At 9:30 a.m., on the deck at the stern of the fishing boat, four fishermen, each with a piece of bread in their mouths, cast their lines.
According to information obtained from staff, the sea area where Bai Yu and his group are currently located is different from the one they were in last night.
The shaking that Bai Yu felt this morning was the fishing boat searching for a new fishing spot, and this is the new spot they found.
According to the captain's message, there was a large group of fairly large sea fish about 40 to 50 meters below their fishing boat.
Judging from the catch of the fishermen on the boat, the fish under the sea surface is probably a school of tuna, ranging in size from large to small.
Currently, the fish caught by the anglers on the boat are mostly tuna, with the largest weighing over 50 pounds and the smallest only about 7 or 8 pounds.
However, for tuna smaller than 40 centimeters or weighing less than 15 kilograms, anglers all agree on one thing: release them back into the wild.
Although the 15-pound weight exceeded the limit for the tuna they were catching, they chose to release it back into the wild.
In their words, tuna of this size, regardless of species, are all fry. If we don't even let the fry go, how will we ever encounter giant tuna in the future?
"Brother Yu, it's tuna! It really is tuna! Are we that lucky? We've already found tuna on the first day! We're about to strike it rich!"
Just thinking about the tuna he had just seen filled Li Shuang with uncontrollable excitement.
That's tuna! It's one of the few high-end seafoods in the ocean!
"What are you thinking? Who said you can get rich by catching a tuna? First, you have to catch the tuna, otherwise you won't make any money."
In addition, not all tuna are valuable; it depends on the species and the quality of the fish. The most expensive is naturally the bluefin tuna. Furthermore, the larger the tuna, the higher the quality and the higher the price.
Like the yellowfin tuna we just saw, it looked to be no more than 30 pounds. A yellowfin tuna of that size would only cost a few dozen yuan per pound at most, less than some grouper...
"Hey, hey, hey, a fish's on! A fish's on! Is it because it's bitten?"
Bai Yu was explaining the value of tuna to Li Shuang when his fishing rod suddenly started moving.
Since the fish in the sea were being so cooperative, Bai Yu naturally couldn't refuse them. He stuffed the bread in his hand into his mouth, grabbed the fishing rod with both hands, and gave it a sharp jerk.
"Wow, you're pretty strong! But I like strong people."
Unfortunately, Bai Yu's mouth was stuffed with bread, so he couldn't even utter a few words of reflection.
On the other hand, Li Shuang and his two companions immediately turned their attention over, but before they could watch for long, their fishing rods also started to move.
The captain of this fishing boat found a really good spot; there really is a school of fish underwater, and as soon as you cast your line, fish will bite.
After feeling the pull from the fishing rod, Bai Yu's first choice was to go head-to-head with it, because the rod's strength wasn't too great and posed no pressure for him.
As Bai Yu began to reel in the line, he didn't need to worry about the guy's resistance at all; he just kept reeling in the line.
With the combined efforts of Bai Yu and this guy, the fishing rod in Bai Yu's hand bent down instantly, just like a full moon, almost becoming a perfect circle.
As for whether the fishing rod will break?
This was not within Bai Yu's consideration. After all, when Tongzi gave him this fishing rod, he told him that it could not be broken by any object weighing less than 100 pounds.
Even for a giant object weighing over 100 pounds, breaking a fishing rod is an extremely difficult task.
Using the red snapper from last night, which weighed over 80 pounds even after being bled, Bai Yu managed to hold his own against the fish for several minutes without any problems with his fishing rod.
As for the guy now, that's even less likely, because the pressure he puts on Bai Yu is far less than that of Zhang Hongyu last night.
Listening to the sound of the wind breaking and the fishing line cutting through the water, Bai Yu felt his adrenaline surging. This intense feeling was irresistible.
As Bai Yu kept reeling in the line, there wasn't much line left outside the reel. The creature in the sea probably sensed that its time was running out, and its resistance became fierce again.
No matter how much it struggled, it couldn't disrupt Bai Yu's rhythm of reeling in the line; he continued to steadily and surely reel in the line.
Within minutes, the fish that had taken the bait was dragged to the surface by the white fisherman. Upon seeing this, the staff immediately rushed over with a landing net.
