Upon learning that Bai Yu had caught a bluefin tuna weighing over 200 pounds, everyone on the fishing boat who was participating in the competition became excited.
The excitement reached its peak when they learned that this bluefin tuna was worth at least 50,000 RMB!
After all, no one dislikes money, especially since their trip to sea had virtually no financial cost. All their food and lodging were paid for by Bai Yu, and all they needed to do was invest time. The money they earned from catching big fish would all belong to them.
Who wouldn't like this kind of risk-free business?
Moreover, the tuna that Bai Yu caught was not the first tuna of the night; it was just the biggest one.
From the moment the tuna took the bait until it was placed in the freezer, the entire process took more than two hours.
Meanwhile, other anglers had already caught tuna as well.
The most amazing thing is that the first person on the whole boat to catch a tuna was a girl. It was a group of four who worked together to catch a bigeye tuna weighing seventy or eighty pounds.
Although the tuna weighed less than 100 pounds, it was enough to make the girls happy.
After all, there were thirty anglers on this fishing boat, but only four of them were women.
Despite the extremely low success rate, they were the first to catch a tuna, which made them incredibly happy. They couldn't help but shout, "Who says women are inferior to men!"
The tuna caught by Bai Yu is the fifth tuna tonight, the first bluefin tuna, the third tuna weighing over 100 pounds, and the first tuna weighing over 200 pounds.
"Shuangzi, Asheng, Ahai, have you heard? Those girls have already caught a tuna. Look at you guys, you haven't caught a single one. Don't you feel ashamed?"
Bai Yu wrote down her grades in her notebook, then looked at Li Shuang and the others with a mocking expression, her face utterly irritating.
"Brother Fisherman, that's enough! Do you think we don't want to fish for tuna? It's just that no tuna are biting the hook. If a tuna were to bite, do you think we could catch it?"
Forget tuna, even if you brought a great white shark, you just...
Holy crap, holy crap, a fish is on the hook...
Just as Li Shuang was about to refute Bai Yu's statement and mentioned the great white shark that Bai Yu had released, his fishing rod suddenly bent down, and the fishing line was also rapidly extending outwards, clearly indicating that a fish had taken the bait.
Then Li Shuang's rebuttal was forced to stop, and he began to focus on fishing, while Bai Yu also baited his hook and continued fishing.
What Bai Yu didn't expect was that just as Li Shuang was getting his fish, Lu Sheng and Wang Hai followed suit and got theirs too.
In fact, it wasn't just them; on the fishing boat they were on, within a two-minute period, a dozen or so anglers had already caught fish one after another.
As for the reasons behind this, who can really say for sure?
Bai Yu hasn't caught any fish yet, mainly because he's spending too much time baiting his hooks, and also because the water in this area is quite deep; his bait hasn't sunk to the bottom yet.
Where do fish come from to bite the hook? Do you really think all fish are great white sharks, only interested in eating?
It wasn't too bad, though. In the end, Bai Yu didn't have to wait too long. After his bait reached the seabed, about two minutes later, Bai Yu's fishing rod suddenly bent, and the fishing line shot out at the same time.
Fish are biting his hook too!
The large number of bites at the same time gave Bai Yu a general idea of the situation on the seabed: the frozen bait he had thrown in earlier had worked.
Even though two hours have passed since the frozen bait was dropped, which is quite a long time, his idea is still quite possible.
Baiting doesn't mean that you can immediately attract fish by simply throwing in the bait; it takes time.
This process could take only a moment, or it could take several hours, or even a day.
According to Bai Yu's assessment, the frozen bait had worked, successfully attracting some sea fish. These fish then ate all the chopped frozen bait and finally set their sights on the bait on the hook.
This would create a very high probability that the current situation, where multiple people are caught at the same time, has occurred.
Regardless of the reason for this situation, it is a good thing for Bai Yu and his group. Fish biting the hook means they have a catch.
As soon as Bai Yu saw the fishing rod bend down, he jerked it up sharply, deciding to keep the fish that had taken the bait in the water first.
As Bai Yu lifted his rod to hook the fish, he successfully secured the hook firmly in the creature's mouth, preventing it from escaping.
However, during the subsequent probing, Bai Yu did not launch a fierce attack on the hooked creature like Li Shuang and the others did. Instead, she chose to let out the line and allow the creature to escape.
According to Bai Yu, the creature that took the bait this time, although not a giant, was still quite large, weighing at least fifty or sixty pounds.
If it were two hours earlier, before he caught the bluefin tuna, he would definitely have chosen to fight this big fish head-on and try to catch it as quickly as possible by pulling and tugging.
However, Bai Yu is not in the same state as he was two hours ago. He just caught a bluefin tuna weighing over 200 pounds, and he is in very poor condition. He does not intend to take a direct approach to this fish, as that would be too tiring.
So Bai Hao turned the decelerator to its maximum setting and let the guy escape on his own. He would deal with him later.
To be fair, Bai Yu's operation was quite effective. Considering his size, it wouldn't be an easy task to pull all seven or eight hundred meters of fishing line from the reel while the dragger was in place.
