"Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready! Ah Hai, Shuangzi, it's time to pack up and eat!"
After delivering the bullhead trevally to the kitchen, Bai Yu remained there and did not return to his fishing spot to continue fishing.
Instead, he stayed in the kitchen until lunchtime before returning to the deck to call Wang Hai and the others for lunch.
Soon, Bai Yu and his three companions, along with Hu Tao and the others, arrived at the restaurant. The ten of them gathered together and put two tables together.
The fishing boat prepared a five-dish meal with soup for lunch today, consisting of three meat dishes and two vegetable dishes. There was also a braised dish that was sold separately, and anglers who wanted it would have to pay extra.
Bai Yu and his group of ten each ordered a normal lunch, then each person added a braised chicken leg, Bai Yu also bought a plate of braised pig's head, and finally, he provided the beef tuna himself.
As for how to cook this bullhead tuna, the chef deep-fried it and then served it with some barbecue seasoning, treating it like chicken breast.
According to the chef, the trevally is not a good fish; the flesh is coarse and has a very strong fishy smell.
His method involves using barbecue seasoning to mask the fishy smell of the tuna. Once deep-fried, the fish is almost indistinguishable from chicken strips when eaten hot, and it's still very fragrant.
A bull mackerel weighing over ten kilograms, after removing the head, tail, fins, skin, and internal organs, still leaves about seven or eight kilograms of meat, which is enough for Bai Yu and the others to eat.
After finishing lunch, to Bai Yu's surprise, the braised tuna prepared this way was quite delicious. This made Wang Xu and the others even more puzzled.
Why is the delicious bull mackerel the most hated sea fish among many anglers?
Bai Yu didn't know how to explain this problem. Should he blame the chef for making the bull mackerel so delicious?
Of course, he couldn't do that. Since he couldn't explain it clearly, he might as well not explain it at all and just let Wang Xu and the others think that the bullhead trevally was a good fish.
After all, once they get back to the dock and sell these bullhead tuna, they'll understand what really happened.
After lunch, Bai Yu and the others returned to the crew cabin for a short rest, taking the opportunity to digest their food.
Around 2 p.m., they returned to their respective fishing spots and prepared to start their afternoon fishing session.
For this fishing trip, Bai Yu immediately baited his hook with shrimp and cast his first line of the afternoon.
Bai Yu was determined to catch something while fishing this afternoon.
If you ask him what makes him so confident, he will tell you that he has had very good luck today, and that he also has a very high remaining luck value.
After a morning of exertion, his luck stat was still a high 36 points, which was good news for him. It seemed that his harvest this afternoon was quite good.
As expected, things went just as Bai Yu had predicted; not long after he cast his first line,
Bai Yu and Li Shuang hadn't even exchanged a few words when his fishing rod made a sound of a fish taking the bait, and the fishing line was slowly extending outwards.
The reason the line came out slowly was because Bai Yu had turned on the drag; he didn't want the fish that had taken the bait to easily drag the line away.
However, the drag he adjusted wasn't turned up very wide, so the line came out relatively slowly, which suggests that the fish that took the bait probably wasn't very big.
As Bai Yu took the fishing rod off the stand, he also started fishing, immediately lifting the rod and reeling in the line.
After all, he didn't feel much for this guy, and that was indeed the case; Bai Yu didn't feel any resistance while reeling in the line.
As a silvery-white, snake-like creature surfaced, the oil eel was swiftly launched aboard by the white fisherman.
Upon seeing the appearance of the eel, Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed completely.
When this creature first came out of the water, Bai Yu thought he had caught a sea snake, but it turned out to be an eel.
Oil eels are a type of eel, different from the sea eels that Bai Yu caught while fishing at the beach. Oil eels are more like sea snakes, or you could say they are sea swamp eels.
In addition, oil eel is a good thing. As you can tell from its name, oil eel has a very high oil content.
In addition, eel is also a highly nutritious food, making it very suitable for young couples as well as middle-aged and elderly people.
As for its suitability for young couples, its effects are well-known, so I won't go into detail. Brothers who are interested can buy some to try and see if it really works as advertised online.
