In the sea devil by arthur Gordon why does the man fish by night?

Answer 1

He enjoys the loneliness and labor of it.

He liked the clean taste of salt when he gripped the edge of the net with

his teeth as a cast netter must. He liked the arching flight of sixteen pounds of lead and linen against the starlight,

and the weltering crash of the net into the unsuspecting water. He liked the harsh tug of the retrieving rope around

his wrist, and the way the net came alive when the cast was true, and the thud of captured fish on the floorboards

of the skiff.