While fishing in the afternoon, Bai Yu and the others came out of the cabin and found themselves in another area of the sea.
However, if you only look at it with your eyes, this place is no different from the fishing spot from this morning.
After all, there are no landmarks on the sea; as far as the eye can see, there is nothing but the sea.
No, occasionally a few fishing boats or angling boats will pass by, but these boats don't stop at all, nor do they communicate with them via radio; they just pass by.
According to Liu Tianyu, they were about 50 nautical miles from the dock where they had set off. It would take them more than two hours to get back to the dock in their fishing boat.
When fishing in the afternoon, Bai Yu's fishing spot was the same as in the morning, still at the bow of the boat, but the other four people were scattered and did not gather at the bow.
When he took out his fishing rod, Bai Yu changed his fishing strategy and changed his hooks and lines.
He spent the morning fishing for small fish, and in the afternoon he planned to try bottom fishing to see if he could catch a big fish. After all, he had read online that sea fishing is all about catching big fish to be truly enjoyable, and bottom fishing is definitely the first choice if you want to catch big fish.
Bai Yu used a size 10 fishing line this time, which was the largest size line that Brother Tongzi gave him, since this was a fishing rod that he got from the newbie gift pack.
According to Brother Tongzi, a No. 10 fishing line is more than enough to catch fish weighing around 50 pounds. For fish that are bigger, you'll need to rely on the fishing techniques of a white-lined fisherman.
When it comes to techniques, that has nothing to do with Bai Yu. You can make any request to him, but don't talk about techniques. If you do, he'll fall silent.
After the fishing line and hook were changed, Bai Yu picked out a relatively large shrimp from the bait box and hooked it onto the hook.
In order to make the fishing hook sink to the seabed as quickly as possible, Bai Yu uses a 100-gram sinker. This is not a random choice; he learned it from an online tutorial.
This is because the internet is so developed now, and short video platforms are developing rapidly. In the past, without anyone to teach him, Bai Yu really didn't know much about this.
Soon, the 100-gram lead weight, along with the bait on the fishing hook, reached the seabed. At this time, the sea where Bai Yu and his companions were located was more than 60 meters deep. Seabed resources at this depth are extremely abundant.
In addition, there were two fishing novices on Bai Yu's fishing boat. Perhaps there really is such a thing as a beginner's protection period in the fishing world. Right on the seabed of the fishing boat, there was a group of grouper foraging for food.
These groupers are different from the ones Bai Yu and his crew encountered while fishing at sea. Just in terms of size, these groupers are far superior to the small fish they encountered this morning.
Just as Bai Yu was looking forward to the fish biting the hook, a grouper with several dark stripes on its body came to the bait and looked at the shrimp hanging on the hook with a look of eager anticipation.
The shrimp hanging on the white fishing hook wasn't big, less than ten centimeters in size, but it was injured.
Compared to the lively little fish and shrimp on the seabed, the injured shrimp was clearly more attractive to this grouper and easier to catch.
While the shrimp was distracted, the creature lunged forward, opened its mouth wide, and sucked the nearly dead shrimp away as if it had never existed.
But could this shrimp have never existed? Even if the shrimp never appeared, what about the fishhook with the shrimp on it? That thing doesn't just disappear without a trace.
Sure enough, less than two seconds after the shrimp was swallowed by the grouper, the creature seemed to be startled and fled the scene with a wag of its tail, stirring up waves of mud and sand from the seabed.
As the creature fled, Bai Yu, who was waiting for a fish to bite on the deck, immediately noticed the anomaly. After all, the reel was frantically casting lines, and it was impossible for Bai Yu not to notice.
Upon discovering the fish, Bai Yu immediately tightened the deflector, applying pressure to the fish while simultaneously lifting the rod to hook it more securely, thus adding a double layer of protection.
As Bai Yu lifted the rod, he felt the force coming up and immediately realized that the fish that had taken the bait this time was quite big and had a lot of strength.
"Hey, finally a big fish has arrived. It was worth waiting in the sun for so long."
By the way, what did they say about how to handle a big fish when you catch it online? Let me think... I think you have to play the fish first, until it's tired of biting the hook, and then reel it in.
While recalling the fishing tutorial videos he had watched, Bai Yu loosened the locked drag lever a little more.