As Bai Yu struck the oil eel on the head with a stick, he also removed it from the fishing hook.
Bai Yu would never dare to reach out and grab an eel while it is still alive; he was genuinely afraid of being bitten by one!
Bai Yu then handed the eel to Brother Li, leaving the rest to Brother Li to handle, as he wanted to continue fishing.
I rebaited the hook and started my second cast of the day.
Starting with this eel, Bai Yu began his fishing journey for the day, catching five fish in just half an hour.
Three of them were eels. The high frequency of catching eels made Bai Yu a little suspicious that there might be a group of eels under the sea where they were.
But that shouldn't be the case. Although oil eels are social eels, they usually appear on the seabed, searching for prey together in the mud and sand.
However, white fishing only takes place at a depth of twenty meters, which is only considered to be in the upper-middle layer of the sea and has nothing to do with the seabed.
Bai Yu was a little confused about this situation, but it wasn't a big problem. As long as he could fish, that was enough for him.
Even oil eel is acceptable, since oil eel is quite expensive, much better than bullhead tuna.
'Swish, swish, swish'
Just as Bai Yu was thinking this, his fishing rod suddenly bent down, and the fishing line in the reel was also going out at an extremely fast speed.
This sudden turn of events made Bai Yu realize one thing: he had landed a big fish!
Logically, catching a big fish should be a cause for celebration, but Bai Yu was anything but happy.
As for the various reasons, they are naturally related to the fishing line used by the white fisherman.
Bai Yu's fishing trip this time was only for mid-to-upper-level sea fish, so he didn't use a fishing line designed for catching giant fish, but rather a normal, conventional fishing line.
That means you can probably catch sea fish weighing up to 30 pounds. But judging from the current speed at which the line is being pulled out, the fish that bit the hook this time definitely won't be too small, at least not less than 30 pounds.
"Tsk, am I going to break another fishing line? Dude, don't mess with me! I break several fishing lines every time I go fishing. Don't you know fishing lines are expensive!"
Faced with this situation, Bai Yu turned the drag on to its maximum. After applying pressure to the guy, he took his hands off the fishing rod and gave up.
Given the strength of the fishing line he was using, going straight up and fighting it head-on was definitely not a wise choice. If Bai Yu dared to exert force and fight head-on, the fishing line would break in his presence.
Therefore, under this premise, Bai Yu could only apply pressure to the guy and then let him pull the fishing line on his own to see if he could exhaust the guy's stamina before the fishing line ran out.
Bai Yu didn't have much hope for this, because his fishing line was not only not strong enough, but also not long enough, only a mere hundred meters long.
After all, the goal wasn't to catch deep-sea fish; this length is sufficient for catching fish in the middle and upper layers of the water.
Unfortunately, an unexpected turn of events has occurred: a large fish has appeared in the upper-middle level and taken the bait, something he hadn't anticipated.
Three minutes later, with a snap, the taut fishing line broke, already under heavy load.
Aside from a tiny bit of regret, Bai Yu wasn't too upset about this, since he had already anticipated the outcome.
If one fishing line breaks, just replace it with another.
For this trip to sea, Bai Yu prepared a lot of fishing lines, including several lines for catching giant fish.
After all, fishing uses up a lot of fishing line. He's really afraid that if he doesn't prepare more fishing line, he'll run out of line while fishing, which would be embarrassing.
Bai Yu changed to a new fishing line, this time increasing its strength to the point where it could catch a 50-pound fish.
As for why not just change it to a level that can catch giant fish?
As mentioned before, Bai Yu's target for this fishing trip was mid-to-upper-level sea fish, as fish at this depth are not particularly large.
However, fishing lines for catching giant fish have a fatal flaw: they are relatively thick. This thickness may be negligible for a giant fish, which will not even notice the presence of the fishing line.
However, mid-to-upper-level sea fish will notice the presence of the fishing line, and they may not bite the hook then.
After all, no sea fish is stupid. Once they find a thick rope attached to their prey, they won't be foolish enough to bite the hook.
After careful consideration, Bai Yu chose a slightly stronger fishing line, one that could be used to catch large fish.
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