The next morning, Bai Yu's phone rang.
Just then, Bai Yu finished washing up and was about to go downstairs. He took out his phone and saw that it was Liu Tianyu calling. As soon as he answered the phone, Liu Tianyu's voice came through.
"Xiaoyu, are you up yet? I'm already riding my bike to your house. If you're not up, hurry up and brush your teeth and wash your face."
"Get up, get up, cousin. Do you want to have breakfast? I'll make something at home and wait for you to come over and eat."
"No need, we won't eat at home today. We'll eat at the dock when we get there; there are breakfast vendors there. Call Xiaohai now and tell him and your classmates to get up quickly. Be enthusiastic about the fishing trip; it's crucial for you to make back the money you spent."
"Okay, I'll call Ah Hai and the others right now, and then I'll wait for you at the door."
After hanging up, Bai Yu made another call to Wang Hai, but Li Shuang answered the phone.
"Brother Yu, are we getting ready to leave? We're all up now. Ah Hai is still brushing his teeth, but he'll be done soon."
"Hey, you guys are up pretty early. Since you're all up, come to my house to meet up. My brother will be there in a bit."
"What do you mean 'early to bed'? Ah Sheng and I barely slept last night. We're both getting excited about going out to sea to fish today. Alright, enough talk, the three of us are off now."
After the call ended, Bai Yu stared at his phone for two seconds, wondering why he was so excited about going out to sea to fish that he couldn't sleep.
Although he was also a little excited last night, it wasn't because of the fishing trip, but because he thought he would have a good catch today.
With Wang Hai's boost, Bai Yu's luck value today is 51 points, just over half of the maximum.
While this luck stat isn't exceptionally high, it's still quite good, much better than ten or twenty points, right?
Bai Yu then started packing her things. She had already packed her clothes last night, so she just needed to carry her bag.
His main task now is to prepare fish bait. The fish boxes that Li Shuang and the others bought yesterday have come in handy. One fish box is for small fish, and the other is for small shrimp.
The remaining frozen bait was all packed into bags.
Two minutes later, the beeping of an electric scooter sounded in front of Bai Yu's house; his cousin Liu Tianyu had arrived. As for Wang Hai and his two companions, they arrived even faster, since Wang Hai and Bai Yu's families were neighbors and it was only a short walk to their house.
"Everyone's here, let's get going, everyone get on the bus quickly."
"Let's go, let's go fishing at sea!"
An electric tricycle, besides the driver Liu Tianyu, had four grown men sitting in the back, plus three fishing tackle bags, five backpacks, and two fish boxes, almost filling the back.
At 6:30 in the morning, Bai Yu and his group of five arrived at the town's dock.
"Xiaoyu, you and Xiaohai take all the things onto the boat. I'm going to buy breakfast over there. They sell fried dough sticks, steamed buns, dumplings, noodles, potstickers, and things like that. What do you all want to eat?"
Liu Tianyu parked and locked the tricycle, then spoke to Bai Yu and the others.
"Cousin, buy me five steamed buns, all with meat filling."
"Brother Tianyu, I'll have five meat buns and a cup of soy milk too."
"A plate of pan-fried dumplings and a cup of soy milk, thank you, cousin."
"Two steamed buns and a cup of soy milk, thank you, cousin."
Bai Yu and his three companions told each other what they wanted to eat, and then took the things from the truck bed and headed towards the fishing boat.
The dock was bustling with activity at this time, the air filled with the smell of the sea and a strong fishy odor.
There are many boats coming and going on the sea, some of which have just set out to fish, and others that have just returned from their fishing operations.
The town's dock was much busier than their village's dock. The ships coming and going, and the trucks hauling goods along the shore, were incomparable to those in the small fishing village.
Another ten minutes passed, and at 6:40 in the morning, Liu Tianyu returned to the dock. After distributing the breakfast, he asked for a steamed bun and went to the captain's cabin.
A minute later, the four people who were having breakfast on the deck felt the fishing boat beneath their feet start to move. With a horn blast, they were getting further and further away from the shore.
"Brother Fisherman, the fishing boat is moving. Are we setting off?"
"Hey, we're off. It's just a boat trip, do you think it'll take much longer?"
