The subsequent fishing process was not too complicated; it was simply a matter of wearing down the fish's stamina. After a few minutes, it was time to start fishing for the white fish.
After feeling the tension on the fishing rod decrease, Bai Yu's mood changed drastically.
He immediately grabbed his fishing rod and started reeling in the line at a high frequency.
After all, he had clearly seen that this guy had come up from the seabed to the surface. Even if he reeled in the line quickly, this guy shouldn't have experienced a loss of internal pressure.
This benefits Bai Yu greatly, as he can retract the line without restraint, without having to acknowledge any potential risks.
With just a few dozen meters of fishing line, Bai Yu only took three to five minutes to drag the creature to the side of the boat, and Bai Yu and the others were able to see the species of the creature as they had hoped.
"Hey, Fisherman, you've got some amazing luck! You actually caught a longtail snapper this time. This is such a big longtail snapper, it must be the biggest longtail snapper we've ever caught, right?"
When Bai Yu dragged the guy to the side of the boat, Li Shuang was already waiting with the landing net, so he was the first to see what the guy looked like.
The longtail snapper is truly beautiful; it's the kind of creature that you'll never forget once you've seen it.
Even though Li Shuang hadn't fished for sea bream for a long time, he still recognized it immediately.
Just as Bai Yu had estimated, this guy weighed around 30 to 40 pounds. The weight didn't seem too heavy, but the guy was actually quite large.
Putting everything else aside, its body length alone is nearly one meter long. If you add its unique long tail, the total length is almost two meters.
"Wow, this longtail snapper is really beautiful! Its tail is incredibly long, and look at its color, so vibrant! I can never get enough of it!"
Just as Bai Yu said, the beauty of the longtail snapper is definitely top-notch in the ocean.
In addition to its high intrinsic value, it's no exaggeration to say that you can look at it endlessly.
For anglers in particular, catching a longtail snapper is definitely something to be happy about.
The longtail snapper that Bai Yu caught was exceptionally large. Although it did not exceed the record for longtail snapper, it was still the largest longtail snapper they had ever encountered.
After Li Shuang scooped the fish onto the deck, Bai Yu took the longtail snapper, removed the hook from its mouth, and then pulled out a bloodletting knife, slashing it below the fish's fin.
Although live fish are the most expensive, especially for high-end seafood like longtail snapper, the price of live fish far exceeds that of frozen fish.
But today is only the first day at sea, and they will be on the ship for another five or six days. It's not certain that the longtail snapper will survive such a long time.
Therefore, to avoid any further complications, Bai Yu decided to send this guy to paradise beforehand and store it in a cryogenic chamber.
Although Li Shuang and the others felt a little reluctant to see Bai Yu cruelly destroy the fish, they didn't say much. After all, this was the best way for the longtail snapper to die; the sooner it died, the sooner it would be reborn.
Having caught this longtail sea bream, Bai Yu packed up his rod and stopped fishing.
It wasn't that he didn't want to continue fishing, but it was almost midnight, and it was not far from time to have a late-night snack. He planned to continue fishing after dinner.
After processing the longtail snapper and sending it to the freezer, Bai Yu didn't return to his fishing spot but went straight to the kitchen to check on the progress of the midnight snack preparations.
When it comes to late-night snacks on fishing boats, chefs usually keep things simple, especially in the current situation where there are more than forty people on the boat. They'll try to make it as simple as possible.
For example, tonight's late-night snack is noodles, seafood noodles made by the chef. The only troublesome thing is that the noodles are hand-pulled.
The seafood is all common seafood, such as shrimp, squid, sea hare, baby octopus, scallops, and the like.
Some of these supplies were prepared before the fishing boat set sail, while others were caught by the people on board while the boat was sailing.
When Bai Yu arrived at the restaurant, the chef had just finished cutting the dough for the hand-pulled noodles and was preparing to cook them.
Making a late-night snack for more than forty people is no easy task, even for something as simple as noodles.
Especially if you don't have a big enough pot, you can't cook enough noodles for more than forty people at once, so you have to cook them in batches.
As the saying goes, it's better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early. Bai Yu and the others arrived at just the right time. They were the first to arrive at the kitchen and the first to eat the seafood noodles. They got a share of the first batch of noodles cooked.
After finishing this late-night snack, it was already midnight, and the date was January 6th. A new day had begun.
For others, it was just a late-night snack, but for Bai Yu, his luck level was refreshed as midnight approached.
The luck value of number six is quite good, it has increased compared to number five, rising from thirty or forty to over fifty, which is now over fifty.
After seeing their luck stat increase, and considering that the latter half of the night is the prime time for fishing, the four of them, after finishing lunch, went back to their fishing spot at the stern of the boat without taking a break, and prepared to fish with their fishing rods.
Compared to the fishing situation in the first half of the night, Bai Yu made some changes to his fishing strategy for the second half of the night, replacing all of his fishing gear except for his fishing rod.
The fishing line was replaced with a giant fishing line, the hooks were replaced with hooks specifically for catching large fish, and the bait was also changed. He got two squid weighing about one pound each from the fishing boat crew.
He plans to guard a big fish late tonight, hoping to improve his game results by getting a big win.
There was no way around it; it's no wonder Bai Yu was so eager to improve. His performance in the first half of the night was really not good. He only managed to catch about fifty jin (25 catties) of fish, which would place him in the teens among the thirty fishermen on the boat.
This ranking is just an estimate, not the real-time results, but it shouldn't be too far off.
This is unacceptable for a seasoned angler, especially one who's practically cheating.
So in the second half, Bai Yu planned to catch a big fish to improve his score, aiming to be in the top five no matter what.
After all, he's a man with a system, and with over fifty points of luck today, he should be able to catch a big fish no matter what.
Putting everything else aside, he would be content as long as he could catch a fish weighing over fifty pounds.
For the second half of the fishing trip, some people chose to fish all night, while others chose to go back to the crew cabin to rest and prepare for fishing later.
Those who choose to rest understand the principle that sharpening the axe won't delay the work of chopping wood. They believe that after a good rest, their performance will certainly be good.
However, there is one thing these people don't know: for sea fishing, there is a golden fishing time, which happens to be in the latter half of the night.
Then they chose to rest during this time, and it's unclear whether this was a good or bad choice.
Bai Yu and his companions didn't pay much attention to this situation; they were focused on their fishing business.
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