"Brother Fisherman, Brother Fisherman, look! Look what kind of fish I caught! We'll have fish for lunch today!"
Hearing the commotion beside him, Bai Yu looked towards Wang Hai, and just as he had expected...
At this moment, Wang Hai was holding three large yellow croakers in his hand. That's right, not one, not two, but three, all hanging on one fishing line.
Previously, in order to increase his chances of catching fish, Wang Hai changed his fishing line to the line set of Yu Ge Fishing Hook. Unexpectedly, he caught three large yellow croakers on this one cast.
Unfortunately, all three of these large yellow croakers combined are not as big as the single croaker caught by the white-haired fisherman.
Didn't you see that Wang Hai didn't even need a landing net? He just lifted those three big yellow croakers up by the fishing line, it was so easy for him.
However, on the other hand, for some sea fish, bigger doesn't necessarily mean better taste.
Some sea fish have the highest quality meat when they are small, and the meat is the most tender and freshest.
Take farmed large yellow croaker as an example. Generally, the large yellow croakers sold in the market are one pound each. It's not that farmers can't raise them to four or five pounds, but that one-pound large yellow croakers taste the best, sell the fastest, and have the highest economic benefits.
Large yellow croakers are indeed rare and valuable, but what they taste like and how they compare to smaller ones is something outsiders can't say for sure.
Seeing the large yellow croaker in Wang Hai's hand, Bai Yu gave him a thumbs up to encourage him, and then put all three large yellow croakers into the box.
It's still quite early, and there's still some time before lunch, so there's no rush to send it to the kitchen. It's fine to send it later, in case we catch another big yellow croaker.
Don't think this is unrealistic. Who can predict anything when it comes to fishing? If Wang Hai can catch three big yellow croakers at once, why is it impossible for him to catch a few more?
From around 8 a.m. until 11 a.m., Bai Yu and Wang Hai stayed on the deck, fishing for more than three hours.
The two brothers had a very good catch. They caught as many as one large yellow croaker alone. Seven of them were caught by Wang Hai and four by Bai Yu.
The two men caught two extremes of large yellow croaker. Although their fishing spots were less than two meters apart, none of the yellow croakers Bai Yu caught weighed less than five pounds, and each one was very large, exceeding half a meter in length.
However, none of the large yellow croakers that Wang Hai caught weighed more than three pounds; they were all around two pounds and less than half a meter long.
After putting all the large yellow croakers together, their catch was like that of the elder yellow croakers leading the children of their family, a stark contrast.
Aside from the two Bai brothers, the other crew members on deck also caught some large yellow croakers. Overall, the location where their fishing boat was docked was pretty good. They happened to encounter a passing school of large yellow croakers, and some of the lone ones were left behind by them.
At noon, Uncle Li used the large yellow croaker that Bai Yu and his brother had caught to make a braised yellow croaker dish, which was then devoured by a group of people, each with a chopstick.
Bai Yu's assessment of the large yellow croaker is that the flesh is delicate, melts in your mouth, and is full of freshness, making it tastier than many other sea fish.
However, considering that this thing costs several times or even dozens of times more than other sea fish, if you follow Bai Yu's thinking, he will not buy wild large yellow croaker.
Even if you want to eat them, you can just buy some farmed ones to eat. They cost tens or hundreds of yuan per kilogram, and the taste isn't that different from wild ones.
After lunch, they continued fishing on the deck in the afternoon, but the fishing was noticeably worse than in the morning.
The afternoon fishing trip was not only less productive than the morning trip, but we didn't catch a single large yellow croaker either. Perhaps the schools of large yellow croakers on the seabed had swum away.
The day passed, and on the morning of the ninth day, the fishing boat Yuxue set sail after sounding its horn.
The crew's rest time is over, and it's time to get back to work.
At six o'clock, the first mate and the second mate steered the fishing boat northward.
Where is the northern sea area? It's no longer the South China Sea, but is about to enter the East China Sea.
There are different opinions on the demarcation of the two seas in the southeast, but Bai Yu thinks it's very simple: the area north of Taiwan Province is the East China Sea, and the area south of Taiwan Province is the South China Sea, so that's it.
By this time, the fishing boat Yuxue had already passed through Taiwan Province and continued sailing towards the northern sea area.
This is Bai Yu's first time in the East China Sea, whether it was going out to sea to fish before or going out to sea on a fishing boat now.
He was unfamiliar with this sea area, but his uncle and the others were not. As an old sailor, he had been to the East China Sea before for maritime operations. They could not say they knew the East China Sea like the back of their hand, but it was a relatively familiar sea area.
As the fishing boat started moving again, the trawl nets on the deck were lowered, and the crew members returned to their respective posts.
Oh right, there are two other people sleeping in the crew quarters. Those two are Bai Yu and Wang Hai. They are currently trainee crew members working with Brother Huang's group of crew members. It's not their working hours yet, so they can sleep in.
However, while he was sleeping in, he woke up once to use the toilet. After discovering that the boat had already started moving, he immediately used the search function to find a school of fish and then used half of his luck points for the day to find something for the crew on duty to do.
The fish Bai Yu was searching for was one of the specialties of the East China Sea: the East China Sea ribbonfish. He had invested 33 points of luck, which was not too high, but it was definitely not low either.
Based on the experience of the past few days, a luck value of around 30 points can usually find a school of fish covering an area of two to three kilometers. As for how thick the school of fish is, that depends entirely on luck.
After the search was completed, Bai Yu didn't even look at the results. He drained the water and went back to the crew quarters to continue sleeping.
They fished a little late last night, and even after the fishing boat started moving, the two brothers were still a bit sleepy.
They were sleeping soundly, but a group of restless creatures were running wildly in the sea.
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