"Brother Fisherman, you're really amazing! You can even catch sea snails. Can you catch some even weirder things?"
Looking at the bizarre seafood that Bai Yu had caught in less than an hour, Li Shuang and the others were filled with envy and a strange sense of wonder.
The reason it's called bizarre seafood is because none of the things caught by the white fish are fish—not a single one!
"How would I know? Today is really strange. Whether it's lobsters, crabs, octopuses, or conches, none of them were caught properly."
"No, the octopus was caught by me, it bit the hook! I had another real catch this afternoon!"
At this moment, Bai Yu looked at his fish tank, filled with helplessness.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the things Bai Yu catches are all rather odd; they are quite valuable, and each one is quite large.
The smallest one should be the swimming crab, but even that one weighs more than a pound. A swimming crab of this size can easily sell for tens or hundreds of yuan.
The cheapest item is probably the coconut snail, which costs between 30 and 60 yuan per kilogram. But you can't resist how big the coconut snail is. Just one of them weighs about 10 kilograms, so you can get it for a few hundred yuan.
The only thing that Bai Yu didn't like was that fishing for these guys wasn't exciting at all; they were caught very easily.
If you ask me, white fishing is just being pretentious. Wouldn't it be better to make money easily? Why bother working yourself to the bone, outsmarting big fish, and risking breaking your rod and losing the fish to go fishing?
People's pursuits may be different. For Baiyu, fishing is all about the thrill and the feeling of outsmarting and outmaneuvering big fish.
But it seemed as if fate wasn't on Bai Yu's side today; not long after he caught the conch, his fishing rod hooked another fish.
Although the weight transmitted through the fishing rod was still not much this time, Bai Yu felt a long-lost sense of resistance. This guy was struggling and wanted to escape the restraint of the fishing hook.
"Finally, a proper fish has arrived. I wonder what kind of fish it is?"
Driven by curiosity about the fish that had taken the bait, Bai Yu began reeling in the line.
Although the creature began to resist, giving Bai Yu a long-lost sense of confrontation, the creature that had taken the bait was not very big, so its resistance was limited, and Bai Yu could easily reel it in.
However, considering that this guy is indeed a fish, and that rapid reeling in would cause the pressure inside his body to get out of control, Bai Yu controlled the speed of reeling in slightly.
It took Bai Yu six or seven minutes to drag it to the surface of the sea. However, when he saw the creature, Bai Yu felt helpless again, because it hadn't been caught by the hook.
That's right, Bai Yu did catch a sea fish this time, and it was a barracuda, but it didn't bite. The mackerel on the hook was still intact.
The reason the white-haired fisherman was able to catch it was because the hook caught on its back, and even pierced it, tangling the barracuda with the mackerel bait.
"Tsk, this has really opened my eyes today. Can you believe how wronged this sea wolf fish is? It didn't even take a bite of bait before it got hooked on the back and caught. Where can it go to complain?"
The sea wolf fish that Bai Yu caught wasn't very big, only about half a meter long and weighing about four or five kilograms. So he simply picked it up and showed it to Li Shuang and the others who were standing nearby.
"Brother Fisherman, I feel like you can fish without bait. Why don't you try casting your line without bait next time?"
Looking at the sea wolf fish hanging on Bai Yu's fishing hook, it was impossible for Li Shuang not to feel envious. Moreover, given Bai Yu's situation, he genuinely believed that Bai Yu could catch fish without bait.
"Stop joking. I think this sea wolf fish was lured here by the bait, but somehow it got itself caught on the hook."
You're telling me to fish without bait? Why don't you just tell me to use a straight hook? Learn from Jiang Ziya (a legendary Chinese fishmonger) and let those who are willing take the bait.
"Hey, Brother Yu, that's a great suggestion. If you ask me, let's learn from Jiang Ziya and let those who are willing take the bait. Brother Yu, we believe you can do it."
"Forget it, I'm not that stupid."
Amidst the teasing, Bai Yu placed the fishing hook on the sea wolffish onto the deck, and when it wasn't paying attention, he smacked it on the head, sending it to its death, before removing it from the hook.
Bai Yu wouldn't dare touch this guy unless he killed him, for fear that the sea wolf fish would bite him.
If this barracuda wasn't bizarre enough, then the next one we caught was even more bizarre.
You've seen two fish caught on one rod, but have you ever seen two fish caught on one hook, one big and one small, like a buy-one-get-one-free deal, two different species?
This brings us to the wonder of the ocean; truly anything can happen there.
After Bai Yu released the barracuda, he didn't plan to change the bait. Instead, he used the mackerel as bait again and threw it back into the sea.