"No, don't we need any ceremony when we go to sea? You know, this is Ah Sheng and my first time going to sea, so we should commemorate it a little, right?"
Li Shuang watched the dock recede into the distance, the land getting further and further away from him, and for a moment he felt a little panicked.
"A commemoration? Oh my god, Shuangzi, if you hadn't told me I almost forgot something, I would have forgotten to film the video."
"Ahai, could you get the video camera from your backpack? Let's record the beginning of a fishing trip at sea. Shuangzi, didn't you want to keep a memento? Come on, let's record a video together. You can see it on my short video account later."
As Wang Hai took out the video camera, the four of them started recording a video on the deck.
In order to record a video of his fishing trip, Bai Yu specially bought a tripod from the equipment store. When he went fishing, he set up the video camera and recorded the fishing process.
Liu Tianyu steered the fishing boat eastward, and after an hour and a half, the boat slowly came to a stop.
In the past hour and a half, Bai Yu and his group have now traveled 30 nautical miles from the coastline, which is more than 50 kilometers away.
The fishing boat that Bai Yu and his crew were on could reach a top speed of 22 knots per hour. One knot is equal to one nautical mile, which is equal to 1.85 kilometers.
As Liu Tianyu emerged from the cockpit, he addressed the people on the deck.
"Xiao Yu, our fishing boat doesn't have a fish finder, and I don't have much experience in finding fish. But we're already far from land, so why don't we cast a line here and try it out?"
"Sure, we don't really know what the seabed is like anyway, so it's not a bad idea to try our luck here."
"Shuangzi, Asheng, let's go fishing."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he took the lead and went into the cabin, picked up the fishing rod that Brother Tongzi had given him, and prepared to go fishing.
Wang Hai and the others were no exception; they also took out their fishing rods, and they were quite looking forward to their first cast of the day.
The fishing rods that Li Shuang and Lu Sheng bought were 1.8 meters long, made of polyester, and equipped with 200 meters of No. 10 fishing line.
Fishing lines of this length and type are perfectly capable of catching sea fish weighing 20 to 30 pounds. If handled properly, even larger fish can be caught.
Wang Hai was using his father's fishing rod, and the fishing line and accessories were all prepared. He just needed to attach the reel.
Bai Yu was in the same situation. He was using the beginner equipment given to him by Brother Tongzi. The equipment was already set up, and Bai Yu only needed to choose the one he wanted.
In the end, Bai Yu chose a fishing line set that could catch sea fish weighing around ten pounds. After attaching it to the fishing rod, Bai Yu put a small shrimp on the hook and then threw it into the sea.
Bai Yu and his group of five were fishing on a fishing boat. Bai Yu chose a fishing spot at the bow of the boat, which seemed like a good spot, but was actually not good at all, because it was directly facing the morning sun.
However, since Bai Yu had already cast his line, he wasn't going to change it. So what if it was a little glaring? He could handle it.
To be honest, this was Bai Yu's first time sea fishing. He only learned about the methods and techniques from Liu Tianyu in the last couple of days.
For example, Bai Yu's fishing method this time involved fishing for sea fish at a depth of about four or five meters below the surface.
In Liu Tianyu's words, it is morning now, and fish also need to eat breakfast, especially those nocturnal sea fish that come out during the day. They come to the surface of the sea during the day to eat plankton and small fish and shrimp.
At this time, fishing for surface-dwelling fish is a good option.
Bai Yu had just cast his first line and taken out a bag of sunflower seeds from his backpack. Before he could even start cracking them open, the tip of his fishing rod bent sharply, and the float on the surface of the sea disappeared.
"Fish are being served? They're serving fish already? Oh my god, I got a fish! Hahahaha!"
After Bai Yu realized what was happening, he picked up his fishing rod and set the hook with a quick, precise motion. While not as smooth as flowing water, the action was certainly very fast.
Feeling the weight transmitted through the fishing rod, Bai Yu knew clearly that he had successfully hooked the fish when he lifted the rod to set the hook, and the fish that had taken the bait was now firmly hooked.
Hearing what Bai Yu was doing, the others also cast envious glances at her.
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