big, emerald blue carpet. My brother-in-law started to catch a fish with his lure fishing rod, as shown on the picture, shortly after the captain had dropped the anchor about one nautical mile away from the port.
Most of the other members, however, were using a fishing reel with a longline with several hooks on it, usually used in deep sea fishing, respectively. Soon I was able to catch a frog flounder from the bottom of the sea, about 20 meters deep. Actually, there was no specific skills needed to hook fishes other than the bait. Since fishes, such as frog flounders like to hang around near the bottom of the sea, we put fishlines deep into the water as possible. We can estimate the depth of the sea by the feeling of the sinker touching the bottom through the line. The catched fishes are thrown into a water basin under the deck after being released from hooks.
The captain moved the ship frequently to other places to allow his fishermen and women to catch as more fishes as possible within the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea. If any fishing boat approaches the line, a Marine Police vessel ship near this area gave warning not to cross the line inadvertently.
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