As Bai Yu used a landing net to scoop the yellow croaker onto the deck, his fishing session came to an end. He had caught a big fish.
However, this big fish did not help his performance in the competition at all. On the contrary, he needed to remove the hook from the fish's mouth as soon as possible and then use a landing net to put it back into the sea.
This big yellow croaker was very greedy, and it took Bai Yu a lot of effort to remove the hook from it.
After a long day of work, the fish still had to be released back into the wild. Bai Yu sincerely wished that the yellow croaker would grow bigger and bigger, but it would be best if they never saw each other again.
It's a pity about that 30-plus kilograms of weight. If Bai Yu is just 30-plus kilograms short of the championship and misses out on the title, he'll probably be incredibly frustrated.
However, given the current situation, he really doesn't have any good solutions. After all, the yellow croaker is too high-level; it's not something that just anyone can handle.
After the yellow croaker was released back into the wild, the situation at Baiyu's place improved considerably.
In any case, the main reason why the yellow croaker was designated as a first-class protected animal is that its numbers are extremely small.
It's already quite good that Bai Yu caught one; if he wanted to catch a second one, he was really dreaming.
However, the competition organizers immediately notified the other boats about the white fish catching the yellow croaker.
The main purpose is to remind other anglers to be more careful when fishing and not to rush things. If they accidentally kill another yellow croaker, things will get much more difficult.
As Bai Yu cast his line again, he began a new round of waiting, hoping for the next fish to bite.
Before Bai Yu could wait long, the fishing line in his hand suddenly started moving again.
However, this time the fish that took the bait felt strange to Bai Yu. Usually, when a fish takes the bait, it will try to escape immediately.
After all, the fishhook has already caused pain to the other fish. Unless it's a dead fish, it will feel the pain and then flee from the location.
But this time, the fish that took the bait seemed unhurried, as if it didn't care about the hook at all.
At this moment, Bai Yu had a question: had this guy bitten the fishhook?
Could it be that this time we caught another big fish? This guy swallowed the bait and hook right away and didn't even feel the hook.
This is not impossible. The larger the fish, the more ferocious their feeding style. They eat one bite at a time, not caring what might be in the bait.
However, this time, the fish that took the bait gave Bai Yu a strange feeling, because its swimming speed was very strange and did not seem like the way a fish would swim.
As a seasoned angler, Bai Yu can't say he knows all the swimming patterns of fish, but he does have some understanding of how most fish choose to swim after taking the bait.
But this time, the fish that took the bait felt very strange to him; it didn't seem like the kind of reaction a fish would have.
But if it's not a fish, then what did he catch this time?
The answer is actually quite simple: just fish it up.
When it comes to fishing, Baiyu is a professional.
He then picked up his fishing rod and began his operation. As he exerted force, he quickly made a certain judgment about the fish.
The creature's escape method was halting, which made two images flash through Bai Yu's mind: a lobster and an octopus.
Lobsters are easy to understand; these creatures swim backwards, using their tails to propel themselves as they escape.
The same applies to octopuses; they mainly rely on their tentacles for propulsion, and their swimming motion is also rhythmic.
Bai Yu is more inclined to believe that the fish that took the bait this time was an octopus rather than a lobster.
Because he felt it while reeling in the line, the creature he caught this time weighed more than three pounds. If it were a lobster, it could only be a Chinese spiny lobster.
Other small green lobsters, or Chinese lobsters, rarely grow to more than three pounds.
Although the Chinese spiny lobster can grow very large, it has a certain status. While it may not be as high-ranking as the yellow croaker, it is still a Class II protected animal.
Moreover, this is a species for which there are no fishing slots in this competition; if caught, it must be released.
In this situation, what choice should Bai Yu make?
They obviously don't want to catch the Chinese spiny lobster. Catching it would be a waste of time, so why bother?
But octopuses are different. Unless they're extremely large, Bai Yu's fishing rod is almost guaranteed to catch something.
In Bai Yu's memory, there were no octopus species weighing over three pounds that were protected, so as long as this guy was an octopus, there was no problem.
For Bai Yu, catching a three-pound fish was relatively easy; it didn't take him long to drag the fish out of the sea.
But when Bai Yu saw what this creature looked like, he realized that his previous guesses were all wrong. What he had caught this time was neither a spiny lobster nor the octopus he had thought, but a cuttlefish.
Like octopuses, cuttlefish swim by propelling themselves forward using their tentacles.
The reason Bai Yu didn't think of it as cuttlefish was mainly because in his impression, cuttlefish were not very big. One or two pounds was about right, but it was rare to see ones weighing more than three pounds.
However, Bai Yu overlooked one point: the weight of a cuttlefish, a type of sea fish, cannot be calculated solely based on the weight of its prey.
When they are in the sea, they will fill their bellies with seawater, increasing their weight.
This gave Bai Yu a wrong impression, making him think that the fish would be quite big, but in fact it only weighed about one or two pounds.
Moreover, because it spat out all its ink, this thing's overall color turned much whiter, almost not living up to its name as a squid.
"After all that fuss, you ended up catching a squid. You're quite the deceiver!"
Bai Yu scooped up the cuttlefish, looked at it in front of his eyes, and then threw it into the box.
There's not much to do with cuttlefish; just refrigerate it.
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