Bai Yu's reaction to the fish's resistance after biting the hook was much more subdued.
Based on the feedback from the fishing rod, the fish that took the bait this time wasn't very big, probably around three or four pounds, and at most no more than five pounds.
For a fish of this size, the fishing tackle he's currently using is quite easy to handle.
As long as he manages to hook the fish with his rod and keep it in place, barring any unforeseen circumstances, this guy won't be able to escape.
It will not be able to regain its freedom unless it can wash its gills to get rid of the hook.
Washing the gills may seem easy, but it is actually very difficult. Otherwise, the contestants in this competition would have had a very poor harvest.
Despite the fish taking the bait, Bai Yu remained calm, but he still decided to fish for the fish he wanted to catch.
Bai Yu then began his operation, holding the fishing rod and preparing to reel in the line. However, as he began to exert force with his arms and was about to lift them up, the soreness in his arms made him gasp.
"Ouch, my arm is so sore! Looking at my arm, I still have a long way to go before I can develop superhuman arms!"
Bai Yu felt the sensation in his arm, muttered a complaint, and silently lowered his arm.
Actually, it's okay if you don't reel in the line too much. Anyway, the fish that bit the hook this time wasn't too big, so just play with it for a while.
Of course, when we say "play slowly," we are only referring to a relatively slow pace; Bai Yu's skills are still quite fast.
In order to catch the fish even faster, Bai Yu increased the speed of the reel, trying to catch the fish as quickly as possible.
Before long, a fish as long as a large plate appeared on the surface of the sea. Even after it came to the surface, it was still restless and kept struggling, wanting to regain its freedom.
Fish that look like a plate must be pomfret. Pomfret generally look like this, flat and like a frisbee.
Unfortunately, this guy was facing Bai Yu, a seasoned angler. How seasoned? In his eyes, the fish he caught were only divided into two categories: valuable and worthless.
He categorized this pomfret as valuable.
After all, this thing is quite large, shaped like a big plate. It must weigh at least four pounds, and just this one alone is worth a thousand or eight hundred yuan.
With such high value, he wouldn't let this guy get away, especially since Bai Yu is currently in a competition, and a single pomfret can add ten pounds to the score.
Although it may only weigh four pounds, in terms of performance, this fighting pomfret is equivalent to a 14-pound result.
So no matter how much it struggled, all this pomfret faced was a merciless net that came crashing down on it.
The first pomfret has arrived!
The reason why the pomfret is called this is not because it is aggressive. Bai Yu is not quite sure why, but it is not aggressive.
However, although this guy wasn't aggressive, he had incredible energy. Bai Yu had fished it out of the sea, and his speed wasn't slow to begin with.
You could say that water pressure didn't have much of an effect on this guy, but during the fishing process, he actually managed to conserve a lot of his energy.
Even now that he's on deck, this guy is still full of complaints and grievances, jumping around on the deck.
However, this should be its last struggle. It won't be long before it calms down completely.
Sure enough, as soon as Bai Yu had this idea, the pomfret lay quietly on the sea surface, motionless.
Pomfret, golden pomfret, and silver pomfret are all similar; they are all sea fish that cannot survive for long out of seawater, and Baiyu had already made preparations for this.
After the pomfret stopped moving, following the old custom, we made a cut at each of its gills, then put it in ice water to bleed it, and finally put it in a box filled with ice.
While this series of operations was being completed, Bai Yu had already started fishing with his next rod. To be precise, Bai Yu had already cast his second rod as soon as the pomfret entered the icy water.
As the second pomfret was brought aboard, the first pomfret went into the box containing ice.
That's right, in just a few short minutes, Bai Yu caught another pomfret.
Although this type of pomfret is usually hard to find, once you do encounter it, catching it is surprisingly easy.
Judging from Bai Yu's situation, fishing is relatively easy for him. After the bait is put in, it doesn't take long before a fish bites the hook.
Moreover, the fish that took the bait wasn't too big, so it wouldn't cause Bai Yu too much trouble, and he could deal with it relatively easily.
The second fish that took the bait was only of average size, weighing a little over two pounds but less than three pounds, and Bai Yu caught it with ease.
Along with it came up, there was an extra ten jin of points, so this pomfret was worth twelve jin of points.
To confirm that Bai Yu and his crew had indeed encountered a school of fighting pomfret, Bai Yu caught fish very quickly with each cast, and it was highly likely that he would catch a fighting pomfret.
As time passed, in less than an hour, Bai Yu had already caught eleven pomfret, and his score had increased by an extra 110 jin.
This is an incredibly fast speed, but it's not the limit for the pomfret school. At least for Bai Yu's current situation, he still has many ways to increase his catch.
However, other methods are considered violations for this competition and cannot be used in this competition.
The simplest way is to increase the number of fishing rods or hooks, which can increase the catch.
Alternatively, one can use electric reel fishing rods. By setting up several electric reel fishing rods at once, even if one is fishing alone, one can still manage to operate them.
Unfortunately, all of these methods were illegal, so all he could do was use a single fishing rod with a single hook, and he couldn't even use a fishing stand.
This was a regret for Bai Yu, as it caused him to miss an opportunity to increase his harvest and profits.
But there's nothing we can do about it; that's how the competition rules are, and all the players present have to abide by them, even he can't break the rules.
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