Qin Aijun's eyes lit up: "A croaker, and it's quite big, a good one!"

Upon hearing this, Yang Wei's face flushed with excitement, and he quickly asked, "How much is it worth?"

He was very envious of the big yellow croaker that Cai Guoqiang caught; one of them could sell for 20,000 yuan.

Thinking about my salary, it's only three or four hundred yuan a month. How many years would I have to work to save up that much money?

Upon hearing that this fish was a valuable item, they immediately placed high hopes on it.

"The bigger the croaker, the more valuable it is. A croaker weighing over 100 kilograms can sell for 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, while a small croaker weighing only a few kilograms is not worth much, only one or two yuan per kilogram."

"Wow, is the difference that big?"

"It is indeed quite outrageous, but that's the market rate."

Yang Wei asked eagerly, "How much can I sell this for?"

"Your croaker is quite heavy, probably between 60 and 70 jin (30-35 catties). How about 8,000 yuan?"

With Xiao Chen's help, Qin Aijun pulled the giant croaker onto the yacht's deck while talking.

Yang Wei's eyes were full of surprise, and he couldn't stop smiling: "Sure, sure, whatever President Qin says is fine."

Hao Aiguo looked at him enviously: "You're really lucky to have caught such a valuable fish."

Zhongcheng joked, "Now that you have this fish, are you still thinking about the giant grouper? I've heard you nagging about it for days."

"Why wouldn't you be interested? Are you afraid there will be too many good fish?"

Yang Wei retorted, his eyes lighting up again.

Qin Aijun laughed and said, "A grouper isn't as valuable as a bighead carp. A grouper of this weight is only worth a few hundred yuan."

"Wow, grouper is so cheap!"

Yang Wei was a little surprised, but then he said, "But I heard from Xiao Feng that grouper are big, some weigh several hundred kilograms. If you catch a big one, you can make a lot of money."

"Grouper is actually quite cheap, even expensive, but compared to those rare and good things, the difference is too huge."

"This croaker doesn't look very appealing, so why is it so expensive? Is it very delicious?"

Cai Guoqiang, who was squatting down to examine the large croaker closely, looked up and interjected.

This question was also on the minds of the others.

"You're mistaken. The meat of the croaker is only average..."

Listening to Qin Aijun's explanation, Feng Ye silently added in his mind: "The sin is the swim bladder in its belly."

He has already completed collecting all seven Yellow Croaker Brothers cards; it's crystal clear.

He didn't participate; he bled the horned bream he had just caught and then continued fishing.

However, it seems he's got a knack for dealing with strange fish; the next fish he encounters is also an oddly shaped one.

This is a batfish, also known as a round swallow.

Its appearance... well, let's just show you the picture.

Batfish that doesn't look like a fish

Batfish are ugly, even somewhat abstract, but they are not useless; they can suppress large clumps of seaweed that are very harmful to coral reefs.

Because its diet includes not only fish, shrimp, and squid, but also seaweed.

In addition, it is also an ornamental fish, which is very popular among aquarium enthusiasts.

Batfish are intelligent. After a period of time, they will quickly become familiar with their owners and will even dare to take food from people's hands.

When Feng Ye saw the fish, he was a little confused and couldn't figure out how he had caught it.

How does it bite the hook with its very cute, round mouth that looks like a child's?

When they pulled it up, they found that the hook had gotten caught on its lower jaw, not that it had taken the bait.

It's likely that it got caught on the hook while eating the bait.

Unfortunately, the fish had no value for food, and he had no intention of keeping it, so he could only release it back into the sea.

The others were busy catching fish and didn't notice what he was doing.

After releasing the batfish, Feng Ye turned around and noticed that they had all released yellow chicks.

They're all quite large, weighing about one or two pounds each.

They were shouting and yelling, busy as bees.

As soon as the hook is cast, fish will bite within two or three minutes, and there are often two or even three fish biting.

The price was reasonable, so it's no wonder they were so excited.

However, these things are not very big and are too common. Whenever you encounter them, there are large groups of them, and you can catch them until you're sick of it.

Feng Ye wasn't particularly interested in that; he preferred large, rare, and valuable items.

Therefore, he used bottom fishing, while others fished very shallow, casting their hooks only twenty or thirty meters deep.

The place they were in was actually quite deep, so even when bottom fishing, they only let out about 100 meters of fishing line.

So-called bottom fishing does not actually sink the hook to the seabed, but rather adjusts the fishing rig so that the hook with bait is suspended one or two meters above the seabed.

Due to the water flow, the bait will sway in the water, attracting fish that like to forage at the bottom.

Although the frequency of catching fish is not as high as theirs, every cast brings back a decent catch, and occasionally some rare species can be caught.

Sure enough, the fishing rod suddenly sank again, indicating that the fish was quite large.

"Wow, you've caught another big fish."

Yang Wei tilted his head and saw that Feng Ye's fishing rod was bent into an arc shape, and said with some envy.

"It's not very big, maybe thirty or forty pounds at most."

As soon as Feng Ye got his hands on the fishing rod and felt the pull, he could roughly tell the weight of the fish.

"Why are all the fish you're catching so big, while we can only catch these little guys?"

“I’m bottom fishing, and how deep are you fishing? If you want to catch big fish, you have to fish deeper, so that the small fish in the shallows don’t steal the bait.”

Feng Ye then suggested, "The deeper the water, the bigger the fish; it's that simple. You can also try bottom fishing; you might be pleasantly surprised."

Yang Wei nodded: "Then I'll give it a try later."

"Bottom fishing requires patience; the fish won't bite that quickly. If you don't have the patience, don't even try."

As they spoke, Feng Ye was also carefully handling the fish.

The fish struggled fiercely, and the fishing line was stretched taut, making a "sizzling" sound.

It would suddenly exert force every now and then, trying to break free of the hook.

However, no matter how much it struggled, it could not escape the fate of being pulled out of the water.

Feng Ye chuckled and raised his fishing rod: "Boss Yang, the grouper you've been longing for has arrived."

"So this is a giant grouper?"

Yang Wei's eyes widened as he peeked out to examine the object closely.

"Hmm, it's a pity it's not big, maybe 25 jin at most."

"Didn't you just say it weighed thirty or forty pounds?"

"Grouper is strong and has explosive power, so the weight you feel when playing it will be inflated."

"This fish has very sharp teeth, isn't it very fierce?"

"That's right. The giant grouper is the most ferocious of the groupers. It is very aggressive and has a large size. It can be considered a tyrant in the sea."

"I'm using bottom fishing now, hoping to catch one too."

Feng Ye smiled and didn't tell him that grouper are territorial and there couldn't possibly be a second one in this area.

Let him try, with just a sliver of hope.