After the bait was released, everyone started chatting again.
Robert and Tom were clearly still arguing and ignoring each other.
Fu Wan was too lazy to persuade them anymore. They were both almost twenty years old, and they might end up calling each other brothers after getting off the ship.
"Hey, I've got a fish!"
In a different sea area, the first to take a bite was Fu Ming.
He was a little excited and kept shouting.
"Haha, my wife was right, I really had good luck today!"
Despite saying that, he dared not relax his efforts in the slightest.
The fish underwater was clearly quite strong. Fu Ming let it run, but fortunately the line on the reel hadn't run out yet. The fish seemed to get tired and stopped pulling.
Seeing this, Fu Ming quickly reeled in the line. The fish below was hurt by the line again and suddenly started pulling on the line to the side.
"Xiaobai, excuse me, excuse me!"
Fu Ming was shouting, and Bai Qianzhou, seeing this, hurriedly grabbed his fishing rod and started reeling in the line while walking away to a more distant place.
I'm afraid the fishing lines of the two fishing rods will get tangled together.
After more than ten minutes of pulling, Fu Ming's neck was covered in sweat.
My arm muscles are so sore.
"Brother, what do you think? Should we change the player?"
Seeing this, Fu Wan asked.
Fu Ming shook his head and gritted his teeth, saying, "No need, I can hold on a little longer."
"Anning, put some water on my wheels, they're practically smoking!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Anning hurriedly picked up the kettle and went over to him. After another tug-of-war, Fu Ming had almost exhausted his strength.
Just then, Bai Qianzhou had already put away his fishing rod. Seeing that Fu Ming looked like he couldn't hold on any longer, he quickly stepped forward and took the fishing rod, giving him a chance to rest.
As soon as the fishing rod was taken from him, Fu Ming put his hands on his waist and gasped for breath.
"Damn it, I wonder what kind of fish it is, it's really strong!"
"Could it be another grouper?"
Fu Wan boldly guessed that the fish had been darting around wildly just now, and Fu Ming, holding the fishing rod and pulling the fishing line, had walked around most of the deck.
Fu Ming shook his head, panting. He couldn't explain it either. He just hoped that the fish wouldn't go into the rocky cave and not come out, otherwise the fishing line would break and he wouldn't be able to pull it back up.
As they were talking, they heard a commotion coming from Jack's side.
At the same time, Fu Wan also felt the fishing rod in her hand suddenly sink.
She quickly gripped the fishing rod with her right hand and reeled in the line with her left before the fish underwater could start pulling.
After reeling in about ten meters, the fish in the water suddenly exerted its strength, and the fishing rod was immediately bent over.
Fu Wan straightened up and slowly pulled up the fishing rod. When she found that the fish was still darting downwards, she let out a few more meters of fishing line.
Once the fishing line was no longer taut, Fu Wan reeled it in again.
This back-and-forth stalemate lasted for more than ten minutes.
Meanwhile, Bai Qianzhou switched back to Fu Ming.
Seeing that Fu Wan had also caught a fish, Bai Qianzhou stopped casting his line and instead waited beside her, ready to take her place to rest at any time.
"Wow, I caught a fish!"
Jack cheered, and Robert slammed a large fish hard onto the deck with a hook.
Fu Wan had almost used up her strength by this time. After handing the fishing rod to Bai Qianzhou, she picked up the water bottle and took a couple of sips of water.
Catching her breath, Fu Wan took a look at the fish that Jack had caught.
It was at least a meter long and looked somewhat like a yellowtail amberjack, but Fu Wan could tell at a glance that it was not a yellowtail amberjack, but a five-striped amberjack.
The five-striped yellowtail, also known as the oil-striped yellowtail, is fatter and more robust than the yellow-striped yellowtail. Its pectoral fins are located below the yellow longitudinal stripes on the sides of its body, with obvious gaps in the middle.
Correspondingly, the yellow-striped amberjack's body is flatter than that of the five-striped amberjack, there is no gap between its pectoral fins and the yellow longitudinal stripes on its body, and its mouth opens at a much wider angle than that of the five-striped amberjack.
Furthermore, the entire back and tail of the five yellowtail are grass green with a hint of brownish-purple.
It is called the Five-Striped Yellowtail because when this fish is young, it has five dark horizontal stripes on the sides of its body. As it grows, these dark horizontal stripes gradually disappear, leaving only a dark golden stripe running from its snout to its tail.
Compared to yellowtail amberjack, five-striped amberjack has a sweeter and richer flavor, and is richer in fat. However, five-striped amberjack in summer is not as fatty as in winter, and its taste is slightly inferior.
Five-striped yellowtail is generally a bit more expensive than yellowtail. Fu Wan estimates that this five-striped yellowtail should sell for around a hundred yuan.
Image showing the differences between two types of yellowtail (image removed due to copyright infringement)
"Awan, come water the plants."
Bai Qianzhou's voice rang in her ears, and Fu Wan instantly snapped back to her senses, picked up the water bottle and poured a stream of water over the reel.
"Give me the rod, I'm ready to rest."
Fu Wan rubbed the muscles in her arms, but Bai Qianzhou refused, saying, "I still have strength, and I should be able to pull this fish up soon."
If Fu Wan hadn't already had a standoff with this fish, she would have been fooled by his words.
"Give it to me, you can rest too."
Judging from Bai Qianzhou's appearance, he looked quite exhausted.
Fu Wan took the fishing rod and immediately began a standoff with the fish underwater.
Just then, Fu Ming finally pulled his fish to the surface.
Robert stood beside him, visibly excited.
"Oh God, it's a ruby!"
"Ruby? Haha, I love that name!"
Fu Ming's smile remained unchanged, and he felt a great sense of accomplishment.
After struggling for an hour, we finally managed to pull up this bigeye snapper, which weighs at least five or six pounds.
However, in the blink of an eye, a dark shadow suddenly approached in the water.
Fu Ming's heart sank, and he immediately sensed something was wrong.
"There's a shark, Robert, get the hook!"
Upon hearing this, Robert hurriedly picked up the iron hook next to him and stretched it out, while Fu Ming also desperately lifted the fishing rod upwards, trying to lift the bigeye snapper directly onto the deck.
However, it was too late by then.
A shark leaped out of the water with its jaws wide open, biting off most of the bigeye snapper's body before sinking back into the water.
All that's left is a bald fish head, hanging precariously on the hook, silently mocking the fish.
"Damn your ancestors for eighteen generations!"
Fu Ming cursed angrily, but the shark in the water glanced at the fish head on the hook, then seemed uninterested, flicked its tail and leisurely disappeared into the sea.
Fu Ming was as happy as he was about the fish he had caught, and now he was just as furious.
Damn sharks, they're creatures that live like fish but have no fish to raise. They just leave a bald head on every single one of them.
Damn it, it would be good to leave him some fish!
I fished for an hour, and it all went to a shark!
Fu Ming was so angry that he wanted to jump into the sea and fight the shark to the death. Robert was also dumbfounded; it was the first time he had ever encountered a shark directly stealing his food.
Even if Fu Wan heard the commotion here, she had no time to pay attention, because the fish on her side were slowly being brought to the surface.
Bai Qianzhou, who was standing nearby, kept a close eye on the movement on the water. When he saw that Fu Wan had already pulled the fish up, he hurriedly picked up the hook and waited, afraid that the shark would come over again because of the smell.
"This fish looks pretty big. Quick, someone come and get another hook!"
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