Especially after being restricted by Bai Yu himself, after seven or eight minutes, this guy was already exhausted and could only continue swimming towards the distance intermittently.
The guy who took the bait was expending energy, while Bai Yu was recovering his strength. With the balance shifting, dealing with this guy would be a piece of cake.
It took him about twenty minutes to pull up a red octopus that was nearly a meter long.
Bai Yu was very familiar with the red octopus. The first big fish he caught at sea was a red octopus. Unfortunately, this red octopus was only big in size and slightly thin. It was one meter tall and weighed only 52 kilograms.
I still remember the first red snapper that Bai Yu caught. That guy was so fat. It was also a meter long, but it weighed nearly 100 pounds. Compared to the one I caught now, it was like heaven and earth, there was no comparison.
The fishing continued, one fish after another, and the treasures of the ocean were caught by Bai Yu and his companions, becoming their wealth.
By three or four in the morning, the fishing enthusiasm on the deck had also subsided considerably.
There was no way around it; fishing is a physically demanding activity, and Bai Yu and the others had been fishing on the deck all day, so the physical exertion was enormous.
The reason they were able to stay up until three or four in the morning was because their catch that day was exceptionally good; one big, valuable fish after another was caught from the sea.
Driven by the thrill of catching big fish and the promise of high profits, they persevered until dawn.
Actually, if the fish weren't biting so badly, and the fish they caught weren't as big or rare as before, they could have held on a little longer.
"Ah! Brother Fisherman, it's almost four o'clock, and we haven't caught a fish weighing more than twenty pounds in almost twenty minutes. Why don't we go back and rest, and then get up and fish again after we've woken up?"
Li Shuang yawned as she spoke to Bai Yu beside her.
They really had a blast fishing today. Take Li Shuang's own catch, for example; it was a feast of catching big fish.
Over the course of the night, in just over six hours, he caught more than ten large fish weighing over fifty pounds each, including two or three that he believed to be over a hundred pounds each.
His requirements are now very low. As long as the four of them can catch a fish weighing more than 20 pounds, he can keep going for a while longer, even until the sun has fully risen.
Unfortunately, after more than 20 minutes, the four of them had not caught a single fish weighing more than 20 pounds. That's why they decided to pack up and go back to the crew to rest.
In fact, it wasn't just Li Shuang who had such a good catch; everyone on the fishing boat had a very good catch.
The fishing eventually caught the attention of the fishing boat's captain, who, upon waking up in the early morning, joined in the fishing. He also discussed with Bai Yu and the others about having any unemployed crew members on the fishing boat also join in.
Logically speaking, neither the captain nor the crew should fish while the fishing boat is at sea. After all, Bai Yu and his crew rented the boat to fish, and the fish caught by the captain are for Bai Yu and his crew.
If the captain and others were to fish as well, it would inevitably affect Bai Yu and the others' fishing experience. Therefore, according to the unspoken rules of this industry, both the captain and the crew are service personnel and cannot compete with the boss for fish.
But the fishing last night was really strange. There were so many fish biting the hook that it was frightening. They were biting one after another, without end.
That's why the captain approached Bai Yu and discussed it with him, thinking of ways to improve the well-being of his crew and earn some extra money.
Bai Yu is a very easy-going person. When the other party mentioned that the food could be upgraded to a higher standard and that the previous ten boxes of frozen bait would be free, Bai Yu immediately agreed.
Then, apart from one person who stayed behind to help the anglers who caught big fish catch the fish, the rest of the crew on the boat also joined in the fishing.
The cameraman Bai Yu had hired saw this and was extremely envious, wanting to go fishing as well.
However, Bai Yu wasn't so easy to talk to these cameramen. After all, besides giving fans a treat, his main purpose in going out to sea was to shoot videos and gather material.
If these cameramen also go fishing, who will film them? If no one is filming, where will their footage come from?
So these cameramen definitely couldn't fish. Besides, even if they were allowed to fish, they didn't bring any fishing rods, so they couldn't catch anything.
Of course, Bai Yu didn't forbid all the cameramen from fishing; he gave them a few spots so that anyone who wanted to fish could go.
As for how the quota is allocated and how the catch is divided, that's none of his business.
At four o'clock in the morning, Bai Yu prepared to pack up and stop fishing. He was really tired after working all night.
Bai Yu then put away his fishing rod, took out his phone and notebook, opened the calculator, and started calculating.
He wanted to add up all his catch of the day, whether big fish or small fish.
Two minutes later, Bai Yu's results were also freshly released. He then went to the cabin door and wrote his latest result on the sign hanging there: 1224.6 jin!
He broke the 1,000 mark! Bai Yu only took one day and two nights to break through the 1,000-jin barrier, which is a very high number.
The reason for such a high catch is mainly due to the big fish he caught tonight. He caught two fish weighing over 100 pounds each, which together weighed over 300 pounds. He also caught quite a few fish weighing over 50 pounds each.
His total haul tonight exceeded 800 jin, just a few dozen jin short of 900 jin.
Based on Bai Yu's harvest today, it's no exaggeration to say that he had a "huge harvest".
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