Chapter 612 The Big Fish We Haven't Seen in a Long Time!
Bai Yu was very familiar with this fishing spot, so after arriving at his spot, he immediately changed his equipment.
The fishing line was replaced with a giant fishing line, and not just the kind that can only catch fish weighing around 100 pounds, but a powerful fishing line that can catch giants weighing 500 pounds!
In the South China Sea region, this strength of fishing line is sufficient. If the line exceeds its capacity, the fish caught by the angler will most likely be non-compliant.
For example, we caught a great white shark. After all, given our family's foodie nature, every nook and cranny of the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, Southeast China Sea, and other sea areas, as long as it's a place where fishing is possible, has been repeatedly plowed up by countless fishing boats.
The big fish here have basically all been caught; the giants weighing over 100 pounds that we see now are all those that grew up later.
To find a fish weighing over 500 pounds here, especially one that is valuable enough to sell in the market, is highly desirable.
It's not that they don't exist, but they are extremely rare, as rare as winning the lottery.
Anyway, winning the lottery can happen every time, but Bai Yu hasn't heard of catching a fish weighing over 500 pounds in a long time.
Even if some of our family members catch one at sea, it's almost always in international waters. Our own Sihai hasn't caught such a big fish in a long time.
Therefore, the fishing line that Bai Yu used was more than enough. As long as nothing unexpected happened, he could use this fishing line until the end of the competition.
If the fishing line is changed, then the hook naturally needs to be changed as well. Since the decision has been made to catch big fish, a larger hook should be used.
Bai Yu used a palm-sized fishhook, ensuring that any fish that bite would not escape.
The last thing to change is the bait. If you want to catch big fish, you have to use big bait. Otherwise, if the bait is too small, the big fish won't even look at it.
As for the bait, there are many choices. In addition to the most commonly used mackerel and squid, we also prepared a lot of skipjack tuna and croaker.
The croaker in the back wasn't one of the croakers they had caught recently; it was one they had brought with them before setting sail.
These croakers all have one thing in common: their swim bladders have been removed, leaving only the fish meat.
As mentioned before, the most valuable part of the croaker is its swim bladder; the rest of the fish meat is really worthless.
For this very reason, these croakers are excellent bait for anglers who specialize in fishing at sea to catch large fish.
Of course, for a croaker that weighs seven or eight pounds, or even more than ten or twenty pounds, you definitely can't use one to fish at a time. You have to chop it up and fish it in sections.
Bai Yu was using a seven- or eight-pound croaker. He chopped off its head, hung it on the hook, and threw it into the water.
This fish head, along with a little bit of the body, weighs about two pounds. This croaker is enough for him to use three times.
With Bai Yu casting his line, all that's left is to wait for the first bite.
However, no one can say for sure how long this wait will last. It might be the next second, or half an hour later, or even if the fish's head is soaked until it turns white, he might still not be able to catch any fish.
In no time, the bait and hook reached the seabed. Bai Yu then pulled the fishing line up a little over a meter and then turned on the drag a bit.
Currently, he is fishing at a depth of over 160 meters, which is near the drilling platform. At this depth, there can be many large fish.
Bai Yu's target fish is the tuna, one of the largest fish in the ocean!
From birth, tuna do only one thing in their entire lives: find food and eat non-stop.
Breaking it down, it's actually two things: swimming and eating. Tuna are marine creatures that breathe by swimming; they can't stop if they want to survive.
But constant movement consumes a lot of energy, so they have to keep eating and constantly searching for food.
The simplest way to find food is to search the seabed. The resources there are extremely abundant, and the creatures are mostly slow-swimming marine life. Once they find you, you're like a lamb to the slaughter, destined to become food for tuna.
Areas with drilling platforms are typically rich in seabed resources, which is why there is a high probability of catching tuna near drilling platforms.
In fact, when these fishing boats arrived at the drilling platform, the surrounding fishing boats had already made a discovery using fish finders.
Within a five-nautical-mile radius of this drilling platform, there are dozens of large fish that can be identified by fish finders.
These "big fish" mostly refer to giants weighing over 100 kilograms. Only those reaching this size can be called "big fish." The others are just small carats.
This is just a rough estimate; some of the larger fish may escape detection, but there will be at least this many large fish.
The fishing boat captains did not publicize this news, but instead reported it to Lu Sheng in the live broadcast room.
Lu Sheng was a very cunning guy. He only mentioned this in the live stream, and he only said, "According to the detection, there are big fish nearby, but he didn't say how many there are."
Moreover, he only said it once. As for whether any players heard it in the live stream at the time, he didn't care. If they didn't know, then he would just fish blindly.
Anyway, Bai Yu was completely unaware of the situation. He only took out his phone after casting his line, and by the time he did, Lu Sheng had already finished explaining the whole thing.
Moreover, Bai Yu didn't take out his phone to watch the live stream. At this time, everyone had just started fishing. Even if someone was lucky and a fish bit the hook as soon as they cast their line, it didn't matter.
Because the fish that can be caught quickly are definitely not big, and the big fish can not be caught so quickly, so there is no need to rush this matter, he can look at other things.
For example, you could watch some movie reviews or funny videos.
Since the introduction of movie commentary, Bai Yu has been watching movies much less frequently. This includes not only going to the cinema, but also searching for movies at home.
Especially on Douyin, there's a guy named Gu Wowo who's really good at explaining movies. One of his videos can be 20 or 30 minutes long, and he can basically explain all the highlights of a movie.
Only at the very end will he introduce his own perspective and share his understanding of the film.
Even if there are advertisements involved, the other party will put them at the end of the video before running the advertisement.
His fans are also quite loyal; even knowing that the last part is commercials, they will still watch it to the end.
At this moment, Bai Yu opened Gu Wo's homepage and found a story about blacks and whites to watch. Bai Yu had seen this movie based on a true case. The protagonists of the story were two whites, one paralyzed and the other a caregiver.
It's just that in this beautiful place, everyone knows that political correctness is important everywhere. How can a movie that only talks about white people work? You have to have some other elements in it.
Although this is a film with certain biases, putting those factors aside, it is actually a very well-made film that deserves awards, and in fact, it did win one.
Just as Bai Yu was watching the video, he suddenly felt the fishing rod in his hand move.
However, the movement was so small that Bai Yu didn't even notice it at first. He thought he had moved his hand slightly, causing the fishing rod to move.
But the next second, he felt something was wrong. The handle of his fishing rod jerked up sharply, and the tip bent down. It was the sound of a fish biting the hook!
Upon hearing the noise from the fishing rod, Bai Yu slowly put away his phone first, then picked up the fishing rod and turned the drag lever to its maximum setting.
Bai Yu's composure was mainly due to his equipment. The fishing line he used was not only incredibly strong, but also a kilometer long.
So he wasn't in a hurry at all. He could let the guy run a hundred meters first, and then he could deal with it later.
However, it's definitely not going to be the one to run the first 100 meters. If it runs 100 meters, then when Bai Yu reels in the line later, it will have to reel in an extra 100 meters of fishing line.
But as he picked up the fishing rod and prepared to reel in the line, he sensed something was wrong with the rod. This time, the fish that had taken the bait seemed to be quite big!
At that moment, Bai Yu did nothing and said nothing, but the corners of its mouth involuntarily turned up, and it was an unstoppable upward curve.
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