They scooped up a yellowfin tuna floating on the sea surface, and a tuna about 60 centimeters long and weighing about 40 kilograms came ashore on the deck.
From the moment the fish bites the hook to when it reaches the deck, it may seem like a short time, but in reality, it takes Bai Yu quite a bit of effort, nearly ten minutes.
After the tuna came onto the deck, Bai Yu finally relaxed. He had just breathed a sigh of relief when a wave of fatigue washed over him, especially the soreness in his right arm.
For Bai Yu, a sports student, this feeling was all too familiar. He would have this feeling every time he participated in a competition, after the final sprint.
However, in the past, he usually felt tired in his legs, but now the feeling has shifted to his arms.
"Phew, that was so exciting! Catching big fish is the best!"
"Boss, do you need me to bleed and gut the tuna for you?"
Before Bai Yu could say anything more, a staff member asked.
"I need it, I need it. Please help me out, buddy. You go ahead and work on this tuna, I'll just watch and learn from you."
As we all know, the tuna we see in the market are all frozen, and they are empty inside. Not to mention the blood, even the internal organs have been removed the moment they are caught.
When it comes to tuna, Bai Yu can be said to know quite a bit about it. As for places he knows about, besides Uncle Sun's hotel...
Don't forget that his hometown, a small fishing village, also had a dock. In one year, when the price of tuna skyrocketed, some people from his village went out to sea to fish for tuna.
However, due to their lack of knowledge about tuna, when they caught it, they only bled it out and did not remove its internal organs.
As a result, when they transported the tuna back to the dock, the fishmongers lowered the price for them, claiming that the innards had not been removed, which affected the quality of the fish.
That's why Bai Yu remembers this so vividly.
Under Bai Yu's watchful eye, the staff first made a cut below the tuna's pectoral fin and below its tail fin before gutting it and removing its internal organs.
Tuna blood flowed continuously from these wounds, while the removed viscera were simply thrown back into the sea.
Generally speaking, tuna innards are not edible because tuna are apex predators in the ocean with a very diverse diet.
It's possible that the tuna was fed toxic marine organisms during its growth, and these toxins often remain in its internal organs. These toxins pose no harm to the tuna, but they are unbearable for us humans.
However, this doesn't mean that tuna innards are completely inedible, but they need to be handled and prepared by professionals before consumption.
Just as the staff were processing the tuna, Wang Hai, who was standing nearby, also dragged his catch to the surface of the sea. Bai Yu immediately grabbed a landing net and scooped it onto the deck.
The staff were helping him process the tuna, so Bai Yu naturally needed to help him share the workload.
Wang Hai also caught a tuna, also a yellowfin, and even its size was not much different from that of the whitebait.
The next steps were much simpler: bloodletting and gutting the fish, followed by processing, and then sending the fish, along with the whitebait catch, into the freezer.
Starting with this fish, Bai Yu and his team turned on the switch to continuous fishing. Whenever they cast their next line, they would catch a fish almost immediately.
Unfortunately, not every cast of the rod will catch a tuna; sometimes you catch other kinds of fish.
For example, when Bai Yu caught his third fish, it wasn't a tuna, but a meter-long barracuda.
When Bai Yu caught this fish, he was very excited because it was so fierce that he thought he had caught a giant.
Unfortunately, within just a few seconds, Bai Yu realized he was wrong. This guy was just fierce; everything else about him was insignificant.
Even if a sea wolf fish grows to more than a meter long, its own weight is still very limited, at most only a dozen kilograms, which greatly limits its strength.
Through this barracuda, Bai Yu also discovered that what they encountered was not just a simple school of tuna, but possibly another school of fish, and the tuna had followed this school here.
Just as Bai Yu had guessed, the fish detected by the fishing boat did indeed come here following other schools of fish, but these large fish were mainly tuna.
The fishermen mostly caught tuna, giving the illusion that it was a school of tuna.
In reality, the tuna fishing trip only lasted for an hour. After that, they couldn't catch a single fish, let alone tuna.
The feeling of catching fish in a row is certainly exhilarating, but this exhilaration is limited; the time is too short, and Bai Yu and the others don't feel particularly satisfied.
It always gives people the feeling that the spellcasting has been interrupted.
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