Fishing at a fishing spot is different from fishing at sea. This time, Bai Yu and his team used hand rods instead of the sea rods they usually use.
Considering that there are large salmon, some even weighing ten or twenty kilograms, they all use long fishing rods.
As is well known, Pacific salmon are migratory fish, and the time they spawn is the moment their lives come to an end.
Most Pacific salmon die after spawning.
However, there are always exceptions. Among these Pacific salmon, some will survive, but their numbers are very small.
Another type of salmon no longer has the habit of migrating, so their survival rate after spawning is even higher.
Just like on this island, the salmon here have been bred for generations and have no worries about food and water. Even if they need to go to the saltwater area, the sea is right outside the island.
They no longer migrate much; they usually live near the island.
I'm quite interested in these salmon that have already laid their eggs and survived; they're said to be red.
I wonder if the salmon have changed back to their original color now that several months have passed? If they have, have they returned to their original color, or have they changed to a different color?
Soon, Bai Yu and the others each carried a small stool, found a spot by the pool, and sat down. Then they took out their bait and prepared to start fishing.
The small stool was provided by the fishing ground; it's just a plastic stool that was brought from China.
The bait was krill, which Bai Yu and his friends bought at the fishing spot. It's very cheap; you can buy a lot for a hundred dollars.
Krill is also a specialty of the Bering Sea, but these creatures are very small, and catching them requires specialized boats and nets.
Although these krill are very small, according to the staff at the fishing spot, they are relatively easy to use for fishing, as salmon also like to eat krill.
When it comes to fishing with a hand rod, Bai Yu first took out the fishing rod and then tied the fishing line to it.
When it comes to choosing fishing line, Bai Yu adheres to the principle of using a large line to catch big fish, so he directly chose a size 6 fishing line and tied it to the fishing rod.
White fishermen don't like to use leader lines when fishing with only one main line.
The tensile strength of a No. 6 fishing line is sufficient for catching fish weighing around 30 pounds. For salmon fishing, this strength of line is more than enough.
The fish hooks also need to be larger. Bai Hao directly chose a size 10 fish hook. With such a large hook, Bai Yu can hang two krill on each hook when baiting the fish.
In addition, the krill is very light, so if Bai Yu wants the bait to sink to the bottom of the water as quickly as possible, he has to add some lead weights above the hook.
Bai Yu used a 10-gram sinker, then tested the depth of the water he wanted to fish in, adjusted the height of the float, and cast the bait out.
As for baiting?
There's absolutely no need for that. They come here to fish just for fun. This fishing spot isn't like the ones in China, where you can take the fish back after you catch them.
You can take away as many fish as you catch here, no extra charge.
Do you think that these conditions allow you to catch more fish here, and then sell them to make some money?
If you have such thoughts, then you're just overthinking it.
Don't you even consider where Bai Yu and his crew are now? This is one of the ancestral homes of salmon, and every year many salmon pass through here or return here.
Moreover, there is a group of salmon that do not migrate here, so it would be really too difficult to make money by selling salmon on this island.
The one food that's plentiful here is salmon. Salmon here is as cheap as cabbage back home. If you want some, just go catch it yourself in a stream or river.
That's why Bai Yu and his friends didn't expect to make money by fishing for salmon; they just wanted to have some fun and catch a few fish to take home and try.
Another point to note is that it is not recommended to eat raw salmon caught here.
Because this island is home to a lot of wildlife, including black bears, deer, and several species of badgers, the water here may appear clean, but it is not recommended to drink it directly.
As Bai Yu cast his fishing hook, a float stood upright on the water's surface. Now, all that was left was to wait for a fish to bite.
At this moment, Bai Yu and his eight companions were fishing, while Wang Haojun and his four companions stood around them, surveying the surroundings.
Well, if some strangers saw this, they might think that Bai Yu and his group were some important people who brought bodyguards when they went fishing.
Moreover, these bodyguards are truly professional; they look like trained fighters, and they're the kind who have retired from the military.
In this situation, Bai Yu could only say that he was not a big shot, but he was a person who cherished his life very much.
Moreover, he doesn't care about other people's opinions; he prioritizes his own happiness above all else.
Soon, Bai Yu felt the fish taking the bait on his fishing rod. His rod suddenly dipped downwards, and he quickly lifted it upwards.
This action was Bai Yu's instinctive reaction; his body reacted before his brain did, completing the action of lifting the rod to hook the fish.
Bai Yu was already used to this. For a qualified angler, fishing for a long time will really develop into a physical reaction.
Once a physical reaction is formed, your physical reaction will be faster than your brain's reaction as soon as a fish bites the hook.
Under such a reaction, there is a very high probability that the fish that have taken the bait will stay.
Just like Bai Yu's current situation, after he lifted the rod to set the hook, the tip of the rod bent down, which is a clear sign that he had caught a fish.
Just as Bai Yu was catching the fish, a pair of eyes were watching him from the bushes on the other side of the pool.
This pool isn't very big, but it's not small either; it's over a hundred meters wide from where Bai Yu is to the other side.
The owner of these eyes has black fur and a face that looks like a dog but isn't. Who else could it be but a black bear?
Just as the black bear looked at Bai Yu and the others, Wang Haojun, who was standing behind Bai Yu, immediately sensed something was wrong. He had a feeling that he was being watched by something.
The moment he felt this sensation, he made a hand gesture to his teammates, who immediately looked around warily and placed their hands on their waists.
On the other hand, Bai Yu and the others were fishing by the pool, while Wang Haojun and the others were standing behind them. They were completely unaware of the changes in Wang Haojun and the others.
As for Wang Haojun's strange feeling of being watched, they didn't feel it either, especially Bai Yu, who was being watched by this side, he had even less time to pay attention to other things at this moment.
Or perhaps Bai Yu has become so used to being watched over the years that even if he still feels the attention now, he won't care, after all, he is a public figure.
Not to mention he's still fishing right now. For a fisherman, nothing will disturb his fishing session unless something catastrophic happens.
The fish Bai Yu caught this time was quite large. In his estimation, it weighed about ten pounds, which was definitely a big fish.
After all, he was fishing in a pond, not on the open sea, and the fish of this size were already quite large.
In addition, Bai Yu is currently using a 7.2-meter hand rod, so all he can do now is raise the rod high to exhaust the fish as much as possible.
As for reeling in the line, there isn't even a reel; how is he supposed to reel in the line?
However, in the end, this was just a fish weighing a dozen kilograms. In the struggle with Bai Yu, this guy couldn't gain any advantage at all and could only retreat step by step.
As Bai Hao continued to lift the fishing rod, the fish got closer and closer to the shore, and soon came to the surface of the water, revealing its face.
The fish that took the bait this time was a salmon, and it was a salmon that was entirely blood red except for its head!
I've only ever seen this kind of salmon in documentaries; it's a salmon that has already spawned. It seems that the salmon that Baiyu caught was a fish that survived after spawning.
Just as Bai Yu pulled the salmon out of the water, a black creature emerged from the bushes on the opposite side of the pool, stood on the bank, and looked at Bai Yu and the others.
This scene was immediately noticed by Wang Haojun and the others. If nothing unexpected happened, the person standing opposite should be a black bear!
"Mr. Bai, something's happened! A black bear has appeared on the other side of the river!"
After seeing the black bear, Wang Haojun quietly told Bai Yu the news.
Upon hearing this, he instinctively paused for a moment, then stopped what he was doing and looked at the black bear on the other side of the river.
At that moment, Bai Yu really had one thought: to wave at this guy and shout:
Hi, how are you?
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