After chatting with Hu Tao, Bai Yu and Wang Hai went to the stern of the boat to prepare for fishing in this familiar spot.
The area at the stern is quite large, but if you look at it in a smaller way, the space is indeed a bit too cramped.
When Bai Yu and Wang Hai arrived, no one was fishing at the stern of the boat.
Currently, there are only two groups of anglers on the fishing boat: one group consists of Bai Yu and his dozen or so people, and the other group consists of another seven or eight people.
It's only a little past seven in the morning. Another group of anglers just stayed up all night fishing and are resting in the crew cabin now.
The group of people fishing on the deck right now are all people that Bai Yu and Wang Hai know. They all know that Bai Yu and Wang Hai like to fish at the stern of the ship, so no one is fishing there right now.
Arriving at the fishing spot at the stern, Bai Yu took out his fishing rod from his tackle bag. It was the same setup as last night, and his goal for today was still to catch a fish weighing over 100 pounds.
The bait was the same as last night, using sea shrimp, but this time the sea shrimp he used were larger, even larger than the 2030 size.
Unfortunately, the bait for mackerel and giant squid is too expensive. Instead of buying a one-pound fish bait, it's better to buy some large shrimp. One pound of shrimp can catch several fish.
After casting his line, Wang Hai and his crew followed a similar routine, using the same fishing line and bait for catching large fish.
After waking up today, Bai Yu made a point of checking his luck value for the day, as it was crucial to what kind of fish he could catch and how many fish he could catch.
Upon seeing that he had 41 points of luck left, Bai Yu had a slightly different idea.
That's because since the upgrade of the system, it has added a search function, which allows you to find schools of fish and other treasures on the sea.
Baiyu had used this function before, but it was all done on fishing boats, using the fishing boats' fishing capabilities to find schools of fish and generate revenue for his company.
They are currently on a fishing boat, which is not equipped with nets. Even if they find a school of fish, they won't be able to catch them.
Are you suggesting that they can't fish with just a few people, one rod at a time?
Believe it or not, that's exactly what Bai Yu was thinking. He wanted to use his search ability to find a school of fish, then have them swim towards the fishing boat so they could go fishing.
The only thing that made Bai Yu a little unsure was whether, even if he found a school of fish, it would swim towards the fishing boat.
Even if they swim over, how long will they stay near the fishing boat? If they don't stay long and just pass by the fishing boat, how many fish can they catch?
However, to determine whether his idea will work, we still need to take actual action and see the actual situation.
After considering the search results for a while, Bai Yu decided to invest 20 points of luck to search for a school of croakers.
Even if the fish only pass by the fishing boat, he can still keep 21 points of luck for future fishing attempts, even if he only uses 20 points of luck.
As Bai Yu entered twenty points of luck into the input box and clicked confirm, the search function's little radar started spinning.
Three seconds later, a green dot appeared on the search function's display panel. This dot was not too far from the fishing boat where Bai Yu and the others were, only about seven or eight nautical miles away.
After the radar detected the school of fish, the fish, which had been swimming towards Dongsha, immediately changed course and began to swim towards the fishing boat.
They really did swim over, just as Bai Yu had predicted, and they came straight for the fishing boat!
At a distance of seven or eight nautical miles, given the swimming speed of the croaker, it would take about half an hour for the other party to reach the vicinity of the fishing boat.
During this time, Bai Yu focused on fishing. If he was lucky enough, he might be able to catch several fish in half an hour.
Before he could finish speaking, Bai Yu clearly felt the fishing rod in his hand suddenly sink, and then the fishing line started to drift outwards.
With such an obvious reaction, Bai Yu didn't need to think much; he knew that a fish had taken the bait!
In response, Bai Yu immediately grabbed the fishing rod and jerked it upwards, first setting the hook firmly in the fish's mouth, and then dealing with the rest.
Bai Yu is quite professional when it comes to setting the hook on fish; he always finds the right moment to set the hook perfectly.
With just one lift of the rod, he could clearly feel the weight on the rod, the sensation of a fish being hooked.
"Wow, I'm in luck! I've only been casting my line for a short time, and I'm about to catch my first fish!"
"Brother Fisherman, you've always been incredibly lucky. With your fishing method, who else but you're going to get rich!"
Wang Hai, who was standing nearby, saw Bai Yu catch the fish and echoed her sentiments with a hint of envy.
As one of Bai Yu's few childhood friends, Wang Hai has a lot to say about Bai Yu's luck in fishing.
Take the giant fish that Bai Yu has caught in recent years as an example. Wang Hai's saying, "If you don't get rich, who will?" is absolutely true.
And it's not just big fish; with other catches included, the total amount of money Bai Yu has earned over the years is definitely no less than two million.
Earning two million in five or ten years—what kind of job can earn so much money?
The fish that Bai Yu caught this time wasn't very big, at least in Bai Yu's opinion; it only weighed about six or seven pounds.
Bai Yu wasn't going to be polite to such a big fish and immediately grabbed his fishing rod and started fishing.
A fish weighing six or seven pounds is just a small carambola; even if it were to fight head-on, it wouldn't take up much of his energy.
With each cast of the line, Bai Yu pulled the fish onto the surface of the sea in just a few minutes, and a red sea bream appeared on the surface.
When Bai Yu saw this fish, he was helpless. His helplessness was not because the red sea bream was not good enough, but because of other reasons.
You should know that the fishing line set that Bai Yu uses is designed for catching giant fish. Whether it is the strength of the fishing line or the size of the hook, he is aiming for a hundred-pound giant.
But in the end, they only caught one red snapper weighing six or seven pounds, which was a bit disappointing.
You said that the mouth of a red sea bream isn't that big, so why would they bite the hook? Just for a bite to eat, they're willing to swallow a hook that's bigger than their own mouth.
Although Bai Yu felt sorry for the fish's desperate act of dying for food, he still took the landing net from the side and scooped the fish onto the deck.
Then they quickly drained the blood from the fish and also removed its gills.
His action of removing the gills prevented the red sea bream from swelling due to loss of internal pressure.
Bai Yu happily put his first catch of the day into a styrofoam box, then took out another shrimp, hooked it on his hook, and cast his line again.
When it comes to fishing, whether you're fishing for freshwater or saltwater fish, once you get a bite, the fish will almost certainly follow.
At this moment, Bai Yu was just like that. After he caught his first red sea bream, it didn't take long before he caught fish on his second cast.
He wasn't the only one catching fish; Wang Hai was also catching fish, although his catches were much smaller than Bai Yu's.
This is probably related to the fishing hooks they use. White fishermen use large hooks, so the fish they catch are naturally larger as well.
Wang Hai used a small hook, so the fish he caught were of varying sizes; there were all sorts of fish.
Just like the first red sea bream that Bai Yu caught, weighing six or seven pounds, the second was a ten-pound barracuda, and the third was a seven or eight-pound sea eel.
Besides being quite large, these fish share a common characteristic: they have exceptionally large mouths, big enough to swallow fishhooks! (Except for red sea bream, which are simply gluttonous.)
Wang Hai's catch was less successful. His first catch was a stone goby weighing eight or nine ounces, his second was a pomfret weighing about one pound, and his third was a stone goby weighing five or six ounces.
These two types of fish, in terms of their respective sizes, are not considered too small within their respective schools, but it depends on who you compare them to and what the reference point is.
Compared to Bai Yu's catch, Wang Hai's harvest was rather small!
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