In this way, the fish that has taken the bait can escape, and the process of escaping is not too strenuous. In addition, Bai Yu will occasionally cast a line with his fishing rod.
The purpose of this is to make the fish that takes the bait feel the presence of the hook. As long as the fish feels pain, it will keep running until it can no longer run.
This whole process took five or six minutes, which was a real ordeal for Bai Yu. After all, this was the first time he had ever caught a big fish while sea fishing, and he was eager to bring it ashore and see it for himself.
However, Bai Yu suffered from his lack of experience. He relied too much on online tutorials when fishing. The tutorials told him to play the fish until it was exhausted, and he actually waited until the fish was completely exhausted before starting to reel in the line.
If this were a seasoned sea angler, he would only play the line for two or three minutes before eagerly starting to reel it in.
Although Bai Yu wasted some time fishing, it made the reeling in the line exceptionally smooth, since the guy was already exhausted and powerless to resist.
However, given the situation where terrestrial fishermen bottom-fish too quickly in the morning, resulting in a loss of catch pressure, white fishermen do not blindly pursue speed when reeling in their lines.
Instead, after reeling in about ten meters of fishing line, he would let the fish rest for a few dozen seconds before continuing to reel it in.
Although Bai Yu wasn't sure if his methods would work, at least he did them. If the guy still suffered from internal pressure loss, then he could only blame his bad luck.
Bai Yu waited for about ten minutes before a fish took the bait, then spent another five or six minutes playing the fish, and reeling in the line took even longer, about ten minutes in total.
In other words, it took Bai Yu half an hour from casting the line to the fish surfacing. A grouper with several brown stripes on its body came to the surface.
Bai Yu first examined the creature's eyes and mouth. After confirming that there was no obvious pressure loss, Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief before studying its species.
However, while he was studying, Bai Yu didn't stop what he was doing. Instead, he dragged the creature to the side of the fishing boat, picked up the landing net beside him, and scooped it up.
This landing net was brought from Bai Yu's home. It's the only large landing net in the Bai family, and he used it when he was fishing at the beach before.
As a large net descended from the sky, the grouper tried to make a final struggle, but no matter how much it shook its head and wagged its tail, it could not escape the control of the white fisherman.
With the net covering its head, it meant that the guy had no chance of escaping.
Upon seeing this, Bai Yu put his fishing rod on the deck, grabbed the landing net with both hands, and scooped the creature up.
"Wow, it's really heavy. It must weigh twenty or thirty pounds. It was worth all the time I spent fishing for it. With this, I've already broken even."
As Bai Yu examined the grouper in the net, he began calculating his earnings.
"Cousin, do you think this grouper I have is a brown-banded grouper? What's the market price for one of these now?"
Looking at the patterns on the grouper in front of her, Bai Yu called out to Liu Tianyu beside her in a slightly uncertain tone.
"Don't rush, I've caught a fish too. Wait for me a moment. Xiao Yu, take a syringe and give this guy a shot first, so it doesn't inflate and explode."
Liu Tianyu didn't even turn his head when he answered Bai Yu's question, just replied with a single sentence.
At this moment, he was in the crucial stage of fishing. Unlike Bai Yu, Liu Tianyu enjoyed the thrill of the pulling and tugging motion when fishing.
Although Bai Yu saw that the grouper did not show any signs of depressurization, following the principle of heeding advice and taking it with a grain of salt, he still took out the syringe and injected it into its abdomen.
After a morning of fishing, Bai Yu's fishing skills hadn't improved much, but he was now incredibly accurate at venting the fish's air bladder and sticking the swim bladder in the right spot every time.
Two minutes later, Liu Tianyu finished his struggle with the fish that had taken the bait, and only then did he have time to pick up his fishing rod and take a look at Bai Yu's catch.
By this time, Bai Hao had already moved the grouper to a huge styrofoam box, where it was currently blowing bubbles.
"Hey, Xiao Yu, you're really lucky! You caught such a big brown grouper. You've made back your money on this trip, and this one fish is enough for you to go out to sea twice more."
"How much? This grouper is worth that much?"
It's important to know that Bai Yu's trip to sea this time was quite expensive. The fuel cost alone was over 900 yuan, and with the purchase of living supplies, he spent at least 1,200 to 1,300 yuan on this trip.
Two trips would cost two thousand four or five hundred yuan, and this one grouper can sell for two thousand four or five hundred yuan.
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