Ten minutes later, the fishing rod made another sound of a fish taking the bait. This time, Bai Yu had been waiting by the fishing rod the whole time.
The moment he hooked the fish, he lifted the rod to set the hook, making sure the hook was firmly attached to the fish.
Bai Yu sensed that the fish biting the hook this time was still not very big, so he prepared to reel in the line again.
Just as Bai Yu was halfway through reeling in the line, suddenly, a tremendous force came from the fishing rod. The force was so great that Bai Yu lost his balance and crashed into the railing.
The guy was in so much pain that Bai Yu was grimacing, and he almost cursed out loud.
"Brother Yu, are you alright?"
"Brother Fisherman, what's going on? Did you catch a big fish?"
"Brother Yu, are you alright? That bump must have hurt a lot. You need to be careful!"
Upon hearing the commotion, the three people nearby immediately looked over and asked a question.
"I don't know what happened. I was fishing and everything was fine. Suddenly, I felt a huge force on my fishing rod and I was pulled so hard that I crashed into the railing. The fishing rod almost slipped out of my hand."
As Bai Yu spoke, the fishing rod in his hand continued to release line rapidly, and the crank of the reel started spinning.
Just by looking at this scene, it's obvious to anyone that they've caught a big fish.
But before this, Bai Yu clearly felt that the fish that took the bait this time were not very big. Could it be that a Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared and intercepted his catch?
It's okay if you get robbed. Just look at the current state of the fishing rod, and you'll see that the robbed fish didn't escape either. Instead, it replaced the previous catch and became the prey on the hook.
After a fierce battle lasting over twenty minutes, Bai Yu finally dragged the guy to the surface of the sea, and Bai Yu and the others were able to see the face of the guy they had intercepted.
This was a brown-banded grouper weighing forty or fifty pounds. After Bai Yu brought it onto the deck, he took a red sea bream out of its mouth.
Because brown-banded grouper have such large mouths, they eat by swallowing their food whole. This red sea bream was pulled out of its throat by the white fisherman.
Although the red sea bream was already dead when Bai Yu took it out, its body was still relatively well-preserved.
This is enough to prove that when grouper eats it, it swallows it whole without chewing at all; that's how capricious it is.
This might also be related to the fact that the red sea bream is not very big, only about four or five pounds in size. It insisted on eating the mackerel on the hook, and now it has not only lost its own life, but also took a grouper with it.
Most importantly, the bait on the white fishing hook hasn't been used up yet.
Because of its limited size, the red sea bream couldn't swallow the mackerel whole. It only ate half of it and didn't even bite the hook before being caught by the whitebait.
For some unknown reason, after being caught by the whitebait, this red sea bream did not choose to let go and escape, but instead focused solely on eating the mackerel.
As everyone has seen, the final result was a buy-one-get-one-free deal, and even the grouper was caught by the white fisherman.
This also proves that an old saying is absolutely true: people die for wealth, birds die for food, and fish will also die for food.
Don't be fooled by Bai Yu's excellent fishing skills; he can catch anything, and in all sorts of bizarre ways.
However, Bai Yu's actions also come at a cost: his luck stat.
Others seeing this would only think that Bai Yu was lucky, that he had struck gold.
But only he knew that he had earned all of this through his own luck; every time he caught a fish, his luck points would be depleted.
In just two hours, his luck stat was almost depleted, down to single digits.
He used most of it himself, and a small amount was consumed by Wang Hai.
However, Wang Hai's fishing method was much more normal than his; he caught them all properly, and every single one of them was a perfect bite.
After catching the brown-banded grouper, the fishing conditions at Baiyu returned to normal, and the previous bizarre fishing methods disappeared. The only downside was that the frequency of catching fish also decreased.
By dinnertime, Bai Yu's catch was meager.
However, with the previous gains as a foundation, it's not unacceptable if the later gains are slightly less.
After dinner, Bai Yu and his three companions returned to the crew cabin to rest and recharge for two hours before resuming their night fishing trip.
On the vast ocean, if you're not fishing at night, all you can do is sleep. Rather than sleeping until the next day, you might as well use that time to fish. This is the most basic courtesy of a fisherman.
Is that really the case?
The answer is no, of course. Actually, during dinner, the captain came to the galley and asked them how many people wanted to go night fishing that evening.
If there are many fish, he will take the boat to a fishing spot with big fish for them to catch; if there aren't many, he will find a fishing spot the next morning.
With new fishing spots available for catching big fish, the anglers on the fishing boats naturally opted for night fishing, since everyone goes out to sea to catch big fish.
Then, with the rocking of the fishing boat, Bai Yu and his three companions gradually drifted off to sleep.
Take a break, take a break, and you'll be right back!
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